Reporting For Duty
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Categories
The Crying Game
I listened to the Danny Baker show last Saturday on 5 Live (in the uk ) and one the the themes to discuss was the first fictional character that made you cry. His own choice was the death of Tracy in OHMSS which is a choice of pure class. For myself, Spock's death in TWOK gets me every time and more so now the great man has gone. Anyone else have any nominations?
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Hmmm... let me think...
I guess the first would be when I was a kid, seeing Kirk holding McCoy back in City On The Edge Of Forever, and the look on Kirk's face.
God alone only knows what the Wizard Ofice will make of me for letting that fact out but.
TV, even watching " For the love of cars" ( a documentary on restoring classic cars).
Last week a bloke sending off his old police car, started crying on saying goodbye to
It. Next thing my eyes are tearing up. :)) I guess I'm just a big softie. :D
Well, when Harry Stamper sacrifices himself to save Earth, I lose it. Actually, when Bond saves Wai Lin from drowning I tear up a tiny bit too- but that's probably the hyper-emotional score kicking in at that moment though.
Then of course, Tracy.
The end of Somewhere In Time makes me cry like a girl.
Also, Once Upon a Time. Several episodes made me cry, most notably
I cried like a baby in front of the whole family. The wife has never let me forget.
Like you @Tokoloshe, I got quite emotional during the montage of Carl and his wife, going through their life together. And that musical cue, that played through it. When will we get to hear Michael Giacchino score a Bond movie?
When Fred died in Angel Season Five, and the reaction to Jenny's death by Giles, Buffy and Willow, in BuffytVS Season 2, always makes me tear up.
My son cried during the scene where Tim and Dumbo got drunk and started hallucinating, but that was because he got scared. :P
Started shaking and tears streamed down my face ....... I hadn't laughed so much in
Years. :D
Yes, I can be the same. It's hard for a man to admit that though. And yes, I quite forgot to mention that the end of OHMSS does affect me more deeply than the ending of any other Bond film. It remains my favourite of the series.
But why should it be hard for a man? For a young boy, sure. It goes with the territory, the expectations, imagined or not.
Well, to some women it seems weak. It seems weak to many men no doubt too. British resolve, the stiff upper lip and all that jazz.
It wasn't the whole first ten minutes, though, right? But I know what you are talking about. Yes...touching and heart-wrenching.
The subject is interesting though - not necessarily "the first" part of it, but in general.
Sometimes the moments the tears come can be a bit surprising. It's not like there has to be anything obviously sad happening at that moment. One such moment that comes to mind for me would be in 3:10 To Yuma (2007) when Dan Evans and Ben Wade (such a great pair) are running across the rooftops... that's when I started crying the first time I watched the movie and then just kept at it the rest of the movie,
(And btw, I love that movie... and Marco Beltrami's soundtrack.)
I find it interesting that tears can be considered a sign of weakness for men, except when it comes to sport, apparently. :P Seriously speaking though, anyone (woman or man) who thinks tears = weak is, in my opinion, an idiot, and the gender of the person crying has nothing to do with it. I've never understood why men aren't supposed to cry, it makes zero sense. Personally I think being man enough to cry can actually be very attractive, unlike the stone faced stiff upper lip crap - just guess which chap most women would more likely want to wrap their arms around? ;) Being vulnerable is not the same as being weak. (A whimpering, self-pitying, cry-baby obviously wouldn't be attractive.)
When it comes to crying when watching movies, it means a person is able to identify with the characters and what's happening in their world, and feel for them. That ability suggests capacity for empathy in real life, too. Which, obviously, is a good thing.
"l told you. You see your fathers? What´s my name? - Bernardo- Bernardo! - You´re damn right."
plus the final scene when Chris and Vin ride out of the village leaving four of the best friend's buried in the village.
"The old man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose."
God, I'm welling up just typing it in, what a baby
(and to add a third, Arnie's death in T2)