Favorite Scene? or Editing Sequence?

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It's a personal thing, for me, but I just love when Doc cold cocks Sally Struthers when she's screaming in the hotel hall. It's only because I'd like to do that to her in real life but, that's just me.

For me, it's the editing as well. Just watching the opening credits, you immediately realize that you're watching a masterpiece.

I think the garbage dump/VW rear body scene is a rather unique setup.Have you seen any other movies film a scene in a dump? Let alone in a dump,while sitting in the shell of an old VW,talking over some heavy lines.They seemed rather at home amongst the stench and crap,a rather unique setting to say the least.

The scene I enjoyed the most was when McQueen punches Sally Strothers.

The scene I thought was coolest was when McQueen shotguns the police car to death.

The scene I appreciate the most on second viewing was when he gets off the train (after failing to spot the theif that has his briefcase) and Ali is watching him. And then the lugguge cart drives by and then as it passes, you just catch the end of McQueen hopping back on the train again. It's just timed so well, and its so much better than either watching McQueen climb on in full view OR having McQueen disappear from view when behind the luggage cart. A truly great little piece of cinema for me.

In fact the entire sequence begining with his purchase of the radio where the clerk recognizes him. Simply brilliant.

Not so much a scene as the totally amoral way everyone in the picture behaved, with everyone apparently a thief. Ben Johnson's jailer, the thief conman at the train station getting the money bag, the gang after the money and Al Letieri's character. Given the chance, everyone sells out for the money, even Slim Pickens character. But then, The Getaway did take place in Texas.

(spoilers)
The opening credits scene spells out the mental state of an imprisoned man.
The insertion of shots depicting the deer, just outside the prison walls, showing their freedom against the human condition of being caged. And McQueen building that model of a bridge. The whole sequence is a story in itself. With that relentless sound of machinery underneath.

But I also liked the scene when he's released from prison, and he watches all the people at the park, and his attention goes to a swing that goes out across the water that kids are using. You can tell he wants to do that. And he does---with a series of shots of McQueen going closer and closer to the swing---and the next shot of him entering the hotel room, all wet.

Shot-gunning that cop car, with Steve in that dark suit, was another classic.