Most Romantic Movie Moment - What's your favorite?

[LynneSin]

Not so much as the movie, but that one scene in the movie that'll break you out in tears it's so freaking romantic.

I'm tied between three:

• The Empire Strikes Back: Right before Han Solo is carbon-froze, Princess Leia runs to him and says "I Love You". As she's being pulled away Han says "I know" and then is immediately dropped into the Carbon Casing. I've seen that scene 2 million times and I cry everytime I see it
  
• City Lights: Also one of my favorite movies - the ending will having me crying like a baby. When Flower Lady realizes it was the little tramped that helped pay for her operation so she could see again. It's a classic ending to one of the best movies of all time. And it's a silent movie to boot!
  
• Say Anything: When Diane is in her bedroom upset about her father's possible criminal charges and who broke up with Lloyd Dobler because her father practically made her. Outside her window stands Lloyd holding up a boom box playing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabrial. That scene made me fall in love with John Cusack. Probably the most romantic gesture anyone could ever do for another person!
  

What's your most favorite romantic movie moment?

[nostamj]

1. the boathouse scene in "Maurice"

best male-male kiss so far...

[samsingh]

38. Cinderella

dancing with the Prince.

[nostamj]

2. delete this dupe please

damn. DU is mega-hinky lately

[kixot]

3. The goodbye dialogue in Casablanca.

Rick Blaine: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.

Ilsa Lund: But, Richard, no....

Rick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?

Captain Renault: I'm afraid that Major Strasser would insist.

Ilsa Lund: You're saying this only to make me go.

Rick Blaine: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Ilsa Lund: But what about us?

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you.

Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now.... here's looking at you kid.

(sniff)
Elsa chose Rick after all and wanted to stay...

[GOPisEvil]

31. That is the most romantic movie - EVER!!

The special edition DVD comes out today! I think I will own it soon! :-)

[rasputin1952]

51. You got it Kixot...

As soon as I read the subject in this thread, I was going to chose the good-bye scene in Casablanca.

I realize I am biased, it is my favorite movie of all times. The story behind it's creation is equally fantastic, some of those lines were rushed onto the sound stage, and they were first reads!

I think what gets to me, is the way that Rick is so much in love, yet he realizes that he must let Ilsa go.....I've lived that scene. It hurt like no other pain I've ever had, but it was one of those things you realize; sometimes you have to give up that which you love, in order for it to flourish.

I'm a grown man, who has lived through things that have had consequences, both great and small; but nothing has ever affected me more than allowing the greatest love I have ever known go.

Without fail, my eyes tear up every time that scene is played.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Call me silly but...

Johnny Depp teaching mentally impaired Joon how to make grilled cheese sandwiches on an ironing board in "Benny and Joon"

[TEXASYANKEE]

5. Room with a View

The scene in the meadow where Julian Sands grabs Helena Bonham Carter and kisses her is amazing. The chemistry between those two really made that movie a classic. One of my all-time favorite flicks.

[NashVegas]

24. There Were so Many in That One

I especially liked it when he formed the veggies on his plate into a question mark.

My picks:

Solveig Dommartin's monologue near the end of Wings of Desire.

Darryl Hannah calling to Steve Martin on the roof in Roxanne.

Nick Cage in Moonstruck: "I want you to get upstairs and get in my bed."

Nicole Kidman desperately singing to Ewan McGregor near the end of Moulin Rouge.

And while I'm on Baz, the dance to "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps," in Strictly Ballroom. OMG the heat they generated...

[DifferentStrokes]

6. A scene in Ghost

where Patrick Swayze is given the use of a medium's body to caress Demi Moore. Done in silence and moving beyond words. A friend of mine who was recently widowed bought the video just for that moment.

I don't think anybody who has seen Gone With the Wind could forget Clark Gable carrying Vivian Leigh up the stairs. Of course, it would have to be Clark Gable. A real pulse racer for most women.:-)

Moments in Portrait of Jenny, Green Dolphin Steeet, and some other classics.

On edit: The music score alone from Love is a Many Splendored Thing.

[LynneSin]

7. Don't get me crying!!

I forgot about that scene from Ghosts - that rates right up there with the 3 I picked.

Plus the scene in "Bridges of Madison County" when Clint Eastwood lingers a little too long at the stoplight and Meryl Streep fights the urge to run out of the truck her husband is driving and into the truck that Clint is driving.

[FlaGranny]

44. I especially liked the scene

where Patrick comes up behind Demi and sits down and helps her sculpt the clay. THAT was sensuous.

[foo_bar]

8. Brazil

when Jonathan Pryce erases his girlfriend's identity from "the system":

"Care for some necrophilia?"

[tuck]

45. DAMN that chick is HOT! nt

[tuck]

46. moulin rouge

at the show, you know, the end... sniff.....
;(

okay, there was my girlie moment for the day... now i have to go smoke a cigar and eat some animal with tabasco sauce.....

[dragonquest8]

9. every romantic scene in "Titanic"!!!!!!

[Jawja]

20. Titanic??

You betcha!! One of the greatest romantics of all time.

Favorite scene: Rose and Jack on the front of the boat, to the song, "Rose." Unh-hunh! The kiss - great scene.

[xray s]

10. Mel and Sigorny in "Year of Living Dangerously"

In the rain at the pool.

[Stephanie]

18. that's mine!

Only it's the kiss at the Embassy party.

[Mairead]

11. The dancing-in-the-barn scene in Witness

Also the final scene in 'Seven Days Six Nights' (which I won't give away for those who've not seen it) (can you tell that i fancy H. Ford?)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. 'Notorious': The Long Kiss between Ingrid and Cary

They walk and talk and kiss intermittently...very sexy and romantic.

[OneBlueSky]

13. I don't know . . . I was always partial to . . .

the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles" . . .

[BlueJazz]

15. BWAAA!!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!!


FRAPPP!!

[mitchum]

14. When Grace Kelly wakes Jimmy Stewart with a kiss...

in "Rear Window"
Odd choice for me, since I really hate Jimmy Stewart and have never quite understood the cult of Grace Kelly

[shance]

16. The Way We Were

When Katie gets in the bed with Hubbell and begins stroking his hair, and all the rest from that point on.....

Incredible****

[newyawker99]

28. Congrats shance!! 800 posts

:toast:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Last of the Mohicans...

When Hawkeye turns around and looks at Cora, and she asks, "What are you looking at, Sir?" To which he replies, "I'm looking at you, Miss." He continues to look straight into her eyes, making her blush and look away. Then she looks into his eyes again, and their chemistry explodes all over the screen.

Hardly a word spoken, and not a thread of clothing removed...yet it's one of the steamiest moments in cinematic history.

~sigh~ :loveya:

[thermodynamic]

19. Spock and Saavik doing it in Star Trek III

I'm amazed nobody went to prison for that, which amounts to sex with a minor...

Okay, they didn't show anything on screen - but they did more than merely SUGGEST that's what happened.

[Sheet22]

21. "The Fifth Element"

Almost at the very end, when LeeLoo asks Corbin why she should save a world that seems bent only on destroying itself, he answers that love is important. She replies that she doesn't know love, because she was only made to defend against evil. After a few tense moments, and evil is upon the earth, ready to destroy it, he tells her that she needs to save the earth because he loves her. Then, they kiss, and she unleashes the power inside her to save the whole world. What could be more romantic than that-true love not only wins out in the end, but it wins while saving all of humanity.

The second most romantic, and yet another very pivotal, part of the movie, is when the diva carrying the four element stones is shot. She tells Corbin that the Fifth Element (LeeLoo) is more fragile than she seems and how much she needs his love.

I truly think it's one of the world's most important messages-maybe love can save the world, if only given the chance and said more often.

'SIGH'

[newyawker99]

29. Hi Sheet22!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Sheet22]

49. AWWWW

Thanks for the welcome. I've been a member for a little while, I've just not been a very good poster.

Very Sweet :loveya:

[Dem2dend]

22. When Harry met Sally

Sally: I'm sorry Harry, I know it's New Years Eve, I know you're feeling
lonely, but you just can't show up here, tell me you love me and expect that
to make everything alright. It doesn't work this way.

Harry: Well how does it work?

Sally: I don't know but not this way.

Harry: Well how about this way. I love that you get cold when it's seventy
one degrees out, I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a
sandwich, I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're
looking at me like I'm nuts, I love that after I spend a day with you I can
still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last person
I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm
lonely, and it's not because it's New Years Eve. I came here tonight because
when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you
want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible.

Sally: You see, that is just like you Harry. You say things like that and you
make it impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you Harry... I really hate
you. I hate you.

(They kiss and make up.)

[SiobhanClancy]

23. Pride and Prejudice

The 1995 BBC version(not sure if this counts as a movie,but it was the first thing I thought of). The way Mr. Darcy(Colin Firth) looks at Elizabeth when she turns a page of music for his sister...not a word spoken,not a word needed.

[chaska]

25. Highlander?!?!?!

That bit where Connor McLeod's wife ages and dies while he stays young (and alive). Excuse me, I'm getting misty. Carry on, without me please.

Scotland is just so romantic (in every sense of the word) to me. Anybody else think that?

[Aristus]

26. The end of "L.A. Story" where everything that Steve Martin's character

promised to do if his ladyove left for London came true. Fog rolled in, storms brewed up, winds blew, the rain fell, tempests roared, the polarity of the Earth changed so compasses couldn't work and her plane couldn't leave the ground.

One Amazingly romantic movie moment.

[tjdee]

27. "I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul..."

When Michelle Yeoh rushes to catch Chow Yun Fat's head, and as she holds him she tells him to pray (or something, LOL, she wants him to stop talking to her).

And then he says: "I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you... because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit."

Makes me all misty eyed...the man would damn himself to be by her side! After all they never got to do! SNIFF!

[jus_the_facts]

30. The finale of Officer and A Gentleman......

*squall*

[jus_the_facts]

32. ....and Braveheart.......

....when she gives him the flower at the funeral....and again when he gives it back to her years later...Oh GAWD x(

[CBHagman]

33. You guys are a bunch of great romantics!

:loveya:

Okay, for starters, here's my list:

*When Rupert Graves climbs the ladder to James Wilby's bedroom in "Maurice," it's just insanely romantic. That film has to be one of the few genuine romances made in the '80s, and it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight.

*Greer Garson becoming nonplussed when Laurence Olivier gazes at her over the pianoforte in the 1940 version of "Pride and Prejudice." Sorry, Colin Firth fans.

*All of Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility." I can't pick just one scene; it's impossible.

*"A Room with a View" has the same problem. It's impossible to pick one scene.

*The whole letter-writing scene in "Persuasion," in which Ciaran Hinds overhears Amanda Root discussing love and fidelity with a friend.

[MissMillie]

40. Sleepless in Seattle

At the end, when he offers his hand and says "We'd better go... Shall we?" and she takes his hand, and it's "magic"

[kmla]

34. Weird Science...

The part in "Weird Science" when, after all of the shenanigans have unfolded, Gary and Wyatt are finally cool, and they are having conversations with their dream girls. It goes something like this...

Hilly: "...This might sound funny, but, would you kiss me?"

Wyatt: "Sure. Where do you want it?"

I love that movie.

And remember - they created Lisa (played by Kelly LeBrock) with a computer with an 8086 processor, a 300 baud modem, and a Barbie Doll...

:D

[jus_the_facts]

36. OMG....Bill Paxon as 'Chet'....was too hilarious.....

"...did you spit in this?" :evilgrin:
http://espn-i.starwave.com/@v=0674189@/i/magazine/column/bootroom_20020405_in.jpg





...and..."YOU'RE STEWED BUTTWAD!" :D

[MountainLaurel]

35. West Side Story

At the dance, when Maria and Tony first see each other across the floor in a haze, and the music goes almost immediately from this raucous Latin beat to a thin melody that reminds you of ballet dancers on their toes.


Sound of Music: When Maria and the Captain are dancing on the patio at the ball, and he twirls her closer. He's staring at her, she's staring at him, he's holding her hand above their heads, and you know she's realizing that she loves him and will have to leave because he's about to marry that evil blonde bitch.

Sense and Sensibility: The scene toward the end where Elinor begins to sob and laugh at the same time when she finds out that Edward isn't married to Lucy Steele after all.

Jane Eyre (the version with Samantha Morton): the ending, when she finds Rochester again, and he realizes that his Jane has come back to him.

Sigh.

[dolo amber]

37. Chasing Amy

The scene in the SUV when Ben Affleck tells the lesbian Joey Lauren Adams has feelings for her...it's too hard to detail here, it's just utterly heartbreaking and romantic at the same time.

http://quotes.prolix.nu/Authors/?Holden,_%22Chasing_Amy%22

ps--Kevin Smith rules!! :D

[LynneSin]

42. Ben Affleck is getting typecasted here

As a guy who swears he can make a Lesbian switch teams. He's done 2 movies like that now!

[hippiechick]

39. Amelie

...toward the end, when she is crying because dude of her dreams knocked on her door and she was too chickensh*i to open it ... then the phone rings and the anonymous voice (the old man downstairs) tells her to go to her room.

She goes to her room and sees the tv surrounded by candles, turns it on, and there's a video of the old man telling her 'take this chance, go get him!'

So she runs toward the door, flings it open to go looking for dude, and he's standing right there.


Oh, my heart !!
The tears !!
True love !!


:hippie:

[trof]

41. Back seat of my '58 Impala

at the Shades Mountain Drive-In.
I don't remember what was playing.
;-)

[northzax]

43. Anal Annie III

the scence with the couch and the 12 inch strap on? makes me cry everytime.

[MiltonLeBerle]

48. Who says that sequels never live up to the original...?

nt

[Sheet22]

50. EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

That was just nasty:puke:-but I respect anyone with even a sick sense of "romantic humor".:evilgrin:



(And I think that would make me cry too-OUCH!)

[CBHagman]

47. Any other candidates?

We were moving along so nicely before...

[Sheet22]

53. I'll add another.

The scene from "With Honors" when Monty finally decides to make his move. It's at the big Harvard pajama ball, and she's just had a disagreement with "the face", her sometime boyfriend, and Simon urges Monty to go out to her. He walks up to her at the fountain, puts his hand gently but with directness on her face and kisses her deeply. She asks "What are you doing?" to which he responds "I'm ending our friendship." They, of course, end up together, and you've known from the beginning of the movie it was meant to be, but wow, what a way to do it.

[rasputin1952]

52. There is something about sacrifice that makes ...

the truly memorable scenes what they are.

As I stated above, the good-bye scene in Casablanca is a killer.

The final scene in Ghost, where he must finally go away.

The final scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Charles Laughton has his arms around the gargoyle watching Esmeralda go into a life of happiness with her true love.

The scene in Field of Dreams when Doc crosses the line, even when he knows he can't return to his dream.

There are others, but the common theme is sacrifice. There is just something in the human psyche that is attracted to the beauty of letting it all go, without expecting anything in return.

I wondered how freepers would react to the question posed in the initial thread, and came up with some answers I think might fit.

1. The scene in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge gripes about having to give Cratchit a day off.

2. The scene in Ghost where the living associate is desperately trying to launder cash, (I figure the admin knows this scene all too well).

3. The scene in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where the kids trying to get the truth out with their little paper, are being beaten up and their papers stolen.

4. The scene in Failsafe where Moscow gets nuked.

Anybody have any others?


:bounce:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

54. 9 1/2 weeks

you can leave your hat on!