I watch a lot of old genre movies over and over, more than new films. So often, in fact, that I will focus on the scoring, costuming, or production minutiae during a viewing. And then suddenly I'm caught-off guard and really hit--Pow!--emotionally by a scene or line or bit of business I've seen literally a dozen times:
*The transporter accident in Star Trek: TMP
*The Monster gesturing after the drowned girl in Frankenstein
*Katherine's rebuke of her father in The Heiress
*Erik exhorting Christine after his unmasking in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
*Singing La Marseillaise in Rick's Bar, Casablanca
*Quasimodo's crowning as King of fools in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1939)
*Hanging up the shirts in Brokeback Mountain
And others. What movie moments grab and disarm you?
*The transporter accident in Star Trek: TMP
*The Monster gesturing after the drowned girl in Frankenstein
*Katherine's rebuke of her father in The Heiress
*Erik exhorting Christine after his unmasking in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
*Singing La Marseillaise in Rick's Bar, Casablanca
*Quasimodo's crowning as King of fools in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1939)
*Hanging up the shirts in Brokeback Mountain
And others. What movie moments grab and disarm you?
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