What scene in a movie has had the most emotional impact on you?

Question

seriously.... don't say "When PeeWee got his bike back."

so far lilgiggles and wj are in the running for best answer....

i think mine's in the color purple when Shug Avery decides to bring the entire jazz band into her dad's church after he has shunned her for years. That scene rocks!

OH! and the scene in Witness when Harrison Ford is teaching the Amish woman to dance to the Sam Cook song on the car stereo in the barn....

Damn - you guys are picking some good ones - I'm gonna need help picking a best answer to this....

I have half a mind to pick GR8 G's answer as best.... just for originality. I totally forgot how intense that was...
Who would have thought that watching a man cry over a lost volleyball could be so engaging?

ok - u guys are gonna hate me for this... but I'm gonna put it to a vote....

2 many good answers.

Answer 1

Braveheart getting his head chopped off.

Answer 2

Wow, good question. I'm really into movies, so there have been several hundred in my life that have somehow grabbed me a little deeper than usual. The one that comes to mind at this moment (just watched it again last night) is For the Love of the Game w/Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston. The scene is after he badly cut his hand they are getting ready to life flight him to better med. center. He tells her to contact the teams trainer, that he is the most important person to him right now. You can tell that it just breaks her heart. Anyway, this scene always reminds how delicate emotions are. As a father of six grown children and a husband that totally adores his wife I suppose the little moments in film and real life remind how delicate relationships and love can be.

Answer 3

I thought a long time about this. I choose the scene from "Brokeback Mountain", one of the few gay movies where the partners show real emotion for each other.... Jack and Enis are on their last trip and Enis is gripping about incoveniences. Jack gets upset and irritated and cries aloud to the mountains and Enis how he once had a dream that they could have lived happily together on a ranch. But Enis was too worried about homophobia. Made me realise how many of us are scarred loving someone who doesn't love us in return.
Until this my choice was the scene from "Sophies Choice'', at the trains to the gas champers when she must decide between her son or daughter, the expession of turmoil on Meryl Streep's face burns on your mind.

As for Pee Wee..'' I've seen better heads on a boil".

Answer 4

Umm. I can't think of the MOST emotional impact, but I do cry everytime I watch Pay It Foward & the little kids dies. It's so sad because the relationship between the mother & the son was just getting good. She was sobering up & trying to fly straight, but just when she got at a comfortable point her son who was her joy died. Oh that & Titanic when you see the mom reading the story to the little kids & the old couple holding eachother in bed. SO SAD! Maybe it's because I'm a mother why I get that emotional over the children stuff?

Answer 5

Of all the movies I have seen I would have to say the one that had the most emotional impact on me was "What Dreams May Come". The whole movie evokes a wide range of emotions from beginning to end. The one that I would have to say really got the tears following (I was already crying by this point but it increased two-fold here and continued though out) was when Robin Williams was on the boat in heaven with his female guide and started to have memories of his daughter and then realizes that his guide IS his daughter and then she turns into her.

Answer 6

The whole film of "Sophie's Choice," especially the scene when Sophie has to choose between her children. I had just given birth to my first child and I was just blown away by this scene. And Meryl Streep's performance in it was certainly one of the best ever.

I don't know if you're interested in the scene which was most joyous. Mine probably isn't the most popular choice, but here goes: the part of Shakespeare in Love when the young Shakespeare sees Viola come on stage to portray Juliet. That gets me every time! (Of course, I've directed the play, so I'm definitely not objective.... )

Answer 7

Man On Fire-When Denzel finds Dakota Fanning's character.
Hustle and Flow-The part where Djay throws out the stripper and her baby. Also, the Ludacris bathroom scene.
Requiem For a Dream-The whole movie.
Big Fish-The scene where the father is dying in the hospital and his son starts weaving a tale for him.

Answer 8

I'd have to say when the phantom gets rejected by christine in the Phantom of the Opera at the very end of the movie when she gives him back the ring. Talk about driving the stake deeper into the heart.

Answer 9

Hands down the scene in American History X when Derek make the black guy bite the curb and then stomps on his head and kills him. So disturbing, and makes me cry every time. Overall this is one of the best movies out there, but I can only watch it once a year because it's so disturbing.

Answer 10

In the Bedroom when the parents first find out there only sons was shot and killed. The movie is almost exactly what happened to my family only a year earlier. Could barely watch the movie.

Answer 11

The movie, "She's Having a Baby" with Kevin Bacon & Elizabeth McGovern. The scene that always gets to me is when they are in the hospital and the baby is in distress. It reminds me of how I felt when I was having my first and they were losing his heartbeat. Like Elizabeth McGovern's character, I too had a c-section and had a beauiful boy.