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Feb 6, 2004 - 8:26 PM
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joan hue
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We’ve listed movies that have made us cry, but I’d like to know which
movie scenes paired with precious pieces of music make even the most
granite-jawed, thick-callused hearted person’s tear ducts runneth over. I’m
convinced that real men do eat quiche and cry. I’m also fairly adamant that
it isn’t just the visuals on the screen that melt our marrow and assault or destroy
our hardened resolve to NOT cry nor be emotionally manipulated, it is the
combination of the visuals and perfect pieces of music.
So fess up!
The all time tear jerking scene for me is form AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER when
Cary Grant opens Kerr’s room, sees his painting, and realizes that she is crippled.
He closes his eyes and leans back against the door while Friedhofer’s glorious
love theme played on strings causes tears to traverse my cheeks to nearly the
point of DEHYDRATION. Happens every time.
One’s never too old to out grow E.T. When E.T. says “Come” and Williams swirls
the violins up the scale, I’m a simpering kid again.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS. In the l939 version, I’m weepy when Katherine dies
in the arms of Heathcliff as they gaze over the moors. Alfred Newman’s Katherine
theme playing as she dies could melt the most cynical heart. I also love Ralph Fiennes
1992 version. The suck-the-water-right-out-of-you-scene is when he breaks
into her home after she has died and pulls her out of the coffin while Sakamoto’s
passionate love theme swirls around them. (Anyone notice the similarity to his theme
and Scott’s Anthony and Cleopatra theme?)
I like a good laugh, but I also love a good cry, and the best tears come when there
is that magical dovetailing between scene and music, a fusion that become one’s air
and pulse.
And your Kleenex moments?
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I will name but two, though there are many:
The last few moments of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" when 'old' Gene Tierney rises into camera view and is again the 'young' Gene Tierney/Mrs. Muir to the strains of Mr. Herrmann's beautiful score.
Audrey Hepburn finding 'Cat' and falling into George Peppard's arms at the end of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," to the accompaniment of Mr. Mancini's "Moon River."
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I know some people didn't "get it", but the end of Field Of Dreams always touches me.
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The ending of THE GREEN MILE gets me every time.
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Not everybody will "get" this, but the first five times I saw DEEP IMPACT (James Horner), I welled up pretty good. Tea Leoni's coming to face the end of the world moved me a lot.
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Not everybody will "get" this, but the first five times I saw DEEP IMPACT (James Horner), I welled up pretty good. Tea Leoni's coming to face the end of the world moved me a lot.
Yes, that part of the film was very moving. And I agree with the Field of Dreams call too.
The climax of Iron Giant is both amazing and very moving for me. Kamen's music has the right balance of pathos and heroism. It's an amazing film in its own right. The part where they find the deer also is pretty emotional.
Pretty much the entire film of Angela's Ashes does it for me.
Schindler's List- the part where Schindler gets that woman's parents out of the Goeth's deathcamp moves me- maybe the pure kindness of the act.
When I first saw Lorenzo's Oil, man the film did a job on me. That poor kid! Using Barber's Agnus Dei setting of his Adagio for Strings was a nice touch...
Speaking of which, I think David Lynch's use of Adagio at the end of Elephant Man was masterful, and very very effective. Moreso than its repetitive use in Platoon.
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Oh must I be reminded of the multiple triple-hanky scenes and music permeating The Best Years Of Our Lives!
The moment when Harold Russell steps out onto the sidewalk and the little girl yells out..."Homer's home!"...and she's so excited she has to run into the house, then across the bushes to the next yard to tell the neighbors, and then finally down the walk to where he is standing...excuse me...I DO need a tissue...
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For Me now,...
Joe Versus the Volcano(Ending Theme) (Oh God Especially when I am Drunk,...) love theme.
I sware to you all it makes me remember my time ,a hard time in Japan something that is so a magical moment. Dear God! I miss you Hiroko more than any person alive!
Love Rich!! 
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