List the things that have moved you...

[LadyW]

Have you ever read a book, listened to a song or perhaps watched a film that contains a passage, line, or scene that has conjured up a strong emotional feeling?

Here's a few I thought of:

Saving Private Ryan
Well... I suppose it's impossible to list every single part of this film that triggered some sort of emotion. However, the scene where John dies, and the small prayer by Abraham Lincoln is read aloud, I find particularly heart wrenching.

The Notebook
The scene in which Ally (as an elder with alzheimer's), once again forgets who Noah is; she panicks and screams for help, while he just weeps and begs her to remember him.

Greenday: Wake me up, When September Ends
It seems rather pointless me adding this to my list; for personal reasons I cannot begin to explain why this song brings a tear to my eye each time it's played.

Atonement
The marvellous scene at Dunkirk was absolutely breathtaking...
I felt a mixture of sadness and amazement.

[Jane Jane]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Les Miserables, the older movie, can't remember which year, Tess of the D'urbervilles, thought I would die from grief over that one.
Gollum's Song, that was so very heartrending and sad.
Let's see, a random book I read called The Gates of Zion. Anna Karenina moved me but not much for her or her lover, more for that poor son, first told by his papa that mama is dead; then she shows up on his birthday and he rejoices that she is alive. She is only allowed to stay a few minutes and then goes back to her lover, only to die by suicide later. Then the poor child must be told a second time that his beloved mama is dead. A real heart wringer.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Young Man with a Horn

Kirk Douglas plays Bix Beiderbeck at the height of his career. Having performed at a concert he goes out in search of some place to jam with other musicians or perhaps because he has heard that his mentor is in town.

He enters a rather seedy, very noisy restaurant-bar where everyone is too drunk to listen to the trumpeter who is playing for them. The trumpeter, played by Louis Armstrong, spots "Bix," summons him to stage and announces to the crowd that he has a treat for them, then steps aside for Bix to play.

After Bix has performed, Armstrong with a smile of pride on his face, puts his arm around him and announces to the crowd:

"I taught him how to hold that horn - but I didn't teach him how to play it!"

[aabbcc]

Though not quite sadness, there is extremely uncongenial feeling I get upon having listened entire Mozart's Requiem in one sitting. I do not get it if I missed some parts, or if I did something else whilst listening it; but on the whole, there is always a subtle development of something which I cannot name, but which reaches its end with the end of the music. I feel complete then, ready to die as well as ready to live, full of that inexplainable something, but not, in any way, sad or depressed - it is beyond that; but it is definitely "moving" far more than typical stuff which provoke sadness in me.

Whilst we are on music, on one live album of Pyx Lax, during the song named Όλο μ' αφήνεις να σ' αφήσω, right after the first stanza and chorus, during the pause and when the second stanza begins, there are a couple of chords played on piano which there aren't in the non-live versions, but which just... hit it. Inexplainable, it moves me totally.

Certain poems by Branko Miljković, which are really intranslatable, also have that something which moves me.

[Phosie]

La Vie En Rose I watched that movie last night, and it made me weep :(. It was really really sad, but excellent. I'd recommend it to anyone, french-speaking or no!

[mercy_mankind]

Have you ever read a book, listened to a song or perhaps watched a film that contains a passage, line, or scene that has conjured up a strong emotional feeling?



Books:
The holy Quran
All verses In Quran made me feel emotionaly , but there are particular verses that I love .


Songs
All sami yusuf's songs espicially Al Mua'lim ( The teacher).

Films
Oliver Twist , That poor child , oliver and all his struggles , that remember me with a lot of children who face and find evil around them , because of their parents' mistakes.

Thank you LadyW for your thread .
It is very sad.

[Dori]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky are the two main books that have moved me.

The beginning of the movie Death Sentence.

The movie A Walk to Remember (my mom made me watch it! :p).

I've never really experienced strong emotion while listening to music.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Though not quite sadness, there is extremely uncongenial feeling I get upon having listened entire Mozart's Requiem in one sitting. I do not get it if I missed some parts, or if I did something else whilst listening it; but on the whole, there is always a subtle development of something which I cannot name, but which reaches its end with the end of the music. I feel complete then, ready to die as well as ready to live, full of that inexplainable something, but not, in any way, sad or depressed - it is beyond that; but it is definitely "moving" far more than typical stuff which provoke sadness in me.

What a lovely account of your experience! My own history with this marvellous piece of music is that when I first heard it, the choral parts were sung by a choir of boy sopranos, and none of the recordings I have heard since - with female sopranos - has seemed to me to have such a chaste sound.

There is a string piece either by Schnitke or by Arvo Part that I would like to recommend to you but for the moment I don't have the name of it. If & when I identify it I hope to send you the name.

Among other favourites of mine are Strauss' "Four Last Songs," of which I own several performances,

[pussnboots]

I'm a sentimental wuss!!!
When I hear the song "To Dance With My Father" from Luther Vandross I get very teary eyed. It reminds me of my wedding day which my father was not able to attend since he was in the hospital.
Kodak commercials where they play in the background, "The Times of our Lives".
The book "Marley and Me"
The movie "Love Story"

[Annamariah]

I am the one who sometimes even cries because of sad TV commercials, so the list would be extremely long...

[aeroport]

There was a time, a couple years back, when I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth basically every day after school; it never fails. The last two movements in particular are each really quite overwhelming - and the Ode to Joy, especially after the previous 45-ish minutes of rather pessimistic and melancholy music, continues to blow me away.
Another is the Akt I prelude from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
And Alyoshka's speech in the final scene of The Brothers Karamazov.

[LadyWentworth]

The Notebook
The scene in which Ally (as an elder with alzheimer's), once again forgets who Noah is; she panicks and screams for help, while he just weeps and begs her to remember him.
Yes, that is a scene to do it for me!


I am the one who sometimes even cries because of sad TV commercials, so the list would be extremely long...
Then you probably wouldn't be able to handle the commercials for Hallmark Greeting Cards! They really do "get" to me sometimes! :p

A lot of things have "moved" me in my life, but only a few of them do it to me every single time that I experience them.

TV
*Little House on the Prairie
(Numerous episodes make me get all teary-eyed! Michael Landon is the best "crier" in the history of acting!)

Movies
*Field of Dreams
(there is NO reason for me to cry every single solitary time that I watch it! I know the scene is coming, I know the dialogue by heart and I still breakdown!)
*The Color Purple
(a total of 3 scenes - every time!)
*Glory
(just a very depressing and moving film at the same time)
*Beauty and the Beast
(YES! You read that right!)
*Brokeback Mountain
(that film is just utter heartbreak and frustration for me)
*The Big Parade
(a silent movie - it is the ending of the film when he comes back from war)
*City Lights
(Chaplin film - the ending - if you've seen it, you know what I am talking about)
*Finding Neverland
(an obvious tearjerker!)
*Now, Voyager
(Bette Davis film - a moment towards the end of the movie and it is NOT the moment that people consider the "classic" moment in the film - that actually doesn't do anything for me at all - it is something that takes place before that - just fantastic!)

Books
*Flowers for Algernon
*The Phantom of the Opera
(the very end of it is pretty depressing)
*All Quiet on the Western Front

Music - from musicals
*Sarah - "The Civil War"
(this is based on this heartbreaking letter that a man wrote to his wife before he died - the letter is probably the most beautiful letter I have ever read, and at the same time it is the most heartbreaking)
*Loving You - "Passion"
*For Good - "Wicked"
*Good Thing Going - "Merrily We Roll Along"
*Wheels of a Dream - "Ragtime"

There are just too many songs to list by artists. So I won't name any now because I wouldn't know where to begin or where to end. I will say that John Lennon is good for songs that really move me.

Honorable Mention
Mozart
(The man's music is just fantastic. Then there are times that it is so soft and beautiful that it literally brings tears to my eyes)

There is more. I know there is, but I think I have listed enough. :)
I do get "emotional" over "happy" things, too. Some of those things I have a few times, but not EVERY time as something that depresses me!

[dramasnot6]

I'm a sentimental wuss!!!


Me too!

Where to start?

A lot of poetry shakes my heart. Too much to even begin listing.
Rudyard Kipling's "If" sent me into tears the first time I read it. Tears don't happen often for me. Everytime I have read it afterwards, I am still moved.

[Pensive]

Am sentimental. List would be very long.

[aabbcc]

There is a string piece either by Schnitke or by Arvo Part that I would like to recommend to you but for the moment I don't have the name of it. If & when I identify it I hope to send you the name.
Please do. Thank you. :)

[papayahed]

This is pretty hokey but that one commercial around the D-day anniversary where the old guy and his grandson were walking on a beach and the kids asks something like how come you don't talk about it or something to that effect and the old guy says We didn't think anybody cared what we did here.

Oh and that damn ASPCA commercial with Sarah Mchalchlin (sp?) showing the animals. I have to turn it off when it comes on.

[LadyW]

The movie A Walk to Remember (my mom made me watch it! :p).
Of course she did Dori ;) *wink wink*
We believe you.
Hehehe, that's sweet all the same.

[LadyWentworth]

Oh and that damn ASPCA commercial with Sarah Mchalchlin (sp?) showing the animals. I have to turn it off when it comes on.
Yes, that is a bad one. The animals just look so sad. It is actually heartbreaking to watch that commercial.

[Dori]

Of course she did Dori ;) *wink wink*
We believe you.
Hehehe, that's sweet all the same.

Well, I might have watched it on my own will a few times after my mom made me...:D The first time I watched it, I felt somewhat awkward sitting in a room full of crying women. :rolleyes: