Emotionally Moving Scenes in Films (Possible Spoilers)

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The Scene in Gommorrah where a young boy is forced to betray a close friend for the benefits of the mob. It's just so sad and so damn powerful, I wince whenever I think about it.
 
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The whole I am Sam movie.

It was so sad.
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Yeah, this. I remember seeing it when I was younger and crying every 20 minutes. Too bad Sean Penn went full retard, he could have got the best actor oscar :)
 
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Elephant Man.

He lays his head down because he wants to die.

The Straight Story.
The two guys in the bar talking. The acting is not incredible, but the dialogue and situation is brilliantly conceived.
 
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest --basically the climax and the ending of the movie. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who has never seen it, so go see it.
 
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I have two:
"The Rock", at the end where Nick Cage defuses the last missile etc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdukhSNrW8

"Serenity", when Wash [crash]lands Serenity on Mr. Universe's planet thing and...
Couldn't find a good video of it, but I'm sure everyone on here has seen it.
 
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Every time Paul says something in Funny Games. That was emotionally moving, but in a different, pants-wetting way.
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Hated, hated, hated that movie. The ending was terrible, the punk music was terrible, the fact that they were not only sociopathic baby-murderers but spoiled preppy assholes to boot was terrible, the worst 4th wall breaking ever was, well, terrible, the rewind scene was friggin' terrible.

I read that the director's purpose was to see if he could convince the audience to leave. Stupid me, I thought if I stuck around long enough there would be some dark-side-flirtation and the bad guys would get a shotgun blast to the head or something.
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But that would have been an awful ending. The entire purpose of the movie was to subvert and invert the entire genre of a slasher movie. Everything you thought was going to happen didn't. The killers weren't dark, evil-looking monsters. They were seemingly well-behaved young men. You didn't see them stand in a closet and hear them breathe creepily for ten minutes before they killed someone. They were right there in the open. You saw everything they did, often in broad daylight.

Though I can see how the punk music and the 4th wall breaking would be stupid for some people (not for me, though), the ending was the best part. You root for the family because they're the victims in all this. You want a happy ending. Do they get one? FUCK no! They shotgun a seven year old and push a woman off a boat to drown! This movie accomplished it's goal and creeped the hell out of me by being the exact opposite of every other horror movie I've seen.
 
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No one said it?

When Simba's dad dies in The Lion King. To this day, I haven't lived down crying the first time I saw it.
 
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Sort of Search Bar approved. I searched but couldn't find anything about Emotionally moving scenes, only best scene, et cetera.

What are some of the most Emotionally Moving Scenes in films that you have seen?

The Opening Sequence in Watchmen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2hNhM3dHB4] was the most emotionally moving scene I have ever been blessed to watch.

EDIT: Also, please remember to use Spoiler tags when appropriate. Thank you!
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Really? I thought that the opening of Watchmen was a little too cliche, uninspired music and a bunch of costumes that just look ridiculous when not in the comic book. I liked the movie overall, but those points hampered it throughout the whole thing

as for me:
the amazing music combined with the brilliant cinematography... gets me everytime

that and also,
this was my favorite part of the book when reading it as a child.. and they absolutely nailed it
 
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Rahheemme said:
funguy2121 said:
Rahheemme said:
Every time Paul says something in Funny Games. That was emotionally moving, but in a different, pants-wetting way.
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Hated, hated, hated that movie. The ending was terrible, the punk music was terrible, the fact that they were not only sociopathic baby-murderers but spoiled preppy assholes to boot was terrible, the worst 4th wall breaking ever was, well, terrible, the rewind scene was friggin' terrible.

I read that the director's purpose was to see if he could convince the audience to leave. Stupid me, I thought if I stuck around long enough there would be some dark-side-flirtation and the bad guys would get a shotgun blast to the head or something.
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But that would have been an awful ending. The entire purpose of the movie was to subvert and invert the entire genre of a slasher movie. Everything you thought was going to happen didn't. The killers weren't dark, evil-looking monsters. They were seemingly well-behaved young men. You didn't see them stand in a closet and hear them breathe creepily for ten minutes before they killed someone. They were right there in the open. You saw everything they did, often in broad daylight.

Though I can see how the punk music and the 4th wall breaking would be stupid for some people (not for me, though), the ending was the best part. You root for the family because they're the victims in all this. You want a happy ending. Do they get one? FUCK no! They shotgun a seven year old and push a woman off a boat to drown! This movie accomplished it's goal and creeped the hell out of me by being the exact opposite of every other horror movie I've seen.
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I really hate to do this because, based on what I recall of his track record, I should absolutely despise the man, but I'm gonna quote Roger Ebert on this one. Well, paraphrase, really:

"The movie is meant as a thesis, and as a thesis it succeeds on every level. As an enjoyable movie, it fails miserably."

I would also (humbly) disagree with the notion that the movie subverted every horror cliche. While it was certainly unique and it did shun some conventions, there were some horror cliches, and indie cliches, that to me felt amateurish as well. The opening credits, for example. The seemingly unstoppable bad guys. That one is very cliche for any movie where it's obvious the director is having fun showing the indestructibility of the murderer/monster. For more, see Friday the 13th, Halloween, the Hannibal movies... The less-is-more cinematography. Every time violence occurred off camera I thought of Michael Madsen cutting off the cop's ear in Reservoir Dogs. Oh, and when Naomi Watts jumped out in front of the second car after hiding from the first, and the second car turned out to be the bad guys...super lame.

It did its job though, and it proved its point. I just hated the movie for it.
 
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Shawshank:

Brooks' release (So heart wrenching)
Reds' release (Best cinematography I've ever seen)
 
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funguy2121 said:
Rahheemme said:
funguy2121 said:
Rahheemme said:
Every time Paul says something in Funny Games. That was emotionally moving, but in a different, pants-wetting way.
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Hated, hated, hated that movie. The ending was terrible, the punk music was terrible, the fact that they were not only sociopathic baby-murderers but spoiled preppy assholes to boot was terrible, the worst 4th wall breaking ever was, well, terrible, the rewind scene was friggin' terrible.

I read that the director's purpose was to see if he could convince the audience to leave. Stupid me, I thought if I stuck around long enough there would be some dark-side-flirtation and the bad guys would get a shotgun blast to the head or something.
Click to expand...
But that would have been an awful ending. The entire purpose of the movie was to subvert and invert the entire genre of a slasher movie. Everything you thought was going to happen didn't. The killers weren't dark, evil-looking monsters. They were seemingly well-behaved young men. You didn't see them stand in a closet and hear them breathe creepily for ten minutes before they killed someone. They were right there in the open. You saw everything they did, often in broad daylight.

Though I can see how the punk music and the 4th wall breaking would be stupid for some people (not for me, though), the ending was the best part. You root for the family because they're the victims in all this. You want a happy ending. Do they get one? FUCK no! They shotgun a seven year old and push a woman off a boat to drown! This movie accomplished it's goal and creeped the hell out of me by being the exact opposite of every other horror movie I've seen.
Click to expand...
I really hate to do this because, based on what I recall of his track record, I should absolutely despise the man, but I'm gonna quote Roger Ebert on this one. Well, paraphrase, really:

"The movie is meant as a thesis, and as a thesis it succeeds on every level. As an enjoyable movie, it fails miserably."

I would also (humbly) disagree with the notion that the movie subverted every horror cliche. While it was certainly unique and it did shun some conventions, there were some horror cliches, and indie cliches, that to me felt amateurish as well. The opening credits, for example. The seemingly unstoppable bad guys. That one is very cliche for any movie where it's obvious the director is having fun showing the indestructibility of the murderer/monster. For more, see Friday the 13th, Halloween, the Hannibal movies... The less-is-more cinematography. Every time violence occurred off camera I thought of Michael Madsen cutting off the cop's ear in Reservoir Dogs. Oh, and when Naomi Watts jumped out in front of the second car after hiding from the first, and the second car turned out to be the bad guys...super lame.

It did its job though, and it proved its point. I just hated the movie for it.
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Well, you're right. It didn't avoid EVERY cliche, but I believe that a work of fiction needs a couple cliche elements to make the original elements stand out more. I liked it because I'm a sucker for bad guys. The two antagonists were characterized so well and so uniquely that I tended to ignore other aspects. I also really like 4th wall breaking. I guess this was just one of those movies that I really enjoyed that NO ONE else did (like Push).
 
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Actuall, the only movie that ever moved me to tears was "Grave of the Fireflies." The minute you hear that little girl laugh in the first 5 minutes, you just know she's going to die a miserable death.
 
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