| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/30/2007 1:38:43 AM | What scene in what movie NEVER FAILS to make you cry? (C'mon guys, we know you do too!)
Mine has always been the scene in Blade Runner where replicant Ray Batty (played by Rutger Hauer) is dying . He says:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die"
It's not only the dialog but the production values. It's slowed down, raining hard, and bad guy Roy is having the last emotions of his life. Being a robot made with emotions and an expiration date, he realizes it's all over and there's nothing he can do about it.
It's the last 2 sentences that put me over the edge and I can't hold back. Does it every single time!!!
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 11:44:24 AM |
What scene in what movie NEVER FAILS to make you cry? (C'mon guys, we know you do too!) They don't make me cry but they makes me reminisce mistily... The opening scenes of Zulu that have the John Barry soundtrack. It was one of my dad's favourite films and we played the theme music at his funeral. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 1:49:29 PM | | The end of Saving private Ryan....it is just so sad to see that man worry if he has lead a good life.. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 2:16:29 PM | | Kevin Costner playing catch with his dad in Field of Dreams. Who DOESN'T bawl at that scene? | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 5:15:15 PM | Mine would easily have to be in the film "The Piano" By Joan Campion when her psycho husband gets the piano key from her daughter and he punnishes the main character for cheating on him by cutting her fingers off - and you just see the fingers and it is just overwhelming to realize her beautiful piano playing is gone. It may be the most traumatizing and depressing scene for me in film in general. I cried like a baby.
Either that or when Steve-o is standing over top of Bob in SLC Punk when he realizes Bob is dead and he is screaming at him to wake up and not be dead. Mathew Lillard does an absolutely rivetting break down that makes me bawl still - even after seeing it like 54 times in a row. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 7:29:23 PM | Wow, yes, I agree with most of you and the other movies I haven't seen yet.
Another one of mine is a hard to find film called Buster and Billie with Jan Michael Vincent. It's 1950, high school, and the town sl*t is a not particularly attractive, (but sweet) girl named Billie. Buster is the football hero and his girlfriend is a cheerleader. They're going to marry but she won't "put out" before the wedding. Buster's friends convince him to see Billie. He's the first person to treat her nicely and they fall in love. Needless to say, the other boys in town become aware that Billie's become unavailable and they rape her.
The last 15 minutes are SO intense and I think it's Jan Michael Vincent's best role in his short-lived career. If you can find it I challenge you to watch and see if YOU don't cry at the end!!! | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 8/31/2007 11:40:35 PM | Good call on Blade Runner, OP:) Beautiful words.
I not generally known for my sentimentalism, but I can't help but shed a tear at the end of The Color Purple:)
Oh, I get distinctly emotional during the Superfreak scene in Little Miss Sunshine! | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 8:49:57 AM | definately the very last scene in THE WAY WE WERE (streisand/redford) never fails, gets me everytime :(
oh and Brians Song, lol | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 10:07:01 AM | That's a good one, Sister Havana
I cry at all the Disney classics - the scene in Dumbo where he goes to see his mama in jail and they play Baby Mine  | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 10:09:34 AM | In the movie Elizabeth.
After she gets word that her long-time lover Lord Robert Dudley is not only married but has slept with a lady in waiting behind her back and they are no longer friendly.
The banter is like this.
him - Majesty, may I speak with you... in private[kind]
her - Speak [cold]
him - You are in the greatest danger, you must believe me, but you have a friend, someone who can guarantee your safety and your throne. [matter of fact]
her - A friend? [nonchalant]
him - The king of Spain [matter of fact]
her - Leave us [room clears]
She walks to his face, closely they stand across from each other.
her - How would he guarantee it.[curious]
him - He would marry you...only to make an alliance, nothing more, he... would not expect to...he would live in Spain.[quivering]
her - Why do you do this Robert. [earnest]
him - Because I love you and tho you will not see me, I am the only one who would care for you.[vehement]
her - You love me so much you would have me be your whore. pft
Turns her back walking away angrily to her seat
him - For godsake I do this for us! I ask you to save some part of us![loud]
her - Lord Robert, you may make whores of my ladies but you shall not make one of me.[firm tone and seated]
He bows and exits with "Your majesty".
Very intense scene. That one got me good because you can see both sides of the pain. He may actually care for her but she has enemies all over and cannot trust him since he "sinned" in other ways against her heart. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 1:16:25 PM | DANCES WITH WOLVES
When John Dunbar has to leave the indians for good. Then especially when the 'tough guy' of all the indians(was it Kickin' Bird?) sees him leaving and goes yelling at Dunbar from the peaks proving to us, the viewing audience, that even the most reluctant to trust the white man has earned his trust, loyalty, and admiration.
This whole movie just speaks to me on such another level because its puts so many thoughts and questions right out there in front of us. What if there were more like John Dunbar? What if the natives protected their land more successfully and used their position of power and respectability to keep us from disrespectfully paving over so much green with so much concrete and asphalt in the name of progress?
Right there I can almost imagine a different earth, a different America. Maybe with a little more relaxed pace of life, a little more intelligent & compassionate, and most of all more respectful of this idea that we are born of the earth. Every single living molecule within you can be traced back to the earth, to mere dirt, one way or another. In that sense you don't even own yourself, you are almost a rental from the earth! 
As some one who very much grew up in the wild the whole fear of nature most folks have is just insanity to me. Or the lack of understanding of nature. But maybe it is just me and my experiences. I learned very young when wild skunks sniffed my bare toes on the back door of my grandpa's place that wild animals are nothing to fear. I was respectful and I didn't get sprayed or bitten or even snarled at -- I think I got decided I was not food and that was that.
It seems like we have this attitude we have to conquer things to enjoy them and I just don't agree with that. Like it is 'easier' to force our will upon something else than it is to take the time to study it, observe it, learn it, and enjoy it for what it is. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 1:46:03 PM | Yes, that is a very moving scene
Wind In His Hair: Dances With Wolves. I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend? | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 2:16:31 PM | That's it! You know he really earned his respect.
I hear there is a 4 hour version of that movie, the director's cut. I have it on my netflix Queue but havent seen it just yet. I am pretty reluctant to in a way. The three hour movie I own. It is the only movie I have ever bought for myself. But anyway I am reluctant to watch the longer version because I can't imagine any improvements on that movie. How could it possibly get any better(without dragging)? On a five star system I would have to give it five stars!
AND A HALF!!! | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 2:26:55 PM | The opening scene where he's putting his boots on his bloody feet has to be one of the most intense scenes in cinema
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 6:11:01 PM | Everyone will laugh at this.. BUT.. to me.. well two I can think of off hand anyway, not my BEST but.. towards the ends of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
The scene with Han Solo being frozen...
then in Jedi the scene as Luke talks to his dying father. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 7:13:12 PM | | well, it doesn't qualify as a film, but anytime i watch the clip of secretariat winning the belmont, i'm useless for hours. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/1/2007 7:39:51 PM | Juniper, there's an old movie about a horse called Smokey - it would destroy you
Me and my mom can't watch it without blubbering
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| Dances with Wolves
Posted: 9/2/2007 5:05:10 AM | I hear there is a 4 hour version of that movie, the director's cut. I have it on my netflix Queue but havent seen it just yet. I am pretty reluctant to in a way. The three hour movie I own. It is the only movie I have ever bought for myself. But anyway I am reluctant to watch the longer version because I can't imagine any improvements on that movie. How could it possibly get any better(without dragging)? On a five star system I would have to give it five stars! I've got the 226min version...it doesn't drag IMO. With such excellent cinematography, the longer the film is, the better...  Also, some of the additional/extended scenes help put the original cut into context. | |
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| Dances with Wolves
Posted: 9/2/2007 3:57:59 PM | In the end of "The Horse Whisperer" when the girl finally connects with her horse again and gets on him and rides around.
The final scene in Lord of the Rings Return of the king as Frodo is about to get on the ship and he kisses Sam's forehead. They play the song 'Into the West' and it's so sad! | |
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| Dances with Wolves
Posted: 9/3/2007 2:25:25 AM | Sixth Sence when Cole tell his mum about her mother 'seeing her dance' (people will know this if they've seen it)
The Green mile at the execution of John Coffey...
Rain man - just does - love Dustin Hoffman's performance.
Dances with wolves - the John Dunbar Theme gets me going on its own!
When a man loves a woman. | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/3/2007 6:51:42 AM | | Many good scenes mentioned here, but none compare to " It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart and Donna Reed, near the end " a toast to my brother, George Bailey, the richest man in town" if that doesn't get ya, you must have a stone heart..... | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/3/2007 9:43:30 AM | | "Glory" w/ Denzel Washington. Never has so much been said with just a single tear... | |
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/3/2007 9:46:14 AM | The three biggest tear-jerkers for me are
~"Steel Magnolias" - Sally Field's scene at Shelby's funeral
~Mufasa being killed in the stampede in "The Lion King" and Simba trying to wake him up
~Forrest leaving the note from "little Forrest" on Jenny's grave in "Forrest Gump"
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| Your Best Crying Scene?
Posted: 9/3/2007 9:47:38 AM | ^^^^ you know, I was gonna say the death of Mufasa but i didnt wanna look a fool! lol
Sod it - The lion king - gets me everytime!
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