(Forrest Gump pulling away from Lieutenant Dan following the gun battle)
“I gotta find Bubba!”
I also have to second (or third) the washing machine line from Apollo 13 and “That man is not a salesman…that’s your daddy” from Armageddon.
How about the scene in “Saving Private Ryan” where General Marshall reads the letter from Lincoln to the woman who lost her sons in the civil war and then says “We are going to get him the hell out of there.”
Add to that the scene with Mrs. Ryan finding out her three sons are dead. No dialogue is present or necessary. The look on her face when she sees the car driving up…meeting them on the porch…and finally collapsing in a heap. God.
I don’t even like the movie, but there’s a line in Mell Gibson’s “The Patriot”. A littl backstory for those not familiar with the movie:
Mel Gibson is a widower with a bunch of children, living on plantation near the start of the Revolutionary War. His youngest daughter, Susan, hasn’t spoken since the death of her mother. One of his younger sons is killed by a British soldier (not in battle, he was basically shot in cold blood). Mel follows his oldest son to war to protect him (I’m fudging the details, but they’re not important), and also to get revenge on those who killed his child.
His family is hidden at a camp to prevent them from being caught and killed by the same soldier that killed his other son. Meanwhile, the littlest girl starts talking again, though Mel only knows this because his older son told him, he hasn’t seen her in awhile.
Mel visits the camp to see his family, and Susan stops talking. No amount of begging from her father will get her to talk…until he starts to leave for war again.
“Papa, papa! Don’t go! I’ll say anthing you want, just don’t go!”
But he still has to go…
I guess I have a hard heart as just about every other quote mentioned makes me groan a little at the attempt to play on my emotions, but this one gets me every time.
Lessee… favorite tear-jerkers…
Babylon 5: In The Beginning, with the “Two Years” monologue by Londo. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about, especially with the music as it swells up towards the end and then dies down. If you haven’t seen it, rent it, it does well enough to catch you up on Babylon 5’s backstory if you’ve never had the good fortune to watch the show, and it’s an excellent movie.
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: King Theoden’s speech on the Pelanor fields, and the way the music swells up in the charge soon after.
Star Wars: Episode III
You were my brother! (If Ewan McGreggor doesn’t get SOME kind of award for his acting in that movie, it’ll be a crime.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
[SPOILER]“Father! Please!” (and that whole sequence, with Vader/Anakin looking back and forth at Luke and Palpatine before making his choice)
“Go now… my son.”[/SPOILER]
These two scenes only after seeing EpIII though.
We Were Brothers:
The Taxi driver’s lament (You know what I’m talking about if you’ve seen it)
The scene in Joy Luck Club with the two sisters ALLWAYS gets me going (also one of the only books to make me cry)
Shrek 2:
“Be Good!”
“NOOO! HE NEEDS ME!”
(Yeah, I know, I’m weird)
Horatio Hornblower: Retribution
"Kennedy… Is that your blood? "
That’s all I can think of at the moment… Maybe more later.
I get misty at the scene where, after she thinks he’s been killed in the war, he shows up while she’s hanging laundry.
From Revenge of the Sith, I was silently tearing up when Anakin goes to the temple to kill the little children. Then that little kid comes up to him and says, “Master Skywalker, there’s too many of them. What are we going to do?” Then, Anakin just takes his lightsaber and ignites it. Ohmigoodness, it was so sad! And Raguleader, I also cried at Obi-Wan’s line.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin is talking to Harry about his mother. I don’t know why, but that always gets to me.
Truly Madly Deeply, when Juliet Stevenson is crying at the beginning, and the poem Alan Rickman reads to her at the end.
Soppy? Terribly! Pass a kleenex.
From the final act in Glory:
Brian’s Song: “I love Brian Piccolo.”
Rilch, you stole my movie, but I was going to go with a different line.
Rudy: (crowd chants)“Rudy…Rudy…Rudy…Rudy”
That’s the only movie that’s ever made me cry and that scene does it every time.
The Royal Tenenbaums:
“I’m going to kill myself tomorrow.”
I madly adore Wes Anderson.
Theoden: Arise! Arise, Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered, a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
[He hits his sword against all the spears in the front rank]
Ride now! Ride now! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! DEATH!
Toy Story 2
When Jessie sings “When She Loved Me”.
Heartbreaking.
Oh, good Og! This is exactly where supervenusfreak loses it every time we watch that movie.
Superman (who everyone thought was dead): Flash? You okay?
The Flash (sniffling): Yeah, there’s something in my eyes.
Green Lantern: Yeah, they’re called tears.
That’s not my contribution as its’ from a TV show (Justice League), but it always gets me.
The end of The Paths of Glory where the French soliders hum along with the German girl. The recently found the translated lyrics (toward the bottom of the page) which makes the whole scene even worse.
I second A River Runs Though It and Glory.
I am incapable of watching Anya’s fruit punch speech from Buffy the Vampire Slayer without sobbing like an infant.
Anya: But I don’t understand. I don’t understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her and… there’s just a body. And I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore. It’s stupid. It’s mortal and stupid. And Xander’s crying and not talking. I was having fruit punch and I thought, well Joyce won’t have any more fruit punch ever. And she’ll never have eggs or yawn or brush her hair. Not ever. And no one will explain to me why.
Well, if we can stretch from movies to TV shows, then we can surely stretch to musicals as well:
A whole bunch from Les Miz:
“…and tell Cosette I love her and I’ll see her when I wake”
“…and rain will make the flowers… grow”
“…never kick a dog because he’s just a pup. We’ll fight like 20 armies and we won’t give (Bang!)”
“…and remember the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God”
From A Chorus Line:
“Take care of my son”
From Rent:
“I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be, and more of a woman than you’ll ever have” (or something like that)
From Wicked:
“I’ve heard it said/That people come into our lives for a reason/Bringing something we must learn and we are led/To those who help us most to grow if we let them/And we help them in return/Well, I don’t know if I believe that’s true/But I know I’m who I am today because I knew you…”
It’s not a line, but ever since I read the book, I find myself tearing up when Javert jumps. Just at that moment, on the final notes of “Stars”, I get this chill down my spine and well up a little.
Jeez, I’m tearing up just reading that and remembering the scene. Truly great.