Do you cry during some parts of some films? Do you admit it?
I have just finished watching the classic film "To Sir With Love" with Sidney Poitier and I have to admit that the last scene of the movie where they give him the gift and LuLu sings the song leaves me teary eyed ever time. I always tell myself when I watch it (and who wouldn't watch it over and over again because it's such an incredible film) that when they reach the end I will not cry. I am a man and man are not supposed to cry, especially at scenes in films that were designed to make you do just that. However every time I fail. I turn into mush and tears roll down my cheeks. I simply can not help it.
It was shot in 1967 and next year the film will be 50 years old! For people of my generation that is an impossible thought! I don't think that younger people can grasp the significance of that. I do believe, however, that younger people have movies, films in their heart that made them cry the first time they see them and go well beyond that and make them cry every time the see them. I think every generation has dozens of films like that in their heart or at least I hope they do or why bother making good emotional films at all?
Some films for me go back even further. In Casablanca when they sing "La Marsellaise" I don't even know the words in French, though I have looked them up in English. Still, I get chocked up and yes there is stlll, after all of these years and after seeing it so many times, a tear down my cheek. The pure act of defiance against the Nazi aggression is so moving that anyone who doesn't feel the patriotism, the true patriotism even if it's not The Star Spangled banner, has no heart for freedom or any soul. The idea of, even when your oppressors and even among the worst human beings that history has had to offer and at the risk of your very life, you still say NO, I WILL NOT LET YOU CONTROL OR TAKE ME! I AM A FREE HUMAN BEING" There are few things in the world more moving then that.
So tell me. What films and/or what scenes bring a tear to your eye? It doesn't have to be for patriotism. It can be for love gained or lost or a love that should have been. What movies or scenes from movies still make you cry at least a little, every time you see them?
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Sometimes, I just can not help myself. And when you really think about it, that's OK. That's they way it should be. That's the real message. Otherwise, what's the point of anything on any screen?
As a teacher, how could I not love "To Sir with Love".
For you younger viewers, at least admit you were moved when Spock died!
Cry? I wept when Spock died! For those of you who don't get it.....
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the many... or the one."
"I have and will always be your friend".
I think the first movie I cried in was "Bambi" when Bambi's mother was killed. It's been downhill ever since.
If I thought it would actually be of interest I would post an article about tearjerkers on the Classic Cinema group, but if you wanted me to name the movies I've shed a tear in, it would take me about a week to compile a list.
Actually I DID post a tearjerkers article on Classic Cinema almost 2 years ago. In case anyone is interested:
Actually that isn't the best article on tearjerkers, but it does make some good points about the technique that is used.
Give me a few to think about this. You're asking someone that has been known to cry over a commercial!
"known to cry over a commercial". I can certainly relate to that!. Let alone tears shed at movies.
"known to cry over a commercial"
Same here.
There was one when I was quite a bit younger where a little girl was playing in a field and she found a Dandelion that had already turned to being just a puff ball and she ran to show her mother what she had found, but when she got there she was crying to her mother and holding the then empty stem and said "All my flowers blew away!" I was in my late teens and it was almost impossible for me to hide crying from the rest of the family. Hell I don't even remember the product.
Two stories to tell:
I recall that when I went to see "Love Story", there was a point when the sniffles and sobs in the theatre started to sound like thunder rolling down from the balcony. When I heard that I actually started to giggle then laugh - I couldn't stop myself from laughing right out loud. Then the people around me joined into my laughter and then the laughter spread through the whole theatre like ripples in a pond. I think I must have saved a lot of people from a bout of serious depression.
More serious, however, was when I went to see Schindler's List a day or two after it opened in Toronto. I have never experienced this either before or after that evening. Absolutely NOBODY got up from their seats at the end when the credits were rolling. Nobody got up until the lights went on in the theatre after the screen went blank. Virtually everyone was frozen in their seats dabbing their eyes.
I didn't cry at "Love Story". I know you were supposed to, but it just didn't hit me that way. Maybe I'm not a romantic after all. I did cry at Schindler's List.
I see movies that speak to me, I'm a big baseball fan and some baseball movies, like 'For Love of the Game' move me to moist eyes. A lot depends on my modd at the time.
Gary,
Field of Dreams does that to me!
It was a happy tearjerker when the white knight came and swept Debra Winger up from her job in the paper mill in "An Officer And A Gentleman"
and then it was a sad tearjerker when the dying Debra Winger had to say goodbye to her two young sons in "Terms Of Endearment"
Loved the first one, hated the second. Nice to see sentimental men.
Why did you hate Terms Of Endearment?
I thought the first one was OK, but I didn't cry. I have never seen Terms of Endearment.
I'm sure I saw Terms of Endearment when it was released, but frankly I don't remember much about it other than the fact that Debra Winger dies from cancer. The movie didn't really move me. However, I have watched An Officer and a Gentleman several times, and John is right on about the final scene - I tear up every time I see it.
Not in any specific order
I cried when I first heard this :
Or maybe I threw up in my mouth . Its hard to tell which ...
I cry whenever I hear this.......
Now that song just terrifies me! I should have had a vasectomy at 18 instead of 28!
That was sarcastic of course.
I'm not! At least sometimes I'm not.....lol they drive me CRAZY!!!!
Mine are all grown up, with lives of their own, never call, so we spoil the dogs instead.
I did cry at parts of "Saving Private Ryan", especially the ending. The opening in the cemetery was incredibly emotional too.
In fact both scenes in the cemetery were very emotional.
I cry at movies and some commercials...
This one always makes me cry, at the sheer horror... Gone with the Wind, Confederate casualties at the Atlanta railway station:
This one, from Gettysburg-- Pickett's Charge. Basically, I cry all the way through this movie, from beginning to end. I keep telling them, don't go there, but they don't seem to listen...
This one is Steel Magnolias, when Shelby dies. By this time, I'm sobbing!
Field of Dreams, when he finally gets to see his father...
I can go on and on and on, but you are likely bored, all ready... Dancing with Wolves, when the soldiers kill the horse and then, the wolf... When he tells Private Ryan to earn this, in Saving Private Ryan. And then this one, for some reason, always brings a tear to my eye:
Good choices. However (and I know I am taking my own life in my own hands saying this) but I am one of the few people who thought "Gone With The Wind" was a terrible movie. Then again I feel the same way about Citizen Kane.
I'm probably partial to it because I actually met Mr. Fleming, the director... He was a lovely man! That one scene is so awful...
I do cry many times when I see something heroic and sacrificing, which explains that I was teary eyed many times during the STARZ mini-series Spartacus. The were many, many scenes like that and then there was the real life death from cancer of the original actor from the first season, Andy Whitfield, which really did make me sad to the point of tears.