Top 20 Greatest Movie Scenes They Got On the First Take

welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 incredible movie scenes they got on the first take [Applause] i've never done that before neither have i actually let's go and don't forget the droid for this list we're looking at true moments of movie magic that amazingly happened right on the first ride consider yourselves warned there are spoilers ahead let us know your favorite first cake shots in the comments below number 20. jail scene the master from the moment freddy meets lancaster dodd and paul thomas anderson's the master the tension between them jumps off the screen you shouldn't work in your condition no i can work you're aberrated i'm not know what that means no it's palpable during their first meeting and of course the unforgettable processing scene but things come to a head in jail it's not surprising to hear that this scene was mostly improvised but you may be shocked to learn that what you see in the film is the first take it's volcanic then it was captured by an invader force bent on turning you to the darkest way you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive joaquin phoenix paces the cell like a caged animal literally breaking toilets and hitting the bunk with his head while philip seymour hoffman stands there taking it in until he too explodes it is a master class in acting from two of the greats just me freddie just you i'm the only one that likes you the only one number 19 lassie in the river lassie come home animals can be great actors too especially the very good boy pal who starred in the first lassie film all right i'll get up powell wasn't the first choice for the part he actually began as a stunt dog for the movie but lucky for pal his background and stunts elevated him to the titular role there's a famous scene in the film where lassie must swim across a raging river and pull herself out the dog initially cast in the role refused to get in the rushing rapids completely fair we wouldn't either [Music] but pal stepped up to the plate and nailed it in one take [Music] ah the professionalism of men's best friend number 18 colin farrell comes clean phone booth if you've ever seen this movie you know to never ever pick up the pay phone if it rings yep isn't it funny you hear a phone ring and it could be anybody but a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it in this joel schumacher thriller stu played by colin farrell gets stuck in a phone booth talking to a sniper you're doing so much better than the others you read about the german porn king shot 10 days ago didn't you at 38th and 8th the unseen man threatens to kill him if he doesn't admit to all of his misdeeds namely that he's been cheating on his wife kelly when kelly shows up to the scene the sniper changes tactics threatening to kill her if stew doesn't confess this pushes stu over the edge and he admits his infidelity in a stirring scene that colin farrell reportedly nailed on his very first try kelly i called some woman every day every day i was attracted to this other woman and i called her number 17 the poem 10 things i hate about you i hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair i hate the way you drive my car i hate it when you stare based on shakespeare's the taming of the shrew this teen romantic comedy was julia style's breakout role the title comes from a poem that her character cat reads out in class in front of heath ledger's patrick who broke her heart it's a pivotal and memorable scene and in a 2015 interview with cosmopolitan uk styles confirmed that the tears were real she said that she hadn't expected to cry and wasn't sure if it was because the moment connected with her own life or quote if i was just overwhelmed by the whole experience of making my first big movie i hate it i hate the way you're always right i hate it when you lie i hate it when you make me laugh even worse when you make me cry director gil younger told the new york times that the performance made him cry too and that it was the very first take but mostly i hate the way i don't hate you not even close not even a little bit not even at all number 16 angela lansbury's recording of beauty and the beast beauty and the beast tale as old as time true as it can be before recording this song british american actress angela lansbury was hesitant due to the unfamiliar style she also feared that she would have difficulty sustaining the longer notes with her aging singing voice in fact she asked the songwriters to get someone else to sing it but they insisted and she ultimately agreed ever just the same ever a surprise however fate had a few other twists and turns in store on her way to new york to record the song her plane had to make an emergency landing in las vegas she arrived in new york just in time and nailed the song in a single take taylor's oldest time song as old as rhyme beauty and the beast she's credited the emergency landing for her performance saying quote i think it was the excitement of it all the sense of do it now after the cupboard with you now chip is past your bedtime number 15. sunny's death the godfather achieving perfection on the first take can be expensive and no one knows that better than francis ford coppola my sister again i'll kill you sonny corleone's brutal murder at the tollbooth is one of the most famous scenes in the godfather and one of the most costly reportedly the scene cost over one hundred thousand dollars to shoot with four or five cameras at the ready to capture every angle possible of james khan's body riddled with bullets the scene has gone down in history as a showcase for ratcheting up tension and a master class in pacing and they only needed one take to get it thankfully this expensive shot paid off they shot sonny on the causeway he's dead number 14 rocky and adrian rocky it's hard to imagine a world without rocky seriously who hasn't acted out the training montage during a workout [Music] but sylvester stallone had a tough time getting the movie made the script which he wrote was rejected by many a studio because sly was adamant that he play rocky balboa once the film was finally set in motion with stallone in the titular role budget restrictions got in the way causing many scenes to be changed or cut altogether you picked you rocky rocky it's the chance of a lifetime you can't pass it by what do you say but thankfully stallone refused to cut the scene where rocky reveals to adrian he doesn't think he can win i can't beat him apollo yeah i've been out there walking around thinking i mean oh my kid not even in the guys league he only had one take for the scene they were behind in their shooting schedule but he nailed it it really don't matter if i lose this fight it really don't matter if this guy opens my head here that's all i want to do is go to distance number 13 the house gets sucked into a portal poltergeist they're here this supernatural stunner was nominated for an academy award for best visual effects and its final horrifying scene is an excellent example as to why [Music] at the end of poltergeist the freiling family is attacked by spirits and their home is sucked into a portal in reality the special effects team built a model of the freeling home and used a vacuum to suck the model into a funnel to create the effect of course they had to add different special effects after the initial shot but they were able to suck that house down in one amazing take number 12 self-amputation 127 hours if you're squeamish you might want to cover your eyes this one is pretty harrowing 127 hours tells the story of real-life adventurer aaron ralston who had to cut off his own arm after being trapped under a boulder in a remote utah canyon starring james franco the film didn't pull any punches when it came to the controversial self-amputation scene some viewers quite literally fainted and franco himself reportedly had trouble getting through it even though he was only cutting through a prosthetic some of those reaction shots are probably close to how he really felt though challenging it only took one take to capture the torment and anguish of this moment thank you number 11. tommy lee jones's monologue no country for old men when people think back on no country for old men it's javier bardem's disquieting performance as anton chagur that stands out and deservedly so i've seen you was from dallas what business is it of yours where i'm from friendo i didn't mean that didn't mean nothing but in a role that's just as important tommy lee jones's stoic take on sheriff bell aptly carries through one of the film's most central themes the obsoleteness of the traditional hero in the face of new evils but you don't believe it no probably i don't well it's a mess ain't it sheriff if it ain't it'll do until the mess gets here no country for old men indeed one of jones's best moments comes at the very end of the film where he describes a dream he had about his father both had my father and him it's peculiar i'm older now than he ever was by 20 years so since he's the younger man the monologue is haunting and jones reportedly performed it perfectly in one take in the dream i knew that he was going on ahead and he's fixing to make a fire somewhere out there and all that dark all that cold i knew that whenever i got there he'd be there number 10 citizen kane destroys a bedroom citizen kane widely regarded as the best film ever made orson well's first film has generated decades worth of discussion including both the movie itself and the behind the scenes drama i made no campaign promises because until a few weeks ago i had no hope of being elected now however i have something more than a hope but today we want to focus on the scene where kane wrecks his wife's bedroom after she leaves him it's an emotional tort of force and was captured in one take now there might have been a bit of pressure to nail that first take wells did destroy the entire set after all but that doesn't take away from this moment of movie magic number nine gina carano and the flat screen haywire for her first leading role on the big screen mma fighter gina carano didn't want to pull any punches or have any punches pulled on her she plays a black ops operative who's set up by her own intelligence firm and attacked by assassins according to michael fassbender when filming the scene where his character paul and carano's mallory kane duke it out in a hotel room carano kept asking him to hit her harder [Music] unafraid of a few bruises she also managed to pull off the shot where she gets thrown into a flat screen tv on the first and only take mary you're in my overhead think this through you've been out of control since you've arrived you need to it number eight the psychiatrist's speech psycho who could forget the iconic shower scene [Music] [Applause] who doesn't remember the horrifying mrs bates's dead reveal while all of these terrifying moments stick in your mind you might forget one of the quieter but equally important moments of alfred hitchcock's horror masterpiece at the end of the film dr richmond played by simon oakland gives a very long speech explaining the psychology behind everything we've just witnessed she was there but she was a corpse so he began to think and speak for her give her half his life so to speak at times he could be both personalities carry on conversations despite the speech's length oakland nailed the first take causing hitchcock to shake his hand and say quote thank you very much mr oakland you've just saved my picture high praise from the master of suspense himself therefore if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman the mother's side of him would go wild number 7 shadowfax the lord of the rings the two towers here's another animal actor who simply exudes professionalism and won't waste your time gandalf the grey's mount shadowfax is known as one of the most majestic and fastest horses in all of middle-earth and this entrance lives up to that reputation gandalf yes that was what they used to call me [Music] get off the gray that was my name everything gandalf's smile everyone's reaction the steady galloping it's all perfect that is one of the meres unless my eyes are cheated by some spell but what's most impressive is this horse actor got it all right on the first take with that little snort and shake of the main as gandalf says his name you can tell this horse was meant to be a star shadow facts is the lord of all horses and has been my friends for many days number six it's a wonderful phone call it's a wonderful life and it's a wonderful life jimmy stewart and donna reed's chemistry jumps off the screen and the moment their relationship comes to fruition is unforgettable what is it you want barry what do you want you you want the moon just say the word and i'll throw a lasso around and pull it down hey that's a pretty good idea i'll give you the moon right i'll take it then what after an argument over marriage both barely suppressing their feelings for each other mary and george are forced to share the phone when a mutual friend calls here here's mary mother's on the extension week i am not we can both here come here we're listening sam their faces press together the tension builds until they finally kiss reportedly stewart was very nervous before filming it's a wonderful life was his first film after returning from world war ii and he hadn't had to film a romantic scene in some time but chemistry won out and the two actors created this perfect scene on the first take and i don't want to get married ever to anyone you understand that i want to do what i want to do and you're and you're george george number five atticus finch's closing argument to kill a mockingbird for many of us growing up atticus finch was the paragon of morality set in the 1930s in rural alabama to kill a mockingbird follows atticus as he serves as the defense attorney of tom robinson a black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman get aside from that door mr finch walter i think you ought to turn right around and go back home the film primarily plays out from the point of view of his young daughter scout but the audience is privy to many scenes in the courtroom including atticus's gripping closing argument but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt reportedly several days were set aside for the scene in which atticus urges the jury to find tom robinson innocent but actor gregory peck only needed one take has had to put his word against two white peoples the defendant is not guilty but somebody in this courtroom is number four the car stunt the man with the golden gun today with so many fast and furious movies under our belts we're used to some pretty crazy car stunts and that's collectively taught most of us to spot when there's a heavy amount of cgi involved but back in the 1970s this james bond stunt was truly shocking in the man with the golden gun a stunt driver has to jump a car over a river corkscrew through the air and land right side up on the other end what's going on what's the hell you're doing now for a break exactly you're not thinking i sure am boy production was prepared for everything to go wrong but driver lauren bumps willard landed it in one take earning himself a big bonus [Music] now if we could just edit out that ridiculous sound effect this might be one of the best stunts in history i've never done that before neither have i actually number three luke swings to safety star wars episode vi return of the jedi there are plenty of daring stunts to be amazed at in the star wars franchise but for the time being we're gonna focus on this swinging good time in return of the jedi luke leia and the rebels must escape the sarlacc pit there's a moment where luke grabs leia and swings them both to safety and apparently the daring jump only took one take reportedly mark hamill had a great time swinging around in his harness and was really disappointed when they got the shot on the first try the cost of perfection let's go and don't forget number two water in the grand staircase titanic the home stretch of titanic is filled with soaring set pieces and unimaginable terror and the stakes of filming those boat sinking scenes were really high going into filming the iconic scene where water floods the grand staircase the cast and crew knew they would only have one shot to get it right after all when part of the scene involves completely destroying your entire set you don't want to mess something up and have to rebuild all of that grandeur luckily for us and luckily for the shooting schedule the scene was captured perfectly on the first take before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one blowing up the hospital the dark knight heath ledger's joker performance and the surrounding mythos of the dark knight have given us numerous cinema legends now i'm always smiling a little fighting you i like that but the story surrounding the famous hospital explosion is perhaps the most well-known wanting to use a practical effect director christopher nolan got permission to blow up a real building for the scene but of course blowing up your major set piece means you only have one chance to get it right the shot following ledger's joker as he exits the building captures his reaction and the ensuing explosion perfectly do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music] you

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Length: 24min 7sec (1447 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 31 2021