Powerful moments in film

[Johnny Ringo]

Over my short lifespan, there have been a few moments in movie history particularly provocative. The most emotional for me would have to be Hazel's death in Watership Down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KSIeQUgT4

The scene's about 1:45 in.

Which scenes would you consider to be the most emotionally provoking for you?

 

[curlycrouton]

The point where Andy Dufreisne escapes Shawshank prison in The Shawshank Redemption.
Pretty much all of Forrest Gump, but particularily when he says:
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
Finally, the point in LOTR the two towers, in which Sam tells Frodo it's going to be alright etc.

Oh and in Saints and Soldiers, when he tries to give the dying guy his cigarette (it'll make sense if you watch it, and you should)

 

[Fire Daemon]

There is a lot from Apocalypse Now I would like to mention but I think I have to go with the Ride of the Valkyries scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek

Sends tingles down my spine.

 

[Baby Tea]

In Schindler's List at the end where Oscar keeps thinking of things he could have sold or gotten rid of to save more people...he came a long way from a man who only wanted a much money as possible...to a man who couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Truly powerful.

 

[Eyclonus]

The end of Casablanca, the Bogart version.

 

[DiamondJim]

The opening/ending to Saving Private Ryan. Truly moving, the sacrifice of many for just one man.

 

[Mr Flibble]

Got to be the soliloquy of Roy Batty in Blade Runner, just before he expires on the rooftop.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams, glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate.
All those... moments will be lost... in time... like tears... in rain.
Time... to die."


My roomates' emotoinal moment, is when Data sacrifices himself so as to save the Enterprise, in Star Trek - Nemesis.

 

[corporate_gamer]

Lots of bits from Kingdom of Heaven. Especially the horse charge bit. Also the Horse charge in last samurai, i like horse charges

 

[Frybird]

One of the final scenes in Requiem for a Dream, when the lives of the protagonists are pretty much ruined, and they are lying on the beds wherever they ended up, cowering into a fetal position.

Such a depressing movie.

Plus, because i like Derren Aronofsky, the Scene in the Fountain where

Spoiler

the "future protagonist" reaches the star, realising that he is going to die, but being at peace with it

 

[curlycrouton]

In Schindler's List at the end where Oscar keeps thinking of things he could have sold or gotten rid of to save more people...he came a long way from a man who only wanted a much money as possible...to a man who couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Truly powerful.

I totally forgot about that. Yes, I would put that as number one on my list.

 

[Fire Daemon]

There is also thate nd scene in Donnie Darko where

Spoiler

The main character kills himself by going to bed, knowing that the plane engine will fall on him.

The use of the cover of "Madworld" by Gary Jules made it stick out to me.

But the end of Schindler's list has to be my number one. How could I forget that scene?

 

[the protaginist]

The Baptism scene in The Godfather.

 

[Snaggly Pete]

The Green Mile. Pretty much the whole movie was powerful for me--but I particularly remember the parts when the big guy was found crying with the two dead kids and when he was about to be electrocuted.

 

[Duskwaith]

The end of Gladiator, truely moving for me

I really want to see schindlers list so bad!

 

[DannyDamage]

(fan boy ahoy) The end bit of Advent Children when Cloud is in the pool that Aerith made to heal all of the kids, she appears and he makes no effort to go after her.

Seen that film so many times now but I still shout at the screen, at least in my head if not out loud.

 

[tijuanatim]

The Green Mile. Pretty much the whole movie was powerful for me--but I particularly remember the parts when the big guy was found crying with the two dead kids and when he was about to be electrocuted.

When Tom Hank's character asks Michael Clark Duncan's character what he's supposed to tell God about why he let one of his miracles die.....it gets me everytime.

Also when Percy kills the mouse.....I hate that guy.

 

[wewontdie11]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

The most moving piece of cinema ever.

*spoilers*

Seriously though I thought the end of A Scanner Darkly was a little moving seeing Bob Arctor reduced to a massively brain-damaged "husk of a man" that was a stark contrast to his character at the start of the film.

Also the end of Man On Fire where Creasey rescues Pita and gives himself over to the kidnappers to be killed or worse, because she was the only thing he came to care about.

*end spoilers*

 

[fulano]

-Lilja 4ever: The very last scene(after she leaves the apartment).
-STALKER: The scene where the Stalker breaks down in tears, collapsing into a heap, and finally confesses his reasons and hopes for taking people into The Zone.
-SOLARIS(russkie version): The scene where Hari goes nuts with self doubt.

and...oh, fuck it!

-LABRYNTH: The whole movie.
-GREMLINS 2: When Gizmo comes back sporting a bandanna and a gnarly bow.
-ROBOCOP 2: When Robo finally destroys Cain's brain.
-The Thing: THE WHOLE MOVIE.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Probably the ending to Gattaca. I'm very likely the only human being who ever saw Gattaca (or it at least seems that way,) but I was very moved by it.

For some reason, I found (spoilers) the Tachikoma deaths at the end of the first Stand Alone Complex to be very moving. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I never outright hated them like some people did.