One Hundred Movie Scenes That Assert Themselves
18th September 2010
Freeberg is always worth reading.
This is not a list of one hundred greatest movie scenes, and it isn’t a list of one hundred long movie scenes.
These are movie scenes that promise something wonderful, and compel you to watch them. They assert themselves. They do not merely tempt you to put off a potty break. That would not work; that is what pause buttons are for. These are scenes that you can intuitively sense must be kept intact, no matter how long they are, and you have to consume them that way.