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Most powerful scene for me comes late in the film, when Brando ends up at the concentration camp looking for food when the commandant very matter-of-factly explains how hard it is to kill 6000 prisoners with just 10 men left.
This must have been the first Hollywood film at that time to deal with the Holocaust.
Very strong scenes involving the camp when the Americans show up. Otherwise, very uneven storytelling, has moments of near-greatness, but this is not the great, classic war film it was trying to be. Too bad.
My favorite scene was in the very beginning when Brando and Barbara Rush are skiing and they fall in the snow. While she talks, Brando makes a snowball and takes a bite out of it. It's just a subtle moment in the film, but it's one of my favorites.
sharemine is brando all decked up and in the background are the ruins of paris (i think)...that says it all
"Im just a bum sitting in a motor home on a film set, BRANDO said, and they come looking for ZEUS".
I wouldn't call this a favorite scene, but its the one that comes to mind whenever I think of this movie:
Brando/Diestl has returned to Berlin and is walking down a bombed out street. He pauses for a moment to watch a little boy who is missing his left leg and has to walk with crutches. As the boy struggles to get over a fallen telephone pole, Diestl just watches and makes no effort to help him. Once he's made it over the pole, Diestl gives him a half-hearted salute and then continues on his way.
Hartenburg giving Diestl the order to shoot the British soldier that is wounded and walking around in shock.
The moment and look on Diestl's face is priceless as he makes the decision not to do it even under threat of death at the captian's hand.
Thius scene is interesting on so many levels in that Capt. Hartenburg is correct in that they couldn't take any prisoners or leave anyone alive to give information that would cost the Germans their lives and render any information they collected useless.
Yes, yes, I know many people will disagree with this but just think about it for a minute. Every army has search and destroy missions that kill anyone they run into......even our army does this. This is the terrible fact of war.
The scene is further interesting in that as Capt. Hartenburg shoots the British soldier, and we are supposed to hate him at this moment for the cold blooded killer he has become, he doesn't shoot Diestl which would have been his right and duty for disobeying a direct order under combat conditions!
Amazing scene!!!
I cannot agree with mike-848 about the dawn attack sequence, especially his reason for killing the survivors.
The military generally do not mix reconnaisance tasks with fighting tasks precisely because recce groups are usually small so they can penetrate and return undetected.
Anyway, the british command would know if they found the wreckage and bodies, that germans had attacked them. They would know sooner rather than later, because the ambushed british had not reported in.
the end scene. the bubbles in the water after Brando's character is shot, a sad and lonely death, contrast that with the American character.
shareThis film, a favorite since I first saw it more than 40 years ago, has lots of great scenes. If I have to pick one, however, it would be the hospital scene where Hardenberg asks Diestl to bring him a knife. The whole sequence is heavy with death, from the moment Diestl covers his nose when entering. The entire desert dawn ambush sequence is also very powerful.
sharethe bubbles caught my attention and I felt sad for Diestl.
shareI'm surprised. I thought the unanimous choice for favorite scene would be the one in which Clift watches while the concentration camp survivors make a simple request, which the mayor asks to be ignored, and how Franz deals with it. That was one of the great movie moments of all time. I'm surprised no one mentioned it.
Until now. It's my favorite scene, hands down.
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The actor playing the town Mayor, was John Banner of Hogan's Heroes.
"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY IS US"
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I love the scenes between Hope and Noah best though if I had to choose one I'd say the one where Hope visits Noah in prison. I love the whole thing from beginning to end but Hope's face when Noah rushes back to the phone to tell her he loves her is sooo sweet. It's as if she melts.
shareThe scenes between Montgomery Clift and Hope Lange in the film "The Young Lions" are simply remarkable. The film really belongs to Mr. Clift. I believe I read that Mr. Clift designed his "look" in this film after a photograph of Franz Kafka, hence the slightly protruding ears. I always wondered about that!
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