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BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES
rtprod:
--- Quote from: JudeW on May 19, 2006, 05:36:32 pm ---Ever since I got my DVD I watched it several times... But only ever until the 2nd tent scene (I hate the sudden jump everytime a little more, from when we see fun-wrestling Ennis and Jack change to Aguirre's face and the binoculars..). Then I fast forward to the reunion scene.. I haven't made it past that scene. So for over a month or more now, I haven't watched/seen the gut-wrentching scenes and other sad moments. Too scared..
However, I can watch the first very silent 8 minutes over and over... ;) From the very first notes of Santaolalla's score to when Ennis and Jack bond in the bar.
For 12 years now, I haven't dared to watch "Schindler's List" again. In 1994 I went the day it was released (in Madrid) in a packed! cinema. After the film, when the whole crowd left the theatre, there was not one single noise. The crowd was dead silent..
I never got beyond this one scene at the very beginning of "The Pianist" (with Adrian Brody) - spoiler ahead - when they push the old man in a wheelchair out of the window........... Just can't watch it again, or the rest of the film.
~ j U d E
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Oh, yes, The Pianist. This is the first moment when the impending storm becomes real to Brody and his family.
Another one from me:
Timothy Hutton's reaction and conversation with Judd Hirsch after Dinah Manoff commits suicide in Ordinary People.
Front-Ranger:
One thing I noticed is that I can't watch the reunion scene without watching the four-year fourplay before it. The scene just doesn't work out of context.
Another scene in a movie that hit me the same way was the end of McCabe and Mrs. Miller, when Julie Christie smokes a hash pipe.
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote ---Timothy Hutton's reaction and conversation with Judd Hirsch after Dinah Manoff commits suicide in Ordinary People
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TOTALLY!! I was thinking about this too!! I love this movie! It was on again the other day here (but dubbed..) and so far I haven't managed to tape it (in English). I guess I'll order it over amazon very soon. It is a beautiful film, great performances. The scenes between Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton are excellent. Especially the one you mentioned!
And there is also "The Killing Fields".. Can't pick one single scene though.
~ j U d E
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 19, 2006, 05:53:46 pm ---One thing I noticed is that I can't watch the reunion scene without watching the four-year fourplay before it. The scene just doesn't work out of context.
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So true! Funny, isn't this the scene that Heath and Jake had to do at the very beginning, when shooting started? Totally out of context there too. I'm amazed again and again by their stellar performance!
~ j U d E
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 19, 2006, 04:42:15 pm ---I think I may have mentioned that I have only seen my DVD twice
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Oops! Sorry, rt, you're right. I missed that detail in your previous post.
OK, I'll keep trying to think of equally moving movies, but I don't know if I'll be successful. As I said, I hate to pit Jack and Ennis' tragedy against that of genocide. Of course I was devastated by Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, The Pianist, The Killing Fields, Hotel Rwanda ... but in a different way. Maybe it's the difference between being heartbroken and being horrified.
If you limited it to love stories that are equally sad, I'm pretty sure there aren't any. (The ending of Sophie's Choice is sad in that way, but not as.) Or maybe I am just lacking in cinematic compassion?
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