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 ?
And to think that film was snubbed for best picture of 1976.
I still hate the Academy for that
Me too. See post 59
Schindler’s List: “I could have saved more.”
Pretty much any scene with a grown man crying. Like puppy empathy.
Okay, now you did it. I’m crying. That movie was so great. Also Bambi made me cry when I was a little one.
Too many others to list.
Another good movie scene is from Bastard Out of Carolina when the little girl’s uncles beat the crap out of her abusive stepfather.
The scene in “The Wild Bunch”:
Enerst Borgnine (full of holes): Pike....
William Holden (full of holes): Dutch....
Will Munny: You better bury Ned right!... Better not cut up, nor otherwise harm no whores... or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches.
Just made me cry in my office. Thank you!
“Saving Private Ryan” when the medic played by Giovanni Ribisi is dying and they give him that shot of morphine and he’s crying out..”mama, mama, mama...” makes me cry just thinking about it.
Goodbye, Lenin!
When he is playing for his mother the fake broadcast announcing the fall of the Berlin Wall, (in this case, East Germany won, and the Westerners all want to move East), the mother of course, by now knows the truth, but the son is so proud that he thinks he pulled it off. The mother just simply gives a loving look to her son, when she realizes just how much he did to try to protect her.
This was my first thought.
And how about this classic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd_zkMEgkI
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one lives there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you hear that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
Actually, I believe they tell Glenda she should have informed Dorothy and Glenda says “No, she needed to learn it for herself”. There’s no place like home was the whole lesson of the movie, if she had been able to go right back she wouldn’t have learned the lesson.
Just saying.
When “Wilson” floats away in Castaway.
Homer and Wilma
A Time To Kill when Sam Jackson finds out his daughter has been brutalized. Also Raintree County when Lee Marvin is dying after being shot during the Civil War, and the end when Monty Clift is looking in the swamp for his wife and son who went looking for the raintree and they find her dead but his son is found sleeping under the Raintree.
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