I have a heart of stone, too. (My mom’s the weepy one of the family.) Even if I really get into a movie, I usually don’t get choked up.
But then I saw Kurosawa’s Ikiru
Man, that scene at the end, where he
sits on the swings of the playground that he helped build, and sings “Life is So Short” without any bitterness, just complete acceptance of the inevitable end and the satisfaction that he actually accomplished something meaningful in life
Wooh. One of the most emotionally powerful scenes I’ve ever seen. And that movie is, to date, still the only one where I never left my seat, not even to pee. I was riveted.
Two LOTR Parts:
-the “you bow to nobody” part
-the end of FOTR when sam swims to Frodo
The part of Big Fish when Will carries Edward to the river.
For some reason, when I watch the end of Fargo and Marge gives her little speach in the policecar I well up…
The end of The Green Mile. Not the very very end but I’m assuming most know what I’m talking about.
There’s actually a deleted scene in Love Actually where a man is forced to tell his wife that his crops failed. I understand why it was cut but I still like the scene.
The previously mentioned scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest asks Jenny if his son is like him.
The end of Sense and Sensiblity where Edward Ferrars shows up.
A deleted scene in “Cold Mountain” takes place at Sarah’s cabin.
I actually stopped breathing for minute there.
It can’t be described; you just have to view it.
Don’t know if cutting it made sense or not.
There are 3 or 4 parts in Return Of the King that make me want to cry, though it’s not really out of sadness, I feel kind of emotionally overwhelmed (Theoden’s speech before they attack, Aragorn’s speech at the Black Gate, Sam and Frodo on the hill and everyone in Minas Tirith bowing to the hobbits).
Also, the scene near the end of The Royal Tenebaums where Gene Hackman brings Ben Stiller the dalmation and Stiller says “I’ve had a rough year, dad” gets me every time.
