Film Scenes That Make You Smile

[Van Dammage]

Not laugh out loud scenes or lines or comedy scenes even, just scenes that you can't help but smile at, preferably with a link to said scene if possible.

Just thought about this while watching Bangkok Dangerous (Not the nic cage version but I reckon that'd be a laugh). The original is about a deaf mute hitman who meets a nice girl who he falls in love with, pretty standard stuff but there's one scene in particular that always raises a smile. While going on a date she brings him to see a Charlie Chaplin film in the cinema. His reactions while watching the film are great and he just keeps smiling and laughing. (A rare sight in the film).

I can't find a link to that scene (Yeah I know what I said up top MATE) on youtube or anything but I'd recommend the film if you ever get a chance to see it.

So, what scenes make you smile?

[Stone Cold Jane Austen]

Elliott Gould's cat being a little fusspot in The Long Goodbye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u0uo0TxS-I

[newbridge]

The scene in Castaway on the Moon where he changes "HELP" to "HELLO"

[Osmium]

Takeshi Kitano's films are full of moments that put a smile on my face, the beach sumo scene from Sonatine is especially joyous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JTtx07oveY

[Icehaven]

The first few minutes of my favourite film evah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28HEsm4myPs

''I'd be happy to oblige. I really would.'' I love it so much I can even forgive the fact that there's clearly nothing in that suitcase.

[madhair60]

Last scene of Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[MuteBanana]

Dance scene in Little Miss Sunshine.

The family has spent the entire film arguing and sniping at each other as they travel towards this competition. For some reason completely believing that young Olive is a good enough dancer to win the competition just because they love her. When it comes to her turn she's completely inappropriate and terrible. But then the family that has been arguing throughout the film come together to support her in a fantastic finale.

Watching Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano and Abigail Breslin(alright she was young) just goofing around on stage is brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjhhNtW8JY

[checkoutgirl]

The scene in Best in Show where Michael McKean and John Michael Higgins are talking to their dogs over the phone from the hotel room and Michael McKean sings a song to the dogs.


They buried Barbara in the old church yard
They buried William beside her
And from his grave grew a red, red rose
And out of hers, a briar

[Brundle-Fly]

The Florida Fantasy dream sequence in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

It's so daft and joyful. Ratso has such low aspirations even in his dreams.

Top music too. One of those odd tunes and arrangements that seem outer worldly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtb4LtpxEpY

[Kelvin]

"Feed me a stray cat".

[Noodle Lizard]

Can I please do a TV one, because it's the only one that always comes to mind?  Thanks, guys, means a bunch.

The "I Can Hear You!" scene from Twin Peaks never ever fails to make me smile.  Everything about it is perfect, from the music to the surreal dialogue to Shelly's smile to David Lynch's acting (yeah).  In my hacky ambitions as a filmmaker, if I could ever do something to make somebody feel the way I feel watching this scene, that would be nice.

Also this scene in Visitor Q.  I imagine it's similar to what MuteBanana feels watching that bit from Little Miss Sunshine, it's a horribly dysfunctional family brought together in the act of slaughtering their teenage son's bullies.  Lovely, lovely, lovely.  Dark humour at its best.

[Gulftastic]

Either 'So You Wanna Be A Boxer' or the final pie fight/singalong in Bugsy Malone.

[Brundle-Fly]

Either 'So You Wanna Be A Boxer' Bugsy Malone.

"Ziiiiinnnng!!"

[Sam]

Steadicam, natural light, Couperin

[Puce Moment]

Steadicam, natural light, Couperin

Great choice.

I really love so many scenes in Lukas Moodysson's Fucking Amal. The first time they kiss in the car, and that brilliant, awkward, final scene of them drinking chocolate milkshake. But it is the climactic, locked in the toilet scene that most makes me smile. The first time I saw it in the cinema the character says "we're going home to fuck" which I thought was utterly brilliant. Then the DVD changed "fuck" to "shag" which took out some of the intensity, but was probably a more accurate translation.

[Brundle-Fly]

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

If this doesn't make you smile then Jack you' dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5u5nxnroro

[neveragain]

The end of About Schmidt, but I cry too.

[Brundle-Fly]

The end of About Schmidt, but I cry too.

Oh, that is unbearable. I sobbed.

Someone recently has taken that scene and made a comedy skit out of it but I couldn't watch the thing all the way through because it would ruin it forever a'la Downfall.

[holyzombiejesus]

I really love so many scenes in Lukas Moodysson's Fucking Amal.

At work so can't supply links but my first thought was of the final scene in Together. Playing football in the snow with Abba's SOS kicking in, it's probably one of my favourite moments ever in film. Even looking at the still below makes me grin like a fool. I've only seen We Are The Best once but I bet there are some ace bits in that too. When he's on top of his game, Moodysson can be so fucking good. Clive.



Also up there, the bit on the spinny fairgound ride in 400 Blows, the penguin wandering round the school in Gregory's Girl and the 'let's play that again' in Tears of the Black Tiger.

As an aside, have we had a thread for bits of films that you laugh at?

[Gulftastic]

Truman finally deciding to cast aside the false reality and see what is through the door, in The Truman Show.

[Glebe]

A couple from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... love Nicholson's reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJ5S6qDWqw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzm9Ck8cHSs

[Puce Moment]

A couple from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... love Nicholson's reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJ5S6qDWqw

Is that a deleted scene?

[Jakey Chesterton]

Absurd anecdote is met with an absurd reaction in Repo Man. Like the old-school blue-collar American accents, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I

[Glebe]

Is that a deleted scene?

Oh balls, sorry. Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBHN7aJGogY

[Brundle-Fly]

I remember sat in the cinema feeling a massive Proustian Rush watching this sequence from Donnie Darko (2002)

I was never into John Hughes at the time that much but I did love a bit of TFF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyfGwlf_l0

[Gulftastic]

Wes Anderson could be featured a lot in this thread, but the ending to Rushmore is so bloody lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQOnEgzt-I