Leo: Jesus, Tom, I’d give anything if you’d come to work for me again. It can be like it was, before! I know it! I just know it! And … as for you and Verna … well … you’re both young and … damnit, Tom, I forgive you.
Tom: I didn’t ask for that and I don’t want it. Goodbye Leo.
(Though mostly it’s Tom watching Leo walk away that gets me.)
That Babe line gets me, and it’s been mentioned before in this thread, but I haven’t seen anyone post the narrator’s line just before it, so I will:Narrator: And though every single human in the stands or in the commentary boxes was at a complete loss for words, the man who in his life had uttered fewer words than any of them knew exactly what to say.
Farmer Hoggett: That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.That line really sets up the tear-jerker.
At the end of Mask, Cher is crying and placing one pin after another into a wall map of places where her son wanted to visit some day: “You can go anywhere you want now.”
Angels With Dirty Faces:
“It’s true, boys. Every word of it. He died like they said. All right, fellas. Let’s go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn’t run as fast as I could.”
Jean De Florette:
“I’m a hunchback - have you forgotten that? Do you think it’s easy? Is there no one up there?”
(correction mine)
Oh, dear Og yes. In my case it’s because I’ve always waited and am still waiting for my dad to say something like that or its equivalant.
Another vote for the ending of *Field of Dreams *, and I’d also like to add the “Moonlight Graham stepping off the field” scene and the scene where Terrence Mann explains the significance of baseball:
And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.
You might be interested to know, then, that this quote is painted on the wall of SBC Park in San Francisco. (along with other baseball-related quotes, sprinkled throughout the park.)
The end of **A League of Their Own ** always tears me up. If I haven’t started during the championship game when Kitt give up the lead, or during their scene after the game, or someplace else, the scene in the Hall of Fame when grownup Stillwell says “Mom died”.
Every time. Before he can even get out the next line.
“Earn this.” That one gets me every time. Must be a soldier thing.
“This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.” At least watching Goethe swing right after that line makes me smile.
OK, so I’m a sucker for smarmy Spielberg endings. He even managed to get me a little misty-eyed with A.I., too. Dammit, I expect to be emotionally manipulated by Spielberg films and he still manages to make me teary.
For some reason I keep picturing the Simpson’s episode where Homer runs into the church screaming “SAANCTUUUAAAARRYYYY!!!” and Lovejoy’s all like “I wish I never taught him that word”.
Legends of the Fall when Alfred (Quinn) rejoins the family and the monolongue at the end about Tristen’s (Pitt) eventual fate.
Also the closing scene/monologue of Gang’s of New York as the scene goes from old New York to modern New York as well as the final confrontation between Amsterdam (deCaprio) and Bill (Day-Lewis).
It also just occured to me Henry Thomas meets a very unpleasent end in both films.
Add in Theoden’s “Braveheart” speech in LOTR:ROTK.
Just thought of another line from the same movie, when Marion and Harry are on the phone- he’s in jail (I believe) and she’s drugged out of her mind- and she asks him in a child’s voice “Can you come today?” Apparently Aronofsky filmed them both on a real phone at the same time in different rooms to get real reactions.