Great scenes
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Most people remember Col. Kilgore’s line: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. That scene stands out as my favourite, but the thing I remember most is not that line but the one following it. The entire exchange reads as follows: Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?Lance: What?Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the
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The opening scene in The Untouchables shows Al Capone giving a newspaper reporter an interview while he is getting a shave. At one point, the barber makes a mistake and nicks Capone, annoying the latter. It’s a tense moment, for he knows (and we do, thanks to a title card in the beginning, in case
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There are movies that tickle the funny bone. There are movies that gently tug at your heartstrings and tickle the funny bone at the same time. And then there are movies so delightful that you can’t stop smiling for a long time after you see them. And then, there’s Amelie. Here is a movie constructed
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The thing that stands out for me in all of Kill Bill is the dialogue. Not the spectacular geysers of blood in the first volume, or even the brilliant segment with Pei Mei in the second. Which is why I found it immensely satisfying when the final confrontation with Bill was mostly just the two
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When you think about it, the tango scene in Scent of a Woman isn’t really essential. You have a blind colonel and a young student having dinner at a posh restaurant. They come across a beautiful young woman who is waiting for her fiancé. And while they wait, the old colonel dances the tango with
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The Third Man is arguably one of the best British films ever made. Shot on location in the bombed out streets of Vienna, the movie evokes an atmosphere of dread, intrigue and post-war depression like very few movies have managed to do. From a visual standpoint, the movie ranks among the very best. No special
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Okay, I know this is essentially a B-movie with lots of things going bang. However, it was an immensely entertaining one, with every single member of the cast cheerfully throwing themselves into the absurd scenarios the movie offered. For Will Smith, this was a star-making role – it showcased every bit of his charm and
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Karan Johar’s debut movie is arguably his best so far. There isn’t a single unpredictable moment in the entire movie, there are moments in the first half that make you cringe, and SRK hams it up like nobody’s business. But for all that, it manages to convey the palpable enthusiasm of a debutant filmmaker in
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Deewar is, in my opinion, the movie that features the best Amitabh Bachchan performance of all time. It is not that he did not do a better job in any movie before or since – a number of movies come to mind where his performance has been fantastic. But the sort of raw intensity he
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Everybody talks about the scene at the Opera House in Dil Chahta Hai. Sure, it’s a good scene, well timed and acted, but I found it less than perfect. More on that later. First, my pick for the best scene in DCH: Shortly before the scene at the Opera House, there’s one in a Sydney
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