This is a post repeated, pretty much, from six years ago today.
Shakespeare’s Sister asks, “What movie scenes always make you cry?”
Well, some might tell you that NewMexiKen can well up watching The Incredibles, but that’s because they don’t recognize the difference between emotions and an allergic reaction to popcorn. With that caveat, I’ll list three scenes that get to me.
Frankie Dunn in Million Dollar Baby: “Mo cuishle. It means my darling. My blood.” (Jeez, I welled-up just typing this.)
Adult Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird: “Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.”
(It’s also pretty powerful earlier in that film when Reverend Sykes says to Scout: “Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing.”)
When Paikea gives her report at the school in Whale Rider and her grandfather isn’t there.
Don’t be afraid to add to the discussion in the comments.
To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite book of all time and, whether it be book or movie, the line, “Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing.” gets me every single time.
At the end of Moulin Rouge, when Satine sings to Christian, “Come back to me, and forgive everything,” I sob every time. Every time. I have never figured out why it moves me so much.
And of course, the first 15 minutes of Up will flat out kill you. My kids like to put that movie in and then watch me, instead of the screen.
Omigod yes, that first part of Up. I can’t even handle your comment.
Oh Lord. Up is just brutal. I think I blocked it out. One of those repressed memories that’s too much to handle.
Kiley hates the movie up because it’s so sad. She refuses to watch it.
I cry at just about everything. I’m not sure I can add to this conversation. Or, maybe it is that I’m afraid to admit the movies that I watch.
Several scenes from “My Girl,” particularly the one at the funeral. I don’t know if I can ever watch that movie again. Seems like I cry a lot more at movies these days. I teared up at “Soul Surfer” and it’s not even that sad.
Oh Emily, I cry at everything too.
That Subaru ad, where the dad is lecturing his little kindergarten daughter on driving safely, and then suddenly we see she’s a 16-year-old, taking the car out for the first time? Oh, I’m all choked up writing this. Stop growing, babies, stop growing.
You were my babies, you didn’t stop growing.
That commercial is a great one, and yes it makes me cry also. You’re only 5 years away from Mack being able to drive!
How about the very last scene of “The Inn of The Sixth Happiness?”
The one where Ingrid Bergman marches a hundred Chinese war orphans into Nanking after walking hundreds of miles through the countryside while evading the Japanese?
The first movie that came to my mind was “The Color Purple.” There are several scenes in this movie that do me in. One is when the young sisters, Celie and Nettie, are ripped apart by Mister. Another is when Shug Avery comes to the church with all her sinner friends, and her estranged father finally breaks down and hugs her in front of the entire congregation. There’s also a powerful scene when Sofia tells Miss Celie how she helped her in the store one day when she (Sofia) was really down. But, the scene that really gets me sobbing is when Celie’s sister returns from Africa. Not only has her long lost sister returned, but she brings with her Celie’s two children that were taken from her at their births, and the son’s African wife. Even though they are now adults, it is the first time they are meeting their mother.
I cry at commercials, though, so I could list 100 movies, at least, that get to me every time. I’m a sucker for sure, easy prey for the gratuitous emotional scenes. A lot of them would be Spielberg movies.
Oh my, I forgot the two other scenes from movies that really, really get to me. The outstanding movie “Empire of the Sun” (one of my all-time favorite movies–Speilberg again) ends with the boy, Jamie (in an absolutely outstanding performance by a young Christian Bale), finally being reunited with his mother after a couple of horrendously grueling years in a Japanese prison-of-war camp. He has been quite manic throughout the entire, unusually long movie, and you never once see him close his eyes. At the end, when he is finally found by his parents at an orphanage, he almost isn’t sure he recognizes his mother. He reaches up, touches her lipstick-covered lips, then embraces her, and for the first time in the movie, he is secure enough to close his eyes and be at rest. Huge sobs on my part.
And, in “A River Runs Through It,” after the Brad Pitt character, Paul, catches the enormous trout and poses for the picture for Mother, his older brother, Norman, asks him to come to Chicago with him. Paul replies, “Oh, I’ll never leave Montana, Brother.” A few minutes in the movie later, he is dead, and, because I’ve seen the movie sooooooo many times, I know this is going to happen when he says, “Oh, I’ll never leave Montana, Brother.” Breaks me down every time. It’s also one of the most beautiful movies (cinematography-wise) that I’ve ever seen.
Both those movies are based on the true experiences of authors of the books were based upon.
The movie “Up” should come with warning labels….serious.
Read this: “Dear Pixar: stop making me cry like a bitch
http://deadspin.com/5313572/dear-pixar-stop-making-me-cry-like-a-bitch