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Most moving scene

posted 15 years ago by heymanitschels
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When Brick and Big Daddy are in the celler and are dicussing big Daddy's father, who was a boxcar tramp.
This moment never ceases to bring tears to my eyes when Big Daddy tells Brick how he loved his father more then he ever loved anything.
At first he speaks of the shame he felt, as a child, of his father.
He also says how his father never left him anything of significance.
But Brick tells him that he did leave him something and that was love.
I just thought it was just a wonderful moment between Brick and Big Daddy because your were able to see the softer side to Big Daddy.

[–] budikavlan 15 years ago

That's my favorite scene, too. That one scene alone is 100 times more valuable than Field of Dreams, which is highly overrated in the Sons and Fathers Pantheon.

[–] mariahfan-1 15 years ago

that is one of the most moving scenes but I feel the most moving is the very end when Maggie claims to be pregnant with Bricks baby if you look at Paul's eyes in that scene you'll vividly see they aren't the bright piercing azzure blue they usually are as little tears are starting to well up cause after all he'd had to leave Joanne in London after she lost the baby so even though it's movie and fake pregnancy for him hearing those words again had to bring back joy if bittersweetly cause he'd probably been ecstatic when his beloved had told him she was expecting their first child only to have his heart shattered when she miscarried the baby

"why are you married to him then if you can't work with him how do you live with him?"

[–] Scorpion_Deathlock 13 years ago

Yeah he loved that old tramp! But seriously, best scene in the movie with their back-and-forth dialogue!

"He was a mixture of something, but he was hot blooded and his loins were on fire". About AC Slater

[–] mariahfan-1 13 years ago

if Your calling Joanne a tramp ouch that's rough just because they cohabitated before he was divorced doesn't make her a tramp he was atracted to her the first time they met

"why are you married to him then if you can't work with him how do you live with him?"

[–] Scorpion_Deathlock 13 years ago

I meant big daddy loved his father, the countryside tramp! LOL, but fun post anyhow! :)

"He was a mixture of something, but he was hot blooded and his loins were on fire". About AC Slater

[–] mariahfan-1 13 years ago

thanks for the Clarification

"why are you married to him then if you can't work with him how do you live with him?"

[–] alisotom 11 years ago

my favorite scene would have been if Maggie had "accidently" pushed any one or more on those no-necked monsters down the stairway. i wonder how Tennessee Wiiliams really felt about children.