I didn't see a favorite scene thread on here so I thought I'd start one.
My vote is the adventure on the garbage truck. I love that slow motion shot of the truck being dumped and McQueen and MacGraw barely visible being dumped with it. Classic Peckinpaugh.
I like that scene, also.
My favorite scene is where McQueen comes out of the TV shop, after having been identified by the proprietor of the shop. The cops show up in front of the TV shop, then McQueen steals a shotgun and lays the police cars to waste.
That was a great scene too, when McQueen levels that police car with the shotgun...another example of classic Peckinpaugh.
shareFavorite: when he goes into the gunshop to get a shotgun. It's such as smooth action, he didn't even have to think about it. He was just like, "I need a good shotgun" and he went and got it. Fantastic. Then, you can see him not panicking but obviously rushing to get it. Classic Peckinpah
"You are the Duke of New York! You are A # 1!"
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My favorite part was the final shootout, lots of stylized slow-mo and rapid editing.
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hpvirtanen said
[...]MacGraw puts on the brake and MacQueen falls on his butt[...]I just read somewhere that Ali McGraw learned to drive a car especially for this movie...
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I love the final shooting too, especially when SMQ shoots the lift wires, and the villain beeing in the lift lol.
shareI just watched the movie last night, and quite enjoyed the opening montage.
The sound of the textile machines in the back constantly with typical Peckinpah rapid fire cuts. I liked how the image would be freeze framed while the sound of the machines continued.
And, for the main title of the movie, (the text showing "The Getaway") they show Stevey giving a low 5 to another inmate on a freeze frame image.
Peckinpah + McQueen = Cool off the charts.
McQueen goes into the gun shop and picks out the 12 gauge pump and 2 boxws of shells, tells the salesman to wrap it, salesman says fill out this form, TWICE, McQueen pulls his 45 and points it at the salesman and says "Know what this is?" Salesman leans on the counter and says weerily "Yeah"
I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney, than driving with Ted Kennedy
The entire sequence from the beginning of the job until the end of Rudy and Doc's confrontation in the woods.
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage... "
Got to be Doc suddenly emerging on the stairs in the El paso Hotel and blasting the machine gun toting hood who then sprays fire into the magazine rack. Now that's classic Peckinpah.
shareMy favorite was probably when Doc shot the s**t out of the cop car after taking the shotgun.
I also really dug Doc's first getaway chase scene when especially after the explosion when he drove through the fire. That was a pretty cool shot.
I'm not saying it's the best scene in the movie, but I've always liked the scene of Doc searching for the con man on the train. The weird combination of near-panic urgency and cool efficiency exactly defined Doc (like the aforementioned "buying"-a-shotgun scene).
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"I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
The opening credits
shareDoc finding the guy who stole the bag, just sitting down next to him, beating the *beep* out of him and putting the hat on his face so it looks like he was sleeping. That all with incredible calm- and coolness, just gotta love McQueen.
shareWhen Doc Is buying a radio, And his face plastered on all those TV sets
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When McQueen punches that annoying blonde in the face.
" wants me to tell him something pretty... "
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suessmetub wrote '... and racks the slide ...'
i dunno why but this phrase sounds very very cool
al littieri (sp?) always scared the hell outta me
gotta be one of the most under-known bad guys in cinema
history (i like that phrase too ha)
i haven't seen the getaway i gotta check it out again soon
i landed here on this thread it's a couple days after andy griffith
passed away and the howard sprague character on that show
jesus does he go thru hell - courtesy of littieri - in the getaway
r-i-p 'anj' howard and scary al jesus i sure hope the dude goes easier
on poor howard in the afterlife
mcqueen with the shotgun is just epic because he does what we would all love to do and he just blasts everything and it looks so real and the damage is dreamlike but not outrageous like today, but everytime he told his girl "floor this son of a bit**!" I loved that too lol
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