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Movies: Scenes that "Get You Every Time"

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lkb:
Hi:
I love movies, especially classic ones. (My family knows that if it's my turn for movie night, it will be black-and-white and/or a musical). I inherited a love for "weepies" (aka women's pictures, chick flicks) from my mom but a good comedy is fine too. (To steal a former teacher's line, "I cry at supermarket openings".)

I thought it might be fun to have a thread of classic scenes that "get you every time". They don't have to be the tear-jerkers, just those that are particularly striking. Here's some of mine:

Father of the Bride: When he sees his daughter in her wedding gown for the first time. Also, when he sees his wife in her MOTB finery for the first time (and in several other scenes). (I can see these being reinacted in about 12 years between my husband and daughter). (Steve Martin version -- haven't seen the Spencer Tracy/Elizabeth Taylor version in years but I don't recall being emotional about that one. I saw it long before I got married.)

The Princess Bride: The final "As you wish" (RIP Peter Falk)
                               "Drop. Your. Sword."
                               "Give me back my father, you son-of-a-b----!")

Gigi: The very last scene

That thing you do: Faye at the mailbox and running down the street. I also get chills at the first performance of the song, when they realize what's going on.

Going My Way: The Christmas Eve Mass

Marty: The Stop Sign scene after the date.

Singing In the Rain: The classic performance of the Title Song

Monsters Inc.: Sully saying goodbye to Boo (and the final shot).

For Me and My Gal: When she sees him at the Palace.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Katherine Hepburn's expression during Spencer Tracy's monologue. (He died soon after and I could just feel that he meant what he said.)

It's a Wonderful Life: The very last scene.

Greatest Game Ever Played: The final shot.
Sense and Sensibility: The shot in which Col. Brandon (Alan Rickmann) realizes that what's-her-name made it through the night. (It's a blink-and-you-miss it moment, but oh-so-convincing).


Those are the ones I can think of right now. Yours?

shadowfox79:
The scene in Spiderman 2 where Peter loses his mask while stopping the train and they pass his unconscious body back down the carriage.

Piratelvr1121:
Let's see. 

Titanic.  I get teary at many different parts of the movie after she hits the berg.  Like when the father's telling his little girls "It's goodbye for a little while, there'll be another boat for the daddies, this one's for the mummies and the children!" And when the Irish mother's tucking her children in and telling them about Tir na nog.

My Girl: When she first learns that Thomas J. has died and then when she comes into room where the casket and starts crying about where his glasses, asking him to go tree climbing, etc.

Steel Magnolias: When Shelby dies and M'Lynn goes to pick up Jack Jr. who runs to her smiling.  And the scene in the graveyard, though I love how Clairee and Ouiser lighten the mood.

I love those parts of the Princess Bride too. :)

Hillia:
Boromir's death at the end of Fellowship of the ring.  Of course, Sean Bean dies so often that he's pretty good at it.

My son used to sob every time we watched Mighty Joe Young, when Joe falls off the Ferris Wheel.

Sharnita:
The same scene form Spiderman 2 that a PP mentioned.

The scene from My Girl that was mentioned.  I saw it in the theater with friends and at the time my sisters were about the ages of the two main characters.  I lost it completely and for somebody who rarly cries was sobbing audibly.  My friends were at a loss.

I watch Band of Brothers and when they liberate the camps there are a couple parts that get me - when one of the prisoners salutes an American soldier walking through and when a young replacement is sitting in shock, unable to speak.  Later on a German speaking Jewinsh soldier has to tell the prisoners that food won't just be handed out (food intake had to be monitored) and that they wil actually be locked back up so they don't wander away only to die. The actor does a fantastic job of conveying how difficult it would be to make that announcement.

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