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[Film] Your most powerful acting scene of all time ?
- Thread starter Uncle Spielberg
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- Aug 8, 2005
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Tom Hanks every time in everything he does. Your first example is a great one, but Forrest Gump is hard to beat. He totally immerses himself in characters so you forget it's him. Even in less stated roles he carries it off. Fantastic in Catch Me If You Can, and also Saving Mr Banks. When I think of Walt Disney, as I do often(!), I only think of Tom Hanks portrayal of him. Superb. Particularly love the scene when he talks about his father, which I believe is quite close to home about his own father.
https://youtu.be/HVd-U1sAwvo
Easy to dismiss as "only Star Trek", but if you know the backstory to this scene, both in this film and in the TNG series, you'll appreciate what's going on.
Of course it helps that Patrick Stewart is a brilliant actor in general.
Easy to dismiss as "only Star Trek", but if you know the backstory to this scene, both in this film and in the TNG series, you'll appreciate what's going on.
Of course it helps that Patrick Stewart is a brilliant actor in general.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 26,108
When I told my mrs I had to help someone on NSC with their mental health and went to the Amex for a BHA match instead because I really didn't know the person who needed my help and forgot to make arrangements with that person to meet up. I'm terribly ashamed of the whole deal.
My bees knees performance ever.
My bees knees performance ever.
Publius Ovidius
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Robin Williams becoming Peter Pan in the best film EVER.
Following in from that, Johnny depp and Kate winslet in remembering never land, where they were having a play in her house and she was dying......the children took her into the forest and that was her dying...wasn’t she playing Wendy? I was in bits
The film was about JM Barrie and another film I wept buckets to..especially that bit and then when he was talking to the young son of Wendy.
Makes me well up even now!
Publius Ovidius
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Do you Remember the episode where he ended up on a planet where he was the husband of a woman and had children and grandchildren and learned to play a pipe whistle...turned out that although he lived a whole life there, it was only a couple of minutes he was gone for.......last shot was him in his ready room playing his whistle. It was absolutely brilliant.
If you like Patrick Stewart, hopefully you have watched this.....
Yep, 'The Inner Light' - brilliant episode.
carteater
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVgnS92Xs4U
The way he seamlessly transitions from trying to plead innocence to letting out his inner drug lord and intimidating Hank is chilling, also Hank's reaction of shock, fear, confusion, anger and sadness makes the scene even better.
The way he seamlessly transitions from trying to plead innocence to letting out his inner drug lord and intimidating Hank is chilling, also Hank's reaction of shock, fear, confusion, anger and sadness makes the scene even better.
getz
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- Jan 15, 2010
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Near the end of Bridges of Madison County, Meryl Street and her husband stop behind Clint Eastwood truck at traffic lights. Clint had embarked on a whirlwind affair with Meryl's bored housewife living in the sticks of Ohio. This was her chance to escape her humdrum life. Clint waits and waits for her to jump out of her husbands truck and to runaway to a new life with him. We know she wants to abandon her boring life. The suspence builds will she or won't she go. Eventually Clints drives off never to be seen again. Leaving us with lumps in our throats and fighting back tears.
maltaseagull
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maltaseagull
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So many great scenes and performances in this movie but this closing scene brings me to tears.
https://youtu.be/3Gb1HG_J5-E
https://youtu.be/3Gb1HG_J5-E
Palacefinder General
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- Apr 5, 2019
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Have never, before or since, ever seen a packed cinema audience (we saw it in central London) completely break down almost as one at that scene, it was unreal, sobbing, the sound of dry heaving, and outside afterwards people honestly sat on the kerb red-eyed, smoking, still in absolute pieces, a unified outpouring of grief, the likes of which you’d only probably otherwise see at a funeral. Not ashamed to say I lost it myself.
This. Best film I’ve seen
Southern Scouse
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- Jul 21, 2011
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Titanic....
right at the end when she enters and sees all the people who died in the ballroom...
right at the end when she enters and sees all the people who died in the ballroom...
Each to his own, but I thought it was mawkish nonsense. I saw it with the former Mrs Gwylan and she didn't produce as much as a sniff. I normally like Eastwood as a director but I was distinctly unimpressed - Streep has given better performances too.
Palacefinder General
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- Apr 5, 2019
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100% was and has been rightly criticised as such. Eastwood as director/producer, as he was with that flick, seems to have a penchant for schmaltzy film making, his relatively recent effort The Mule was a shocker in that department, and I haven’t seen Million Dollar Baby, but can again imagine similar. For such a talented actor it’s quite surprising imho.