Where are the cavalry when you want them?
August 15, 2009 5:09 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for a short (less than 30 seconds) movie clip illustrating that cliche in western movies when first one then thousands and thousands of indians come over the hill to the dismay of our heroes. Orcs, aliens, zombies or anything else menacing coming over the hill would be fine.
Best answer: Been a long time since I saw it, but I seem to remember a great scene like that in Zulu.
posted by bricoleur at 5:18 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by bricoleur at 5:18 PM on August 15, 2009
And then there's Jurassic Park.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:24 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:24 PM on August 15, 2009
Maybe off the mark, but the stampede scene in The Lion King actually fits the bill here....
posted by mazienh at 5:24 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by mazienh at 5:24 PM on August 15, 2009
If you don't mind animation, that happens in the third episode of Samurai Jack, when he's defending the dogs against an army of beetle-bots.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:26 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:26 PM on August 15, 2009
Best answer: Been a long time since I saw it, but I seem to remember a great scene like that in Zulu.
Maybe this, at about the 5 minute mark?
posted by Artw at 5:31 PM on August 15, 2009
Maybe this, at about the 5 minute mark?
posted by Artw at 5:31 PM on August 15, 2009
The Huns come over a mountain in Disney's Mulan... it's pretty incredible even for a cartoon.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 5:39 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Sweetie Darling at 5:39 PM on August 15, 2009
"Zulu Dawn" had a couple of scenes like that, too.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:48 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:48 PM on August 15, 2009
Something like what you described happened in a Lord of the Rings movie, but I don't remember which one specifically. Help on this one?
posted by Askiba at 6:01 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Askiba at 6:01 PM on August 15, 2009
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" has a scene like this, near the end.
posted by Marky at 6:04 PM on August 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Marky at 6:04 PM on August 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
Here's a direct link to the scene Rokusan recommended:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgnlu-kpdOs#t=7m40s
Terrific recommendation, terrific scene. "There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!"
posted by zooropa at 6:05 PM on August 15, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgnlu-kpdOs#t=7m40s
Terrific recommendation, terrific scene. "There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!"
posted by zooropa at 6:05 PM on August 15, 2009
The Rohirrim charge at Helm's Deep in the LOTR:Two Towers is exactly this.
posted by gemmy at 6:37 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by gemmy at 6:37 PM on August 15, 2009
I can't find a video of it, but Seven Samurai is probably one of the first movies to exhibit that particular trope.
posted by Dmenet at 7:10 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Dmenet at 7:10 PM on August 15, 2009
The scene in Aliens when the xenomorphs are coming through the ceiling.
posted by jimfl at 7:18 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by jimfl at 7:18 PM on August 15, 2009
Seconding the Hun scene in Mulan. You can see it, beginning at about 1:47 in this YouTube video.
posted by amyms at 7:27 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by amyms at 7:27 PM on August 15, 2009
Cheech Marin in Born in East L.A. where the proverbial ten thousand illegal aliens descend on the Border Patrol.
posted by mrmojoflying at 7:44 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by mrmojoflying at 7:44 PM on August 15, 2009
Ratatouille, the movie, has some pretty awesome mass rat scenes.
posted by fifilaru at 8:11 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by fifilaru at 8:11 PM on August 15, 2009
Back to the Future 3 uses the cliché almost as soon as Marty goes back to 1885.
posted by wackybrit at 8:37 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by wackybrit at 8:37 PM on August 15, 2009
The opening segment of 28 Weeks Later has a unique one, where the main character is running parallel to the hill, over which zombies are pouring.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 9:26 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 9:26 PM on August 15, 2009
13th Warrior, 5:26 mark.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 1:20 mark.
Not quite to the dismay of the heroes (and there's no hill), but in Serenity, 1:00 mark.
posted by CancerMan at 9:55 PM on August 15, 2009
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 1:20 mark.
Not quite to the dismay of the heroes (and there's no hill), but in Serenity, 1:00 mark.
posted by CancerMan at 9:55 PM on August 15, 2009
Don't forget The Hobbit. Here at 2:11.
I also somehow remember this happening in Dances With Wolves, but can't find anything at the moment.
posted by triggerfinger at 1:20 AM on August 16, 2009
I also somehow remember this happening in Dances With Wolves, but can't find anything at the moment.
posted by triggerfinger at 1:20 AM on August 16, 2009
I also somehow remember this happening in Dances With Wolves, but can't find anything at the moment.
In Dances With Wolves, it's described rather than shown. Dunbar writes about western expansion in his journal, and late in the movie he says to Kicking Bird, "You always ask about the white people. You always want to know how many more are coming. There will be a lot, my friend. More than can be counted.... Like the stars."
posted by headnsouth at 4:59 AM on August 16, 2009
In Dances With Wolves, it's described rather than shown. Dunbar writes about western expansion in his journal, and late in the movie he says to Kicking Bird, "You always ask about the white people. You always want to know how many more are coming. There will be a lot, my friend. More than can be counted.... Like the stars."
posted by headnsouth at 4:59 AM on August 16, 2009
The ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Not Indians. but hundreds of Bolivian police.
posted by Gungho at 10:23 AM on August 16, 2009
posted by Gungho at 10:23 AM on August 16, 2009
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posted by rokusan at 5:16 PM on August 15, 2009