SceneItAll Tournament: Round 1, Heat 45
 

The rules:

In Round 1, I'm going to put up three randomly selected scenes from the nomination thread.

You'll vote for your ONE favorite scene among the three. The key here is FAVORITE. We're not talking about the 'best' or 'most powerful' or 'most meaningful'. We're talking about the scene that you most enjoy watching, however you define that.

The winners will move on. I'll also take the 10 highest-scoring second-place scenes and they'll advance as wild cards.

Some of our nominations did not include clips. This will be noted. If you find a clip, please post it and let me know so I can update it if it moves on.

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I can only find this scene with Russian over the dialogue, but you can still hear a little and you can watch it.
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in b4 pole

My votes:

#1 - The Quiet Man. I have a philosophical opposition to "None of the Above", so I'll vote for the Russian John Wayne even though I don't think it's that great. Its only redeeming feature is that there's a redhead in it.

#2 - The Goonies. What is that? What am I watching? That's disturbing.

#3 - Tango & Cash. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. I thought this was a real movie. Is it a spoof like The Naked Gun movies? Because that scene is so bad - so so bad - that it can't possibly have been serious. Right?

Worst round ever.

I would tend to agree. I wish the Ferris Bueller Seurat scene had been in here.

Meh, I'm just soured by Fast Times losing to GGR... sure, GGR was the much more important scene in a thinking mans movie... but I'm irrational in my FTARH love and so I'm bitter.

THIS WHOLE THING IS A SHAM ITS FIXED JUST LIKE THE NFL :harumph:

If it helps, the Dazed and Confused high school girls scene is coming up at some point.

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Quiet Man

It goes on after that but it's very long. I just thought it was important to show that they got the money, and then threw it in a furnace together.

Did you nominate that one? What's going on? I don't speak Russian. I saw an English clip that started later and it seemed like he was giving his wife back and getting back some dowry money? And then he threw it in the furnace and they were a happy couple.

Nuh uh, I saw the clip and barely remembered the story, so I just looked it up.

Plot

In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm in Inisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire "Red" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). Danaher, angry that Sean outbid him for the Thornton land adjacent to his property, initially refuses to sanction the marriage until several town locals, including the Catholic priest, Father Lonergan (Ward Bond), conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane (Mildred Natwick) wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in his house. After learning the truth on Sean and Mary Kate's wedding day, an enraged Will refuses to give his sister her full dowry.

Sean, unschooled in Irish customs, cares nothing about the dowry, but Mary Kate is obsessed with obtaining it. The dowry represents her independence, identity, and pride. Angered and shamed by Sean's refusal to confront her brother and demand what is legally hers, she brands him a coward, and, despite living together, they are estranged as husband and wife.

Sean had been a boxer in the United States, a heavyweight challenger known as "Trooper Thorn". After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, Sean hung up his gloves, vowing never to fight again. This is known to only one person in the village, the Church of Ireland minister, the Rev. Playfair (Arthur Shields).

Later, in an attempt to force Sean to confront Will, Mary Kate leaves him and boards a train departing Castletown and headed to Dublin. Infuriated, Sean drags her off the train, and, followed by the townspeople, forces her to walk the five miles to Inisfree from Castletown to the Danaher farm. Sean demands that Will hand over her dowry and threatens to return Mary Kate to his household if he refuses. Will finally relents and gives him the cash. Mary Kate and Sean throw it into a furnace together, showing that Mary Kate never cared about the money, but only what it represented. A long, memorable fistfight ensues between Sean and Will. They slug it out through the village, stop for a drink, brawl again, then become best friends. Sean regains Mary Kate's love and respect. Will and the Widow Tillane begin courting, and peace is returned to Inisfree.

Wow. That's quite the plot.

yeah

Coincidentally I had a thing for Maureen O'Sullivan as a boy. The two actresses are sometimes confused. O'Sullivan played Jane in some of the old B&W Tarzan movies. She has a waterfall shower scene that you should check out...for Science.

Oh, and a skinny dipping scene, but they had a stand in doing the underwater nude swimming.

Even if she's my grandmother's age, I would like to learn more about this waterfall scene. I don't see it on first search, but I'll look.

I have been trying to find it. Here's a music video featuring a moving "Magic Eye" 3d effect to entertain you while I search. You will want to play it full screen on the highest resolution:

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None.

bucket of dung

LMAO at the Tango and Cash scene. I haven't seen that since I saw it in the theater. Man, people were stupid(er) back then.

"Who do you think you are?"
"He thinks he's Rambo!"
That was kind of funny though. Good enough for my vote in this round.

Yeah, the Rambo line was okay. The rest was so absurd that it was kind of funny, but it simultaneously made me sad to think about the writers, director, and producer who put it together.

I have had no luck finding this. I saw it on TV as a kid several times and I did see it on YouTube a long time ago. It's one of the scenes I looked for when I first found YouTube. The local channels would run matinees of Tarzan, Shirley Temple, Abbot and Costello and some others. In this movie she had changed over to wearing hides I think. So it was after they were an established jungle couple. She's frolicking in a waterfall and as she hops around her hides flip up over her hips. So you get quick front and back glimpses of nude-below-the-waist Maureen O'Sullivan in the early 1930's. She was born in 1911, so that would put her in her early 20's.

I refuse to vote until we've moved until Round 2.

She was showing her jungle hideaway in the early 1930s? I really need to see this.

You'll relent when Young Frankenstein's Putting on the Ritz shows up.

Good grief....can we vote that none of these deserve to move on?

A lot of the Pre-Code movies from Hollywood were hot stuff. From the late 20's to the early 30's mostly. And I love the lingerie of the time.

Damn it. This is the best I can do so far and I'm not even sure it's her:

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Here's the skinny dipping scene. She could really hold her breath.

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Reading a little about it, it wasn't actually Maureen in the swimming scene, but rather a body double. That's fine by me, though.

Yeah. A lady Olympic swimmer. And she's very hot, so it's just as good.

I would have voted for the swimming scene had it been in this group.

Oh, absolutely. The movie part wasn't very good, but she was naked. That would be a runaway.

What a stupid heat.

The Goonies wins. Yeesh.