Scenes that make me cry
Dawn, over at This Woman’s Work, talks about the scenes in movies that make her cry.
I have a couple. But then, of course, I’m the kind of person who cries at commercials, so it’s not hard to make me cry at movies.
The one that really, really gets me, is in Fly Away Home. It’s at the end, where the girl is leading the geese across the marshes in (Maryland?), and the song “10,000 Miles” by Mary Chapin Carpenter is playing. I just sit there and tears stream down my face and turn into a puddle. Why? I don’t know. It just gets me by the heartstrings.
Another one is one Dawn mentioned, the scene in Toy Story 2 where Jessie the cowgirl is singing “When She Loved Me” (actually sung by Sarah MacLachlan)…at the end, Jessie (in memory) snuggles down happy and snug in her girl’s purse (her girl is all grown up by now)…only to be left in a box by the Goodwill truck. Ack!
A third one is the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is saying goodbye to everyone. She says, “And you, Scarecrow. I think I’ll miss you most of all.” Sniff! (Though, when I was googling that phrase, I found someone who thought that saying that in front of Cowardly Lion and Tin Man was just too, too hurtful to them…which I had never thought of. I also found some mention of a “creepy subplot” that was cut from the film, which “explains” that line. Um. I always thought it was because Scarecrow was the first friend she found in Oz, and she just loved him a lot.)
There are books and songs that do the same thing. The first time I read “I Love You Like Crazy Cakes” out loud to OmegaDotter (she was an itty bitty thing then), I had to stop because I was bawling. There’s The Circle Game, by Joni Mitchell, which I used to sing to OmegaDotter as one of a suite of lullabies when she was a baby. There’s Nanci Griffith’s “Turn Around“, which I wrote about previously. And I remember being an early twenty-something getting drunk with some work buddies, and all of us sobbing at Linda Ronstadt songs; “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me” (which should be “Lie Down Beside Me”, but, hey, I was twenty-something and into angst and not grammar) always got me.
So how about you?
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