What Is Your Most Moving Scene From A Film?

[Left Leanings]

Films, books, music. All these things stimulate emotions in peeps.

Here is one scene from a film that touches me the most. It's the barn-building scene from the film Witness, starring Harrison Ford and Kelly MacGuiness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHbu2VC6UA&feature=related

A family barn had burned down, and they were left with nothing. But their community pulled together and built another for them, in a collective, community endeavour.

Here is a link to the piece of music, which I find really moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qte_Ne5mpJk

Another scene from the film, which I can't locate on YouTube, is where the scumbag copper was gonna shoot the character played by Harrison Ford. A grandparent signalled to his grandson, to go and ring a bell that indicated distress. Once all the peeps heard it, they stopped what they doing and came to their assistance. The bent copper could not carry out his murderous plan. There were too many witnesses and too many peeps for him to shoot. He was defeated.

[Ostrinski]

Mine has to be the scene from John Q where he is talking to his son before he plans on killing himself to give his heart to him. Hard to resist the tears.

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[Luc]

If this didn't make you cry you are a heartless bastard:crying:


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yeah, I don't watch that many movies...

[La Comédie Noire]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw&feature=related

Time- Hans Zimmer.

Amazing. I like to listen to it while I excercise.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

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I remember when this came out. I must of been in the 8th grade. I thought it was a really bad ass movie, but the ending (besides Tom Cruise being the last samurai, hurr durr) was a smack in the face. Talk about a reality-check...
Starting around 2:30 of that video, that was the first time I ever shed a tear from a movie. Total fucking downer for an ending, but I like it. That makes it more realistic.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Can't access youtube right now but there are many scenes that move me...I'm a big softy.
The ones that always make me cry, for example: very end of Schindler's List (violin music reaches a haunting crescendo as the tribute to the 6 million murdered appears on screen), when the Iron Giant says 'Superman' before sacrificing himself, ET - his last words before leaving ('I'll be right here')..
And several others...have to stop thinking about this because I'm about to blub at work :laugh:

[eyeheartlenin]

When they spontaneously sing the Internationale in the movie Land and Freedom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8DhXgPjfg

The revolutionary funeral march is also very moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7XU_x1Vy8

[Nox]

Lion King when the monarchy is restored ;)

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Lion King when the monarchy is restored ;)

Fascist! :D

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The two scenes which I most admire as moving come from The Dread Empire Falls trilogy by Walter Jon Williams. Though Islamophobic the actual dynamics between characters are wonder;it is a story I will remember for some time.

Anyway...

In book one,during her flashback story arc,Caroline Sula,after being a sexual slave with ambitions, murders her only wealthy semi-friend.She does so in order to steal her name and family position for otherwise she cannot enter into a high rank in the navy. There is a scene after the murder in which she packs up her belongings and reminiscences about her time on her home-world. As she rockets up the space elevator,the entire world spreading out before her,she reflects on the deeds which she had to do to get to her current position in life,she grows dark as she reflects on the tyranny of Sha rule.

This scene is so well done I swear I heard music when reading it.

The next scene comes from the third book at the very end once the war is over and the Naxid have been defeated.Sula is enjoying life after the civil war and is in a surreal state of being.She has survived a conflict which left millions dead after centuries of "peace." Her one time lover, Martinez, has barely survived and she considers her options. After some thinking she decides to call him up and ask his hand in marriage.She travels to his house.As the car pulls up she sees out the window that Martinez is wedded to his other relation. Devastated in a subtle way Sula realizes she waited too long and has lost her chance to be with him.

The last paragraph reads...

Sula knew she had lost. She had created a map that Martinez would never follow.
She had rolled the dice and lost.
She lowered herself back into the car and pressed the stud to roll the doors down. She touched the pad that would open a comm channel to the driver.
"Drive on" She said.

[Red Commissar]

It's hard to show how it was 'moving' unless you understand how it fit into the plot. I was going to bring in John Q, but Bro posted that already. So instead, There's this scene from Blade Runner which I found pretty nice, at the end. Spoilers I guess if you want to see it one day. Starts at about 2:20

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I don't know, it just was an interesting way to present it.

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Coffey's execution in Green Mile

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Rome Open City, they execute the pastor after he refuses to rat out the partisans.
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There's some others I can't find that come, such as the ending of Pan's Labyrinth and Letters from Iwo Jima. Malcolm X was pretty moving to me, though I found the autobiography itself having more of an impact. I'll have to think to some older movies that I found moving, mind's all cluttered right now.

[Manic Impressive]

This brought a tear to my eye
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Half Nelson Kid sells drugs to her teacher/mentor
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[Prometeo liberado]

Walt Griswald gets to Wally World.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The ending to the Sixth Sense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0JDnQIZf0

[Drosophila]

Darth Vader's "NOOOOOOO" in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith


this is sarcasm

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Any scene in a movie where a dog dies.

Cats can get maimed, humans can get blown up and shot, but as soon as a dog dies the waterworks come flowing.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Any scene in a movie where a dog dies.

Cats can get maimed, humans can get blown up and shot, but as soon as a dog dies the waterworks come flowing.

I Am Legend and Marley and Me.... comes to mind.

[Ostrinski]

Yeah I can't stand it when they kill the dogs. That's like the unspoken rule of the film industry is not to kill off the dog

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Any scene in a movie where a dog dies.

Cats can get maimed, humans can get blown up and shot, but as soon as a dog dies the waterworks come flowing.

You speciesist bastard.


:)

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

The only movie I ever cried for was Marley and Me. The only one.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The only movie I ever cried for was Marley and Me. The only one.

It was actually a very moving, depressing even, movie. Was not what I was expecting when I saw it.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Marley and Me was depressing as hell! Not a good idea to watch it 3 months after the dog that you had for 15 years died.
Marley was friggin' adorable too.

[bricolage]

Any scene in a movie where a dog dies.

Cats can get maimed, humans can get blown up and shot, but as soon as a dog dies the waterworks come flowing.
many years ago there was a one off tv show in the UK of the shackleton adventure, it was pretty unmemorable but there was one bit where they had the shoot the cat mrs chippy. shit was deep.

[kurgufilo7]

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[Philosopher Jay]

Charlie Chaplin's last scene in "City Lights" is considered by many people the most beautiful ending scene in movie history. I never fail to cry when I see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_vqnySNhQ0

Chaplin has given all his money to a poor blind flower girl so she can get an operation and see again. He has gone to prison, while she has had a successful operation, and with her sight restored, now owns a flower shop.
The girl imagines that she will one day meet her benefactor again, only she believes that he is rich, tall and handsome and doesn't know it is Chaplin who helped her.
As the scene opens, Charlie, the tramp, has just been released from prison and he is more destitute and raggedy than we have ever seen him...

[A Revolutionary Tool]

The end of Philadelphia is pretty damn moving to me:
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If you don't know it's a story of a gay man(Played by Tom Hanks) who gets AIDS and when his employers find out he's fired. So he goes to Denzel Washington to represent him as he goes to court against them. At the end Tom Hanks dies because of his illness. Altogether a really great movie that everybody should watch. I love this scene, how it shows all the kinds of people that the character had touched in his life and then the home videos :crying:

Many scenes from the movie Kramer vs. Kramer. It's a story about a dad who has to take care of his kid and handle his job when the mom decides to leave him one day by his surprise. He has no idea how to do it though. Some very good scenes in that movie, very touching, almost made me cry in class in front of everybody. Although I think it makes it sadder when you could relate to the movie like I could, but seeing as most families are getting divorced today, a lot of people can.

[Permanent Revolutionary]

The Grave of the Fireflies gets me every time.

[Metacomet]

I just want to give a "here here" for some of the scenes already mentioned, the end of Philadelphia, The Last Samurai, and Half Nelson.

For me it's probably still this. Nostalgia and all.

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[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I can't find clips but the scene in Bent when they both die and also the scene from Batman Returns when after the Penguin dies the penguins push him into the water after his last words of "I just need some nice, cool ice water," or something to that effect. Also, in the movie Quills when de Sade bites the crucifix, swallows it and dies.

I hate to admit this but when Jack dies in Titanic, I always cry and I get severely irritated considering there is clearly enough room for two people on the bloody door.

[MarxSchmarx]

The miracle worker, at the pump.

The only time I cried when I watched a movie. I was about 13, and I can't remember which version it was (I think it was in color) but wow.

[patrickjblair]

The last 15 minutes of Charlie Kaufman's film "Synecdoche, New York."

Anybody here who has seen it knows exactly what I'm talking about.

[Tifosi]

Any scene in a movie where a dog dies.

Cats can get maimed, humans can get blown up and shot, but as soon as a dog dies the waterworks come flowing.

But what if you become a hero to your kids...

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[Philosopher Jay]

I would call "Synedoche New York" psychotically depressing. It didn't move me, except to depress me.

A great moving scene is in the middle of the movie "1900" (Novecento) by Bernardo Bertolucci. Gerard Depardieu and Dominique Sandare are leading a horse drawn carriage containing the bodies of comrades murdered by the fascists. They are trying to arouse the community to action. Nobody responds to them. Sanda breaks down and announces "Its over". It seems that apathy and the fascists have won. Then emerging from the other side of the town square, we see a slow parade of people marching carrying red flags. The number grows until there are hundreds and then thousands of people marching in honor off their dead comrades. The scene is unspeakably beautiful.


The last 15 minutes of Charlie Kaufman's film "Synecdoche, New York."

Anybody here who has seen it knows exactly what I'm talking about.