The Friday Five
A few week ago I made a big deal about starting The Friday Five. What I forgot to tell you is that I have commitment issues. Needless to say, a few Fridays have passed now with no Friday Five. I’d make today The Friday Fifteen to make up for my absence, but that would seriously bore you.
Top five movie scenes that make me cry:
One: Eulogy in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Two: Dumbo. All of it. Oh my god, that movie should be outlawed. When Dumbo’s mother is taken away to the circus and is all locked up behind bars and starts to wildly trumpet in pain. Then, when she is saying goodbye to Dumbo, stroking him with her trunk through the cage. UGH!
Three: The end of Where The Red Fern Grows when the boy visits the graves of his dead dogs and sees the red fern growing over them both.
Four: Steel Magnolias - two scenes make me cry every time. The one where Sally Field is in the hospital visiting Shelby and she refuses to leave, desperately showing her old photographs, crying and talking to her in her coma. And the one at the end where she breaks down at the funeral, screaming, “Daughters are supposed to outlive their mothers!” Oh my gosh, I almost started crying just now!
Five: This scene in Blade Runner.
March 23rd, 2007 13:14
I lpve Dumbo but really - why do Disney movies always have a mom that dies when they are young?! That is so sad and frankly, kind of warped… Love the Friday 5, keep it up!
March 23rd, 2007 14:48
Where the Red Fern Grows turns me into a slobbering cry baby every single time I read the book and watch the movie.
March 23rd, 2007 20:59
seriously, i start to cry as soon as i come across ’steel magnolias’ on the television listing. i’m a blubbering idiot. my husband could walk into a room and find me in a fit on the couch and simply say ’steel magnolias, huh?’ that’s all it takes.
March 24th, 2007 01:25
Oh, I’m so with you on the Steel Magnolias. :(
Can you believe that I’ve never seen Dumbo?
March 27th, 2007 13:10
a fine set of choices (except i have to admit that i’ve never seen steel magnolias - shock horror!)
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March 28th, 2007 22:41
Why, why, WHY! I can’t even watch the last hour of steel magnolias without bursting into tears — although the payoff in the funeral scene is worth it. Cathartic and, somehow, funny.
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