I ain't here to make a rekkid, ya dumb cracka

[spatch]

Watching Walk The Line this evening, and the intensity of some of the early concert scenes struck me as about as as the "She Loves You" sequence from A Hard Day's Night. Big music, a big crush of emotion, and you end the scene happy as a clam.

And that's a good thing.

Speaking of scenes in films that are just happy...

THE RIVER

White robes stream down the hill, out of the woods, and down the
riverbank. The voices swell in a great chorus:

VOICES
We went down to the river one day,
Studying about that good old way,
And who shall wear that robe and crown,
Oh Lord, show us the way...

We are booming down to reveal a minister in the foreground. He stands
belly-deep in the river, easing a white-robed man back-down into the
water. Behind him a line of robed singers lengthens steadily as people
stream out of the woods.

Pete, Delmar and Everett emerge from the woods and gaze down at the
river. White-robed people continue to drift past them.

EVERETT
I guess hard times flush the chumps.
Everybody's lookin' for answers, and
there's always -

Delmar wades out into the stream, cutting in line.

Where the hell's he goin'?

Delmar has reached the minister and holds his nose as the minister
incantates over him and lowers him into the water.

PETE
Well, I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's
been saved!

EVERETT
Pete, don't be ignorant -

Delmar is slogging back through the water.

DELMAR
Well that's it boys, I been redeemed!
The preacher warshed away all my sins
and transgressions. It's the straight-
and-narrow from here on out and heaven
everlasting's my reward!

EVERETT
Delmar what the hell are you talking
about? - We got bigger fish to fry -

DELMAR
Preacher said my sins are warshed away,
including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked
over in Yazoo!

EVERETT
I thought you said you were innocent a
those charges.

DELMAR
Well I was lyin' - and I'm proud to say
that that sin's been warshed away too!
Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me
now! Come on in, boys, the water's fine!

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[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

That's true. It's the little pause after he says 'lying' when his face brightens up that really does it for me.