Boba Fett

Oh, hi Mark.

story

My favorite De Niro moment is in Jackie Brown:

Lewis (De Niro) is in the department store with Melanie (Bridget Fonda) on a stakeout and they're not getting along. Lewis is too uptight and anxious, Melanie is too lackadaisical and flippant. Melanie challenges Lewis with this: "Job a little too much for you?"

He gives her a death stare for a good five seconds.

Those five seconds are intense. I love it. Everything about Lewis's past - the crimes he's done, the time he's done, the men he's killed - everything is present in that moment of eyes filled with hate, a brow furrowed in rage, and a stoney, tight frown concealed under a giant mustache. The stare finally ends when both Lewis and Melanie look away from each other when they simultaneously realize something: not only is Lewis perfectly capable of killing Melanie over something like this, he honestly will do it if she doesn't shut up right now and both of them are pretty shook up by that.

Brilliant.

Found a video clip (01:00-01:20). If you want the line Mondo Kane quotes below, that's at 2:15-2:30.
MAJOR SPOILERS if you go beyond that; FYI, to those who haven't seen the movie...

JumpCutz

^ Yeah that was indeed a fantastic scene.

leacha

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Fist of Doom

Groucho...

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CharlieK

John Turturro about to get whacked in Miller's Crossing.

Mondo Kane

"Give me the bag before IKNOCKYA thefuckout..."

Rypro 525

whats funny is that thats actually supposed to be an homage to Rebel Without a Cause and the 'your tearing me apart' line
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQLgODoLFE (53 sec in)

story

Added a video to my post above (watch 00:40-01:15 for the scene I wrote about and 2:10-2:25 to get the line Mondo Kane quoted). I wouldn't watch beyond that if you haven't seen the movie and don't want major spoilers, though...

johnnysd

It's interesting because you can tell it was written by Aaron Sorkin- like Mamet his characters have a way of using language that is unique to their writing styles.

Dr Mabuse

Besides 'Alec in 'Glengarry'...

Wilford Brimley in 'Absence of Malice'. He was amazing.

rabbit77

Here it is

auto

Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

jfoobar

I really cannot argue with this at all. Giamatti hit a home run from start to finish.

My stock answer to threads like this is the Christine Lahti/Steven Hill restaurant scene in Running On Empty.

dcrw6

There's two scenes in Magnolia that I've always thought fit the bill (well, actually there's many moments in the movie that I could say but I'll just bring up two):

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I still remember every detail of when I was 16 and saw this movie in the theater, it impacted me so much, which the quality of acting brought into everyone of the characters was a large factor of.

Tom Creo

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Trevor

I love/hate threads like this that make me want to pull out 30 different DVDs and cancel whatever plans I had for the day.

starman9000

I've always thought the stammering in this scene was perfect:

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Wolf359

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PopcornTreeCt

As for modern films, I go with Thomas Jane in the drug dealer scene in Boogie Nights.

Dragon Tattoo

It still amazes me that Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. He has to be the one actor who's been in the most classic movies who's never won one. Has he even ever been nominated?

inri222

He has been nominated for :

Magnolia
Born on the 4th
Jerry Maguire

King Benny

Sean Penn during the execution scene in Dead Man Walking.

Boba Fett

Bridges confirmed that every stammer was scripted and he couldn't have gotten away with deviating one word. That honestly makes the performance even more brilliant.

musick

I assume you meant the LaPadite home
if it were the Dreyfuss' home that would have made the scene a bit silly