orpheus wrote:

The_Piper wrote:

igorfrankensteen wrote:I'm not up to you folks level as a film aficionado, sorry. The one film that comes to mind which took me aback long ago, was the 1972 version of Sleuth. It took me quite a while to realize how many actors were in it, and I was delighted by the recognition that the director or whomever opted to tell the story thus.

I've only seen one movie mentioned in the thread, and I don't even know by what measure makes those scenes daring. (good bad ugly)
in other words, this whole thread - woosh

Well, there are so many great films out there — I'm hoping part of the fun of this thread will be to get tips on ones I haven't seen yet — of which there are plenty. The only ones in this thread so far that I've seen are Sleuth and the one I started with (The Third Man). The others are now on my list.

You bring up a good point about knowing what makes these scenes daring. I can't enforce rules for the thread, but I'm hoping people will post a bit of explanation, so it doesn't become another sort of general thread of favorite movies or scenes from movies. (Fun though those threads are.)

Here's a subtle one, from All the President's Men. I can't embed the video, but you can watch it here, along with a really good explanation of why it's as cool as the film guys say it is. (Much better explanation than I could manage.)

A still from the scene:

don't get me started wrote:2001, of course. Multiple scenes were just fantastic and groundbreaking.
Minimalistic dialogue, accurate portrayal of outer space, leaving the audience to work it out instead of blunt exposition for the hard of thinking.

Fenrir wrote:Not a scene but a whole film. V for Vendetta, a film where one never sees the face of the protagonist, despite him appearing at the centre of many scenes.
And of course a difficulty for the actor, portraying a complicated personality with which the audience must identify and be repulsed by without the help of face to convey intent or emotion.

something audacious and breathtaking in the art and craft of film itself

Goldenmane wrote:The diametric opposite of the first try at Judge Dredd, the second attempt at which was one of the very few films in the last twenty years to evoke visceral discomfort in me.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Hey, this.

orpheus wrote:[ The only ones in this thread so far that I've seen are Sleuth and the one I started with (The Third Man). The others are now on my list.

Rumraket wrote:The Man from Earth was good and I think a daring film, in that it's basically one long conversation between a man who's about to move out of his house and a couple of work colleagues and friends. Some conversations are just worth listening to.