Favourite Scene Thread (every board needs one!)

There are sooooo many wonderful moments but I love it when she first sees Sir Robert at his office and watches as he crosses the room...we only see her eyes following "him" ...I've always wondered what she was thinking.

I only saw the movie for the first time several months ago, but one of my favorite scenes is where Cate and her dad are talking, and the old gent says to her, referring to Sir Robert: "I trust he won't collapse." It just cracks me up every time. Also, when Cate says something about him coaxing a witness into tying herself into knots is pretty funny, too.

One of my favourite scenes is when Catherine asks Sir Robert what Ronnie was doing for 25 minutes alone in the locker room. He answers that she should know: "It is a crime you indulge in."
Instead of immediately understanding, she falls into his trap and asks him: "What could you mean?"
He comes closer to her and tells her in a low voice: "He was smoking a cigarette."
In this moment Catherine's father comes in and they instantly turn away from each other as if they had been surprised in an intimate and frivolous act. This unconscious "guilty" reaction shows that they were both aware of the sexual subtext of this scene.

I also love the smoking scenes of Jeremy Northam. When Sir Robert lights a cigarette standing close to the Winslow's fireplace (a sensual scene because of the light), interrogating Catherine about the significance of "adorning herself with such a very feminine allurement", and then moves towards her, he reminds me of a black panther who has been lying in wait and is about to chase a prey.

But the best moment of this scene is the expression of his face, when she tells him that she is an organizing secretary of the Woman's Suffrage Association. It makes me laugh. In this moment he immediately puts out his cigarette. This shows that his smoking is sublimated sexuality. He smokes with the most evident delight when he is talking about Catherine's adorning herself with the intention to sexually attract. (He must be aware of the fact that in the House of Commons where she wore her "feminine allurement" there were only women, old men – and him. So he probably interpretes this as a signal that she is not as cool, untouchable and indifferent to him as she pretends to be.)

In the last scene of the film something similar happens. Again Sir Robert is smoking with delight when he mentions the Ladies' Gallery in the House of Commons where he hopes to see Catherine again. Again he puts out his cigarette when she speaks about her feminist activities. Catherine interpretes his reaction the same way as the last time. (In the scene in the Winslow house her reaction and her body language show a slight reflection of feeling hurt.) She thinks she knows what it means (being refused for being a suffragette). He seems to know what she thinks and goes on teasing her by saying: "Pity ..." [pause] ... "it's a lost cause." That's why she can't (and doesn't) expect him to be interested in her and therefore she is very surprised about his last words.

For me, it is the scene where Sir Robert is questioning Ronnie when the two first meet.

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My vote history: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=13037287

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