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Yeh but thats the funniest bit of the movie.Quote:
Originally posted by Shea
My ex-fiance laughed when Gandalf fell off the bridge too. Totally ruined the movie for me. We were in a theatre and I was so embarrassed.
"fly... you fools!"
Is that even what he says?
I thought he either said "Hurry, you fools" or "Run, you fools."
No, I cried so hard at that! Actually, I didn't cry until they were all walking around in the snow, all stunned. And either Aragorn or Boromir is like, "give them a moment, for god's sake," or something. And Aragorn was just staring, all mournful and stoic. THEN I cried.
wait... you guys cried for the movie, but not the book? ..... :-/
kik gollum is strangly appealing due to his eyes. And I laughed so loud during his monolgue I disrupted the people next to me, although that may have been due to the pain killers I had scarfed before viewing the movie, or was that the third one? I don't rememeber I wonder why? I am almost inclined to put a smiley face here, almost.
I read the books, but unfortunately, I read them so fast in order to read them before watching the movies, that I can't remember a whole lot. I don't think I grasped it well. I kick myself for that.:mad:Quote:
Originally posted by imthefoolonthehill
wait... you guys cried for the movie, but not the book? ..... :-/
Lolita and Em, Gandalf does say "fly, you fools", but I don't understand how that's funny, Lolita. It's his last bit of instruction before he "dies" to help them to save their own lives by running. That's why Aragorn wouldn't "give them a moment." Where's the humor?:confused:
The way he says it.
Well I thought it was funny so ner.
I didn't mean to sound accusative, I just really didn't appreciate or understand why my ex-fiance did that. He did a lot of things I didn't appreciate. Which is why he's an ex-.
Sorry, the association was bad.
Fool, see my first post on this thread! I bawled my eyes out at the books.
I remember having cried to one of Pushkin's "Belkin's stories", or whatever you call them in English...but I can't translate the title :eek:
Recently I read another Russian short story that made me cry cos it was sweet... (but that day even the tv magazine might have made me cry :D)
It's weird how I can't remember any big books I cried to. Maybe I cried less than I think:eek: :eek: :eek:
I forgot about my first book that made me cry.
I started reading at 8. My first book was adult novel, about how was established Soviet republic in Azerbaijan. And there was a scene at the end where a husband killed his wife because of she took out of hijab and attended to school. I read it under the table (took the book without permission) and this sad scene made me cry. I cried bitterly, but in unvoiced, in order to keep my place in secret.
as I started with crying, I think I deserve first award of this thread.
LoL I think you do. :D What an introduction to literature! Poor you. :(
I read 'Le Grand Maulnes' by Alan Fournier last night which has a pretty sad ending. Also quite frustrating in that you want to grab a few of the characters and give them a slap and some sense. good read though.
There are points in LOTR that made me tear up. Both the book and the movie. Like at the end of the movie where everyone bows to the 4 hobbits. I can get teary-eyed thinking about it.
I'm a big fan of the Dragonlance Saga and after reading pretty much every book written previous to it and then reading Dragons of Summer Flame the end made me cry.
*wells up*
I think Pippin's song, in the film, made me a bit blurry eyed.
Some girlie cries ...
On the Occasion of my Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
This book was torturous in that I became more and more depressed as I read. By the end, I was crying so hard I couldn't breathe and had to stop and catch my breath before I went on. I never got this messy reading a book before.
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Incredible story, but again, so depressing.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
If you're not in tears for at least one part of this (I won't tell you which), you're made of steel.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Standard tearjerker. I love the movie, too, and am usually in tears from about five minutes into it until the closing credits.
Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by simon
But a few books and movies really upset me at the time: eg, The Razor's Edge (S. Maugham), Rebecca (D. du Maurier), 1984 (G. Orwell), Christ Recrucified (N. Kazantzakis)...
and the closing scenes in "Titanic".
Ethan Frome and Lust For Life made me cry deeply. Unrequited love always gets to me. Speaking of which.......
A couple of books have made me cry. The only one I can remember right now i Gone with the wind. Ive never cried like that over a book. It was ofcource in the end that I cried. I was just so much into the book, I mean really absorbed. I really expected Scartlett to get Rhett, and then she didnt... oh mygod. So sad. There is some negative things about that book, but Mitchell has surely managed to write it well.
Well I knew from the movie that Scarlet (can you tell me why oh why here she's called Rossella??? Why translating names???) wouldnt get Rhett (who remains Rhett...), but the book made me cry more than the movie anyway... I remember especially the fact of how she realised that Melanie (was this the name?) was a source of strength to her, while she had ated her all the time... and how she realised it only when she dies... And how she FINALLY understand that she doesn't love that gayly-named ;) Ashely, but that wonderful Rhett...hmmm... I wanna see the movie again. LOL I detest romantic movies, this is the only one I like.
Gone with the Wind is the only romantic movie I ever got into, too.
I was reading a book today, and I don't know why but this one scene almost made me cry. It's called "Priestess of Avalon" and in the scene the main characters "man" marries another woman for the sake of the empire. Yes, it sounds really silly, but I am really into that book so I felt bad for her.
Books/plays: Crowley's Little, Big Every time. Every freakin' time.
Walker The Color Purple (But only at the final line in the novel!)
"Our Town" Honest. The ending is holy.
Films: Itami's "The Funeral"
"Little Big Man" in a couple of scenes
Pretty much everything that George Lucas has a hand in makes me cry. Hearing that another Star Wars is in production makes me weep uncontrollably.
There's that book that I recommended in the Unrequited Love thread, called sthg like 'story of a redcap', which is a great source of tears...it's very short, but it's about a girl who goes mad about a guy. Really, mad, at some point the matter is not really the guy, but how mad she is...
Hunchback. (said with a thud.)
actually, i didn't cry, i just wanted to. it was too deep for tears; quasimodo's devotion was heart-wrenching.
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oh man you all are going to laugh, but I'm one of those girls that cries at everything. Ok maybe not everything, but if a book is emotional don't worry I'm probably in tears. :bawling: I'm such a dork. Movies I'll bawl at. I even cry for kodak commercials :rolleyes: I'm such an idiot. oh well. But if I can get so involved in the book that I'm feeling as the characters feel then it is a good book.
Love to Read, do not feel bad, I'm the same way.
Last night I started crying while reading the Musketeers book Twenty Years After when I came to the part where King Charles dies. My husband asked me what was wrong and I told him. He asked me "But isn't that what really happened to the King?" I said yes. He asked me "How can you cry at this? You have a degree in history, you focused on European History, You KNEW he was going to die!" Then I just felt stupid.
Geez, I do cry easy.
I do not always, necessarily, cry from a book's sadness, but more often its stunning beauty, hence some of these books and poems do not entirely seem depressing:
Sons and Lovers, "Piano," "After the Opera," and "Sigh No More" by D.H. Lawrence,
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri,
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf,
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë,
Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld,
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism in Ordinary Experiences by James Carse,
"Endymion" by John Keats,
"The Triumph of Life" by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Titus Andronicus and "Sonnet LXXV" by William Shakespeare,
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, and most poetry by Henry David Thoreau,
much other poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, Sylvia Plath, and William Ellery Channing.
Yikes, what a list! :eek:
Okay, I gotta confess, all the lists above contained a book or two that affected me deeply, and Mono's comment about some things that are stunningly beautiful also hit home with my tear machine.But of all the books/movies listed here, the one that made me cry like a baby from sheer frustration and a sense of helplessness was "Little Big Man." The senseless slaughter of a people has that effect on me........
Oh, and in my exceedingly long list of books and poems, I forgot to add a numerous number of poems by Rumi. :)
Of Mice and Men made me cry. It wasn't such a great book but a really powerful ending.
Lord of the Rings.
A walk to Remember.
and loads of others that i can't think of.
Yeah, 'Of Mice...' got me too. 'The Butcher Boy' by Patrick McCabe was the last one to get me. Luckily I read it whilst by a pool in France - if it was deepest winter in Yorkshire I don't know how I would have got through! Thoroughly recommended though - amazing book.
Books:
The Grapes of Wrath
A Farewell to Arms
Movies:
Braveheart
Finding Neverland
I seem to cry more over films than books. The last film that made me cry was Otto Preminger's 'Exodus' about the formation of the State of Israel in the mid 20th Century. It was unlike any other crying in a movie I've ever had because what got to me was the painful contrast between the idealism of the characters (both Arab and Jew) in the film and the horror of the situation now. I knew I cared about this, but never knew I cared this much. It wasn't just a few tears either. I really blubbed.
Oh yeah! "Catcher in the Rye" got me going where he describes his brothers glove and then just dismisses it. It shows how much emotion there is and how trapped he feels, but even then he can't bring himself to talk about it. The ending to got me! I can't really describe it. It makes sense to me!
J.D. Salinger's writing in The Catcher in the Rye also touched me throughout the story, particularly the part where Holden Caulfield sneaks into his old house and visits his younger, very clever sister, Phoebe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
The ending was kind of confusing to that, but after I went back to it I understood and thought that I just really connected with the book. It's definately goning to sty with me forever and be one of those that I read all the time! I felt so sorry for him when he ordered that prostitute I was willing him not to go thrugh with it!
Catcher in the Rye had me close...very close
Clare's War by Anita Burgh
The only book to ever make me cry is The Dark Tower. Am I the only one?
Little Women
Dr. Zhivago
Return of the King LOTR
Mice and Men
The Talented Mr.Ripley
Ripley's Game
The Colour Purple
Rebecca
Anil's Ghost
I could go on for ever, but I'll just stop here.......