I just heard the song about the poor boy who wanted to buy shoes for his momma because he wanted her to be ready if she met jesus tonight. Its a country christmas song which i have been listening too all day without interuption of commercials :angel:
i also cried at casper the movie and sleepless in seattle and well i love tear jerkers its like a drug that takes me to a wonderful place
I put it here in the PMS zone for a change in direction and a focus on others with teary eyed love and not our own self interest which we do need to think about but at times its so nice to get out of self :)
It depends on how they pull the tear jerker off... I have a love/hate with the sneaky unexpected tear jerkers
When you know it's going to be a fictional sad story it kinda deflates the emotional aspect and turns it into a comedy
But when they toss in something that hits you in the gut and nearly gives you brain damage in the middle of a comedy that keeps you laughing and crying from beginning to end... That is masterful
Either way there's gonna be tears
What Hollywood has always done very well - at least when the get the right script and actors - is manufacture emotion.
Quote from: tekla on December 25, 2010, 03:39:08 PM
What Hollywood has always done very well - at least when the get the right script and actors - is manufacture emotion.
sheesh what a debbiedowner well to me it was my real emotion ..
tekla you say you are a teacher ??? those poor students oh my gawd so surgical your responces
but i am holding out hope for a spark of feelings from you :angel:
That's it's manipulable emotions, manufactured emotion does not mean it's not real emotion. When most of the people (at least the guys) went down to Civic Center Plaza to be extra's in the movie Milk (as we called it, being gay for pay for a day) we're all standing around, having a great time pigging out at Craft Services, and smoking pot when Sean Penn gets up, and doing his best Milk (like he was channeling him, because I heard the real deal more than once) starts to talk to all of us to set the mood he was going on about stuff near and dear to him, like helping New Orleans and ending the wars, but he was doing it as Harvey Milk. So he goes on for about 20 minutes before the director gets up on the bull horn and calls 'places' and 'rolling' and Penn does the real Harvey Milk speech from that day - though you only get a snippit of it in the move, he did the entire deal, But from the beginning of that speech (which you do see) the famous line "Hello, I'm Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you," that outpouring of emotion from the crowd was genuine. Manufactured, yeah sure - at a huge cost by the way, just filling all the parking at the Civic Center with period cars is a very expensive undertaking, not to mention paying all of us $90 to just be there, and at that we all ate about $20 easy from Craft Services* - and we all know it's being manipulated (which is why a huge number of the people there were from the arts/acting community in the bay area, the gay community, and just about every member of my union who was not working that shoot was there as an extra, which is just a union bonus in some ways), but it's still very real when it comes down to it. I saw a lot of people there who were in absolute tears because they HAD been there back in the day and our re-creation of it was every bit as 'real' as the original event in some ways, at least in the emotional sense for all of us there. It's called in theater terms 'suspension of disbelief.' And, when it's good - when it reaches something approaching art, it's just not the audience who has suspended that, it's pretty much everyone involved in the shooting.
Don't feel bad because your emotions are being manipulated for the sake of entertainment/commerce/art, indeed be happy they can be.
* - That little re-creation of Gay Liberation Day, what, about 5 minutes of the movie, cost them upwards of $350,000. Easy. I bet $80K just for the food that day.
But did you cry Tekla ???
All the time. When Emmy Lou Harris sings Angel from Montgomery, when John Prine sings Hello in There, when Carlos plays Samba Pa Ti, or Europa, when Al Green sings How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, when Warren Hanes plays Stella Blue - hell, I can't listen to the Grateful Dead do Brown Eyed-Women without crying and Jerry's been dead a decade and a half now.
I cried at the Cartier in America exhibit.
Quote from: tekla on December 26, 2010, 07:00:51 PM
All the time. When Emmy Lou Harris sings Angel from Montgomery, when John Prine sings Hello in There, when Carlos plays Samba Pa Ti, when Warren Hanes plays Stella Blue
Just to name a few. I can hear them in my head, and yeah, I'm tearing up now. I haven't heard those in quite some time it seems...
Thanks Tekla
Most tear jerkers can get to me, especially those that involve animals. I don't watch "Eight Below" unless I really want a breakdown and cry. Some of the love lost movies can get to me.
Music. Certain songs really tear me up. Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel" really gets to me.
I don't like them. My life is mess so I can't cope seeing the same on the big screen.
I prefer comedy, horror and action/adventure and sci-fi.
Quote from: Hermione01 on December 26, 2010, 11:37:29 PM
I don't like them. My life is mess so I can't cope seeing the same on the big screen.
I prefer comedy, horror and action/adventure and sci-fi.
WOW DOES THAT MEAN MY LIFE ISN'T A MESS wow ;D ;D ;D
Oh i just heard that song by olivia newton john "have you ever been mellow"
Olivia Newton-John Have You Never Been Mellow (Live 1975) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFQZyxxyyM#)
and another favorite of mine is by minne ripperton "Loving you"
loving you minnie riperton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg#)
I'm cuckoo for tearjerker movies. If you are too, check out http://www.filmsite.org/tearjerkers1.html (http://www.filmsite.org/tearjerkers1.html). Hope you find it useful enough to justify resurrecting an old topic.
I love tear jerkers, especially when they involve animals. I love "Eight Below".
Eight Below Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkoGlxVbLY#ws)
Quote from: Janet Lynn on April 03, 2011, 11:09:48 AM
I love tear jerkers, especially when they involve animals. I love "Eight Below".
I started to tear up just watching the trailer
Not really a big movie fan, but I can't watch Fly Away Home without a box of Kleenex. I'm tearing up now writing about it.
The funeral scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral - it's a killer.
Pre hrt I was a spigot add hrt and I'm now a fountain!
I just recently watched Ghost on tv, told myself I wouldn't cry, ya that didn't work :(
Ghost and Titanic have always been my favorite movies, I realize Titanic is considered a chick flick but I never thought Ghost was, I've been told different though.
I just watched the country video by Lady Antebellum for the song Hello World minutes ago, cried like a baby at the end. :'( :'(
Shelly
I cry at Lady Antebellum too, no doubt for a different reason.
Song for the Gypsies by Gay & Terry Woods always makes me bawl. It's about good times that have passed, and the line that does it is:
I'd like to say: Life felt so good that way!
I love that they sing about it with fierce pride, as well as sorrow. It reminds me of that Bowie song where he keeps repeating over and over "I want to live!"
http://www.yoxi.net/anitya/Gay_&_Terry_Woods-Song_For_The_Gypsies.mp3 (http://www.yoxi.net/anitya/Gay_&_Terry_Woods-Song_For_The_Gypsies.mp3) (sorry, couldn't find a youtubey-type version to post)
I cried when I watched The Fountain, a film by Darren Aronofsky. I also cried when watching Gattaca, a science fiction film.