20. Metropolis - The City
Metropolis was the Space Odyssey of its day. It took such a leap in visualising cinema and its images. The scape of the city is a very breath taking thing. It still looks good to this very day. Well, at least I think so. Watching it made me thing about how hard it would have been to create this, especially as quite a young director one who had never made a film of anything like this magnitude before. http://youtu.be/h0AlrH_K7Ko
19, Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps
Known for its innovative use of montage, the Odessa steps is one of Battleship Potemkins most defining scenes. It is packed with emotionally evoking madness. It is timely, astonishingly executed, and above all else, influential. It has been parodied more times then Id care to count, so it is pretty much certified that you would have seen some version of it somewhere. http://youtu.be/Ps-v-kZzfec
18. 8 1/2 - Opening Scene
Federico Fellinis 8 ½ is beyond genius. It builds so many paradoxes within its story, and it is shot in such an enthralling way. The opening scene is quite suggestive and almost unrelated, but thats why it works; because it is all related. Every image and word spoken it a necessary charm in a necessary film. Not only that, but it is quite a frightening scene, too. http://youtu.be/jmEqBdde5H0
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Shutting Down HAL
It might not be the most entertaining of scenes, but it is one of the most visually stunning. When Dave shuts down HAL, it is a slow, bilious process, showing his decay into a nothing like state. As one switch goes off, a bit of HAL goes. Watching the death, if you could call it that, of HAL is watching on screen poetry, drawing out many feelings towards the most stable character in the entire movie. http://youtu.be/c8N72t7aScY