100 Crowd Scenes - An Interactive List

[Qrazy]

What are some of your favorite crowd scenes (alternatively scenes with a great many extras)? Go.

[MacGuffin]

1. Lost in Translation



Every outdoor scene in Lost in Translation

[Dead & Messed Up]

2. Lawrence of Arabia.

[dreamdead]

3. The Thin Red Line



Can't find a great shot, but it's the montage sequence where the American troops take the village that the Japanese occupy, as they've herded the Japanese out and those troops are mourning their dead

[Qrazy]

You don't need pics (preferred if you have them) but please include numbers guys.

[soitgoes...]

4. The Cranes Are Flying

Vernoika searching for Boris at the train station.

[Russ]

What are some of your favorite crowd scenes (alternatively scenes with a great many extras)? Go.

5.

Several from Songs from the Second Floor, with this one chief among them:

[Qrazy]

6. Andrei Rublev



Not this shot but I like the shot/scene before Rublev cradles the bellmaker near the end of the film, after the bell has rung.

[dreamdead]

7. I am Cuba



dollying over/among the crowds

[Dead & Messed Up]

8. Strike!

[Spinal]

9. The Times of Harvey Milk



The Vigil

(not an actual shot from the film)

[Russ]

10.

Buster Keaton and a lot of prospective brides in Seven Chances

[Milky Joe]

11. Empire of the Sun



Evacuating Shanghai

[Spinal]

12. V for Vendetta

[origami_mustache]

13. Amarcord

[Spinal]

14. Life of Brian

[Dead & Messed Up]

15. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

[Sven]

7. I am Cuba



dollying over/among the crowds

Love this film, and this shot, taken on its own, is pretty great. The one thing that bugs me, though, is that you can very clearly see the rope on which the camera is moving cutting through the center of the sky at the top of the shot. I can't really see it here, but it's definitely in the film and it definitely takes me out of the moment. My favorite shot is one from the first vignette where the camera roams around at ground level, then slowly raises above the tops of the village huts. Beautiful film.

[trotchky]

16. Synecdoche, New York

The first time we see the full scope of Caden's production, with the camera panning through all the extras and Caden telling people "you're not just filming the scene, you're in it. You're actors playing actors."



(Not an image of the actual scene, but a representation of it.)

[Spinal]

17. Satyricon

[trotchky]

18. Eyes Wide Shut



The party.

[Spinal]

19.



Opening sequence.

[Qrazy]

20. The Trial (Welles)



Not this shot but when Perkins first enters this room and it's full of people. I believe they're all looking at him.

[Spinal]

Great topic, by the way.

[Fezzik]

21. Saving Private Ryan



The storming of Omaha Beach