Posted on 06/21/2011 8:44:55 AM PDT by Scythian
This scene, when I saw it for the first time as a kid, cut deep, still moves me today:
Death of a Soldier ...
A dying wish given without words, a simple pleasure, the last memory of home, a smoke of tobacco.
What are some of the ones you remember ?
Oh, and the scene where the wife angrily orders the news crew off their lawn, and the way she manages-barely-to hold back the tears as she tells the reporters they can interview her husband when he gets back.
[to Marko, while preparing him for torture] You know, we used to outsource this kind of thing. But what we found was the countries we outsourced to had unreliable power grids. Very Third World. You’d turn on a switch - power wouldn’t come on, and then tempers would get short. People would resort to pulling fingernails. Acid drips on bare skin. The whole exercise would become counterproductive. But here, the power’s stable. Here, there’s a nice even flow. Here, you can flip a switch and the power stays on all day. Where is she?
The end of Paths of Glory, the beer hall full of rough soldiers force a young girl to sing for them, and the beauty of her haunting song melts the hardened veterans to tears.
BTW the beautiful young woman became Stanley Kubrick’s wife.
The movie that made me sob out loud in the theater was “Passion of the Christ” when Jesus is carrying the cross and He looks at Holy Mother and says “look Mother, I make all things new”. This makes me collapse in tears, like now.
Paths Of Glory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ifRA0Kj-8
That was a good movie.
I also like the scene in “Tropic Thunder” where Robert Downey Jr’s character gives Ben Stiller’s character acting advice:
“Never go full retard, man.”
I wish all the leaders of the free world could inspire us like George VI
I liked Boromir better than Aragon. They killed the wrong ranger. ;(
I liked Boromir better than Aragon. They killed the wrong ranger. ;(
I liked Boromir better than Aragon. They killed the wrong ranger. ;(
The Joy Luck Club: a Chinese woman and her two infants are fleeing Japanese troops during the Rape of Nanking.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE in the theater was sobbing loudly (well, everyone but me...).
LOL... I don't know about "touching", but pretty much any scene with Robert Downey, Jr. in that movie is awesome. He even does the DVD commentary in character.
Ahh, but Boromir was not a ranger. He was essentially the Prince of Wales of Gondor.
I thought the way Boromir was shown as falling into sin when tempted beyond his ability to resist, but repenting and redeeming himself by great bravery to be very affecting.
Also the orcs were really stupid tactically, except for the big mean one, of course.
A similar scene that always gets me was the Marsellaise (sp?) scene in Casablanca.
Facoid, most of the actors and extras in that scene were really refugees from the Nazis. So their defiance was real, not acting.
That was a great scene.
One story has it that Robinson told Heston immediately prior to filming it that he was dying of cancer. He passed away 12 days later.
Another great movie about a man facing his mortality is “The Shootist”.
The whole movie. If you can make it thru that movie without shedding a tear you have no soul.....
It would have to be in Saving Private Ryan when the dying soldier is calling for his mother.
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