9 scenes that BLOW UP the screen
Cinema is hundreds of iconic quotes, memorable chases, spectacular shootouts, brutal duels and disaster sequences. It’s a flurry of scenes with breathtaking special effects that strike our imagination from the spot and stay in our memory forever. Iconic moments of the X muse for more than 100 years have given us baked goods on our faces, not allowing us to tear ourselves away from the screen. But there is one category of scenes, in my opinion, too rarely mentioned. I’m talking about the moments that literally pull you out of your shoes, with an intensity that gives you goosebumps. We then sit in the armchair with our mouths open with sensation, wondering what also just happened on the screen. Looking at the actors screaming and running amok, making it seem as if they let go of all the brakes, it is better to sit quietly and wait out this outburst of emotions, and certainly not get in their way…
5. The Professional (1994), dir. Luc Besson
Unforgettable scenes are often created through improvisation, and some are created through a combination of improvisation… With boredom. Nonchalant, surprising, and now iconic “I know” Han Solo’s response to Princess Leia’s “I love you” from The Empire Strikes Back, after all, was due to Harrison Ford’s fatigue, who was fed up with takes where he responded over and over again with the template “I love you too.” Similarly bored was Gary Oldman, who on the set of The Professional repeated the line repeatedly: “Bring me everyone,” until finally, supposedly as a joke, he tore himself out at full throat, repeating “Everyone!” in such a way that the subsequent sounds of guns, rifles, rocket launchers and a grenade explosion, when juxtaposed with the force of his seething acting performance, appeared like a shot from a drenched cap. Luc Besson decided without hesitation to put this big-small improvisation in the film.
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), dir. Peter Jackson
Played by Ian McKellen, Gandalf, whether Gray or washed up in Perwoll, was rather rarely annoyed throughout the trilogy and even more rarely used his wizarding skills. But in Moria, his nerves let loose beyond all reason. First Peregrin Tuk dropped a bucket into a well, waking up the orcs and a cave troll, which had already put the hitherto composed wizard out of his mind. The bucket of bitterness, however, was poured over by the Balrog, doggedly following Team of the Ring. This was too much… Lasting more than 12 hours, the monumental trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson, contains a bunch of fantastic scenes of gigantic proportions. But I guess anyone who had to point out the one scene that comes to mind on the phrase “Lord of the Rings” will sound in their head Gandalf’s shouted resolute and unobjectionable: “You shall not pass!”, after which shout even a speeding locomotive would not pass on.
Rafał Donica