Salon: The 10 most macho movie Scenes
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:46 pm
In my Salon.com newsletter they had this little tidbit.
9. The land mine, "The Big Red One" (1980) Lee Marvin
8. The joust, "True Grit" (1969) John Wayne's
7. The egg chamber scene in "Aliens" (1986) James Cameron's
6. Napalm in the morning, "Apocalypse Now" (1979) Robert Duvall's
5. Three coffins, "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) The Man With No Name
4. Tony Jaa climbs the stairs, "The Protector" (2006) Tony Jaa
3. The surgery scene, "Ronin" (1998) Robert De Niro
2. James Cagney acts yellow, "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938) James Cagney
1. Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris, "Return of the Dragon" (1972) Bruce Lee
There wasn't any "honourable Mentioned"!
Y. M. M. V.
10. Wound care, "Rambo III" (1988) Sylvester StalloneThe 10 most macho movie moments
Slide show: From "Aliens" to "Rambo III," the scenes that took machismo to a whole new level
By Matt Zoller Seitz
With "The Expendables" opening this coming week -- a film that its director and star, Sylvester Stallone, has called "Sex and the City" with action heroes -- we've put together a slide show of great moments in movie macho. Some of these moments occur in godawful films and are so trashy and overwrought that they feel like parody played straight -- yet their excess is precisely what makes them memorable. Other macho moments are played with wit and restraint and make ludicrous situations seem almost plausible. Still others slough off the bonds of realism, leap toward the mythic and stick the landing.
But all the moments on this list have core traits in common: They celebrate a warrior's mentality, or at the very least, a certain resoluteness -- a willingness to dig in when things seem to be at their worst, and greet fate with a cocky smile and a quip. In other words, they're the stuff that action movies are made of.
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ยท Matt Zoller Seitz is Salon's staff television critic
9. The land mine, "The Big Red One" (1980) Lee Marvin
8. The joust, "True Grit" (1969) John Wayne's
7. The egg chamber scene in "Aliens" (1986) James Cameron's
6. Napalm in the morning, "Apocalypse Now" (1979) Robert Duvall's
5. Three coffins, "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) The Man With No Name
4. Tony Jaa climbs the stairs, "The Protector" (2006) Tony Jaa
3. The surgery scene, "Ronin" (1998) Robert De Niro
2. James Cagney acts yellow, "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938) James Cagney
1. Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris, "Return of the Dragon" (1972) Bruce Lee
There wasn't any "honourable Mentioned"!
Y. M. M. V.