The ten best movie scenes of all time. According to ... Well, me of course.

In no particular order . . .


True Romance
Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken
The ancestry of Sicilians
-- "Do you know who I am, Mr. Worley?"
-- “I give up. Who are you?”
-- “I’m the antichrist.”

I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
The execution
-- "When you hear the pellets drop, count to ten and take a deep breath. It's easier that way."
-- "How would you know?"

The Wizard of Oz
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Terry the Terrier, et al
The Wizard distributes the gifts
--"A heart will never be practical until it can be made unbreakable."
--"But I still want one."

Fat City
Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keach
The final scene in the dingy coffee shop with the ancient, decrepit, shuffling waiter
-- "How would you like to wake up someday and be him?"
-- "Maybe he's happy."
-- "Maybe we're all happy."

Unforgiven
Gene Hackman
The truth about gunfighting
-- "It ain't so easy to shoot a man, especially if the SOB is shooting back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks."

Crash
Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillips
Advice for the rookie cop
-- “After you’ve been on the job a few more years . . . Look at me. When you’ve been doing it a little longer . . . You think you know who you are. You have no idea.”

Heat
Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino
The cop and the robber have coffee
-- “I don’t know how to do anything else.”
-- “Neither do I.”
-- “I don’t much want to either.”
-- “Neither do I.”

In Cold Blood
Robert Blake
Perry’s execution
-- “I’d like to apologize. But to who? To who?”

Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
Cpt. Miller and Sgt. Horvath decide what to do
-- “You don’t wanna know what I think.”
-- “Yeah, Mike, I do.”

Last Night
Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie
Lifelong friends say goodbye just before the world ends
-- “I’ll see you later.”
-- “No you won’t.”

Wow! Those were great scenes, OH_Lee! I will have to think on my favorite ones. ....Posting soon....

I don't have a list of Top Ten Best Scenes just now (stay tuned ) but I gotta say: seeing Fat City in a list is a surely terrific thing, around here! Around ANYwhere! That was an awesome movie! Nice to see it mentioned.

Definitely, Gatsby. Fat City is one of the most underrated films of all time.

On a personal note, it was filmed in my hometown of Stockton, CA, when I was about 16 years old. My best friend's dad played the labor contractor who recruits the onion toppers. He was also a substitute teacher in my Spanish class in high school, and I love the part where he's standing by the bus yelling "Cebollas!"