Favorite Stanley scenes

[The Great Quail]

God, there's gotta be a hundred in every SK movie, but these three always
floor me:

"A Clockwork Orange" -- when the writer and his friends are driving Alex
mad with Beethoven, the speakers turned upwards, the writer twitching in
orgasmic joy while his friends, who must be oh so *bored,* lazily roll
billiard balls across the table. This is one of my all-time favorite movie
scenes ever, and I'm not even sure why.

"The Shining" -- the very beginning, a long slow shot of a family car
driving through mountains, with Penderecki's "Dies Irae" totally
suffocating the scene with impending menace. What a way to start a movie.

"Full Metal Jacket" -- the very end, that amazing fucking end, with the
platoon marching across the holocaust of flames like gods of brutal
banality, like jolly green giants, all the while singing the Mickey Mouse
Club song. . . .

And then there's HAL. To give him such a . . . *pleasant* voice was a
stroke of genius. Every time I watch a movie with a mad computer or such
and hear a distorted menacing voice, I just laugh. But HAL, a computer
killing you with such a neutral calmness, well that fucking terrifies me.

--Quail, who still hasn't seen EWS, so has deleted a million unread
postings so as not to spoil; anything. . . .
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The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth:
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"Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as
flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds.
Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde . . .
(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curious of signs
(please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it
out already) its world? . . . Speak to us of Emailia!"
         --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake