My wife's grandfather recently passed away at the age of 102. I really liked him and his passing moved me.
I started thinking about death in the movies. We see people dying in probably the majority of movies made today and yet, as I thought about it, I could think of very few movie deaths that really moved me. In fact, the only one that immediately came to mind was "Simon Birch". Simon's passing away brought a tear to my eye the first time I saw it in the theater. It still affects me today.
I also thought of "Old Yeller", but quickly realized the only time I saw what many consider one of the biggest tear-jerkers of all time was when I was a child seeing it at a drive-in theater. I fell asleep, so I never saw the dying scene.
I've also had moving experiences at the movies when a character has died but it wasn't shown. Instead we see everyone else's sense of loss- the most recent example I can think of was "The Family Stone."
I know there are probably a lot of films I'm not even thinking about that as soon as someone brings it up, I'll say "Of course! Why didn't I remember that one?" Others I remember, like "Love Story", didn't move me because the characters didn't move me in the first place.
I'd be interested in the examples you can think of. Let me know and I'll be sure to check them out.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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