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Famous Movie Scenes #2

Can you guess the movies that featured these famous scenes?
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Last updated: December 30, 2019
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First submittedApril 10, 2014
Times taken53,660
Average score60.0%
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Scene
Movie
Woman and man sensually share a pottery wheel
Ghost
Ape tries to swat airplanes while climbing a building
King Kong
Man on a bench holds a box of chocolates
Forrest Gump
Right-handed swordsmen fight each other left-handed
The Princess Bride
Man steals artifact by replacing it with a bag of (almost) equally weighted sand
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A fiery whip lashes onto a bearded man's ankle and drags him into the abyss
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
Chariot racer has spiked wheels that damage his opponent's wheels
Ben-Hur
Jogging man is pursued by children. He runs up some steps and
raises his arms in triumph.
Rocky II
Man in a field is attacked by a crop-duster plane
North by Northwest
A plastic bag dances in the wind
American Beauty
Athlete in a locker room makes his agent uncomfortable by
"air drying" after a shower
Jerry Maguire
Woman at a diner fakes orgasm
When Harry Met Sally
Jews are being taken from their homes. Everything is black and white
except for a little girl's red coat
Schindler's List
Two dogs kiss after trying to eat the same noodle
Lady and the Tramp
Prisoner is transported strapped to a gurney with a mask across his face
The Silence of the Lambs
Man falls to his knees and curses at the sight of the ruined Statue of Liberty
The Planet of the Apes
Singing man twirls around a lampost
Singin' in the Rain
Woman twirls and sings as she frolics across Alpine meadows
The Sound of Music
Girl in bed spins her head around 360 degrees
The Exorcist
Snow globe slips from the hand of a dying man and crashes on the floor
Citizen Kane
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Level 81
Apr 11, 2014
These are great, keep 'em coming!
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Level 77
Apr 11, 2014
I love this series...and although the Balrog-Gandalf thing was explained in the Two Towers, the more emotional scene (and the first occurrence) is definitely in the Fellowship.
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Level ∞
Apr 11, 2014
Fixed
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Level 89
Oct 11, 2019
Sounds like a Month Python scene. I thought maybe it was a Pirates Of The Caribbean thing. Ghost Rider maybe.
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Level 38
Mar 26, 2022
I thought Monty Python as well. I'm a pretty big LOTR nerd but just couldn't put two and two together for some reason
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Level 73
May 3, 2014
Well, as I frequently lament, how can North by Northwest and Citizen Kane be two of the three lowest scores? Who has time to watch the greatest movies of all time when there's Harry Potter VIII and Lord of the Rings XVI out?
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Level 82
May 4, 2014
North by Northwest is the only one I missed. Never seen it. I've also never seen the last Harry Potter film, or LotR 16 (though 1 was extremely good, you didn't like it?), nor have I seen Rocky II, Ben-Hur, or past the first 20 minutes or so of the Exorcist. But I got all of those right because the scenes mentioned are all so extremely famous. You see them in montages, they get spoofed and referenced constantly... the attacked by crop duster thing I don't recall seeing before.
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Level 84
May 5, 2014
Very famous scene. I'm with rgc1600, really surprised actually that more people knew the American Beauty scene than the North By Northwest and Citizen Kane scenes.
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Level 82
May 8, 2014
I'd say it was just me but then, the percentages seem to bear out my observation.
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Level 75
Jan 6, 2017
North by Northwest is my favorite Hitchcock movie. He was such a master at suspense, and it slowly builds in this movie. Deserves its iconic status IMO. On the other hand, so many lists have Citizen Kane as the greatest movie of all time that I had to watch it. I somehow missed the giant impact of it all. Perhaps a film expert can enlighten me. Casablanca and GWTW are at the top of my list.
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Level 67
Jul 24, 2019
Citizen Kane had a lot of "firsts" in it. Before then, most directors were studio men who used the same aesthetic conventions to tell a story efficiently and easily. Many people think of Citizen Kane as the first true auteur movie. Orson Welles was a major commodity that Hollywood had been unsuccessfully courting for years. He finally signed under condition that he could write, direct, produce, and star in his own movie with little oversight, which was unheard of at the time. So he was able to do things most movies wouldn't allow -- things that are taken for granted now. He used offbeat camera angles to play with perspective, used music to augment scenes rather than just fill space, and finally tightened the absolutely dreadful pacing of early Hollywood editing. The movie, viewed just for enjoyment, is not so great. But if you appreciate how innovative it was when it happened, its significance is clearer.
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Level 83
Sep 15, 2020
Crop duster has been parodied on the Simpsons and I think on family guy . In fact most well know movies have been parodied on the Simpsons.
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Level 32
Mar 26, 2022
Well said, @jmellor13. I adore Citizen Kane and agree with its high ranking on movie lists, but I admit that it can be a little disappointing on first view, after all the praise. Familiarity with other movies of its time helps (like GWTW, in fact). Its lightness and irreverence is part of its greatness: when others were making straightforward narratives, comic or serious as the case might be, Orson Welles filmed a life story seen in retrospect, from a series of reports from different people, filmed in a new style and presented in an almost offhand way that we don't expect from "masterpieces." Nobody's required to like anything, but my experience is that it keeps looking better as I get older.
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Level 51
Oct 30, 2014
i got North by Northwest correct though i've never seen it, its a fairly famous scene. I recognized the Citizen Kane scene and know that he says "rosebud" in the movie and i guessed that, but had no idea what the movie was actually called.
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Level 64
Sep 12, 2016
I can understand why Citizen Kane is viewed as a historically important movie...but I really don't think its impact has held up at all.
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Level 72
Jul 6, 2018
Maybe, and hear me out, maybe it's because those movies were released 60-70 years ago and people are more likely to remember the ones that came out in the last decade or so? Or maybe because Harry Potter and LOTR are also book series that are insanely famous? I doubt their percentages will be as high when JetPunk does another similar quiz in 2078... The obsession the QM has with plugging The Princess Bride in every single movie quiz, though, I will never understand.
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Level 37
Nov 28, 2018
The older movies (especially Hitchcock's) remain with us because of their unique plots. To me, almost all modern movies are just rehashing of old movie plots and the actors themselves don't impress me at all. Some exceptions: Bullitt, Ghost, Pretty Woman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Sting.
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Level 67
Jul 24, 2019
I actually think the best modern film actors are a lot better than the older ones. Most "Golden Age" actors were really hammy over-actors that relied on good looks and charisma for their greatness, but they weren't very realistic. Brando, Bogart, Welles, Katharine Hepburn, and Bette Davis are the major exceptions I can think of. Modern "movie stars" like Will Smith, Scarlett Johanssen, the Rock, etc. definitely rely on their star power rather than acting, but there are also lots of really great modern actors who are masters of their craft, like Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Rockwell, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Robert De Niro, Gary Oldman, Bryan Cranston, Laura Linney, and so on. I always think the facile comparison between Tom Hanks and Jimmy Stewart exemplifies the distinction. People talk about them like they're the same. Tom Hanks is ten times the actor Jimmy Stewart ever was.
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Level 83
Mar 2, 2023
Spencer Tracy in bad day at black rock is a great acting performance.Hammy overacting would be Day Lewis in there will be blood.
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Level 78
Jul 24, 2019
I don't think it's really the plots that make Hitchcock so unique, perhaps except for Psycho and a few others. Hitchcock usually worked with clichéd plot elements and subverted them with expressive camera angles, montages, use of color, music, and silence, etc. He went so far as to coin the term MacGuffin, which is an object that drives the story but has no significance in itself, and even consciously deprived his MacGuffins of their significance over the years. In North by Northwest, when Cary Grant finally learns what's behind all those secret service shenanigans, all we hear is the noise coming from a starting aiprlane. Hitch tells us to stop caring about the corny plot and makes us aware of HOW he tells it.
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Level 77
Mar 26, 2022
I don’t think Tom Hanks is who you want to use as an example of how acting is better today than when Jimmy Stewart acted. Also, you can’t really blame actors who were forced by the industry, and the available technology, to use the “trans-Atlantic” accent.
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Level 37
Feb 25, 2020
So true! Meaningful movies with actual plots are apparently a thing of the past.
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Level 72
Mar 26, 2022
Of course "North by Northwest" itself is a rehash by Hitchcock of lots of bits and pieces from his earlier movies. The matronly wife of the archspy (first seen in "The 39 Steps"), the scary drive by the edge of the cliff ("Suspicion"), the fugitive who ducks into a lady's compartment on a train (also borrowed from "The 39 Steps"), the escape by crawling out one window and into another ("Foreign Correspondent"), the bad guy dropped from a national monument (the Statue of Liberty in "Saboteur"), and the faceless intelligence service manipulating our two lovers ("Notorious") all get reused with a little twist in NxNW.
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Level 37
May 3, 2014
sadly watching Animaniacs and Tiny Toons prepped me for most of these...except North by Northwest...didn't get that one
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Level 82
May 4, 2014
Young boy gets hit in stomach by soccer ball, keels over dead. Death is ruled a hate crime.
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Level 77
May 4, 2014
Annoys me when I knew Ghost, I could see the scene, but I had no idea of the name of the movie. And could've guessed the Maguire one, only thought it was Toby (why?), not Jerry :)
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Level 37
Jun 14, 2014
I make the same mistake! Tobey Maguire was Spider-man.
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Level 29
Jun 22, 2014
Although I am a huge fan of Hitchcock movies, reason I got North by Northwest was because of Psych the tv show. I actually have a quiz about Hitchcock references in Psych and one of them is literally the plane flying over Lassiter
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Level 89
Sep 12, 2016
The first time I did this quiz, I only got North by Northwest because Family Guy parodied it.
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Level 55
Mar 8, 2015
I hate to be pernickety but "Jews are being taken from their homes" is not the focus of that movie. It would be a good description for The Pianist, a holocaust movie that isn't set in the camps.
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Level 77
Jun 8, 2015
Just "Everything is black and white except for a little girl's red coat" would be adequate description. I remember how big an impression that exact thing made on me when I saw the movie for the first time.
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2016
The quiz is about famous scenes, not the plot of the movie.
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Level 67
Jul 24, 2019
But Jews *are* being taken from their homes in the scene with the little girl in the red coat.
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Level 81
May 27, 2016
Surprised that only 39% (as of today) got the Princess Bride! So many memorable moments in that movie!
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Level 61
Aug 31, 2017
Easily one of the most quotable movies ever.
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Level 70
Sep 12, 2016
only 49% of us nerds got Lord of the Rings?
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Level 26
Sep 12, 2016
Was about to say the same. I thought it would be one the top answers.
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Level 75
Sep 12, 2016
North by Northwest was so brilliant because of its amazing camera shots, its mounting suspense, and then the humor Hitchcock managed to sneak in. What other movie director has gone six minutes without lines or background music and still managed to make it thrilling? He really knew how to get into our minds.
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Level 67
Jul 24, 2019
The opening to There Will Be Blood also has no music or dialogue and runs for six minutes. I wouldn't call it "thrilling" only because it's the opening of the movie so there is a lot of groundwork to lay and we don't really know what's going on yet, but it is a very effective and memorable opening that really accomplishes a lot for the movie.
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Level 80
Aug 31, 2022
Check out "Rififi."
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Level 54
Sep 15, 2016
I am *proud* to say I missed The Princess Bride and the Lord of the Rings. :)
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Level 77
Oct 23, 2016
Why?
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Level 35
Dec 26, 2021
I feel sorry for you
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Level 66
Sep 7, 2022
And I am proud not to agree with you.
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2017
I never remember the title Jerry Maguire. It should have been called Show Me The Money.
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Level 48
Mar 7, 2017
Yes, better clue for a better known scene: 'Athlete gradually cajoles his agent to yell into his phone'.
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Level 72
Jul 6, 2018
Yeah. Because giving the movie the name of the main character is so random... ;)
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Level 61
Aug 31, 2017
I really should have gotten the Fellowship of the Ring one.
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Level 51
Aug 31, 2017
Run Fat Boy Run also had an "airdrying" scene/
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Level 70
Jul 24, 2019
Did it make his sports agent uncomfortable?
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Level 72
Jul 24, 2019
"Prisoner is transported strapped to a gurney with a mask across his face" - this also happens in Con Air
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Level 81
Jul 24, 2019
True, but come on. "Famous Scenes"
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Level 37
Jul 26, 2019
I would put North by Northwest and Benhur above any modern movies (with the possible exceptions of Ghost and Titanic), old movies have a level of suspense and sophistication that most modern movies fail to achieve.
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Level 66
May 3, 2020
There is a Japanese movie called The Princess Blade(not bride) with some of the most insane sword fighting scenes ever. Not as good as the Lone Wolf and Cub movies, but still good.
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Level 62
Jul 2, 2021
I forget When. Kept typing Harry meet Sally.
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Level 28
Dec 31, 2022
Love the description for Lady and the Tramp XD
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Level 67
Mar 13, 2023
Just missed North by Northwest