The best movie scene ever. Sadly.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

New Beatty has a 'come to Jesus' meeting with Peter Finch in Network..........
http://youtu.be/v3vbCxj2ifs

[SheilaT]

1. My personal favorite movie scene or line

is the one in Hud, when the old man, played by Melvyn Douglas, is trying to get his grandson, Lonnie (played by Brandon deWilde) not to admire and emulate his Uncle Hud (played by Paul Newman) so much. "Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire."

I did not see that film when it fist came out, but caught it on TV nearly twenty years later. I almost fell off my chair in astonishment at the prescience of that line. And it still holds up well today, nearly fifty years after that movie was made.

[rucky]

2. I guessed what it was before opening the thread.

a near second is the final scene of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Ned Beatty's 'come to Jesus' moment in 'Deliverance'...

...provides the metaphor.

[Kurmudgeon]

4. My favorite is Max von Sydow as King Osric in Conan the Barbarian 1982

"There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. Searching for the truth of her soul. As if *I* could not give it to her! (throws dagger at camera)

[Mac1949]

5. Peter Cook in "Whoops, Apocalypse"...

Makes just as much sense as Republican fundies.

[RevStPatrick]

7. I believe that Rupert Murdoch watched that movie...

...and based the entire rest of his career building his media empire using those tactics.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. "Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? Tough one, but I'll give it a shot."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw