Casablanca or Jaws…better for stopping you in your tracks?

You mean the Indianapolis scene in Jaws??

Les Marseillaise….especially if you knew the circumstances of the actors in that scene

This would be a big thread if you phrased it differently, ask the general question as title and mention your examples in the post.

The Cuckoo clock scene in Third Man is the best writing And the descent of the Arab Calvary is the greatest visual of all time

Apollo 13 has many great lines but I always stop to hear Ron Howard (and Jim Lovell’s) mum say “Well, don't you worry, honey. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.”

Desperado. The scene where the Mariachi enters the bar at the beginning of the movie.

Phoebe Cates getting out of the pool

The climax of Come and See, where the Dirlewanger Brigade of the Waffen-SS lock all the women and children and elderly people in a Belarusian village in their old wooden church before setting it on fire, at one point throwing an escaping child back through the window into the inferno. The whole movie is an exhausting and devastating experience to watch, but that scene in particular just feels like getting punched in the gut continuously for several minutes until the screaming stops.

Jane Russell and Marilyn making their entrance into the ballroom in Gentleman Prefer Blondes.

Blondes vs fat slice

The Bullitt chase scene is the first I thought of. I grew up with my dad flipping channels just to watch the chase scene, then flipping back to whatever he was watching I’m a big fan of the train station scene from The Untouchables

"Mary Ellen Moffet . . . she broke my heart"

Casablanca

Even though I've seen it a million times and know how it turns out, every time I'm watching Star Wars during the Death Star trench run scene when it's down to Luke and Vader's right on top of him, I'm always on the edge of my seat thinking, "IS HE GONNA MAKE IT??" It's so dumb but I guess that scene was just perfectly filmed to elicit that. Works on me every time.

What an odd combination, the films are very different. Never bothered to see Jaws, the subject matter doesn't appeal=="Casablanca" (1942) is one of my favourite films and have seen it about a dozen times. In my opinion, it's probably the closest Hollywood had come to making a perfect film at the time. Still holds up today. I have always liked Bogie, and Ingrid Bergman was at her most beautiful in my opinion. The film has a handful of great character actors, such as Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and S K Sakall.---Trivia: some of the people singing La Marseillaise were real French refugees. Especially the young girl with tears in her eyes; the tears were apparently real.======My list of a dozen or so best films changes every few years. EG Right now, I think "Come And See" (Russian, 1985) is the best war film I've ever seen. Some critics argue it's the best film of all time, although I wouldn't go that far. There are some terrific German war films too. EG Das Boot (1981), Stalingrad (1993) and Untergang ;"The Downfall"(2004) The last days of Hitler in his Berlin Bunker. Bruno Ganz as Hitler gives a stunning performance.

Stop, you're making French people cry. On second thought, go ahead. But it's La Marseillaise. Not Les Marseillaise. Theere's only one Marseillaise, and it's female.

Jaws takes it for me, that Indianapolis speech is absolutely brutal. Something about Shaw's delivery just cuts through everything else - you could have a full house party going and everyone would still shut up for that monologue Apollo 13 reentry gets me every time too, especially knowing how close to disaster the real mission actually was. The tension builds perfectly even when you know the outcome For me though, the opening of Saving Private Ryan stops everything dead. First time I saw it was with my old man who served and he didn't say a word for like an hour after

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