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I tear up at the end of Love Letter. It's got to be a combination of the right emotion set to the right music that really hits me in the feels. Just listening to the music now is bringing the scene back in my mind.

We should end all of the posts in this thread with (no homo)

[RCP]

[Ringo]

From Smithsonian.com:

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The Saddest Movie in the World
How do you make someone cry for the sake of science? The answer lies in a young Ricky Schroder

In 1979, director Franco Zeffirelli remade a 1931 Oscar-winning film called The Champ, about a washed-up boxer trying to mount a comeback in the ring. Zeffirelli’s version got tepid reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website gives it only a 38 percent approval rating. But The Champ did succeed in launching the acting career of 9-year-old Ricky Schroder, who was cast as the son of the boxer. At the movie’s climax, the boxer, played by Jon Voight, dies in front of his young son. “Champ, wake up!” sobs an inconsolable T.J., played by Schroder. The performance would win him a Golden Globe Award.

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The Champ has been used in experiments to see if depressed people are more likely to cry than non-depressed people (they aren’t). It has helped determine whether people are more likely to spend money when they are sad (they are) and whether older people are more sensitive to grief than younger people (older people did report more sadness when they watched the scene). Dutch scientists used the scene when they studied the effect of sadness on people with binge eating disorders (sadness didn’t increase eating).

Also interesting (from the article):

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In 1995, Gross and Levenson published the results of their test screenings. They came up with a list of 16 short film clips able to elicit a single emotion, such as anger, fear or surprise. Their recommendation for inducing disgust was a short film showing an amputation. Their top-rated film clip for amusement was the fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally. And then there’s the two-minute, 51-second clip of Schroder weeping over his father’s dead body in The Champ, which Levenson and Gross found produced more sadness in laboratory subjects than the death of Bambi’s mom.

The 16 Short Film Clips and the Emotions They Evoked:
Amusement: When Harry Met Sally and Robin Williams Live
Anger: My Bodyguard and Cry Freedom
Contentment: Footage of waves and a beach scene
Disgust: Pink Flamingos and an amputation scene
Fear: The Shining and Silence of the Lambs
Neutral: Abstract shapes and color bars
Sadness: The Champ and Bambi
Surprise: Capricorn One and Sea of Love

[Jean Valjean]

(07-30-2012 09:16 PM)Roosh Wrote:  

Yeah a guy can pass the first one but then he's softened up for the second, which I think is more powerful.

The music increases its emotional effect. But I thought the first one was powerful too. I'm not sure how much the power of suggestion had to do with that though (since I had already known it was a "Beta crying test"). Therefore, I'm springing it on a friend of mine without telling him what it is.

[deerhunter]

This is an old thread but I will throw in my 2 cents. When the kid has to shoot Old Yeller after the dog catches rabies protecting them is the one that does me. Movie was made a long time ago so most here have probably not seen it. If I was an actor I would be able to make myself tear up on demand thinking of that scene. That might be because I have always had hunting dogs and liked them better than most of the people I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnPmBCIParY

[Paracelsus]

Tell me you don't have tears in your eyes by the time that bagpipe begins to scream the main Braveheart theme.

[RIslander]

I couldn't find the youtube version but I hope this works: https://www.facebook.com/davebrayusa/vid...f=NEWSFEED

Be sure to turn the volume up for the bagpipes and drums.

If you don't tear up at least a little from that you're not an American.

[questor70]

Regarding Terminator 2 further back, that is kind of this thread personified as far as the confusion over whether men should accept or bury their emotions. That conflict by itself is enough to make one tear up.

[911]

There is way too much tugging with your emotions, films are a very manipulative medium. This kind of makes me a bit cynical about "tearjerkers".

The really sad films are those based on real stories that take you to the heart of darkness, like The Killing Fields or some documentaries about the Cambodian genocide.

[Horus]

Children with beautiful voices kill me every time.

[YoungBlade]

This song (and its lyrics) get me choked up:

[TigerMandingo]

I'm a cold-hearted bastard, but I'll be damned if I didn't bawl my eyes out throughout the entirety of I am Sam. Sean Penn may be a libtard but goddamn he's good.

[RatInTheWoods]

Ninjas chopping onions :-(

[Kish]

[Cr33pin]

I get misty eyed pretty easy on videos like the second one in the original post. Feel good stories of sacrifice, compassion, perseverance get me misty eyed more then sad stories...
Also videos and stories like someone posted of kids running an hugging their fathers after deployment get me... the love in that moment is a love I've never had an seeing it unfold hits me right in the feels.

I posted this in the everything else thread last month and no one shed a tear.... bunch of soulless bastards in that thread!!

(03-14-2018 08:32 AM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

[FilipSRB]

[eljeffster]

Pay Careful attention to 1:21

"He will not cry, so I cry for him"

[LeBaron]

The death of Barry Lyndon's son scene is the only scene that brought tears to my eyes

[Kish]

Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train

They'll be a special on RFK on Netflix before this month is over.

[Sam Malone]

There's a movie from 1988 called Stealing Home that the finale chokes me up each time I see it.

Mark Harmon is a washed-up baseball player who is called back home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/ first love (Jodie Foster) who had committed suicide. As he searches for what to do with them, he remembers the past and the relationship they had.

Harmon (one of my favorite actors) spends a good deal of the movie trying to figure out what to do with her ashes, but each time he thinks he has the answer, it doesn't pan out for some reason beyond his control.

And the relationship between he and Foster is explained in flashbacks.

Just when he's about to give up and give her remains back to her parents, the movie comes full circle and in a repeat of an earlier flashback:

... he finally knows where to spread her ashes.

The soundtrack by David Foster helps turn on the water works.

[Syberpunk]

I'm reading Michael J Fox's autobiography at the moment, what a decent legend (honestly looking for courage with my own different neurological condition which I got at a young age too) and I found this video:

Beyond brutal, I was thinking of putting this in the positivity thread about gratitude, but its a little too much sadness for there.

This gives me tears.

And because of reading the book, I remembered this scene and its absolutely magic, that peerless directing, voice, editing and orchestra, father steps in when all is in the balance although he doesn't know it, guarantees his (better) future (we don't this as of this point in the film, which is the surprise), his future family, Marty rockets back up to life and the dad gives him a wave across the dance floor, imagine your dad (or parents) waving too you at your own age, to know and see he was once a young man too.

[RIslander]

Grave of the Fireflies. Don't discredit it because it's animated... This film is powerful. It's a Japanese film about a teenage boy and his younger sister, who are orphaned after the Allied firebombing of Kobe in the dog days of WW2. The boy is tasked with protecting his kid sister... But it begins with a flashback where you see the boy dying of starvation so you know it's a tragedy.

There are English subtitles available in that video. Not only is a true story but it has some red pill themes. A boy, around 15, beginning to realize his own masculinity while his kid sister, around six, is entirely dependent on him for survival. But he himself is also dependent upon her, as she provides a feminine energy that motivates him to survive, despite the overwhelming cruelty and death around them.

One of my top ten films.

[Ruslan]

This movie gets me. I watch it only by myself.

[Roadrunner]

3:35 on is the Mcclellan-Benn story, Gut-wrenching.

[YoungBlade]

This song, no matter what version, gets me emotional. A song of my people, and one played at many funerals I've attended. It'll have to be played at mine.

Good night, and joy be with you all.