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 like the last scene of “The King’s Speech” as Great Britian entered into World War Two.
The content of the speech, the music - Beethoven’s 7th, the scenes people listening throughout the empire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JdC8aoHOO0&feature=related
(Sorry - I could not find a better clip.)
That's good too but it always makes me think of a really bad sunburn.
That was the very first scene I thought of.
Saw it in the theater when I was a kid - traumatized for life....
No question. Kevin Cosner's’ character, Ray Kinsella, closing line in “Field of Dreams” when he calls out to his father, “Hey, Dad? Wanna’ catch?” I weep like a little boy every time I watch that scene.Without a doubt!! Screen's all blurry just reading your comment.
“... Glenda had told her about that little shoe function...”
That is hysterical.. you must have a listening device in my house! My son was probably about five and saw the movie for the first time. At the end, he said, “If I was Dorothy, I would dump water on Glenda, too. She knew Dorothy could go home in the very beginning”. LOL!
In Good Morning Vietnam, when the soldiers faces go by during Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.
“Brian’s Song” was the one that did it for me. All I have to do is hear the theme, and I immediately do my John Boehner imitation.
When,in the original movie “Lassie Come Home”. Lassie crawled out of the water with bloody feet.
Then Jimmy smashes the phone and starts crying, "They whacked him. They f**kin' whacked him!"
"They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral."
So sad. Such a good boy.
Last scene in “Imitation of Life,” where Lana Turner’s life long companion and housekeeper, Annie dies and her estranged daughter who had rejected her, came running up at the end of the funeral. Very sad. Real tearjerker.
The scene in “Soylent Green” where Edward G. Robinson has drank the poison at the suicide center and Charlton Heston breaks in to see him while viewing the film of an unpolluted earth. Still chokes me up for some reason.
Forrest Gump talking to Jenny’s grave about Forrest Jr.
He was a really funny guy.
Funny how?
Old Yeller and The Yearling are two movies I will not watch because they are just too sad. Can’t do it.
“Brian’s Song” was the one that did it for me. All I have to do is hear the theme, and I immediately do my John Boehner imitation.
This movie makes me cry buckets of tears everytime I see it. Caan and Billy Dee did some great acting in this movie.
Plus the scene where he’s extolling the stability of the French electricity supply. Gak!
That film is so full of win. I must go watch it again.
The scene near the end where Gale Sayers receives the George Halas Award. He gives the speech talking about how Brian Piccolo was so much more deserving of it.
"He has the heart of a giant and that rare form of courage that allows him to kid himself and his opponent -- cancer . . . He has the mental attitude that makes me proud to have a friend who spells out the word 'courage' 24 hours a day of his life. . . . I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him, too. Tonight, when you hit your knees, please ask God to love him."
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