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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 350
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:30 am: | 
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The Couples thread and "Lady Sings the Blues" specifically, got me to thinking...
What are some of your favorite poignant movie scenes?
Some of mine:
*When Piano Man (Richard Pryor) is killed in "Lady Sings the Blues"
*When Cochise is beaten to death in "Cooley High", and also the final scene in that film when Glynn Turman's character is walking down the road and "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is playing on the soundtrack
*When Nettie and Celie reunite and then are torn apart again in "The Color Purple"
*Denzel as "Malcolm X" driving to the Audubon Ballroom with Sam Cooke's "A Change Gon' Come" playing on the soundtrack |
Kola
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Post Number: 790
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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From COLOR PURPLE:
*When Shug Avery comes up the road singing "God's Trying to Tell You Something"
*When Nettie and Celie are torn apart by Mister and she says, "Noth'n but death could keep me from it".
*When Sophia comes home to see her kids and says she's crying because, "Yall don't know me no more."
*When Nettie and Celie are reunited at the end.
I LOVE THAT MOVIE.
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When the train is leaving Diana Ross on the platform and the song plays: "You've Changed".
Also the scene where the song plays: "Laaaaaaaaady....sangs the blues......she's got 'em bad.......she feels so SAD. WOOONNNNTS the world to know....jess what the blues is all about. The blues aint noth'n but a pain in your heart....when you got a bad start....you 'n your MMMMMAAAAAAN.....have ta part."
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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 1125
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:53 am: |
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Well I haven't had very many poignant ones because when I was really into movies I favored movies that were low on poignancy--awful Japanese rubber monster junk when I was a teenager, war and cowboy films, James Bond and gangster movies (got a ton of stuff from Jimmy Cagney and Eddie G and Bogart--no they ain't poignant either.
Then when I became more discriminating I approached movies differently--this is an illusiion and can they make me forget it.
It rather interferes with poignancy when you are sitting looking, wondering how many takes this took them, what kind of day it was, how they achieved the lighting, how some broad who ain't supposed to have had a bath in three days in the jungles of Brazil still got her hair right and makeup straight--but I digress.
I remember one movie scene that did cause me to choke up when I saw it and for a while afterward, until I thought of the racist implications
It was one of those movies where most of the heaviest Chinese parts had Caucasian actors--that ought to do it for you up front
The Good Earth? The Dragon seed?
Anyway the vicious Japanese troops were persuing the good noble Chinese (oh how things were to change in a few years) through the rice paddies.
This woman with her son got separated. The Japanese were near. She took her little son and set him down and told him that a little man must remain silent no matter what he hears.
She runs out, is pursued and caught. All the Japanese immediately forsake the military action to rape her and kill her.
I used to break out crying at this manipulative melondrama |
Kola
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Post Number: 796
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:57 am: |
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Chris!!!
Where have you been, Sherlock?
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Cynnique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 02:04 pm: |
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Not surprising that, like Chris, I am often more amused than moved by contrived maudlin attempts to evoke tears in a movie scene. That's why it's so out of character for me to be stirred by all of the hokey shit in "The Lord Of the Rings" trilogies. But, I tear up all through these movies. All I have to see is Aragorn soulfully staring into the camera, disheartened by yet another set-back, and I need a tissue. |
Sisg
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 05:13 pm: |
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Kola,
The Color Purple is my favorite movie of all time. Favorite scenes;
When Celie tells Mister "I ain't never asked you for nuthin...not even your sorry ass hand in marriage."
Miss Sophia - "Miss Sophia back!"
Shug singing "Sister"
Celie - "Everything you done to me, I already done to you."
Mister all alone, house all broke down and then he scrambles to get together the money to bring Celies kids home.
The scene in "Love and Basketball" when Sanaa Lathan plays one on one with Omar Epps.
Ike and Tina Turner movie - Ike leaning over Tina and saying after she took a bottle of pills, "Etta Mae, you better not die, you hear me. I kill ya."
The movie, "The Killing Fields", one of the saddest movies I have ever seen.
Della Reese and Redd Fox in "Harlem Nights" when she is fixing Redd a sandwich, and they go back and forth...funny!
Denzel in "Glory". So many scenes, but when he cried, oh my god!
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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 1126
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2005 - 10:07 am: |
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Kola:
Dipping and Dodging in and out of Cyberspace! |
Abm
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Post Number: 2618
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 04:18 am: |
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Funny. But I tend to choke up while watching films where men express some form of affection about/between each other (or their children) than I do when it’s between men/women or women/women. I guess it’s because I expect a lot of emotion to between exchanged between (straight) lovers and between women.
But (straight) men seldom express authentic affection for each other that when you see it, even via a movie, it can appear quite startling
I too was moved by several scenes in Glory: The sight of Denzel’s tears run down his face as he’s whipped because he’s mistakenly believed to have disserted. The moment when Mathew Broderick character smiles, releases his horse and proudly tells onlookers to remember the day the 54th Massachusetts went on to ‘glory’ just as he leads his men to almost certain doom. When Broderick and then Denzel’s characters are shot dead.
And the scene when Howard Rollin’s “A Soldier’s Story” character cries as he discovers it was Black, not White, men (played by Denzel) who had murdered Adolph Caesar’s Black sergeant.
(It’s so SAD what happened to Rollin. He had every facility to have become among the very best Black actor of his generation.)
But strangely enough, what I have found to be some of the most poignant movie scenes have involved – of all things – relationships between Black and White men.
I’ve choke up a couple of times watching the Lethal Weapons films, usually at the end of them.
Because, I know this will sound gay: But if you look at things a certain way, you could argue the straight relationship between White Mel Gibson’s Riggs and Black Danny Glover’s Murtaugh in those 4 LW films has been the greatest ‘love affair’ in the last 20 years of American Cinema.
And one the most poignant of all movie scenes that has yet to be mentioned: When Billy Dee Williams’ Gale Sayers eulogizes James Caan’s Brian Piccolo in “Brian Song”. If you wanna make a room full of big/burly men of all colors/ethnicities weep like 14 year old school girls, play that scene.
<<sniffling>> |
Sisg
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 09:29 am: |
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Thanks ABM for the memories. I too loved and teared up especially with "Brian's Song". How could I forget. And Howard Rollins in "Ragtime". That man could cry! I mean, wasn't he great...in his later years however he tended to show his gayness and something was lost. I remember Sidney Poiter and I think it was Tony Curtis in a movie where they were chained together. It was a powerful film, and watching Poiter do his thing was absolutely wonderful. |
Chan
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 03:24 pm: |
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I know this is a thread about poignant movie scenes, and while I think "The Green Mile" is a fantastic film filled with such emotion and many poignant moments, the reason I was drawn to this thread was because I have just seen the season finale of Josh Schwartz's "The OC" season 2.
Episode 24, "Dearly Beloved" ends with the most poignant scene I have ever witnessed, the track "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, being used to shocking effect.
With OC forums filling up with people asking "what is the music from the final scene of the season finale", this episode surely is something to check out if possible, I assure you, you'll be rushing to iTunes to download the track as soon as the closing credits start to roll.
>CSJ://~*
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Kola
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Post Number: 991
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 04:54 pm: |
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Hey CHAN,
Welcome and thanks for posting.
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