To answer the original poster, what's the most memorable scene? Two words:"I slipped."
All of the above!!!A scene I have always loved is when Noodles visits the tomb of his friends. It really makes me feel sad. But can anybody here tell me what is going on with Noodles and Ennio Morricone`s music in there? On two occasions he looks up to the ceiling whilst the music is playing. He looks slightly annoyed closes the door and the music stops. It’s almost as if he can here the music. Somebody please try and explain this. It has always intrigued me?
Watching this wonderful epic again on DVD has I guess refreshed us all. So I thought it would be a good time to ask you guys what you think is your favourite and most memorable scene in the film?Yet again I laughed until I nearly cried at the Chief Aiello baby-switching scene!And the scene in the station, when Noodles leaves for exile and returns thirty years later always gets me.But my favourite has to be that quite beautiful scene in which young Patsy slowly eats that cream cake (a charlotte mousse with whipped cream) rather than get laid.I know that there really are so many. But what scene really does it for you?[/quot]Three words."Never my beloved".I'm a romantic.
The ending is definitely one of the most moving endings to a film I've seen, but another pick of mine is when Noodles goes to the train station where Deborah's leaving, after he raped her. Watching the train pull her away like that--with her eyes on Noodles's, pulling the shade down--just says so much about his utter loss, that HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR. It's heartbreaking. And then the camera turns to Noodles, watching her go. Finally he turns away, with that mournful music, and then it goes to the intermission, which is perfect. Lets it all soak into the audience.Another favorite (not really a scene, though) is when Noodles enters the room with "Secretary Bailey" near the end, and Max turns around to face him, and we see Noodles's face. De Niro expresses so much in one look it blows me away every time. The way it feels to see his old friend after 35 years, the friend that he thought he'd killed and now had apparently betrayed him, is expressed in his face so much better than I could possibly put into words. De Niro's acting all the way through the film is incredible in its subtlety.And of course the rape scenes are memorable in the worst way. The one with Deborah is particularly awful, but the one in the jewler's is also done really well, as we see Max and Patsy look over the jewels ("nice matzo balls") while we hear Carol's voice transform from horrified screams into sensual moans. And now I've gone on much too long... anybody could just go on and on about the memorable parts of the film.
All great scenes. I suppose it's a bit of a cop out but there are so many memorable scenes, it's difficult to pick out one or two. Leone was certainly a master at building suspense and matching music to action. I like all those plus the great transitions and match cuts.It's probably easier to identify the scenes that are not that special. Max collects Noodles from prison and invites him to view the stiff in the back of the hearse. So far so good but at the end of the scene Max makes a throwaway remark to a passerby who gives a puzzled look to camera - it looks like a bad scene from a carry on movie.
I don't know about the most memorable scene, but I can easily say the most memorable shot in the film is the one with the Williamsburg bridge.
I thought it was the picture with the Manhattan bridge in the background that people tend to like.I don't mind the rest of the scene with the stiff in the back of the hearse, just the way it ends with the passerby looking at the camera puzzled.
That bridge is called the Williamsburg bridge.
The death of Dominic and the shots before it with the bridge.Either that or when Dominic went to give the pastry to the girl. He waits out the room and begins to eyeball it, beginning to eat it himself. I don't know why, but that scene is just so beautiful.