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Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Susan [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 04:46:19 09/08/07 Sat In reply to: Elizabeth 's message, "Favourite Scene" on 15:53:23 08/29/07 Wed 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.") [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Jenny [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:31:47 09/08/07 Sat ("...I found his performance in "The Desert Rats" very touching, but I don't think it quite brought me to tears.") Yes, Susan, that was such a touching performance! I found that I actually did get a little choked up in the scene between RN and Richard Burton in the trench. But the place where I did nearly cry was when Bartlett gets out of the Tammy's jeep and has to walk the rest of the way in. When he turns around, eyes glazed over with tears and trembling, I gasped. RN beautifully captured that sheer terror. Definitely an Oscar worthy performance in my humble estimation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Favourite Scene Author: Sue G. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:56:10 09/08/07 Sat "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!" I know this is off-topic again, but being that you brought up GWTW, the scene that impressed me, when I was a child, is the scene when Scarlett has finally made her way back to Tara and she 'whips' the horse to get it moving, and it collapses from exhaustion. I believe, right before that scene, the horse had 'slobber' coming from it's mouth and was just barely walking. It just stuck in my mind all those years. Back to RN, I do feel sorry for Lukey at the end of his scene. He really looks almost tortured and I even managed to get some of those shots in screen caps too. I won't say that it brought me to tears, but I felt pity for him. Probaby the most touching is the Peter McCabe scene in the jail cell. He really showed every emotion in his face in that scene. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]