What scenes in cinema have been as impactful as the Aragorn "you bow to no one" scene in your opinion?

Oh captain, my captain. Not grand spectacle, but grand emotion.

Matrix; “he is the one”

For me, it is the ride of the Rohirrim in Return of the King. Different scene, same kind of pure goosebumps moment.

"I'm Spartacus!"

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory…lasts forever

‘All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain. Time to die’.

Going back to ROTK, while Aragorn’s is good, the one that gets me and broke a whole theater was Sam ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.’

You're going to have to define what you're asking for here. Are you just asking for one liners at the end of massive franchises? It's not like that scene had any cultural footprint of its own.

He was Edmond Dantes... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you, and me. He was all of us. [*multiple dead characters unmasking in the crowd*]

The last shot in Hitchcock's Vertigo, which is wordless. The end of Bridge over the River Kwai, which is one word, repeated. Kikuchiyo revealed to be a farmer's son in Seven Samurai. The fistfight in the diner while "Yellow Rose of Texas" plays in Giant. Wilma saying to Homer that she'll never leave him in The Best Years of Our Lives. But just so you don't think I only like old movies, Cap saying for the first time, "I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from." means a great deal to me.

There are few scenes that for me land with the power of that climactic moment in Jaws when Brody shoots the oxygen tank in the shark's mouth. After having multiple townspeople killed, being publicly slapped by the mother of a boy eaten by the shark, having his son experience a terrifying near miss with the shark, believing Hooper to have been killed while submerged in the cage, watching Quint get eaten right in front of him and finding himself out at sea, miles from shore on a rapidly sinking boat as the shark closes in for the kill, this exhausted, terrified Sheriff - who doesn't even like the water and is only out there to protect the town - looks right into the eyes of this huge apex predator hurtling toward him and, with a final, angry growl mutters "Smile, you son of a b****!"  before getting off a perfect shot, blowing up the tank and exploding the shark. Then he immediately lets loose a triumphant, joyful laugh as the pieces of the shark splatter everywhere. THAT scene gave me all the feelings. Still does. That's the definition of being a total badass when it matters most. 

"No, no, I kill the bus driver..."

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. This scene does it.

Oh this is interesting 1. Why do we fall - Bruce Wayne climbing out of the pit 2. MY name is Maximus Decimus Meidus - Gladiator 3. Interstellar docking scene

The Dude Abides

Jet Li - I’m nobody’s b****!

It's not your fault.

The tete-a-tete at the coffee shop in Heat

I’m not really into that fantasy stuff, so I would say there are thousands of more impactful moments. A few that stand out are… In *Rear Window* when Jeff peers into the dark room of Lars Thorwald and sees the cherry of the cigarette glowing in the dark. My dad took me to a rerelease screening of that when I was a little kid and that moment scene made my head swim. In *Hour of the Wolf* when the boy’s body floats up and down in the tide pool and the painter watches. It’s one of many master-images in Bergman’s work that have shocking power. In *Fellini’s Roma* there is a very famous sequence of excavators unsealing an ancient catacomb and the fresh air rushes in and erases the beautiful frescoes on the walls. It literally took my breath away. Fellini was a master surprising with moments of magic. There are so many other great ones like the spinning carriage wheel in *Empire of Passion* or John Merrill finally laying down to sleep like an average person in *The Elephant Man.*

Maximus removing his helmet in the colosseum for Commodus

Good Will Hunting: "It's not your fault." 300: "This is Sparta." How to Train Your Dragon: test flight Revenge of the Sith: "You were my brother Anakin."

Braveheart! The build-up to the Battle of Stirling, when William Wallace/Mel Gibson, gets the Scottish Peasant Army fired up before the battle! When the English calvery is charging towards the Scottish front line is off the charts!

Le citazioni in sé raramente racchiudono lo spirito e l'intento del film. Questo avviene più con delle scene intere. Comunque alcune citazioni iconiche un po' più a effetto possono essere: "Non sono le nostre capacità che dimostrano chi siamo davvero, sono le nostre scelte" - Harry Potter e la Camera dei Segreti "Say hello to my little friend" - Scarface "Che la Forza sia con te" - Star Wars "Guarda al mio arrivo alla prima luce del quinto giorno...all'alba...guarda verso est" - Il Signore degli Anelli: Le due Torri" "Here's Johnny!" - The Shining *Ezechiele 25:17 by Jules* - Pulp Fiction