Most emotionally affecting moment in a movie or show
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 05:32
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MacBaker, how could I forget The Abyss?
The scenes you refer to are two of three that really get me, the last being when Bud types 'lov u wife' (he mangles it somehow...), tears, they are a' rollin' then. I love that movie.
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I definitely agree with the Zack sacrificing himself one, it's so sad and so very brave.
The Body (Buffy S5 where her mum dies) is one whole episode of emotionalness, and the Buffy S5 finale (I won't ruin it for you if you haven't seen it), is also great.
I also found Mal staying behind on Serenity (Out of Gas) and saying 'Everybody dies alone' very emotiona; - it just got me thinking I suppose.
The Green Mile is my major film one though, it's amazing. Great film and brilliant acting.
Books often get me emotional too - I can't stand it when people die. Anyone else get that? Hell - I'm a highly emotional kinda gal.
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I will sheepishly give two.
The first is Moulin Rouge... the whole "Come What May" reprise at the end, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor (either one of which I would leave my wife for), her on the verge of death, etc.
The second is a French film called "Ponette". I don't know if anyone has seen this, but it's all about a 4-year-old girl whose mother has died. I don't know where they got that little moppet, but she carries the film and was outrageously good and I was crying all the way through the gorram thing.
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Originally posted by Saztronic:
I will sheepishly give two.
The first is Moulin Rouge... the whole "Come What May" reprise at the end, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor (either one of which I would leave my wife for), her on the verge of death, etc.
I must have spent the last hour of that film in tears - bought the DVD as soon as it came out and still haven't got round to watching the film again as I know I'll be traumatised.
And, have to admit to Titanic. Saw it 4 times in the cinema - 4th time I thought, "hey I'm not crying" and then I started. For me, it's that look on their faces when Rose is on the lifeboat, being lowered down....sniffle. Don't care how much people slag that film off now, got me every time!
Have to admit I started out as a tough child - never cried at anything! Then when I was about 12 I saw this mini-series called Diana (book by R F Delderfield) and by the end of the last episode I was in floods of tears. Since then, there's barely been a movie I haven't cried, or at least sniffled at! Most recent was Batman Begins:
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when he's telling Alfred that it's his fault his parents were killed. Not often I start tearing up so near the start of a film!
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I enjoy tv and movies very much, but i've always found live theatre was the way to get me the most emotional. When I am watching tv or movie, I usually sit in a kind of trance. I feel it all, but dont react verbally. (I tend to get teary eyed though) One time has tv made me yell at the screen. When Tara got shot on Buffy...I yelled very nasty things at the tv and at Joss. I had so given up on trying to analyze joss and what he might do for dramatic emphasis. I had lulled myself into an almost hypnotized state, then he slapped me back into reality. I've never yelled at the screen before or since.
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The final five or ten minutes of Last of the Mohicans ALWAYS mesmerize me. From the moment Duncan is dragged off to the stake and Hawkeye realizes that Duncan mistranslated his offer to sacrifice himself through the deaths of almost every main character, I could watch that sequence practically every day. It's the damn music and the lack of dialog, so all this wild emotion and drama is just playing out on people's faces. The music is so stately and inevitable, it's like you're watching something that was always fated to be.
I wasn't a Titanic fan, but the shot of the Titanic at night, alone and insignificant in a vast inky sea, kicks like a mule. That may be why I love the cutaway shot from Simon and River clinging to Serenity's hull. It moves from Serenity to the huge Alliance cruiser, but doesn't stop; it keeps going, so even the cruiser is just a tiny piece of life in a sea of nothing.
Buffy especially, but Angel too, are filled with moments that ripped my heart out. Too many of those to count, really.
There's a moment I love in Kubrick's Paths of Glory, even though it's close to cheesy sentimentality, maybe because it's an emotioanl place Kubrick almost never goes to. The bitter, shattered hero is sitting in a vast beerhall filled with drunken, rowdy French troops. A captured young German farm girl is pushed onto a little stage and told to sing. All the soldiers are yelling, and spouting lewd obscenities as this scared girl starts to sing some kind of German lullaby. Gradually, her innocence and sweetness starts to get to them. The crowd begins to quiet down and one by one, these hardbitten veterans who've just been through hell in a major offensive, start to lose it. They've got tears streaming down their eyes and, by then, so do I.
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Two from me:
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when Tuco is about to kill "Blondie" in the desert and just before he pulls the trigger, this trimphant theme on trumpets is played and we see horses running a driverless stagecoach through the deset. It causes Tuco to forget all about killing our hero for the moment. Of course, then he gets the name of the cemetery, but the man dies before he gets the name on the grave...though he did give it to Eastwood. The look on Eastwood's face is priceless. It's like, "My God, I'm going to live through this." Then he becomes Tuco's "best friend" for a little while. "Blondie!? Blondie, don't die!" Great stuff.
• Joe vs. the Volcano when Tom Hanks is on a raft in the middle of the ocean and a huge moon rises and he thanks God for his life.
Interestingly enough, in each of my choices, the sun has beaten down and burned our protagonists.
"God, whose name I do not know. Thank you for my life. I forgot...how big. Thank you. Thank you for my life."
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Imma have to go with The Shadow - badly done movie with an excellent story.
The scene in which the Tulka confronts him and explains that his path to redemption lies in turning his very wickedness into a weapon against evil.
Being a fairly nasty person in many ways, that scene gave me a whole new outlook on how to find some peace with who I was.
And this - not just any one scene of it, but the entire movie is very powerful, and very moving.
Savior, starring Dennis Quaid.
(edit: I see Staggerly mentioned this one already - seconded, then!)
If you ain't seen it, you ought to.
And (surprised no one's mentioned this) Boromir's final moments in LoTR - old school heroism at it's finest.
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Hm, lot of good ones mentioned. I loved Ewan Mcgregor in the last confrontation in Episode III. But that movie didn't really hit me emotionally. For me, the best dramatic moments are in the Whedonverse:
1. Forever - the ending, when Buffy finally accepts her mother's death
2. The Body - Anya's scene (do I really need to describe it?)
3. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been - Angel's last encounter with Judy. He just totally forgives her and she's happy.
4. Faith begging Angel to kill her (I also loved when he later visited her at the jail)
5. OoG - everything
I think LoTR, Moulin Rouge and Finding Neverland had great dramatic moments but I can't pinpoint any favorites. The endings for Truman Show and Lost in Translation always give me this wistful, uplifting feeling. If anyone's ever read or seen Fruits Basket, Hatori's and Momiji's sad pasts always get to me. The aforementioned scene between Jack and Sawyer was great.
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