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

[AmexRuislip]

 

[Seasider78]

Great scene


https://youtu.be/Zxel-c5LCGI

 

[Wilko]

I thought this had some of the best acting I had ever seen in it shown earlier this year on channel 4

 

[Mental Lental]

https://youtu.be/Ig0815OI9Lg

https://youtu.be/E84VqqCPI7w

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I was Starvling in Midsummer Nights Dream when I was 9. That was my most powerful acting scene.

 

[Nitram]

 

[dannyboy]

Tom Cruise in Magnolia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3VH5wfAoKA

 

[Grombleton]

I have a lot of love for this film.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Your most powerful acting scene of all time ?

I would have to say it is this. Absolutely extraordinary performance from Hanks. Amazing. Your most powerful acting scene of all time ?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMDdT24_98

Good call. As soon as I saw this thread I thought of this scene too - just extraordinary. Some good suggestions elsewhere but often good or brilliant scenes rather than amazing acting. This, however, is from a pretty good film and is a fairly standard scene but elevated by one of the most realistic and captivating performances that gives me goosebumps and a lump in the throat every time.

 

[portlock seagull]

The end of Gallipoli as Mel Gibson races in vain to prevent his friends deaths.

“How fast can you run...?”

 

[jimhigham]

Great thread and it's very hard to better the OP's original suggestion. Emma Thompson's crying turn in Love Actually is another example of how much an actor can convey without words.

Impossible to name a single favourite but I am more or less addicted to the 1972 version of Sleuth. Olivier and Caine go head to head and carry the entire film effortlessly. Olivier in particular veers from comic to farce to malevolence without so much as a blink. Lovely stuff!

 

[Easy 10]

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Nicholson. Just captivating.

 

[clapham_gull]

Acting is just ****ing around reading out someone else's words and is hugely overrated,

 

[Pevenseagull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRhRFOu-hRA

 

[seagull_special]

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

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Two cliches from me. Stuff that seems to make time stop still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs

Fun facts: Robert Shaw is 48 (forty effing eight) here. He died 3 years later having had 10 kids.

 

[Palacefinder General]

[video]https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=good+will+hunting+par k+scene&view=detail&mid=A33297474B881949D248A33297 474B881949D248&FORM=VIRE[/video]

Hope this works - the Good Will Hunting park scene. Robin Williams and Matt Damon.

It’s not your fault that you posted that clip David in Southampton, it’s not your fault. Only watched it again last week coincidentally, and that (“It’s not your fault”) scene in Williams’ office still has me welling up each time.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Brando contender scene from On the Waterfront of course.

 

[Swansman]

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Ewan McGregor’s phone call home in The Impossible. Proper got me. I would expect ANY parent to struggle to hold back the waterworks.