🎞️Great Film Scenes🎞️

To me, the best scene in cinema history is the last scene of The Great Escape, when the same German soldier we've seen before escorts Hilts (Steve McQueen), once again into his cell in the cooler.

This scene says it all: after the tense escape and wild pursuit and recapture. The fact that Hilts just sits down and plays solitary catch with his baseball shows that the indomitable of free men to remain free remains absolute. Business as usual.

The pause by the guard as he leaves is priceless.

 
There's a lot of subtext and activity that leads to this moment. If you've seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you'll understand (perhaps) that the entire theme is summed up in that single word: "Okay."

To know why this is important, you have to know what came before.

One of iconoclastic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's greatest.

 
This chilling scene from the tragic but excellent film 'The Collector' starring starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar:

 
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