1. From the movie BraveHeart - I enjoy and like to contemplate these scenes from the movie. I like the horseback speech to the troops prior to battle when they were ready to leave and William Wallace’s cry of “freedom” at his death near the end of the film.

2. From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - I am moved during the final speech of the movie when Jimmy Stewart continues to proclaim his commitment to truth and “love thy neighbour” against the manufactured opposition brought against him.

3. From Hoosiers - When Strap (the preachers son) kneels to pray on the edge of the court during a timeout, Coach says “Make it a good one, Strap !”

4. I offer my apology for the next favorite. From Die Hard - I am sorry, but I love it when McClane tells Hans that he is “partial to Roy Rogers” and Hans makes another comment about the bankrupt society of America. And McClane responds, (with something Roy Rogers would have never said) “yippee ki-yay……” you know the rest. I also enjoy the scene when McClane is trying to get the attention of a cop -in a car- below him. So he ties a dead, bad guy to a chair and throws him out the window and hits the police car saying “Welcome to the party, pal !”

5. From Ben-Hur - Although being angry at the world for most of his life and -unknowingly- encountering Jesus on a few occasions, Ben-Hur is completely transformed when he meets Jesus on the way to Calvary. When he returns home, you can plainly see that he is a different man. And obviously the chariot race is a classic and favorite.

6. From Passion of the Christ - I cannot handle the scene of Jesus’s scourging, when -after already being beaten to a pulp- the soldiers flip Him over and have at it some more. I know that “by His stripes, we are healed” and it crushes my heart every time. Especially when you consider that His actual scourging was -most likely- much worse than Mel Gibson depicted in this film.

7. From Tombstone - I enjoy the scene when Doc has just shot Johnny Ringo -with blood pouring from the bullet hole in his head- and is circling him saying “Come on !!”. But the best line is when he kneels over Ringo’s dead body and Wyatt comes running up and he says, “I’m afraid the strain was more than he could bear”.

Sorry for taking up so much time, but these scenes appeal to me on many different levels.

Steve H

Jay-

5. At the end of Facing the Giants when the wife says, “You made the daddy team.” Not really.

*snicker*

2. From The Apostle - When The Apostle E.F. hits his old youth minister with a bat at a softball game and says, “One for the road Rodney!”

3. From Cool Hand Luke - When Lucas Jackson wins the poker game after arriving at the prison camp and says, “Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.”

4. The last scene of the movie Signs.

5. At the end of Facing the Giants when the wife says, “You made the daddy team.” Not really.

From more recent flicks what bout when Rudy goes in to play - and they pan to his dad. Argh. Tears flow.

I think of Dead Poet’s Society, Lean On Me, Finding Forrester, many scenes where the Hobbits seize the day in the Lord of the Rings,….

Not a movie, but if you haven’t seen the clip of Paul Potts that I just posted on my blog, go check it out.