Most emotional scene you've seen in a film

Anyone see Charlie and the Chocloate Factory: The Directors Cut?

There's an emotional scene when Charlie realises Willy isn't really an eccentric millionaire confectionary maker but really just an old nonce who lured him to an abandoned warehouse...
 
The scene from Air Bud where the kid is trying to tell the dog to go away to save him from having to go back to that clown looking guy and then throws the basketball as hard as he can and hops on to the ferry before the dog can get back but the dog does get there in time to see the ferry pulling away and starts barking for the boy to come back.
 
I'm sure someone's seen Shoah on here, but it's a 10 hour documentary of interviews with Holocaust survivors, Polish bystanders, and SS troops. It's one of the most depressing things I've ever watched.
 
The only real emotional scenes I can think of, the ones I still feel a strong connection to, are from my childhood. I don't really get emotionally attached to movies anymore, although Scrubs always found a way to tear at my heartstrings (ie, How to Save a Life scene). Ones I remember from my childhood:

Land Before Time, when Littlefoot's mom dies. That was the first movie I ever cried over, a couple of scenes in that movie were devastating

Mr. Holland's Opus, when he sings 'Beautiful Boy' to his son. Similar thing would be October Sky

Empire of the Sun, when Jim's buddy is killed, but there are various points near the end that are emotional

More modern ones...The Pianist had a number of scenes that were truly emotional, the scenes between the Pianist and the German colonel were something I didn't expect.

Das Boot and Requiem for A Dream, two movies where I felt absolutely depressed after watching them. American History X was kind of the same way

Seabiscuit was cheesy, but I still liked the last scene. Ali was a movie that probably lasted too long, but there were two scenes in particular that were special. The first was when Ali was running and a bunch of kids showed him the murals they paintings of him. Also, the entire last fight scene was fantastic IMO.



That song is perfect
 
The ending to Rocky where Adrian makes her way to the ring while they're reading the score cards out.
 
When i was a kid the scene in Homeward Bound where they leave Shadow in the trainyard and you think he's dead, then at the last second he comes over the hill with a limp. That used to get me.

 
That scene in Green Mile where the big black fella dies killed me.

I remember watching it with a few mates, they'd all fallen asleep around me and I was watching it crying like a baby drinking the last of the whiskey. Strange night that, I never cry, ever.
 
RedSky At Night said:
That scene in Green Mile where the big black fella dies killed me.

I remember watching it with a few mates, they'd all fallen asleep around me and I was watching it crying like a baby drinking the last of the whiskey. Strange night that, I never cry, ever.
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"Please boss, don't put that thing over my face, don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark."

Yeah that got me a little teary eyed.
 
RedSky At Night said:
That scene in Green Mile where the big black fella dies killed me.

I remember watching it with a few mates, they'd all fallen asleep around me and I was watching it crying like a baby drinking the last of the whiskey. Strange night that, I never cry, ever.
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Relax you pussy hes alive and well, top scorer in the academy this season aswell :smirk:
 
Scoreboard Red said:
Anyone see Charlie and the Chocloate Factory: The Directors Cut?

There's an emotional scene when Charlie realises Willy isn't really an eccentric millionaire confectionary maker but really just an old nonce who lured him to an abandoned warehouse...
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That film's fecked up enough already.

 
Decotron said:
Not a film but in Band of Brothers when they find the prison camp is some scene
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This.

Also, two that scarred me as a child were in Watership Down.

The first is where Bigwig is caught in the snare trap...

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...and the "Bright Eyes" scene when Hazel has been shot.



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RedSky At Night said:
That scene in Green Mile where the big black fella dies killed me.

I remember watching it with a few mates, they'd all fallen asleep around me and I was watching it crying like a baby drinking the last of the whiskey. Strange night that, I never cry, ever.
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Same here mate
 
R.Nilsson7 said:
Cheers for awakening memories that I've been trying to repress. :(
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The Watership Down scenes you posted are good shouts too, Brocky.
And I always get misty eyed at HAL's shutdown, every single time.

I've got loads more -- I'm too sentimental for words! -- but I just had to do a brief 'Me too!' regarding Littlefoot's mother.
 
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In my defense I was quite young at the time and identified with his views on behavior in an occupied country :nervous:
 
Just came back from The Social Network, and I have to add the scene where Eduardo confronts Mark in the Facebook offices. One of the most powerful and well-acted scenes I've seen in a long time. Stunning stuff.
 
In Jan Trinka's 1947 "The Emperor's Nightingale" when Death comes to claim the child emperor only to be dissuaded by the Nightingale's song. The scene where he returns to "tend his own garden" (the graveyard) is shattering. Can't find a clip.

And the end of this Futurama - YouTube - Futurama: Jurassic Bark Ending
 
When Ronnie Gardocki realized that Vic Mackey ratted on him to cut a deal with the feds.
When Shane Vendrell had a heated discussion with Lemanski before throwing a grenade in his car.
When Vic,Ronnie and Shane stood in front of Lemanski's grave and shot multiple bullets as a sign of remembrance
 
Team Brian GB said:
No doubt many more will come to me but what I thought of first was the end of The Dambusters Raid, for me it is the greatest British war film ever made because it was so real to the events as they happened. Like such films of the era it wasn't embellished with overdramatic buffoonish characters, hollywood storylines or love triangles - it was a docu-dramas that presented the facts in an honest manner.
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The films of that era are dated in many ways, but I know where you're coming from. The Dambusters was a major inspiration for Star Wars, along with the book Dune, of course.

Do you remember the film Battle of the River Plate? I always think of the bit where they see the enemy (of superior firepower) and one captain says 'look at Ajax, with her battle colours flying'. The equivalent of infantry 'going over the top', but they could see they were up against.
 
I found the scene in stand by me when he is remembering his brother really sad, when only he will talk to him about the story he's written.
 
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