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Kelly Alves
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![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) loved what they did for Vincent.
On that note-- Idris's final speech. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Oh, and I hate myself for admitting this, but you know that damn cat speech that got Shelley Long an Emmy on "Cheers" ? Poor dear departed Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who saved teenage Diane from self harm because she had to be there for Elizabeth? Makes me a wreck.
"I can't help thinking she was wondering where I was! "
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The death of Falstaff: "'a babbled of green fields"
(reaches for hanky)
or Danny Boy well sung: "and I shall hear, though soft you tread above me"
((enough! enough!)
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Moo
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The Velveteen Rabbit does it for me.
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In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."
It is simply amazing. The regulars all get a chance to react to the death in their own ways--both individually and as a group dynamic. The episode was done without background music to allow for silences (both comforting and awkward). There are a number of beautiful scenes and lines. Such as:
Buffy, trying to revive Joyce, telling the 911 operator "she's cold." The operator, shocked, asks "the body's cold?" "No," says Buffy, "My mom." She doesn't say it angry like she is offended but simply like the operator misunderstood what she said. The payoff is later when, in a panic, Buffy tells Giles "We aren't supposed to move the body!"--and the moment the words "the body" comes from her mouth--the first time she really accepts Joyce is dead--her face just crumples in grief.
Willow constantly changing her clothes because she doesn't know what to wear for this situation.
Xander punching the wall (and putting his fist through it) out of frustration.
But, perhaps, best of all, Buffy and Tara sitting alone. Tara is new to the group and not much is known about her. Buffy explains that the others (who have left to get food) don't understand because none of them have lost their mother. "I have" says Tara quietly. Buffy starts to apologize and Tara says "No, I know it is different for you. Because it is always different." So true, the death of our own parent is never the same to us as the death of anybody else.
And maybe that is part of why the episode is such an emotional trigger for me. It first aired just a few days after my own father died. I bawled through the entire episode when it first aired. Now I can get a good three or four minutes in before the tears start.
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Originally posted by Moo:
The Velveteen Rabbit does it for me.
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Oscar P.
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In the movie, It's A Wonderful Life, the last scene shows all of Jimmy Stewart's friends and neighbors coming to the house and bringing money to help save him and the Building and Loan. I get choked up when he first arrives back home and am full on sobbing by the end of the movie. Every. single. time.
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jedijudy
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Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!
For those who are puzzled, this is the 1995 version of "Sense and Sensibility". Yes, I cry when reading the book, too. Makes my pillow all wet.
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The end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark". I start sniveling about 10 mins before the end because I know what's coming and by the end I'm bawling (reminds me too much of all the dogs that have been and gone in my life ![[Frown]](frown.gif) )
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Speaking of the Muppets and "It's not easy being Green" There was a documentary about Big Bird. I saw at the recent Film Festival I attended.
They included a shot from the Jim Henson Memorial service where Big Bird sings "It's not easy being green." There was not a dry eye in the packed house.
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Kelly Alves
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Oh, the Muppets know where to get you. I saw what you are talking about.
Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.
[ 28. August 2014, 04:26: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!
For those who are puzzled, this is the 1995 version of "Sense and Sensibility". Yes, I cry when reading the book, too. Makes my pillow all wet.
Emma Thompson said she had to talk Hugh Grant into giving up the bulk of his big romantic speech to let long- suffering Elinor have her melt down. Elinor is probably the Jane Austin character I relate to most.
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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betjemaniac
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The end of the Railway Children obviously
some that haven't been mentioned:
- the scene where everyone's singing the Marsaillaise in Casablanca
- pretty well the whole last 20 minutes of A Canterbury Tale but especially the bit where Alison walks through the centre of a bombed out Canterbury (it's on youtube, have a look)
- the closing credits of Cry Freedom
- the last five minutes of Alec Guinness giving the performance of his life in Tunes of Glory
- concerto de aranjuez, juxtaposed with the colliery lighting and a very fiery meeting, Brassed Off
- the scene in Dunkirk when they're all kneeling for prayer on the beach and Bernard Lee gets shot
- the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Anton Walbrook's great soliloquy in the police station
books don't make me cry really, although the last chapter of the House at Pooh Corner gets me every time (seriously).
Music not so much either, although Sandy Denny can be relied on to make me get quite maudlin, much as I love her.
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The episode of Fame where they sang Starmaker as a farewell to Mr Crandall. What the audience didn't know at the time was that the actor who played Mr Crandall was dying of cancer and the rest of the cast were really saying goodbye to him.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Princess was the first book ever to make me cry, when I was (I guess) eight or nine years old.
Twenty-five years later when Sara has lost everything and has to climb up to the attic by herself it still gets me.
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tessaB
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"Daddy, Oh my daddy" Was what went through my mind when my father died. I couldn't possibly watch the film again.
The book (In this?) House of Brede by Rumor Godden, I cried through most of it although I'm not quite sure why.
The following films are now banned in our house because beloved husband cries too much at them - The Sound of Music, It's a Wonderful Life and Gone with the Wind. Also oddly, Prince Caspian ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
I start crying listening to the soundtrack of Les Mis at roughly the beginning and finish crying about ten minutes after the end. Not one to put on the CD player in the car.
Have had a few tears just reading through the posts here.
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Pyx_e
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I am a renowned weeper. Most (if not all of the above) apply. My children AND grandchildren openly mock me.
Last year my 21 year old son and I went to Le Mis, in the last 20 minutes he gradually moved 5 seats away (one at a time) he was so embarrassed at the snot running down my face.
I broke down watching some shite on TV last week because the pretend priest was baptising the plastic baby in the incubator. My wife who made me watch it then added this to the list of great times "Pyx_e cries like a baby."
Happy days.
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
There's a song by The Unthanks, called "The King of Rome". It's about a racing pigeon. EVERY time I hear it, I cry.
You and Mr D both! (and maybe me too on a "glum" day)
It is a lovely song though... The Testimony of Patience Kershaw by the same singers has a similar effect on MrD as well.
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Earwig
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.
I watched that as a kid and it broke my heart even then.
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Originally posted by tessaB:
"Daddy, Oh my daddy" Was what went through my mind when my father died.
I am not a big TV watcher, but a few years ago I watched the sunday night comfy serial 'Born and Bred' (mostly because it was filmed in an area I grew up in). One of the key character's deaths was 'announced' by a railway scene with echoes of 'daddy, oh my daddy' (so the opposite conclusion, but still...) There were no words, but gosh, that got me going.
I don't cry much even now, but I've found that having become a mum, the waterworks are easier to turn on...
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."
Everything you said about this, plus Anya trying desperately to say something appropriate and blurting out, "I wish she hadn't died because she was nice." And you see how Buffy understands and respects the effort she made in saying it.
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Pyx_e
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.
God, now I have to go to bible study with red eyes and sniffling, again.
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Albertus
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Oh yes, and picking up betjemaniac's list, the opening of A Matter of Life and Death where David Niven in his burning bomber is speaking to the American girl in the ops room.
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betjemaniac
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Originally posted by Albertus:
Oh yes, and picking up betjemaniac's list, the opening of A Matter of Life and Death where David Niven in his burning bomber is speaking to the American girl in the ops room.
There was rather a lot of Powell and Pressburger in that list wasn't there? But then they were geniuses.
I didn't even mention I Know Where I'm Going! All time favourite film.
It's very difficult, given I'm in my early thirties, to persuade my friends of the awesomeness of P&P, or to give them a go.
My own nomination from AMOLAD (Stairway to Heaven for US shipmates) is the whole of Roger Livesey's courtroom speech.
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jedijudy
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When Daughter-Unit was little, I read the Narnia books to her several times. The most difficult was the end of "The Last Battle". She would watch my face as I read the familiar words with tears streaming down. Even at that young age, she understood, I think.
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Pyx_e
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she understood
what a wuss you are?
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Pigwidgeon
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The scene from an old episode of M*A*S*H (the television show, not the movie) when Radar announces that Col. Henry Blake's plane has been shot down on his way home to the U.S.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
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Originally posted by Albertus:
Oh yes, and picking up betjemaniac's list, the opening of A Matter of Life and Death where David Niven in his burning bomber is speaking to the American girl in the ops room.
There was rather a lot of Powell and Pressburger in that list wasn't there? But then they were geniuses.
I didn't even mention I Know Where I'm Going! All time favourite film.
It's very difficult, given I'm in my early thirties, to persuade my friends of the awesomeness of P&P, or to give them a go.
My own nomination from AMOLAD (Stairway to Heaven for US shipmates) is the whole of Roger Livesey's courtroom speech.
I'm about 15 years older than you are, then, and I think I got into P&P when I was an undergraduate. But we were a rather fogeyish generation. You're right, there are blub moments everywhere in their films. I share your view on the end of A Canterbury Tale, too- I grew up near Canterbury and there were plenty of people around who remembered the Baedeker raids of June '42 (when my school was blitzed), so it has a resonance for me.
Getting back to the OP, though, I'm reminded by the mention of my undergraduate days of the effect on a friend of mine of Ella Fitzgerald singing Every Time We Say Goodbye. We'd stick a 78 of it on at the end of the evening just to make him cry. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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betjemaniac
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On Leave from the new album by John Lees' Barclay James Harvest, North.
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The end of Charlotte's Web. I must be world-class wuss - it's a bloody spider for heaven's sake - but I think it's more the little pig's reaction.
Bugger it - my computer's starting to rust now ...
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."
Everything you said about this, plus Anya trying desperately to say something appropriate and blurting out, "I wish she hadn't died because she was nice." And you see how Buffy understands and respects the effort she made in saying it.
Sorry to keep piggybacking on people, but my friend J. recently lost his sister to cancer and he said part of his grieving process was repeatedly watching this episode.
Regarding Narnia: I was babysitting a couple kids when I first saw the the BBC version of TLTWATW, and when Susan and Lucy were tending to Aslan's body, I sat there with tears running down my cheeks. The two little girls
I was watching kept boasting," I'm not crying."
Interesting how when we're kids, we pride ourselves on not crying and when we get older, we're relieved we still can.
ETA Oh, yes, Pigwidgeon.
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Lots of my moments have been listed but in Lilo and Stitch (which is a different Disney film ) where Stitch leaves to wait for his family. Also Tony Jay singing about how the world will hate Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Originally posted by Dormouse:
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
There's a song by The Unthanks, called "The King of Rome". It's about a racing pigeon. EVERY time I hear it, I cry.
You and Mr D both! (and maybe me too on a "glum" day)
It is a lovely song though... The Testimony of Patience Kershaw by the same singers has a similar effect on MrD as well.
O God, yes. It doesn't have exactly the same effect on me as King of Rome, but it's still moving.
(Here's the King of Rome!)
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White Christmas - pretty much all of it after Bob appears on the Ed Harrison Show.
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The Painted Veil makes me cry every time. I still love the film, i just have the tissues handy.
Ach! I start misting up a little during the suicide through salad scene, pick it up when she goes to e clinic and sees how much the nuns revere him, full on start sobbing a bit later and keep it up to the end. Great movie!
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Sound of Music again.
Which can be embarrassing when you're playing in the pit orchestra for the theatre version in a week long run. There was a sweepstake going for where I'd lose it on each night. Got it down to just Edelweiss at the concert by the last night.
Mind you - since producing a sprog, I cry at absolutely anything, so I'm very selective about what I watch these days.
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For something more recent; The episode "Simon and Marcy" of the animated show Adventure Time in which a villain is shown to be a very caring guy who was driven insane.
Besides Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting, Awakenings moves me.
We've also barely touched musicals and operas. South Pacific, Camelot, Cabaret, A Little Night Music, Rosenkavalier, Madame Butterfly...
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I'm another one who wells up every time I hear the King of Rome - and the end of the Railway Children.
I also find it very difficult to watch Spartacus all in one go.
The absolute worst, though, was the last 200 pages of The Reckoning by Sharon K Penman, which is the last of her Welsh trilogy. I knew the history, you see, having guided tours around Caergwrle Castle in North Wales when a dig was going on there, and I knew it wasn't going to end well for the Welsh, so I sobbed myself right to the end, and I'm not sure when I'm going to have the courage to re-read it!
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I am a cryer of some renown - I have even been known to cry at adverts! Lots of things already mentioned - Elinor's emotional outburst in Sense and Sensibility, the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who. The song 'Vincent' by Don McLean has a similar effect... total dissolve.
The song 'Everybody's Changing' by Keane always sets me off, as it was released around the time I graduated and many of my uni friends and most of my housemates moved away, so lots of memories there.
More recently, the Song 'Do You Wanna Build a Snowman' from Frozen. So much pain and sadness wrapped up in such a pretty, lovely song. My three year old son must have watched that film twenty times now and it still gets me EVERY time.
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The third LOTR movie gets me in Exactly. The. Same. Spot every time. It’s the soundtrack that does it.
It’s the thick of the battle, it’s going horribly, everybody’s going to die, and then out of nowhere the horns sound and the Riders of Rohan appear over the rise to ride to death or glory.
I always sob.
(In general heroism makes me squish more than the traditional pulling-at-the-emotions stuff.)
Same film, different spot. When everyone kneels to acknowledge the hobbits. Tear up.
I also tear up at the end of Armageddon. The happy bits.
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!
I cry when Emma Thompson cries, period.
The S&S scene. The scene in Remains of the Day, when she's telling Anthony Hopkins she's marrying someone else and again at the end when she gets on the bus. I cry in Howards End, when she collapses in front of the mirror and later, when they have to break-up. Many other times.
Staying with Jane Austin, I always cry in Pride and Prejudice, when Mary's father shuts the piano on her. I feel my face turn red for her, too.
In Emma I cry during the "badly done," speech.
On a lighter note, I cry great sloppy happy tears at the end of Billy Elliot.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
The scene from an old episode of M*A*S*H (the television show, not the movie) when Radar announces that Col. Henry Blake's plane has been shot down on his way home to the U.S.
Oh, yes. and also the final episode when Hawkeye has a breakdown.
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Hugal:
Lots of my moments have been listed but in Lilo and Stitch (which is a different Disney film ) where Stitch leaves to wait for his family. Also Tony Jay singing about how the world will hate Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
As a kid, I got pretty choked up during the Charles Laughton film of Hunchback. Most memorably, when he gets humiliated as King Of The Fools, and at the end where he asks the gargoyle "Why was I not made of stone like thee?"
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Stetson
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"Yes, I can see now."
That one shot had me close to tears when I saw the film with a live orchestra providing the musical accompaniment. Otherwise not a huge fan of that guy(oops, I mean "that glorious treasure of cinematic history.")
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Sioni Sais
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That scene from M*A*S*H gets me too, but for music the song "Perhaps Love" by John Denver and sung by him and Placido Domingo gets me going.
Otherwise, and I may be very strange in this, I find the effort, tension and elation in track athletics can also bring me to tears.
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cliffdweller
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The scene in Saving Private Ryan when Mrs. Ryan is told her sons are dead.
What's amazing about the scene is that we don't hear any of the words that are spoken, or ever even see her face. The scene is shot from behind, and all the emotion is conveyed from her body movements. She's washing dishes in the sink, over her shoulder thru the kitchen window we see the cars with the little American flag drive up the long country driveway. We see the officers and a chaplain get out. Still from behind we watch her walk over to the front door, walk out on to the porch. We see the chaplain reach out to steady her as this strong woman finally stumbles in her grief...
heart-wrenching scene, beautifully shot.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
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she understood
what a wuss you are?
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Yes.
I mean...maybe 'tenderhearted' is the word you were looking for? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
That scene from M*A*S*H gets me too, but for music the song "Perhaps Love" by John Denver and sung by him and Placido Domingo gets me going.
For some reason Denver's "Calypso" really gets to me. I am willing to bet I am alone in that.
The first time I heard Tom Waits's "Martha" I lost my shit by the end of the song. Now all I have to hear is the opening bars and I 'm off. When I am having one of those moments when I know I need to cry and the tears won't come, I throw that on.
I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...
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Smudgie
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I'm hopeless at keeping the tears in too - luckily the Smudgelet's just as bad so we sit there hiding our tears together. I can feel myself welling up just at reading through the thread. Though as many here have said, I have learned to become selective in what I watch. Since going through my own tragedy, I now never deliberately watch a weepie.
My key triggers which I do love, though, have not been mentioned (apart from that opening sequence of "UP"). Firstly the scene in Ice Age when Manny sees the cave painting of the slaughter of the mammoth family - that has gradually become the moment when I need to go to the kitchen and put the kettle on very noisily!
And, the Abba song "Slipping through my fingers". I watched Mamma Mia shortly after losing my eldest son and the words combined with the tune and the whole theme of the song went incredibly deep. Strangely enough, that song often comes to mind and really makes me treasure every moment (yes, even the downright infuriating ones!) with the Smudgelet. But it's a proper weepie! Hand me the tissues, would you?
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