Most emotionally affecting moment in a movie or show
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 05:32
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Chrisisall vs Christhecynic...
I'm gonna change my name. Vaderisall.
Hey, what about that scene in Highlander where Connor is holding Heather as she's dying of old age, and she says she didn't know why he stayed?
His reply opens the eye-fawcetts for me- big time!
There can be only one (Highlander movie) Chrisisall
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I never cry Chrisisall
That’s not good. Don’t worry, we take care of our own, we’ll get you an operation to fix that.
No, it's just that I have no tear ducts.
Normal for Klingons Chrisisall
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In the anime movie, Grave of the Fireflies, when the brother sets fire to his sister's body, because he wasn't good enough at taking care of her. I'm getting choked up just typing this....
In Platoon, when Willem Dafoe is kneeling, shot to heck, and watching the helicopters leave him behind.
Rhymephile, thanks for bringing up X-Files. In "Beyond the Sea", when the prisoner (Brad Dourif in his best-role-ever) yells "Do NOT underestimate my fear of going back to that place!"
"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson
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It just shows how people can just become nothing when cut off from the world, reminds anyone of something from Firefly?
Apocalypse Now is a film I've only seen once, possibly the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. And one of the most powerful.
Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange are close seconds.
Shell shocked Chrisisall
I hear you. Disturbing and Powerful no two ways about it.
'Das Boot' and 'Cross of Iron' are on my most powerful list.
If 'Das Boot' isn't the most potent example of the human condition put to screen I don't know what is.EV Nova Firefly mod Message Board:
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"Your father's passing" - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Seconded! (Or thirded, actually, I think.)
I don't know how many times I've seen that, and I get chills every time.
(Sidenote: I actually cheered when Atticus Finch was named the #1 hero on AFI's list a year or so ago.)
"One day, lad, all this will be yours ..."
"What - the curtains?"
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Any of the stuff with Mary in The Passion of the Christ. Mother/son scenarios kill me, and that's probably the most potent. Particularly when she runs down the alley just as he stumbles with the cross.
A little-seen movie with Dennis Quaid, "Savior," where he plays a mercenary in Bosnia who gets stuck caring for a pregnant (raped) Serbian woman. The climax, particularly.
Saving Private Ryan, the scene with the medic remembering his relationship with, d'oh, his mother!
The Crying Game, sad in parts, but I find the ending poignant in a more positive way.
The Accidental Tourist:
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When William Hurt begins to cry and he confides in Geena Davis that he's afraid he'll forget his son's face. That and just how he feels responsible for her and her own son.
The whole of The Elephant Man.
Lonesome Dove, lots of scenes in that.
And darn me for being so easily manipulated, but GUMP. The last scene.
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Apocalypse Now is a film I've only seen once, possibly the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. And one of the most powerful.
Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange are close seconds.
Shell shocked Chrisisall
I hear you. Disturbing and Powerful no two ways about it.
Disturbing things are always powerful, they couldn't be disturbing if they weren't.
A Rose for Emily by Faulkner is a great example, I hated the thing but if it were not so well written I wouldn’t. If it were not so powerful it could not have been disturbing, and if it were not disturbing it could not have made me hate it.
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Oh God, there've been so many for me. I could almost write a whole book on specific moments in movies and TV shows that gave me what you've described.
But just off the top of my head, one moment in movies that has always haunted me was the scene in RAGING BULL when Jake was thrown into the jail cell and he begins punching the concrete wall over and over again, screaming "WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY." And the last half hours of THE TRUMAN SHOW, GARDEN STATE, PLEASANTVILLE, THE UPSIDE OF ANGER, AMERICAN BEAUTY are all superb endings for incredible films.
As for TV moments, there were two moments that I always thought were pretty emotionally searing and am amazed at how someone could NOT be rocked to the core. The whole season finale of the first season of 24 is bar none the most exquisitly crafted hour of television I've ever seen. After 23 hours of build up and anticipation, you have one hell of a payoff. You got a daring escape, a spousal/political betrayal, the one person Jack trusted showing her true colors as a mole, two emotional breakdowns from Jack, with the first one leading to a shootout that would make John Woo look like an amateur, a husband/wife separation that would make Shakespeare proud, a second shootout in a parking garage that leads to one of the tensest standoffs ever filmed, and it all culminates in a death that shows that 24 has the balls to take the tv rulebook and rip it to shreds. I've never been affected by a character's death on a tv show before. But the final death of that day just shook me.
The other one was the pilot for SIX FEET UNDER. You really got to know and feel affection for these characters in such a short time so that when they're burying Nathaniel Sr. outdoors, you're so wrapped up that the character's emotional outbursts are yours as well.
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
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As far as joy, (besides Shawshank which was already said), the end of Diggstown really got me. Not only did the boxer (lou Gosset Jr.) go through hell and survive the hell of 10 boxing matches in a row, there was a great con as well. The theater audience started cheering when I saw it back in the day.
The ending to Big Fish was very melancholy. I wish the death of a persons father could be that beautiful, but it sure wasn't for me. The movie was very emotional.
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The ending to Big Fish was very melancholy. I wish the death of a persons father could be that beautiful, but it sure wasn't for me. The movie was very emotional.
Yes I'd agree with this. That finalé could've so easily been sugary and overly sentimental. Yet it wasn't.
It's the best interpretation of someone's passing I've ever seen on film.
BIG FISH - wonderful subtle masterpiece.
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I rewatched over the weekend:
Jean de Flourette and Manon De Source and several scenes in these two films have some of the most heart stirring moments, in particular:
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In Jean De Flourette - when Gerrard Depardieu who has been praying for rain to help his crops, catches sight of rain clouds passing not more than half a mile away, and thus missing his plot of vegetables. He drops to his knees - defeated.
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Yves Montands realisation, at the end of Manon de Source, that Gerard Depardieu was his son. The look on his face when he puts all the events together. Sublime acting!!!
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The very last scene of Yves, preparing himslef to go to sleep and to never wake up again. Just the very purposefullness of it all really moves me. It's so profound.
finally
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All the reactions of Yves Montands face whenever Flourette is mentioned, or when someone asks why he never married, or why he doesn't have any offspring. You can see the pain he is in everytime.
Ok nuff said.
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