Feature - SEEN this SCENE @ Inside the Celluloid

At times, a movie scene is remembered more than the movie for various reasons.

1) It sets a milestone for the narrative and the movie changes its course from that scene.

Eg: When "Amelie" finds an old metal box filled with childhood memorabilia, she tracks down the now-adult man to return it to him and later becomes a secret matchmaker and guardian angel by solving people's problems)

2) It introduces some key elements/characters to the plot, and many scenes are inter-weaved around that scene making it complex and pivotal.

Eg: Most of the scenes in Alfred Hitchcock films.

3) It involves sophisticated camera movement to show realistic and dramatically significant background and middle ground activity. Actors range about the set transacting their business while the camera shifts focus from one plane of depth to another and back again. 

Eg: The first scene in the jury room of "12 Angry Men," where the jurors are getting settled into the room. It's also the best example for sequence shot.

4) It acts as an indicator in non-linear films and there's a back story from that point. It helps in establishing a perfect flaskback-intercut-with-realtime-scene.

Eg: The accident scene in "Amores Perros."

5) It brings the protagonist and antagonist together, maybe for one time and they discuss about the IFs and BUTs of the situation they are going through.

Eg: Al Pacino and Robert Di Niro in the famous restaurant scene from "Heat."

There can be many interpretations of such scenes. This feature talks about the pivotal scenes in history of cinema that changed its course and the way the audience look at movies. 

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