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Thread #91162   Message #1732382
Posted By: John Hardly
02-May-06 - 05:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unforgettable Scenes In Movies
Subject: RE: BS: Unforgettable Scenes In Movies
"In "Support Your Local Sheriff" - possibly the best spoof western ever "

Given the obscurity of this movie, I can't believe someone else brought it up! I was just thinking about adding it to this thread (and thinking to myself, "why add another movie that nobody's gonna remember?") when I ran across this mention. Can't believe it.

But I was going to mention it for a different scene. The scene where the bad guy busts into the jailhouse and points his pistol at James Garner (the sheriff) demanding the release of a prisoner in the jail. James Garner calmly leans over and sticks his finger in the end of the pistol's barrel. The outlaw starts complaining, "Hey, you can't DO that! It might backfire and hurt me!". James Garner says, "Well, it ain't gonna do a hell of a lot for my finger neither."

There's a little known movie -- a remake of the story of Silas Marner with Steve Martin as the lead. In this movie there's a scene wherein Martin's character has had a tough emotional setback. Late at night, in the very dim light of the house, Martin sits in a window seat, backlit by the moon, and plays a clawhammer version of...."You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland before you" (whatever that tune is...he plays it instrumentally).

I could relate. I can hardly imagine hard times without an instrument to comfort me.

I like the "I'll Say A Little Prayer For You" scene in "My Best Friend's Wedding".

I love the scene with the young bicyclist tooling around Bloomington Indiana to the soundtrack of Rossini's Overture To The Barber Of Seville.