As Easy company waits for the signal to charge the crossroad, Major Winters sprints ahead.

What really got me about this scene was primarily the moment of pause when Winters stops atop the road to see the face of the young soldier. What could he do? Kill or be killed? The ensuing intensity and absolute desperation on both sides is also quite gripping; the Germans scattering for their lives, the Americans trying to kill as many as they can without being blown away themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson
The most widely known legend surrounding Robert Johnson says that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi in exchange for prowess in playing the guitar. Actually, the location Johnson made reference to is a short distance away from that intersection. The legend was told mainly by Son House, but finds no corroboration in any of Johnson's work, despite titles like "Me and the Devil Blues" and "Hellhound on My Trail". With this said, the song "Cross Road Blues" is both widely and loosely interpreted by many as a descriptive encounter of Johnson selling his soul. The older Tommy Johnson (no relation, although it is speculated that they were cousins), by contrast, also claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil. The story goes that if one would go to the crossroads a little before midnight and begin to play the guitar, a large black man would come up to the aspiring guitarist, retune his guitar and then hand it back. At this point (so the legend goes) the guitarist had sold his soul to become a virtuoso (A similar legend even surrounded virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini a century before.)

Yesterday I submitted Dueling Banjos, and now I'm following up with dueling guitars.

This is from "Crossroads", based on an updated version of the old Robert Johnson legend -- here, the devil's guitarist is Steve Vai, while Ralph Maccio plays to defend his mentor (and it's really Ry Cooder's playing).

This is a video from Operation Crossroads - check wikipedia