Post the line or lines that have made you well up and have inspired strong emotions in you.
My vote goes for this scene…
[spoiler] “Come on Mr Frodo, I can’t carry it for you. But I can carry you!”
The music changes gear at just the right moment, and the sense of loyalty and friendship that Sam has in frodo is, in that moment, expressed beautifully.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy has many many emotional scenes. You’ve got to hand it to Peter Jackson. I hope he can do the same in movies he makes in the future[/spoiler]
Toward the very end of Barry Levinson’s “Avalon,” elderly Sam Krchinsky is in a nursing home, talking to his now-grown grandson. He tells his grandson how, not long ago, he’d tried going back to the old neighborhood in Baltimore, trying to find some of the old spots he used to know… but all of them were gone.
His heartbreaking last words were, “If I had known that things would no longer be, I would have tried to remember them better.”
I get a lump every time I see the mother/son resolution scene of The Sixth Sense where
Haley Joel Osment tells his mom he can see the dead bicycle lady. She of course doesn’t believe him, and shuts down as part of the normal, ongoing, tension between the two. But his new confidence allows him to tell his mom about her mother, grandma, and how she’s sorry about moving the pendant, and how she saw the mom dancing, and that when the mom came to her grave and asked her a question, the answer was “Every Day.” In that one scene, we see that now Haley Joel Osment is going to be OK, that his mother believes that he has this power, that his relationship with his mother is going to be OK, that his power can truly be a force for healing, and that all of the issues that ever happened between the mother and grandmother have all dissolved away.Much more powerful than the final ending (which is still fun though).
Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said when you were little you and she had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn’t come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn’t see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is… everyday. What did you ask?
Lynn Sear: Do… Do I make her proud?Do we really still need to be spoiler boxing that movie?
I can’t remember the exact lines, but the part in Big Fish when they are in the bath. That whole scene makes my eyes water.
Same goes for the “Superman” line in The Iron Giant.
And the conversation Ellen has with Vlad about asking her dad about acting lessons in Camp:
“If just one tenth of one percent of the world want to be actors, that’s still 6 million people. You really think you’re prettier than six million people? You’re not even the prettiest one in your class…”
That one probably has a lot to do with the aspiring actor in me though, but still…