maybe touching *isn't* the most apropos word...
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 ?
I always got teary-eyed in Toy Story 2, in the scene where Jessie the Cowgirl is abandoned, when Sarah McLachlan’s “When She Loved Me” played, especially when she thought she was going to be played with again, only to be dropped off at the toy recycling center.
I referenced that earlier, that scene really didn't get me....but when I saw the joy on the boy's face when he realized he "won" the game, it was one of the most cathartic moments in film history.
Thank You for your response, MD!
I had no idea there was a remake—I’ll have to find it now.
I found an old copy of the book in a used bookstore a few years ago; quite different from the movie version.
Gunny G
aka: Dick Gaines
*****
The entire movie is on You Tube and definitely one of my favorite movies ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc9FsfgcCsM
Yes, the ending of Second Hand Lions is wonderful. The first time I saw it I was crying and laughing at the same time. The entire movie was great tho.
The other one I’d like to mention is the ending of Waking Ned Devine when they are raising their glasses to him there on the side of the hill. That also brought tears to my eyes
Yes, that was the one I was going to cite. I didn't know that about the characters being refugees, though. Maybe that's what makes it so touching. You can't fake that kind of intensity.
Betty Davis and Paul Henreid loving his daughter and each other at the end of “Now Voyager.”
Amazing. I don’t know that movie well at all, but I do remember that scene and the way the men react to her song.
That’s a great movie, isn’t it?
This one gets to me as well... My six year old watched it with me for the first time about 2 years ago and has watched it a couple of more times since. He knows I miss my dad (passed away in 1993) and he always hugs up against me when he sees that look come across my face. I've told the little guy many stories of the grandfather he never got to meet. And then he demonstrates the true love of a son: "Daddy, I'm going to study hard so that when I'm grown up I can build a time machine - we'll go back and see your daddy and tell him to not smoke and to make sure and eat right... That way we can all go fishing together, too!"
Would I risk tearing a hole in the space-time continuum to see my dad again? I wouldn't even blink an eye...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werf88C7lkA
Of course the anti-tyranny message loses a tad of its impact when you remember the French themselves are foreign conquerors tyrannizing the people of the land.
But of course there’s tyranny and tyranny.
LOL!
Bravo and Bravo.
I’d list a few of my own favorites, but I’ve got my street cred to worry about. Plus, I don’t want to a) stump anybody, b) piss off anyone, and c) get everyone bawling like babies.
maybe touching *isn't* the most apropos word...
Great scene....Bastard out of Carolina is such a good movie. In fact, although I’m a Guy, you could plop me in that movie and it would reflect my life growing up. Everything in the movie and I mean everything, except the location.
Juxtaposing the King, realizing that his weakness and dithering in the face of the growing enemy had brought his people to the brink of extinction - with the images of 12 and 13 year old boys stoically picking up weapons and armor as they prepare to be exterminated.
"How did it come to this?"
That was touching. She looks at him too and walks over to him.
“How Green Was My Valley” is one of the best movies ever, and I remember that scene well.
Saw it again about 2 years ago with a 14 year old grandaughter. Lots of Kleenex used that night.
Just thought of another couple of scenes....
The end of Pay It Forward and My Dog Skip. Both leave me with a lump in my throat.
I never cry at movies. I keep thinking of the movie critic(?) director(?) who said that every tear is carefully manipulated and jerked out of the audience.
And then there’s the classic Star Wars spoof where Ham Sandwich tells Fluke SkyStalker, “Shut up kid. It’s only a movie.”
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