Has a movie or novel ever (almost) brought you to tears?

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This thread is for descriptions of scenes in books and movies which have made you cry.
If none have, what scenes came close?

This scene has much more of an impact if you have seen 2001. Gerty reminds us of Hal, so we expect him to
go schizoid, but he breaks his programming in the opposite way. I get emotional when robots decide not to kill everyone.

Spoiler alert.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnqTjhv1h8[/youtube]

Bjork's movie, Dancer in the Dark, made me intensely cry toward the end of that movie. The sacrifices a mother makes so that her kid heals and lives....just see the movie and carry a big box of tissues with you. I'm very sensitive. Almost too sensitive.

Do tears of anger count? "Born of the Fourth of July" got to me.
I don't know exactly which scene did it, but I was crying as I was walking out of the theatre.

Heavy Rain. It is technically a videogame, but it is the most cinematic, realistic, life-like experience you can play. Many consider it to just be more of an interactive movie, which it pretty much is. One of the many endings got my eyes watery, I think I had the saddest one.

For books, Stephen King's Christine got me choked up at the end, when the narrator is in the hospital and barely conscious, and recalls how his dead friend Arnie had come in to say thank you.

For movies, it was a scene in The Alamo, in which Jim Bowie is delirious and dying, his sister-in-law is caring for him, when she leans over to kiss him, and in his fevered mind it's his late wife, the only person this violent man had ever loved. I got teary eyed.

Novels that near brought me to tears, both at the very last page, are Zazie Dans Le Métro by Raymond Queneau, and Jalan Tak Ada Ujung by Mochtar Lubis (Indonesian). I just love it when the final page or the even the final sentence of a novel packs this huge wallop of a punch that helps bring home the book's message. Especially if the book had been entertaining throughout, this is a great payoff.

Spoiler if you haven't seen Forest Gump!! !!


The ending of Forest Gump hit me hard. I really hated Jenny but when she died and Forrest is over grave, talking about the great things she is missing out on and then he cry's. That scene has stuck In my head for 10 years and every time I watch it, it makes pushes me closer to the edge of crying.

I just watched Seabiscuit and I got emotional around the end of the film.

That same thing happened to me. I was mad at Jenny, but I found myself crying with Forrest when he was talking to her grave.

Paths of Glory. I would say it is the best movie of all time.

No shame- When Hedwig died in Harry Potter I shed a few tears.

When I was young, every single Pokèmon Movie made me cry.

happens to me plenty of times.

the Notebook when she didn't remember her husband as she had Dementia.

Anne of green gables when Mathew dies.

Ghost that was very sad.

Beaches when her friend died.

there's plenty more sad scenes in movies that I can't think of at the moment.

most recently bradbury's farenheit 451 made me cry on the train.

it was the passage near the end where granger is explaining to montag why they (the exiled drifters) have memorised the great works of literature. great works of literature, music, and art have literally saved my life in the past, so it resonated with me really powerfully.

at first i felt kind of stupid, for crying on the train over a book. then i thought maybe i don't want to live in a world where people don't get moved to tears by books, so i said "f*** it" and had a cry.

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Intense written drama can leave me feeling exalted, or otherwise emotionally overwhelmed in a good way, and I may weep. Some examples offhand: Les Miserables, Ninety-Three, several moments in O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin saga, The Fountainhead.

Movies rarely involve me as much as literature, but a couple exceptions are Casablanca (the Marseillaise scene) and Return of the King (when Aragorn and the other humans kneel and bow to the hobbits). I tear up every time.

-Sandor Clegane's, "death" scene.

-Briene of Tarth's, hanging.

I don't like Tom Cruise either.



Have you seen Breaker Morant? Similar themes to POG. Not as good, but very authentic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZgNosQ8oCY[/youtube]

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