Most moving/powerful scene in a film?

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Luchea

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Is there a particular scene in a film that you found to be particularly powerful or moving?

For me it has to be the scene in "To Kill a Mockingbird" where at the end of the trial the people in the public gallery stand up in respect for Gregory Peck as he walks out of the courtroom. One man tells Gregory Peck's daughter to stand. She looks puzzled as to why and is told by the man "Your Father is passing".

Incredibly powerful scene but I think to fully appreciate it you would have to have seen the film perhaps.
 
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Definately. Don't think I've ever seen anything quite as powerful as that. Although factual, rather than fiction, the only other suggestion I'd make is the part of Fahrenheit 9/11 where they are interviewing the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you haven't seen it, it is uncomfortably powerful viewing.
 
I foufd the last scene of Oh What a Lovely War panning across thousanRAB of graves incredibly moving.
I also now unable to watch Watership Down at all- the ending especially reduces me to tears.
 
The final few scenes of Armageddon, first when Bruce shoves Ben back in the shuttle and tells him "Take care of my little girl now, that's your job" and then when he has his final worRAB with his daughter on the screen. Sticks a lump in my throat everytime!
 
Stunning stunning intro to a movie. 'Move fast and clear those murder holes!'. I love at the beginning when you see the guy at the cemetry and the camera zooms in to his eyes and then D'Day. The guy looks like an older version of Tom Hanks. So you think the story is getting told from his viewpoint until he dies and then you realise it is Ryan. I love the film. My 2nd favourite war movie and 1 of Spielbergs finest movies
 
The Christening scene in the Godfather when Al Pacino is in church trying to be calm and collected when he knows all hell is breaking loose in his Empire...
 
I always thought the moment where Darth Vader looks at Luke and then The Emperor in Star Wars is very powerful. Especially when he saves his son.

Even though hes a costume you could still see the emotion in the character (well I could anyway) :o
 
SounRAB quite pathetic, but the scene at the end of Cheaper By The Dozen 2. Not powerful as such, but incredibly moving, IMO.

Nora's just had her baby, and all of the kiRAB are around her bed. When she says "We're going to call the baby Tom (after her father), because you taught us there's no way to be a perfect parent, but a million ways to be a really good one", well I just go to pieces. :o
 
Off the top of my head, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice when she is forced to make an appaling discision regarding her children...well worthy of her oscar.
 
Just thought of a couple of others, Awakenings with Robert De Niro, Beaches with Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey, Platoon the scene where Willem Dafoe's Sgt. Elias is gunned down...
 
BIG

Final scene when he leaves the car as a man and returns to being a kid as he crosses the road to his house.

Always brings a tear to my eye, and Im old enough to know better :cry:
 
Including the wonderful juxtaposition between the Priest asking him to renounce Satan at the exact same time as he's having many people brutally murdered. That's the moment he completely sells his soul.
 
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