Favorite Emotional Scene From A Movie.

[The Young Son]

When someone asks you what the most emotional scene in a movie is, you probably think of the saddest one. This is not what I have in mind for this thread. It can be sad, happy, triumphant, give you goosebumps...Whatever!! You can choose as many as you want, just don't take up 2000 lines. So what comes to mind. Also...don't forget to give a reason why you think it is. Anyway, on with the thread.

LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring - When Gandalf falls from the bridge and Frodo screams. The music and the faces of the characters really do it for me.

Braveheart - William Wallace's speech at the battle of Sterling. Very moving. Music plays a considerable part in this scene.

Gladiator - The image of Maximus walking through the field after he dies. I just get goosebumps whenever I see it.

Heat - The final image of Pacino and de Niro grasping each others hands. It's just great how the movie ends with the two opposing characters respecting each other, even though they fought all the way through.

Glory - The scene where Gould leads the men into battle at Fort Wagner. Very moving.

[movies35]

Walk to Remember- The part where she tells he guy that she has cancer.

Rules of Attraction- The part where the girl commits suicide.

Crossroads- The part where the mom tells the girl she doesn't want her and the part where the pregnet girl falls down the stairs.

And you konw... CHICK FLICKS!

[ze424]

The ending of A Simple Plan

[KornKidJedi]

The ending of Unbreakable

Attack of the Clones:Anakin's Monologue after he kills the tuskian raiders

A.I.-David being abanded by his Mother

[MickeyKnox]

Originally posted by The Young Son


Heat - The final image of Pacino and de Niro grasping each others hands. It's just great how the movie ends with the two opposing characters respecting each other, even though they fought all the way through.

This has to be my favorite emotional scene. It has such power and emotion especially with the music done by Moby in that scene it almost has me at tears!

[The Other]

That's one of the things I don't like about Peter Jackson's direction in LOTR is the way he handles emotional scenes. He goes overly melodramatic and shit, bringing in the slow-motion and everything. That scene were Gandalf falls is just so laughably melodramatic (does that make sense) with Frodo screaming "Nooooooooo!" in slow-motion. Ugh, he does that slow-motion shit a lot!


Anyway, my choice is Emily Watson in HILARY AND JACKIE. Towards the end when she's suffering from full-blown Multiple Sclerosis and she's in her wheelchair listening to a record of (I think) herself playing the cello as she's looking at her cello, crying. Powerful stuff.

[VicVega]

BEWARE OF SPOILERS

Braveheart- The ending: "Freeeeeeedom!!"

The Deer Hunter- When Nick dies playing Michael in Russian Roulette

Terminator 2- When the T-800 ends his own life to save mankind.

Forrest Gump- When Forrest is talking to Jenny's grave.

The Godfather Part III- When Michael's daughter gets shot. He does the loudest "silent" scream in movie history.

[rupert pupkin]

The penultimate scene in Secrets and Lies......heartbreakingly and aginisingly emotional....all the simmering tension and lies are released in a wonderfully acted and heart wreching scene

wonderful stuff.....class from timothy spall...brenda blethyn et al

[bankholdup]

The Deer Hunter - final Russian roulette scene, especially when Michael holds Nick's dying body, screaming "No! No, Nicky, ya can't!"

Magnolia - Frank T.J. Mackey at his father's bed, calling him a "fucking asshole."

[Annie Hall]

SPOILERS for American Beauty, Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York and Immortal Beloved


American Beauty: When the reactions to Lester's death is shown by all, and then the closeup on his face.

Moulin Rouge: From the time the curtain goes down to Satine dying...to the end. As well as "Roxanne"

Godfather Part II: The final close up on Michael

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Ending

Gangs of New York: The opening scene, the final shot of New York changing, and the scene where the police are lined up against the protestors, shoot at the same time, and the front lines fly backwards.

Immortal Beloved: Young Beethoven floating in the water with the stars

[Sad man]

Spoilers for The Hours/Magnolia/Mulholland Drive/Dancer in the dark/Central Station

*The Hours*
When Laura Brown(J. Moore) goes to the Hotel to try to kill herself.When Ed Harris comits suicide and when Virginia Woolf enters the river and...THE WHOLE MOVIE!

*Magnolia*
When Julianne enters the drugstore.And the ending.Melora Walters smiling with "Save me" playing.

*Mulholland Drive*
The club silencio scene.

*Dancer in the dark*
When she kills David Morse...So many tears.

*Central Station*
The whole movie.Specially the ending.

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by rupert pupkin
The penultimate scene in Secrets and Lies......heartbreakingly and agonisingly emotional....all the simmering tension and lies are released in a wonderfully acted and heart wrenching scene

wonderful stuff.....class from timothy spall...brenda blethyn et al

My choice also.

This scene absolutely crushes me...Timothy Spall is truly fucking great.

"She can't help it, she never had enough love..."

Just beautiful dialogue throughout...:(

Some SUPERB selections thus far...

The Other, great choice with Hilary & Jackie...that's a gut-wrenchingly sad scene.

Sad Man and Annie Hall...spot on also with Dancer in the Dark, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Hours.

I've got to add the following...

~10 Rillington Place - John Hurt cries ""Christy done it! Christy done it!"...Gawd, I can't bear to watch.

~Donnie Darko - Donnie's family outside on the front lawn. The look on his mother's face just pains me...and the way she smokes that ciggie.

~Let Him Have It - Derek Bentley faces the gallows...Jesus, enough said.

[JCLC11]

Originally posted by movies35
Walk to Remember- The part where she tells he guy that she has cancer.

Rules of Attraction- The part where the girl commits suicide.

Crossroads- The part where the mom tells the girl she doesn't want her and the part where the pregnet girl falls down the stairs.

And you konw... CHICK FLICKS!

Good choices . . . But could you please post spoiler warnings? :)

- American Beauty - The final speech
- Forrest Gump - The entire film!!!
- Jerry Maguire - The speech "You . . . complete me"
- Magnolia - The moment between Frank T.J. Mackey and his Father
- Say Anything - The boombox, Peter Gabriel . . . *sigh* (Cameron Crowe is a genius!!!)

[Hannibal21]

There are soooooooo many

SPOILERS.....




Set it Off - The death of Tisean, Cleo, and Frankie were so damn sad I bawled my eyes out. And the score they used increased the sadness.

My Life - The whole movie!

Moulin Rouge! - When Satine dies in Christian's lap. Most heartbreaking scene ever.

The Hours - The whole movie

Central Station - The ending gets me every time :(

LOTR: FOTR - Boromir's death

Forrest Gump - Forrest talking by Jenny's grave

[electriclite]

SPOILERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTY and YOU CAN COUNT ON ME and FEARLESS







American BeautyThe part where Annette Bening opens the closet after she finds Lester dead and just collapses while hugging his clothes to her face trying to hold on to what is clearly gone.


You Can Count on Me Terry and Sammy's conversation at the bus stop just cut me like a knife


Fearless When Max tells his wife "I need you to save me" and then he bites into the strawberry at the end.

[Erin123]

Great topic!

A few sad ones:

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***


Lantana where Sonja (Kerry Armstrong's character) is seeing a therapist, Dr. Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey), and confesses her marriage “feels like we’re going through the motions.”...when Dr. Somers asks Sonja what she wants her marriage to be like, she says: “Passionate and challenging and honest,”...The way she says it gives me shivers every time I see it...truly passionate, brilliant acting.


Onegin where, right at the end, Onegin (Ralph Fiennes) admits his love for Tatyana (Liv Tyler)...he begs her to save him...she says that she can't, she is married and has to remain faithful to her husband. Onegin is so depressed afterwards and basically admits that his life is at an end and has no purpose etc...very sad


Dead Poet's Society when Robert Sean Leonard's character Neil commits suicide....just plain depressing.

Road to Perdition when Tom Hanks' wife and little boy get shot

Truly, Madly, Deeply the fact the Nina has to live without Jamie...but Jamie revisits her as a ghost and she can't be with him.

Damn! I'm a sucker for sad movies :(

[Ghostface 2000]

A.I mother abadoning her robot son.
Schlinders List the ending.

[Dietrich]

******SPOILERS****** A LOT OF THEM!

"The Color Purple"
The end, where Nettie comes back with Celie's children..

"The Deerhunter"
The Russian Roulette scene, lot of emotion there..

"Breaking The Waves"
Where Jan steals the body of Bess and gives her a sailor's grave. In particular where he leans over the edge of the boat and screams her name. I'm actually getting tears in my eyes while typing this down...

"Leon"
A smal scene, just a shot really, but the shot where Jean Reno is cleaning the leafes of his plant really got to me..

"The Bridges Of Madison County"
Where at the end, Clint and Meryl look at each other, she's in the car, he's standing in the pooring rain.. OMG!

"Sis and Nancy"
..kissing in the alley with the garbage coming down. It's love baby..

"Magnolia"
...had a lot of emotional moments..!

"Jackie Brown"
The look on Robert Forster's face when Pam Greer walks out of the jail.. Beautiful.

"Rocky"
..when he wins.

I'll quit now..



:rolleyes:

[quoth_the_raven]

beware the jabberwock....i mean spoilers ahead :D:D


Schindlers list-the whole film made me cry, made me emote. but the ending, where oskar breaks down saying he could have done more, that had me going like a good 'um. and when the schinlder jews are visiting the grave at the end....

The Green Mile-well, you can all guess

AI-The ending, when he got to see his "mother" again.

Braveheart-watching someone die for his beliefs like that is truly moving.

Platoon- Sgt Elias' death really gets to me as well.

Monsters Inc-dont laugh-when they say goodbye to Boo, that really set me off.

LOTR- i cant watch gandalf or Bormomir die. it just hits me too bad.

[the_sneaker]

Okay, when someone thinks emotions, they don't think of Reservoir Dogs, however, I do. When Mr. Orange is lying on the ramp in the factory and he's yelling at the officer just when he got his ear cut off. The officer is crying about how he's now deformed and suddenly, Tim Roth, who's pretty quiet and mellow throughout the whole movie, is transformed into this enraged person. And he starts screaming "Fuck you! Fuck you! I'm fuckin' dyin'! I'm fuckin dyin'!" I'm serious when I tell you that sent goosbumbs up my arm. The only reason that movie was good was because of the raw emotion that the actors so wonderfully showed. And that is my favorite emotional scene from a movie.

[Raoul Duke]

SPOILERS!!!!!






The car wreck at the end of Adaptation ,when Donald got put right through the windshield and died was very sad. I don't usually get teary eyed during a movie either.

[Raena]

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - The very end.


GOOD WILL HUNTING - The fight between Will and Skylar; not to mention the scene where Robin Williams character tells Will that it isn't his fault.


THE TRUMAN SHOW- Again, the very end.


SEVEN - Yet, again, the last scene with Freeman, Pitt, and Spacey.


SPEED - The scene with the bus and the big gap in the freeway; the scene where Keanu and Sandra get off the bus.


BOYZ N THE HOOD - Ally scene.


PULP FICTION - When Mia overdoses and everything swirling around that.


JAWS - First scene with the girl and the shark.


FIGHT CLUB - When Eddie Norton kicks his own @$$ in front of his boss.


That's all for now, folks.

[Trinity]

SPOILERS

"MAGNOLIA" - Linda's (Julainne Moore) breakdown at the drugstore..
"You motherfukcer...you fucking asshole. Who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here, you don't know me, you don't know who I am, what my life is, and you have the the balls, the decency to ask me a question about my life? I come in here, I give these things to you, you check, you make your phonecalls, look suspicious, ask questions... I am sick! I have sickness all around me! And you fucking ask me my life, what's wrong? Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency?"
It's hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time. Possibly one of the very best scenes Moore's ever done, and that is really saying something.

"FAR FROM HEAVEN"
The last scene at the train station as Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) is leaving. There's no dialogue in the scene, but Moore's eyes and Berstein's score speak volumes.

"THE HOURS"
The hotel-room scene as Laura Brown is comtemplating suicide, and "It is possible to die. It IS possible to die" is heard in Virginia's voiceover. One of my favorite lines in the movie.

MOULIN ROUGE!
As a few people have said already – Satine dying on Christian's arms. "You've got to go on, Christian. Tell our story. That way I 'll always be with you." I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it.

"GIA"
When Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell) makes Gia (A. Jolie) choose between her and drugs. And she chooses drugs. God, I just fall apart every time I watch that scene.

"LOST & DELIRIOUS"
The scene when Victoria (Jessica Pare) tells Pauli (Piper Perabo) that she loves her more than she will ever love anyone, but that "it could never, ever be".

"THE END OF THE AFFAIR"
When Sarah (Julainne Moore) leaves Maurice (Ralph Fiennes), having made a promise to God to give him up forever if he only saves his life.
Sarah: "Some people go on loving God all their loives without ever seeing him. "
Maurice: "That's not my kind of love"
Sarah: "Maybe there is no other kind."

"JERRY MAGUIRE"
"You had me at hello. You had me at hello... "

[Sick Benny]

MY GIRL

One of the last scenes where M. Culkin is dead and Vada (I think that was here name in the movie) is at his open coffin and screams that he cannot see without his glasses....

It tore my heart apart....The first time I ALMOST cried....:(

SAH-weet

[Could Be Worse]

2 great scenes from 1 great movie, i can't believe no one's mentioned them yet: In Requiem For a Dream

When Sarah (Ellen Burstyn) is recting her monologue of being old, and the final scene of the movie, (I don't want to spoil it, you have to experience it yourslef) but you knowhs she wants somehing so badly that she can now never have. heartbreaking.

And, by the way, how do you put a picture on your member profile so it shows up when you post?

[Michael_myers]

SPOILERS


The Elephant Man- when he asks Dr Treves:
"Can you cure me?"

The Sound of music- the reprise of "Edelweiss", the whole stadium of Austrians starts singing to defeat the Germans.

Schindler's List- those girls are in the shower wondering: Are the rumors true? They wait for gas, but water indeed comes out.

Almost Famous- When William is running down the airport after Penny's flight.

Ill shut up now. Theres loads more... but that Elephant Man has got to be some of the most depressing stuff ever,

[quoth_the_raven]

watching Three Kings was a pretty emotional experience, especially in light of certain current world events....

[Succubus]

Spoilers for Dancer In The Dark, Schindler's List, Quills, Lantana, Lolita et al.

Dancer In The Dark- the execution scene. It left me feeling as though I had been kicked in the stomach. The interruption of the song, the closeup on her glasses on the floor, the reaction of the prison guard- genuinely heartbreaking.

Schindler's List- Oskar's breakdown. "This...this is five Jews!" I'd be so bold to say that that was the finest display of acting that I have ever seen. Amon Goeth touching his reflection in the mirror and murmuring "I pardon you" is also noteworthy. Simultaneously chilling and gutwrenching.

Quills- loads of short ones from this film. The first one that springs to mind is the Abbe's discovery of Madeleine's body- the way he cradles her and cries shows the zenith of his emotional unravelling. The Marquis' final breakdown when he sobs and begs for a "proper burial" for her. And THAT angst-ridden kiss.

Lantana- the final sequence where we see all of the characters. John stands on a hilltop, mourning the death of his wife and daughter, Leon sobs in his car as he hears his wife's tape being played, Jane dances alone, Paula and Nick reluctantly hold each other.

Lolita ('97)- Humbert breaks down into tears upon finally reuniting with Dolores. "Don't touch me. I'll die if you touch me."

25th Hour- Montgomery's "fuck you" rant in the mirror.

[syxxpac]

I genuinely don't like overly emotional scenes in movies, but here are some that were able to catch me hook, line and sinker:


*Of course there are spoilers so just read the bold title; if you've seen it, good. If you haven't, just keep moving...*


T2: Judgment Day - When Ahnuld gets lowered into the steel. I'll go on record as saying the T2 score is the most moving score I've ever heard. That probably played a huge part in its impact.

Fellowship Of The Ring - Boromir's death. Once again, music played a large part in this, but just the timing is amazing at striking just the right emotional cords.

[Brock-Landers]

Magnolia - Frank T.J. Mackey with his father.

The Godfather Part II - When Micheal has his brother killed.

The Empire Strikes Back - Were Leia said "I Love You" and Han Solo said "I Know".

The Big Lebowski - When Donnie dies.

Scarface - When Tony Montana gets killed.

[Michael_myers]

Hey hey everybody! I'm back with more:

Bambi; when bambi's muddah dies

Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man, but I do know what love is.

[Clarkey07]

*SPOILERS*

The little kid's death in Hardball

"Freedom!!!" in Braveheart

That's all i can think of right now.

[Could Be Worse]

Originally posted by Michael_myers
Hey hey everybody! I'm back with more:

Bambi; when bambi's muddah dies

Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man, but I do know what love is.

Great choices. How could I forget Bambi? Those sound effects...still chokes me up. Of course, in a similar vein, there's the Lion King death scene...never gets easier to watch.
*Spoiler*
And for Forest Gump, when he's talking to Jenny's grave, it just shows that even when life seems to be at it's best, something can still come along and kick you in the balls.

[Mad Maggot]

Magnolia - Julianne Moore at the drug store / Everyone singing Wise Up / Final scene

The Hours - the whole movie, indeed! Especially Ed Harris committing suicide!

Nine And A Half Weeks - Kim Basinger leaving in the end.

Fight Club - Edward Norton kicking the sh%t out of Jared Leto.

[Antonio]

I'm going with a quietly powerful scene from my favorite movie of all-time: in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, when Maycomb's black citizens pay their respects to Atticus (Gregory Peck) by standing as he exits the courtroom. Gets me every time!

[The Young Son]

I've got another one to add that I like:

Minority Report - When Agatha is seeing what Sean's life could have been like and describes it to John. I love the part where it climaxes with her screaming "RUUUUUUNNNN!!!"

[Golden Ghost]

THE ELEPHANT MAN

John Merrick: I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!

Jeeeeesus! Sad shit :(