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Sad scenes that are visually distinct?

posted 2 years ago by dmc2617 (10)
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What are some sad scenes that are visually distinct? A lot of sad scenes is just two persons talking or someone crying in their bedroom, but there must be some more aesthetic or visually memorable ones?

ET - when Elliot is observing him at the hospital.
The Fox and the Hound - when the old woman is dropping off the fox in the forest
Titanic - Rose and Jack amongst the ice blocks
Three colors: Blue - When Julie stands in the blue room, then searching for a letter, hearing someone crying in the kitchen.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

Welcome to MC👍

Shane.
When little Joey cries out to an injured Shane to ‘come back, Shane, come back!’ but Shane rides off to parts unknown.

Rocky IV.
The death of Apollo Creed and his face crashing to the mat. That made me sad and angry. I was so happy that Rocky beat that Russian bastard up in the end!

Old Yeller.
Talk about the most traumatic introduction to manhood and responsibility ever, sheesh.
This movie can make a grown man shed a tear.

[–] Boromir (10009) 2 years ago

For me, Shane ending is one of the most beautiful ending of all time, such an amazing cinematography, they succeed to capture the sadness in that situation.

The same with the scene in Three colors: Blue that dmc2617 mention.

From top of my head, I think of Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind standing in the beach alone.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

The iconic Hollywood image of the gunslinger riding off into the darkening wilderness with hardly a word exchanged…It’s the way such stories must end. Shane wasn’t settling into farming or goat herding, he was bound to die in a gunfight and he was going off to find it.

Great movie.

[–] jacotodd47 (1843) 2 years ago

How about the ending of "Hachi:a Dogs Tale"? When Hachi imagines his owner (RIchard Gere) finally showing up at the train station again. It's an incredibly emotional scene. All visual, no words are spoken.

[–] dmc2617 (10) 2 years ago

Excellent suggestion. Yes, Hachi seeing the lights, and then reuniting with the owner makes crying inevitable
The scene near the middle of the film where Hachi is waiting outside the train station and day changes to night is also amazing.
Noticed the original was written by Kaneto Shindo, which makes sense, becuase it has such an effective, visual storytelling.

[–] rex (2828) 2 years ago

new jersey drive - park scene at dusk (always wanted a Poster of the scene)

[–] nyctc7 (43609) 2 years ago

Spartacus - Final scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cXyGVsUjs
Platoon - Death of Sgt. Elias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEv3zzKyiFQ
Forrest Gump - Bubba dies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1WSkujkFw
West Side Story - Tony's Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGtD5QAaAGY
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Final scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geOqbM03Hf0

[–] dmc2617 (10) 2 years ago

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! I will check out each one as I am collating these scenes.

Ozu's Late Spring has a classic sad scene too when the father is sitting on a chair peeling an apple, doesn't sound like much perhaps, but very fitting and emotional.

Woody being put on the dusty shelves in Toy Story 2 is another good one.

The film Her has a good sequence in which Theodore first has his earbuds on, getting rejected by the AI, then wandering across the city and it looks like the big predator bird on the billboard ad is catching him.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

Bladerunner: the final moments when Batty makes a very humane decision and spares his hunter. The rain is pouring down, it’s pitch black night and the great Rutger Hauer delivers that monologue!

‘…like tears in the rain…time to die.’

I’ve read that Hauer wrote those lines.

[–] dmc2617 (10) 2 years ago

Great suggestion! Very atmospheric scene, and the lines are evocative.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38136) 2 years ago

The beginning of Up (2009) when the couple realise that they can’t have children.

[–] Boromir (10009) 2 years ago

Too many spoilers in this thread, we need to be more careful.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38136) 2 years ago

I absolutely abhor spoilers, but to be fair, the title of the thread makes it quite clear that this is a spoiler fest.

[–] Boromir (10009) 2 years ago

Just to be clear, by "we" I blame myself also.

The off-topic pick scenes that are barely a spoiler.
After that, me and others, selected scenes that clearly ruin the enjoyment of the film for those who have not watched it.

If you choose only text, use the spoiler formatting option. If you added YouTube link, why the spoiler, it's enough to mention the movie title.

There is no good reason not to used the spoiler formatting option. Why we almost didn't do that at that site?!? it's right there.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38136) 2 years ago

If I include a spoiler in a normal thread, then I use the spoiler formatting (I actually used it once for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is over 50 years old), however, on this occasion, I felt that a thread asking to describe specific scenes in films would be a spoiler warning in itself.

[–] Boromir (10009) 2 years ago

I am not sure you right, we can describe scenes and used spoiler formatting. I am not seen any problems with that. At least with death scenes.