Category Archives: Best Scenes

Hitler’s final memo

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One more from Antony Beevor’s great history, The Fall of Berlin 1945:

“Hitler took Traudl Junge (one of his secretaries) away to another room (in the bunker), where he dictated his political and personal testaments. She sat there in nervous excitement, expecting to hear at last a profound explanation of the great sacrifice’s true purpose. But instead a stream of political clichés, delusions and recriminations poured forth. He had never wanted war. It had been forced on him by international Jewish interests. The war, ‘in spite of all setbacks,’ he claimed, will one day go down in history as the most glorious and heroic manifestation of a people’s will to live’” (emphasis mine)

Favorite scenes from TV and movies

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I’ve been collecting these for 20+ years. One of the reasons I started blogging… to have a place to collect these. I could have linked each of these directly to the post/video (see Five Easy Pieces below) but it’s better if you just browse. Or you can use the search box at the top of the page.

  • 12 Monkeys (Consumerism)
  • Alien (Breaking quarantine)
  • Andy Griffith Show (“Is this good government!”)
  • Boiler Room (Ben Affleck speech)
  • Brazil (Ministry of Information)
  • Broadcast News (Keep it to yourself)
  • Carnivale (gas station shooting)
  • Charlie Chan (Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter)
  • Dave (budget cutting)
  • Dave (Commerce Secretary)
  • Deadwood (kidney stone)
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Five Easy Pieces (diner scene)
  • Game Change (Concession speech)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (always be closing)
  • Good Will Hunting (why not work for the NSA)
  • Inherit the Wind (creationism vs evolution)
  • Mississippi Burning (Gene Hackman grabs deputy’s balls)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (assorted)
  • Network (Mad as hell)
  • Rainmaker (“You must be stupid!”)
  • Rambo III (Freedom speech)
  • Snowpiercer (axe battle)
  • Sorcerer (bridge scene; picking out a truck)
  • St. Vincent (Bill Murray sings Bob Dylan)
  • The Deer Hunter (fuck it)
  • The Deer Hunter (Russian roulette)
  • The Dentist (W.C.Fields)
  • The Memory Expert (W.C. Fields)
  • Time Bandits (understanding technology)
  • Shakespeare In Love (“It’s a mystery”)
  • Tarzan the Ape Man (pygmy scene)
  • The Shield (“yammy full of Georgia joy juice”)
  • Three Days of the Condor (final scene)
  • Time Bandits (understanding technology)
  • True Detective (Philosophy of Rust Cohle; Rust Cohle on religion)
  • True Romance (White Boy Day)