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Susan
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Date Posted: 04:46:19 09/08/07 Sat
I'll have to think about that one. I think the Lukey scene brought a tear to my eye the second or third time I watched the movie. (It took me a while to work up some sympathy for him! I was really angry with him at first for the way he used Johnny. But then I realized, hey, everybody else in the movie is doing it, so why not Lukey too.) And I don't remember if I actually cried or not (it's been a while since I've watched that one), but I felt really sad for his character, Peter McCabe at the end of Waterfront. Also, I found his performance in "The Desert Rats" very touching, but I don't think it quite brought me to tears.
(The last fictional character I can remember really bawling my eyes out over is ... um, in the Harry Potter series. I won't get specific, but I can't remember ever getting that emotional over a scene before, except maybe when I was a kid seeing "Bambi" or "Old Yeller"--so at the moment it's kind of obscuring my memories of other tear-jerkers! And then there were those blockbusters I hated because they were so emotionally manipulative, "Terms of Endearment" and "E.T."! OK, this is getting off topic, but you wanna hear a really stupid one? You can tell I'm an animal lover because the scene in "Gone With the Wind" that made me cry hardest was the one where the servant goes out to kill one of the chickens for dinner! In fact, I think I got more upset when Bill Sikes tried to drown his dog than when he killed Nancy. And then there's that awful pheasant scene in "Soldiers Three"--the one part of it I can't watch! Yes, I know I'm weird, but I'm not alone ... As Ghandi put it much better than I could, "I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.")
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