The Beach - Moby - Porcelain

Beach discovery scene from the Beach

[@laurenadance3586]

This film is 20 years old and still one of my favourites. Gives me nostalgic chills

[@ГригорийХовер]

It's amazing how culture brings us all together after such a long time. We are having different lives, new problems, less people. But memories of something amazing that we happened to witness always stay with us until the end of our times.

[@solomoralez6198]

@@ГригорийХоверthis comment gave me goosebumps

[@allthingsbegin]

Same here. Same here.

[@mastershake4237]

I saw this movie at the theater as a teenager and immediately fell in love with the soundtrack. Since then I always play these songs whenever I go somewhere tropical, or go boating, or to a nice beach. Recently I went to French Polynesia and listened to them there and it was an absolute dream come true. Moby - Porcelain, Sugar Ray - Spinning Away, All Saints - Pure Shores. Will always be the best paradise songs for me, thanks to this movie. Live life to the fullest!

[@ruruloffelmacher6389]

Man this scene gets me every time! After I sold everything, quit my job, went to travel, and had the best time of my life, the day to come back to normality arrived. Then one day I watched this movie. Especially this beach scene expresses exactly what I experienced while traveling. And the music fits perfectly too. I really, really miss those great times and hope to experience something like it again. This scene takes me back to a very good time in my life!

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Amen brother. It's a great reminder that if you're not happy in your rat race chasing your own tail never get ahead consumer lifestyle, quit and do something else. Life is too short!

[@donhectorsalamanca]

Amazing.

[@donhectorsalamanca]

@@flightofthebumblebee9529 yes!!

[@johnnacalverase2871]

You can experience it again if your heart is young enough to do it again.

[@annap1171]

I feel that!

[@rde4017]

Backpacking around Oz in 1999/2000, I heard this playing on the PA on our yacht in the Whitsunday Islands. I was standing on the bows like Jack'n'Rose, watching flying fish jump out of turquiose waves with this beautiful music in the background. A couple of months later I saw The Beach in Sydney and my jaw fell open when I heard Porcelain again. Wonderful, never to be forgotten times. "We'll always have Sydney in the rain..." xxx

[@jeisson4790]

Nostalgia is Real

[@cactuslira6822]

❤🙌

[@dialogarconlahistoria8229]

Not, it's Maya

[@donhectorsalamanca]

So strong

[@abhikdas8464]

One of moby's most iconic song

[@falconoxii516]

might just be me but my top favorite scene ever

[@Deano-JG]

Falcon Oxii great scene great song

[@Ominousheat]

I purposefully redacted my like. But did not dislike.

[@AgenciaSEOmx]

Me too i see that movie first time on Fox at mindnight 10 years ago

[@andiandi21]

Same

[@dretokdan3020]

NOT AT ALL DUDE I FEEL YOU , THIS SCENE GOT INTO MY HEAD SINCE I WATCHED THE MOVIE ON THEATERS !!

[@johnnacalverase2871]

This is what the early 2000's feel like.

[@MedranoHijo]

Before anyone seriously cared about cellphones.

[@brittanydeyoung4846]

Yes. Yes it did. And this song was all over the radio. I remember being a kid on vacation in California, and it was on daily.

[@AmisH-q4h]

Better then titanic

[@jdghgh]

The emotions that this film causes: the feeling of being part of something special, with only a few other special people. That there is a place in this rapidly advancing world that is still hidden and inviolate. To be able to share in the sacred duty of protecting that secret would, for me, be the greatest spiritual or religious experience imaginable.

[@Segasedge]

I first watched this movie when I was 17...at a strange time for me in my life. I was living in Philly, and found out I was moving away, but I didn't know where yet. I later found out it would be a beach town on the East coast. This movie stuck with me once I moved, I kept watching it every couple of months, it was always on cable in the 2000s. The concept of living at the beach was glamorized by this movie. I began living like everyone else there in the summer did, I was a tourist essentially, having been there for such a small amount of time. And was almost eager to move away from the beach as soon as the summer season ended, but I didn't. My parents ended up moving away as did the rest of my family. But I stayed. I liked it. Something felt right. After getting into my groove, or as Richard puts it in the film "I found my location" I became one of the locals. Learned all the secret roads, secret spots, best times to go to the beach, etc. Although it's no secret island lagoon, its as close as Ive found to paradise. I go to the beach every morning in the summer, right before all the tourists show up. As soon as you see people show up with beach chairs and umbrellas you know it's time to leave. And I get to enjoy it all for myself once they leave at the end of the season. I guess what I'm trying to say is that seeing this movie so many times has changed me, has changed what I want out of life, I never want to live away from the beach for as long as I live.

[@xenen9797]

Thanks for sharing this amazing story man!

[@xenen9797]

Surprised no one has made a comment on this yet

[@raysdk]

I get chills to this day and had to visit Thailand after this.

[@matrix9134]

The reason of why we loved this Is just about how we feel its old and new in the same time and how things where back in a day Specially the music Man its makes the earth spin around u

[@keyboarddancers7751]

This film came out towards the last few years of the ecstasy era hence the style of music. I know countless people who traveled to Thailand solely because of this film. Because of this film, this beach became popular across the world and within a few years the beach and its ecosystem was totally and utterly destroyed by tourism and it is now closed to visitors.

[@mario10zeus]

And now, I believe it's closed. Best decision ever made by the Thai authorities.

[@lenglain8230]

Thing is, the author of the book this movie is based on, actually experienced all this in the Philippines. But in the book he changed it to Thailand and inadvertently destroyed Thailand from over-tourism. 3 years ago my girlfriiend and I went to the Philippines and it was paradise, pretty much like in this scene and without the mass tourism.

[@deathfire12]

Reopening this month, albeit with some more restrictions

[@henkdevries6942]

This movie Made me want to backpack through south east asia. Been there in 2017 its really amazing

[@coreyroth7078]

that’s awesome

[@motchycot225]

This image will last a lifetime in my memory. Most amazing place ive ever been to. Phi phi island is pure heaven. If you ever get the chance come here,it will blow you away. 🙏

[@jlbrache]

I travel to Thailand because of this film, it took me 15 years but I did

[@lucianf89]

When I was ten years old, this specific scene made me want to visit Thailand- I did and it was amazing except for the hundreds of other tourists who did the same

[@Deano-JG]

Lucian Ferreira true , iv been 30 times now , that’s the reason I never bought a house😂addicted to travel

[@nobody....168]

Yeah because of you the ecosystem was almost destroyed..Thankfully, they closed the beach.

[@phuntsokbill]

you were the tourist as well

[@johnkennedy7368]

@@lutherblissett7873 it's not closed for good, just a few years to regenerate and reopen under new rules. Where do you get you info from.

[@johnkennedy7368]

@@nobody....168 you contribute to the destruction of the ecosystem to, hypocrit.

[@gabrielakominkova9667]

Planet Earth, the ultimate beauty

[@Ericzen89]

Just pure beauty! Timeless movie

[@JhonatanNeneh]

I have a memory of this movie: it was around 2003, I was 9 years old, on a Saturday night, November. I was in the south of "Minas de Gerais", in Brazil, with my father and my brother in a restaurant at the entrance to the city of Campestre, close to Poços de Caldas. I remember that in this place there was a machine where you took teddy bears, watches... with a claw. My father and brother were trying, and I was watching a TV. There was a movie on Globo. And it was this movie, and right in the scene this song played, it stuck in my mind. And far away on the highway I saw a motorcycle, I heard the noise of it moving away... I remember my father and my brother with a watch, claiming that it was impossible to catch, in a single happiness. Good times, and these days my father isn't even with us anymore. I've always dreamed of one day living in the vibe of this film: a heavenly place with an open mind, always the Sun, Blue Sky, Waters... who knows, maybe one day I'll realize this dream, and then with someone I love. Until then we will live. Eu tenho uma memória deste filme: era por volta de 2003, eu tinha 9 anos, num Sábado à noite, Novembro. Eu estava no Sul de Minas com pai e meu irmão em um restaurante na entrada da cidade de Campestre, próxima à Poços de Caldas. Lembro que neste lugar tinha uma máquina onde você pegava ursinhos, relógios... com uma garra. Meu pai e meu irmão ficaram tentando pegar, e eu fiquei olhando a TV. Estava passando um filme na Globo. E era este filme, e justo na cena onde tocou essa música, ficou gravada em minha mente. E distante na rodovia eu vi uma moto, ouvi o barulho dela se distanciando... lembro que meu pai e meu irmão voltaram com um relógio que pegaram alegando que era impossível terem conseguido aquilo, numa felicidade só. Bons tempos, e atualmente meu pai nem está mais entre nós. Desde então eu sempre sonhei um dia viver na vibe deste filme: um lugar paradisíaco com pessoal mente aberta, sempre o Sol, céu Azul, Águas... quem sabe um dia não realizo este sonho, e ainda com alguém que eu amo. Até lá vamos vivendo.

[@BrianMcAleer]

went to this beach in 2002. all I could think of was that song as I lay on the sand and swam in the water.

[@MISSPINKSTINGRAY]

Brian McAleer where is this beach

[@B1nChicken]

Its in Thailand, I too went there in 2003. Its very touristy now. Its called Maya Bay and is off Phi Phi Island. I hope that helps =D

[@GWestNorthside]

Also it looks really different, because they displaced a lot of plants for the Movie and the view away from the beach in the Movie is actually another Location

[@brgimscht]

i remember watching this the first time with my brother. easy times back then

[@deadpaul6415]

Leo is just the greatest actor of all time imo

[@deniscattini4339]

I love this film!

[@flyingscot982]

Whag what a time it was to be young! Remember the scene at the end when it takes 30 seconds to load the photo? Such a nostalgic snapshot of that/our/my youth x

[@hayes064]

In college this was the first dvd I ever bought. This scene made me move to St Croix USVI. Unreal

[@brandonmiller7523]

The emptiness when only memories are left...

[@JAYKAY5295]

I always get crazy memories of watching this over & over growing up. 33 KH.

[@zanjchat]

My mom heard this song play in a perfume ad a while back and told me she loved the song because it played in this scene of this movie :)

[@johanalmfeldt1465]

I was there all about myself at 7 aclovk in the mornong 2003. Felt like a character in the movie. Was totally fantastic.

[@Philosopher_Person]

You know, I had a very vivid dream that was something like this. It was one of those dreams that really hits you and you think about it for like a entire week...

[@HereIsMyOffer]

I walked on this beach after seeing the movie! Very rough seas for the boat ride over, but very much worth it...

[@Flippy1565]

great scene

[@mrteacomposer4706]

Yes sir 🙌🏻

[@esthermartinez2532]

Nostalgia..

[@majs8878]

Crying of nostalgia

[@Jako101]

Danny Boyle is a genius

[@Blindswordsman1994]

Not a fan of this movie in general but this scene does show off his talent for merging imagery and music to drive the narrative of the story

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Idk why folks disliked this film. Danny Boyle has never made a bad film.

[@jennnieeeeee]

yesterday

[@AmbientMess]

Sunshine

[@marcusjackson9076]

Visited this area and my word, the nostalgia hits hard. Not just from being there but the people I met along the way. (Horrible cliché I know). Not everyone is as lucky as I am to have been able to travel. If you are able to do so. DO IT!

[@19matanikola89]

I am ready to go, anyone else? Love to you all!

[@sennanroo342]

i’m ready to do the same things at the movie and im french

[@shaydonovan8565]

I love you mom ❤

[@BrandonKraemerbk]

this film murdered the book. but I love this song.

[@matienazemy1382]

First half of this movie was really great and very nostalgic. Second half was...... meh.... not so good imo.

[@ItsKerrrry]

the ending is good again though

[@Heyya01]

but the ending was touching. reminds me of my youth where everything seem simple back then. parallel universe.

[@wordyo24]

Yep. It gets super weird.

[@bigmack2262]

20 years? Where did the time go? It does seem kind of old school in that it’s just actors in front of a camera. No CGI. When it first came out it seemed so thoroughly modern and glossy.

[@lucianf89]

I remember the marketing campaign was huge for this film. They were banking on Leo's popularity after Titanic.

[@bigmack2262]

Chaden I didn’t say it needed CGI. It just seems all mass appeal movies CGI everything. Just look at the Great Gatsby with De caprio.

[@samanthaapexprogeny5409]

How was this 21 years ago...jeez. I remember watching this.

[@sebastianrojas4191]

la escena perfecta con la canción perfecta...

[@xion3090]

9 November,2024 The beach 1.5 lakh 91 subs 161 likes inc me 136 comments 1st time here

[@CROWOLF87]

LIVE FREE LIFE ARTISTS 👍❤️👍

[@katoy67]

I was alone on that beach 1990

[@pumpkindiamond994]

Heaven On Earth.

[@sf2explus184]

i was at college when this came out all the girls were crazy for di caprio back then

[@jlw184]

This was me when i saw Grand Anse beach Grenada from the Radisson Hotel.

[@annageraskina3971]

В 2000 году я посмотрела этот фильм. Смотря его я дала себе зарок, что побываю там. Эти острова сверху - я поклялась самой себе что я там буду. И вот, 2010, я лечу местными линиями Айр и вижу под собой эти острова. Летели с Бангкока на Пхукет. Это было безумно красиво. И как самолет на Пхукет садится.

[@VsMemeNurdik]

This movie feels like it's on the same island as The Lost Tv show

[@ViajeLeve]

I had the pleasure to sleep on this beach for one night 🙌

[@wasleyramos6770]

Meu Deus, que saudade desse filme, saudade de tudo... esse só vai sair da memória quando eu morrer

[@l.maddock4460]

Even as the writing was from the Phillipines, regarding those waters, rubbish was, and still is, the predominant item in photos. We were there last month, and there is a reason coral needs protection.

[@r2saint24]

Whose here in 2024! 🤚

[@Leon7518-]

Ce son de Moby ❤et un casting sur ce film whaou Canet , Ledoyen,Di caprio💚

[@gadpivs]

Criticisms of this movie aside, it's sort of criminal how rare treating cinematography as art is now. You don't see too many wide angle shots anymore, especially ones held for more than one or two seconds. It seems like treating film as art has been replaced by just putting ugly digital filters all over everything to make things seem dark and gritty. There's way too much importance placed on how many pixels there are on screen, what resolution it's being shot in, saturation levels, making sure you can see every pit on someone's face for close-ups, etc. All that technical stuff really doesn't matter if your movie looks like a PS4 game instead of a movie.

[@rajendranadarajan8931]

Danny Boyle at his motherfucking best!!

[@bettabetta3669]

amazing Thailand

[@lukecrawford5692]

Aka Tropical Burning Man

[@nicolaslavergne2581]

En Février 2025!!🎉

[@runawayplane6166]

Why does this song version seem different to the original? I prefer it to be honest.

[@lunarthespacecat]

its a shame nothings like it used to be.

[@petacat546]

I love ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tomi9140]

I love you 😊

[@nobody....168]

20 years since the release of the movie! The beach is now closed for the public.. 🙄 Let's hope the ecosystem will recover soon...

[@fionahamilton7231]

I love this movie. The book is good too except he's English in the book

[@leonardobrangado4527]

Happy new year 2000!!!

[@Alessia8389]

io su questa spiaggia ci sono stata!

[@MedranoHijo]

It feels better than money doesn't it? 😊

[@1619marko]

Divota! :)

[@princessemma4147]

Just the music not song i research many times about moby porcelain but the music look's different

[@katoy67]

I was there best time in my life

[@AmisH-q4h]

Leo still wants 2 decade year olds.

[@PYRO_LIKER69]

does anyone know songs like this?

[@valvall1092]

Это что-то космическое…

[@kevinmaestroful]

Anyone know where that scene was shot ?

[@seyyahseyyaha2362]

Phi phi lee island. Maya beach.

[@princessemma4147]

What is the name this music in the beginning???

[@seyyahseyyaha2362]

Porcelain

[@kowalski4868]

UP

[@Danydan1]

Lastima que gracias a esa película esa playa está llena de basura

[@pelochocolate]

La novia actual de Leonardo DiCaprio todavía no había nacido cuando él filmó está película. No importa cuando leas esto.

[@mahfoudprestifilippo7352]

Far Cry 3

[@aksen6122]

Olmak ve yasamak istedigim yer. Lanet olsun

[@themule6385]

Bet ther is a subway on that beach now..and lucky lucky men selling ther crap

[@sandyovals]

Too bad this beach is completely trashed in real life from tourist.

[@johnkennedy7368]

It's not completely trashed, and is being regenerated. Slight exaggeration.

[@jolicska]

the movie is about future instagram psychopaths who only care about their own experience of pleasure lifestyle. as later the guy got bite by a shark and was abandoned to die by the bunch.

[@elultimosonador3958]

This movie is weird to me, as a millennial. I feel like the plot is great, but at the same time, speaking as a novelist, it would be very difficult to get anyone in the younger generations to believe this plot now. Which is something that i fin kind of depressing. I mean, the whole basis of the plot relies on secrecy, but as we know, in a world of Instagrams and Facebooks, all secrecy is utterly gone. This movie is very strange to remember in 2020, for that reason. The plot could simply never, ever work again. In todays world, i think the only way to make this type of film again, would be if you wrote some kind of oddball fantasy, where a few travelers "accidentally" stumbled thru, like, a wormhole or something, or a time traveling beach. You could never have this sort of "realistic fantasy" where they simply find a beach kept secret. Like i say, it sort of just makes me upset to think about now. And of course, the irony of the movie, is that the actual beach this was filmed on, got sort of ruined, because of the movie. We are a weird species. edit: Of course, in many ways, this film, for most people, is really just a type of "Best vacation ever" movie, so maybe a re-working of the plot, wouldn't necessarily need to be a secluded & secret beach, but just an intense drama (with lots of pretty young people) that for some reason plays out in a tropical paradise. Its kind of odd how few movies exist set on beaches...

[@antoineberton1594]

I think you’re right, the last 20 years since the movie came out were so transforming for us humans that the circumstances the plot was written in were dramatically different. But despite the fact that it may be harder to believe (I think the group couldn’t be just "hippies" that stumbled across unchartered land, but some kind of powerful organisation that used their resources to stay out of the grid), the story line resonates more than ever. I feel like the search for a simple life, away from mass tech, consumption, tourism, etc.. has never been stronger.

[@elultimosonador3958]

Antoine Berton I agree with you completely about the search for the simple life and I do think this is the biggest reason we all love to remember the film. Maybe it doesn’t have so much to do with secrecy, as it does with all of us wishing (often desperately) that we simply had a beautiful place, like this beach, to go to with our friends. Somewhere that seems a million miles from all the offices, suburbs, Wal-marts, and fast food joints most of us are presumably trapped working at. Its certainly this dream location that most of us can share...

[@lenglain8230]

I don't agree. When we were in Thailand the fun part was taking a boat and hunting for small Beaches that had nobody on them. Was amazing. We even found one Island where there was nobody except two beautiful women sunbathing topless (I was with my girlfriend and her sister and her sister's boyfriend mind you), and we all hung out there on a desetered beach, looking out into the distance. It felt like you could literally start a life there . Also, you could easily set this plot in the Philippines, which is where the author of The book this movie is based on actually spent his time, and The Philippines has thousands of islands with isolated communities, and much less tourism than Thailand.

[@mrsd1371]

@@elultimosonador3958 It is very very sad to me that the vast majority of us want more of this kind of life and want to be away from the office and the endless working hours just to make ends meet and feed our families. It seems we ALL want out of the rat race. What's even more sad is that we didn't put ourselves in it. We are modern day slaves, like hamsters on wheels to keep the false economy turning to make the true "leaders" of this world richer and more in control and we are stuck in this endless loop of misery and have been for generations. What would be an incredible ending to THIS film is to realise that freedom (which is essentially what this movie is really about) is only a united community away. If the people only knew how powerful we all really are and how much we could dismantle the rat race and get back to grass roots of society and found our own Beach again... I dream of it.

[@elultimosonador3958]

@@mrsd1371 you've left a beautiful comment. i have hated teh rat race all my life and its probbaly one major reason i never ever forgot this movie. i think of it all the time, both as a writer, as a film fan, but also even just as a person who actually wishes i cud, as yu say, escape the rat race . strangely enough, i read your comment only after finally getting home at 6 pm after a very long, awful day at a job i cannot stand. you might enjoy reading an author like david graeber, an intellectual of the left wing who wrote at length about bullshit jobs and how we desperately need to cut back on working hours, etc. its so true that everyone seems to hate the rat race. its so sad as well. i basically do consider myself a slave by the way. if you ever want to chat about all this stuff id totally b interested -- ciao and nice to know theres someone else out there on the wave length.. dream of the good beach forever ...