The Greatest Motion Picture Sequences -- Part 5
told him what happened to his father. Luke figured his father was dead, and when Vader reveals this truth, Luke seems to know it's true, and then cries out in agony for it not to be true. It made the whole STAR WARS series a lot more than just a bunch of spaceships and battles -- it re-emphasized the wonderful and moral story involved in the original trilogy, and set the stage for the next film, RETURN OF THE JEDI.
William Munny's final rampage for justice from UNFORGIVEN (1992) --- This powerful western starring and directed by Clint Eastwood was the ultimate step in turning the Western genre into a new phase. Westerns before had often depicted its main characters has heroes, but movies and scripts have evolved, and the Western hero is all that heroic anymore, and we see these individuals as real people, and perhaps the experience the Old West as it most likely happened, besides happy cowboys shooting and fighting and always winning the day. A number of Westerns, ever since BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, put a whole new spin on the Western hero, but Eastwood's William Munny is a man with a past, a man who's killed women and children, and who is called back into killing one last time when a crime has been committed, and normal justice is not helping. Finally, when Munny's friend, played by Morgan Freeman, is killed by the local sheriff, Little Bill, played brilliantly by Gene Hackman, Munny declares an all-out war, and in the last fifteen minutes, his final rampage is revealed in stark detail, with excellent dark cinematography. Munny finds Little Bill, stating he's going to kill him for what he did to Ned, and does, also killing several others in the bar, and rides out of town in the pouring rain. The image of the Western hero was changed forever, and was changed by none other than a man who had made several Western films in their heyday.
The tense scene in the drug lord's house from BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) --- Paul Thomas Anderson delivered this incredibly tense sequence from the later stages of his brilliant film, BOOGIE NIGHTS. Dirk Diggler and his two friends attempt to scam a drug lord in his own house by delivering baking soda instead of cocaine. The tension begins when the drug lord makes them stay in the house while one
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