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Uplifting Movie Moments
The interesting thread about shocking movie moments has prompted me to start one about those moments that have the opposite effect. The ones that bring laughter, a contented sigh, a restoration in your faith in humanity or some other life affirming emotional impulse.
We've all seen James Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life" when he realises the townspeople have rallied round to help him out of his debt problem and we've given the thumbs up when Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are reunited on the beach in "Shawshank Redemption". These are timeless classics.
The one movie that moves me every time I see it is "Amelie" the enchanting tale of a young girl motivated to bring a little ray of sunshine to the lives of her friends and neighbours. I can't find the right superlatives to describe Audrey Tatou's performance in that film. Every expression in those beautiful dark eyes and interaction with the other characters keeps me grinning like an idiot for 2 hours. Why is that? I'm a 45 y old bloke who listens to hard rock and drinks like a fish for gawd sake. Get a grip man.
Anyway, thats just me, any other uplifting moments?
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When Chief Bromden
lifts McMurphy's sink and throws it through the window to escape from the asylum.
Same movie but different scene
When the Chief receives a stick of chewing gum and mutters 'thanks'. The first time we hear him speak.
Also,I have posted it on here before but when Paul Newman in Cool hand luke gets news of his mums death and sits on his bed playing the banjo.
'Makes a grown man' cry was invented for this scene.
The royal Albert hall scene
At the end of Brassed Off, love that film so much.
the duelling scene in Crossroads
When Ralph Machio (Ry Cooder) goes all classical on Steve Vai's satanic ass.
The game of football at the end of Lukas Moodyson's Together, culminating in THAT kiss.
Sorry, but when John Williams and Steven Spielberg raise Elliot and ET skywards.
Tom Hulce's Quasimodo singing Out There in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame
Rocky II 'You wished it, I did it!'
It's beautiful when music, the right music,can yank out those happy tears.....
Shawshank Redemption
The hole behind the poster.
Alvin finally reaches his brothers place
in the Straight Story. The love of two brothers still shows even though they haven't spoken for years. (I'm tearing up just thinking about it).
Watched that with my other
Watched that with my other half and her mum...not a dry eye in the house
Cool Runnings
When the sled breaks and they finish on foot.
Field Of Dreams
The end scene when Kevin Costner is playing baseball with **************, ace endind to an ace film
Tiny Dancer
Not a big fan of ol' Reg, but this did it for me.
"I have to go home"
"You are home".
Corny as hell...
Mainly for Max von Sydow getting up afterwards and clapping.
TiIlsammans
the football scene at the end.
Ingrid kisses Humph in 'Casablanca'...
Yes.
Schindler's List
The ending where the survivors visit Schindler's grave.
End of Juno
The Dude Abides.
I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.
Saw this film recently on a long haul flight
Having somehow missed it - an omission of which I was conscious but never quite got round to resolving. Enough of my diary which is of neither relative nor absolute importance.. :-)
Absolutely howled laughing throughout and agree - completely life-affirming and Julianne Moore is profoundly attractive too. It could have been a dry genre joke - aged hippy caught up in 'The Big Sleep' instead of a cynical gumshoe - but its so so SO funny partly because Jeff Bridges and John Goodman are so brilliant but also because the Coens aren't afraid of slapstick.
Good call
A Matter Of Life And Death
When Niven commands her to get on the stairway to heaven. Wonderful film in any case but more so to me because its my fathers favourite and my god its 70 years old now - another world perhaps (appropriately enough). My god the emotions they must have all been struggling with when making it - even more so since the ogres we seem to be dealing with on here are Jeremy Clarkson, Michael MacIntyre and the problems we have with Bono's self mythologising. And double apologies if this is trite.
A couple which spring to my mind
A Night At The Opera - for complicated (and frankly irrelevant) plot reasons, the Marx Brothers must disrupt a formal opera performance - the best moment is when they trick the orchestra into playing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and Groucho starts selling nuts while Chico & Harpo play catch in the orchestra pit
Spinal Tap - when David beckons Nigel to come back on stage at the end, and the three of them are playing side by side again.
Black Cat, White Cat
I can't pick a single moment from this - simply one of the most life-affirming films I've ever seen, without being cloying or mawkish. Refreshingly demented too.
Another vote for "Amelie" as well. But "A Very Long Engagement" did it for me too.
The very end of City Lights
The girl sees the tramp and it ends. Whatever happened next would have ruined the film, Chaplin stops things at exactly the right point.
In the same film, the boxing match is sublime.
That is what comedy genius looks like
In its purest form.
Predictable I know
Party on dudes!