[Film] Your most powerful acting scene of all time ?

[DataPoint]

Spoiler alert - don't watch this amazing clip if you haven't seen this movie - just watch the whole movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83MQhjfYW0o

 

[Giraffe]

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.

 

[Giraffe]

Although Robin WIlliams runs him a very close second, again in everything that he has done. Truly fantastic.

 

[Frutos]

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.

 

[WATFORD zero]

 

[Questions]

Nicholson in Cuckoos Nest
Five Easy Pieces (especially the diner scene)
The Last Detail

Apparently he’s been in other things as well.

 

[Albion my Albion]

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.

 

[Dave the OAP]

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!

 

[Dave the OAP]

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.

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.....

 

[Frutos]

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.

Yep, 'The Inner Light' - brilliant episode.

 

[carteater]

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.

 

[getz]

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]

Spoiler alert - don't watch this amazing clip if you haven't seen this movie - just watch the whole movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83MQhjfYW0o

I am glad I went through the thread before posting this.

Brilliant performance!

 

[maltaseagull]

So many great scenes and performances in this movie but this closing scene brings me to tears.

https://youtu.be/3Gb1HG_J5-E

 

[Palacefinder General]

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.

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.

 

[allystrat]

Opening scene from Inglorious was pretty powerful and memorable. Pure tension.

 

[phazza]

The Russian roulette scene in the Deer Hunter with the brilliant Christopher Walken. One of my favourite films of all time.

This. Best film I’ve seen

 

[Southern Scouse]

Titanic....
right at the end when she enters and sees all the people who died in the ballroom...

 

[Gwylan]

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.

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]

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.

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.