Your fav scene???


i must say this one belongs 2 my fav movies...ive seen it lots of times
and there r still moments which r new 2 me
i dont agree with that comment (made by Lee Bartholomew) ...
just in 1 thing...it is SLOW...and its great 2 be like that
(Alvin Straight Story by David Lynch...also slow, also great)
keep watching franka's movement 4example :)

so! back 2 topic: what is ur fav scene?

mine=tracheotomy + that mint breath=lovely, awww

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My favourite scenes are the scene when Bodo is warming up for flying on the bridge over the motorway and when he looks down from the Sparkassen-building. The vertigo is so real.

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The tracheotamy scene. I do not know how if it is exactly the same in German...but the English subtitles say "and then the man came"...very simple but yet also intense, considering the situation. And how she is all "He was crying, but I don't think he was really sad." Also, when they are on the roof of the mental hospital and the police come and then Bodo looks at her, and for the first time, says her name. Since they never formally introduced themselves...I just really like how that works, I guess. And then she leads the way for him and he has to trust her.

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I know this is might be quite strange but I really liked when Bodo and Sissi take Walter to the hospital. Their urgency to try and get Walter well affected me, with both actors playing the part well.

Also, at the end when Walter drives the bus to pick the alterego-Bodo up is good. The whole shot (camera, framing, colour, sound) was great!

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and toaster+bath scene was really EEK as well :)
i almost screamed: NOOO thats not fair :)))))
and roof scene with top-less Bodo was lovely 4me as girl ;)

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To me it's the scene where Sissi, looking for Bodo, goes to his house and he pushes her away and she slips and falls in the pourring rain and starts crying!!! My god, this scene just breaks my heart, Franka Potente is so amazingly real in that scene.

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The padded room scene. I love the music, the dialogue, the camera movements, the expressions, the realization of destiny...all of it, I loved it.

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Too many to mention. Padded room, Tracheotemy, the rain while Sissi is walking home etc. etc.

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It's been so long since I've seen this film, but I recall a scene (that still sticks with me) where she goes to that house and meets that skeptical guy (brother?). She sort of wins him over by having a beer with him. It was that face she made when she had the beer that made him chuckle and decide that she was all right.


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that was my favourite scene because he caught the toaster and Walter looks at him with a face that says "I didn't expect THAT to happen!"

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"Also, at the end when Walter drives the bus to pick the alterego-Bodo up is good. The whole shot (camera, framing, colour, sound) was great!"....I never saw this scene, and I've watched the movie a couple of times, Was this scene in a different version? Also I always wondered about the pic on the front of the movie, it shows Sissi and Bodo kissing in a field and on the back cover it shows Sissi sitting beside the bathtub that bodo is in, were these scenes that were cut, or is there a version out there that has them?

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Apparently this seen was cut from the US version (see also "Alternative Versions") which really is a pitty in my opinion, it's a beautiful scene...

The other scenes you mentioned don't exist in any version as far as I know. Maybe they were cut or maybe they just took the pictures...

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> Apparently this seen was cut from the US version

Honestly?! Jesus, what were they thinking?? Stupid bastards ... it's one of the most important scenes of the whole movie!

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the director did such a great job attacking your senses with this film.

the unfortableness of the trachiotomy scene.
the glass eating scene.
the bath/tub toaster scene/flashback.
bodo hugging the oven.

all of those scenes made me "feel" what was going on visually without dialouge needed.

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Jumping from the roof and the last scene.
How can they shoot so real?
She was leading him as upper person said. I thought at first
that they decided to die together. But luckily they were
alive.

The last scene was so peaceful that I'm remembering.
However I didn't understand who was that woman welcomed them.
I guess that she is the one who wrote to Sissi but
I still don't know who she is. Someone please tell me.
Is she her mother?
I didn't understand either what happened about her mother.
Sissi said her father is one of the patient at that hospital.

And by the way tracheotomy scene was gross on the other hand
brave(?)--;.

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It's Meike, her friend, who wrote to her.

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My fave scenes are the tracheotomy scene, the second padded room scene and the robbery.


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Well I love the scene like some one else said...when they jump off the roof...the suspence is scaryyyy! for a moment I thought they were ending their lives. But a fab scene, beautifully shot!!!

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> I guess that she is the one who wrote to Sissi

Yup.

> but I still don't know who she is. Someone please tell me.

She's a friend and former collegue of Sissi who left the mental hospital a while ago. Probably her house is located on the coast of Bretagne, France.

> Is she her mother?

Nope. BTW, Meike was played by Natja Brunckhorst, whom even you over there might know as Christiane F. from We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (1981).

> I didn't understand either what happened about her mother.

Her mother, as you could see in an imagined flashback (in b&w), was killed by Steini, the mental patient who tried to kill Bodo exactly the same way again.

> Sissi said her father is one of the patient at that hospital.

Yes, but it is never revealed which one. Any ideas? I'd say it was Werner, the older patient who knocked her down at night. He's shown watching Sissi from a distance much more often than others, especially when Sissi leaves.

> And by the way tracheotomy scene was gross on the other hand

... but nothing special anymore. Even tv series feature this "show effect" (e.g. Judging Amy, ep. #5.5), but it was very realistic in this case (sucking the blood out of the straw).

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The gas station scene, when Bodo gets rid of his demons impersonated by his alter ego. Although K+K is not one of my all time favorite, this scene compensates for all the flaws. The effect of suddenly breaking with the otherwise very realitic story-telling has a very strong impact on me. A similar, even stronger scene is in Festen, when Christian falls unconscious and meets his dead sister.

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Regarding the acting, my favorite scene was when Sissi met Bodo for the first time at the lodge on the hill (near the city of Wuppertal, where I happened to grow up, btw :)

I have to admit though, that the jump-off-the-roof scene was most dramatic and moving.

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The one that stays in my mind is when she's finally being rushed down the "tunnel" in the hospital and she grabs onto Bodo's arm and won't let go, and finally ends up ripping his button off. That was very moving...GREAT movie.


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Hard to say there are so many the begining, the trache scene, you can't shoot now this isn't the plan, when the rain stops and she lays down on the hill, when they jump and the underwater scene, he puts his hand on hers in the car, and when they were all dancing just to mention a few.

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i thort that Steini was her dad, because with the scene where her mum is in the bath and Steini walks in she not embarrased that he seeing her naked. and he dances with sissi and calls her 'His girl' and i think that Werner punched her for giving her dad a handjob(which she didnt want to do in the first place)

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The scene of silent communication at the shack is my favorite.

Bodo makes a silent offering of his tormented, wounded soul kneeling in a prayerful position.

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