A question of sentiment, maybe . . .

[Robbie]

ET has the same effect on me Gabriella.

[Rhiannon]

And me. I’d just started secondary school and my mother was away in the States for a month on business. My dad got a pirate copy of ET before it was released in the hope it’d help me cope. It didn’t.

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

Glad it’s not just me!! My kids didn’t cry at that scene when I got them to watch ET.

I seem to have got worse as I get older. I find myself chocking up at heroic scenes where the person or people the director wants you to root for is losing and then is suddenly saved by some unexpected heroic gesture, accompanied by rousing music in the background and great cinematography or a close-up.

Plus of course in sentimental, emotional scenes, usually involving children. So these days pretty much at least one scene from most movies then. Apart from most Avengers movies - though there were a couple of scenes in Infinity Wars... 

[Rhiannon]

Ghost got to me when it came out. I suspect that now I’d cry with laughter.

I nearly had a bit of a blub yesterday at the Frasier episode where Niles has heart surgery. I’m much more likely to cry at something to do with relationships and the poignancy of life than anything else these days.

[Nearly Sane]

When I go to Kelvingrove Art Gallery, I cry looking at my favourite painting Rembrandt 's Man in Armour. I've been going to see the painting for over 40 years and what has always seemed to me to be a painting about the acceptance of time and fate, gets more poignant as I have aged up to and I assume now well past the age of the subject. The painting has become imbued with my relationship with it which mirrors the very thing I loved about it in the first place.

[Rhiannon]

Oh goodness how could I forget... I think I’ve posted about this before but my niagra falls moment is at the end of Tom’s Midnight Garden when Tom realised that the old lady upstairs is in fact Hetty; he sees through her age and realises she’s still the same mischievous, spirited girl that he played with in the garden when the clock struck thirteen. Something about how Phillipa Pearce write that scene...gets me every single time. We age but inside we stay the same. Pass me a tissue.

[Nearly Sane]

Oh goodness how could I forget... I think I’ve posted about this before but my niagra falls moment is at the end of Tom’s Midnight Garden when Tom realised that the old lady upstairs is in fact Hetty; he sees through her age and realises she’s still the same mischievous, spirited girl that he played with in the garden when the clock struck thirteen. Something about how Phillipa Pearce write that scene...gets me every single time. We age but inside we stay the same. Pass me a tissue.

IIRC this is ripped off in Hook with Peter (grown up into Robin Williams) recognising the much older Wendy. It's one of the few things that has any resonance in the film.

[ippy]

 I avoid watching listening or reading where anything bad happens to a dog because it absolutely cracks me up into small pieces, it's something I can't take.

I've also noticed certain pieces of music I've enjoyed in the past now make my eyes water with the occasional tear down the cheek, this seems to be happening to me more often as I get older, a side effect of old gitism no doubt.

Regards ippy

[Robbie]

I'm like that with music too, not just classical. I become quite emotional when I hear the Proclaimers singing 'Five hundred miles'.

[ippy]

I'm like that with music too, not just classical. I become quite emotional when I hear the Proclaimers singing 'Five hundred miles'.

Old black guys playing the blues.

Regards ippy

[Nearly Sane]

Old black guys playing the blues.

Regards ippy

Scrolling past and not completely concentrating on thread titles, I thought that this might be a clue in the crosswords thread. Having realised it isn't then I completely get what you mean. Though for me it's probably women singing the blues that affects me more

[bluehillside Retd.]

ipster,

Old black guys playing the blues.

It's old blue guys playing the blacks for me.

Does the reveal part at the end of DIY SOS count?

[Nearly Sane]

I've posted this before in the Music thread and noted that it always makes me cry.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMUqhofLGw

[Nearly Sane]

As indeed does this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6wZNBLOY0

[Gordon]

Thought a mention for the Bonzo's 'Can Blue Men Sing the Whites' was called for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-TVrR8wZc&list=RDGw-TVrR8wZc&index=1

[Gordon]

As indeed does this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6wZNBLOY0

Yes - this is stunning and incredibly moving.

[Rhiannon]

As indeed does this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6wZNBLOY0

Used to sing this to my kids at sleep time. 

[ippy]

ipster,

It's old blue guys playing the blacks for me.

Does the reveal part at the end of DIY SOS count?

Blue

I'll guess, Tommy's prog and is it some form of play out, I've not noticed if it is.

Spotify, Blues, every play is as good as the last, ad infinitum.

 Regards ippy

[Owlswing]

I cried when Heather died in Highlander.

Yeah, that's another one on my list too!

[Owlswing]

I've also noticed certain pieces of music I've enjoyed in the past now make my eyes water with the occasional tear down the cheek, this seems to be happening to me more often as I get older, a side effect of old gitism no doubt.

Regards ippy

Ditto! I think you may be right

One thing that always got me right in the tear-ducts was the entry of the Chelsea Pensioners at the Festival of Rememberance at the Albert Hall on the Saturday immediately before Remembrance Sunday.

No longer having a TV I no longer suffer, thankfully.

[Harrowby Hall]

The final few moments of ET certainly. And moments in the wonderful Studio Ghibli film When Marnie Was There.

I saw the 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story -  Sofia Escobar was a vulnerable, fragile Maria (quite different from the strong Natalie Wood in the film adaptation) - Maria's outburst before the body of Tony is carried away moved me. I heard a performance in Symphony Hall of the Symphonic Dances a few years ago and there was a kind of stunned silence of several seconds before there was any applause. I might add that whenever I see the film adaptation I undergo something rather orgasmic during the first few bars when the film begins.

I am always moved to tears by the Angel's Farewell at the end of Gerontius. But then, I have been sitting through 90 minutes of Elgar's wonderful orchestral and choral imagination. And the final In Paradisum from Faure's sublime Requiem. But perhaps that might also be something to do with my insisting that it was played at then of the funerals of my wonderful wife and my dear, dear friend Angela.