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Favorite sequence in the movie?

posted 9 years ago by ARosser14
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Just wondering what everyone's favorite sequence is in this movie. Not necessarily an entire scene, maybe just a certain shot that moved you somehow or a part where a song kicked in or something.

For me, and I love the entire movie so it's not easy to say one part is my favorite, but the sequence where The Diamonds' "Little Darlin'" starts as the camera pans along the front of Mel's, there's something downright magical about that.

Honorable mention goes to the straight-on side shot of John and Falfa's first race and then the cars staged side-by-side on Paradise Road, engines rumbling, right before Toad hits the light.

Look forward to seeing what other little shots other fans loved.

[–] alexkravchenko 9 years ago

My favourite scene? Definitely the drag race at Paradise Road.

[–] csweetleaf2 9 years ago

the scene where Carol and John Milner were spraying whipped cream on a girl's car after she threw a water balloon at Carol or the scene were Toad tries to score liquor at the liquor store were my favorites.

[–] Randy-144 9 years ago

For me it's Falfa and Milner dissing each other's car as they are cruising side by side. That scene is so typical of two guys trading insults about a rival's car.

[–] sjankis630 8 years ago

It has been a while but for me:
1- any scene on the strip-especially when Falfa and John first "pre drag race" and Falfa runs the red light - shades of what is coming.
2 - The scene at the end when Richard Dreyfus is flying away to college and looks down to see that thunderbird driving all alone on the highway and he realises that he ain't ever gonna meet that girl on the strip because that part of his life - cruising with high school friends - is over.
3 - when we discover that the Wolfman- isn't broadcasting from Mexico or some faraway country, but is actually broadcasting from right at the edge of town. I remember Richard Dreyfus looking shocked, but then accepting of the secret. I like the way they filmed that with the Shot of the Wolfman talking in studio, but you actually only hear him "on the air".