best manipulation
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sabOr, how to nail a double entendre in two easy steps:
First, check me out, I won "best manipulation" at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
treepretty this week which has a lot to do with photoshopping a Buffyverse head on a non-Buffyverse body:
Free to anyone, enjoy, enjoy.
And second, .
1. What scene in which movie is guaranteed to make you cry?
Despite agreeing with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
qowf about the blatant manipulation therein, the "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" montage in Beaches nails me every time. This is partially a result of my DAL for Bette Midler, partially because, when I was growing up, my friend Liza and I decided this was Our Movie, and partially because (see also titles like "Everybody Having a Good Time") the resonance of the lyric "human kindess is overflowing" against the terrible terrible irony of dying of a miserable disease is just my speed. I may cry right now.
2. What scene in which television show makes you tear up no matter how many times you've seen it?
I'm going to answer this question in five parts, with the third part first and the first part last.
1. O'Connell's "Everything, Fleischman. All I never said." In Fleischman's last episode of Northern Exposure, where he and O'Connell set off for the Jeweled City of the North, and she loses him to a New York only he can see. The first time I saw this episode I cried so hard I fell off the couch. In retrospect, it's pretty clear I had some personal stuff going on at the time, but I was broken up all night, sobbing on the floor while my friend Zara held me and everyone wondered what the hell was wrong. Literally, fell off the couch, kaboom.
2. Gary's funeral in thirtysomething, specifically (and I've only been quoting this scene for ten years so stop me if you've heard this one) Melissa sitting alone in Michael's room, Michael saying, "we have to remember who the real widow is," Susannah coming up and talking to Melissa, saying "I only knew him a year, you all had so much more of him than I did."
3. Yeah, um. The animal babies montage at the end of Sports Night, "The Hungry and the Hunted," when Jeremy's on the phone with his dad and says "I got the call" and is just so, so overcome. Sue me. The Pretenders version of "Hymn to Her" swells in the background and I just fucking lose it. Honestly, if you want to get me, hopeful-yet-tragic-and-ironic music against an utterly hopeless, or utterly hopeful story (see Beaches above) will slay me every time. Throw in animal babies and I'm a dead duck.
4. Speaking of dead ducks. The chicken scene from M*A*S*H's "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" is a killer. Hawkeye screaming, the bus, the bottle, I watch it through parted fingers every time and it still gets me, oh, it's awful, it's so, so awful. shuddering.
5. And while we're on music, any occasion to use "Sloop John B" or "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (see also several Sports Night, X-Files, any of half a dozen ERs and sitcoms, etc) will effectively reduce me to tears. Honestly, the cast could be playing street hockey, you put that soundtrack on and I'm toast.
Picturing some ensemble cast playing street hockey, full of friendship and love after an undoubtedly tough day of discord and suspicion, "Have Yourself..." playing, oh, fuckin' A, I'm nearly crying *now.*
6. "Sun's coming up," in Babylon 5's "Sleeping in Light," being one of the only non-soundtrack-provoked gut-wrenching moments. Follow that with the slow march out, the silent explosion, and Ivanova's "there can always be new beginnings. Even for people like us," and, oh, the trembling and the woozy and the nausea and the crying and the being unable to find the remote to shut it off and make it go away.
7. Actually -- though not soundtrack-induced -- I have to add "...and the sky's the limit," from ST:TNG's "All Good Things...", courtesyselenak. It's that overhead crane shot, and Picard so full of love, so insistent upon showing his friends how he feels about them, this time, and seven years of TNG wrapped up. Mmm.
3. Is there any famous tear jerker of a scene that leaves you cold? Or worse, makes you laugh?
Well, XF's "Memento Mori" never did anything for me; neither did "Requiem." Angel's second death on Buffy. Farscape never actually reduced me to tears.
4. Do you cry when a character on screen cries, or is it something else that gets the tears flowing?
Aside from the obvious soundtrack trigger, I'm more likely to cry when a character on screen is happy/relieved, when someone's shown kindness they don't think they deserve, when friends stick together. I can usually take the lumps okay, but afterward, in the recovery period when it's "don't worry. I forgive you" or even "so, what's next?" with that weak grin, I just lose my shit. Since more often than not, that's the scene with the slightly dissonant ironic hopefully soundtrack swelling, I get knocked with the double whammy and I'm toast for sure.
5. One fic that makes you cry.
Huh. I don't know. I'll get back to you.
First, check me out, I won "best manipulation" at
treepretty this week which has a lot to do with photoshopping a Buffyverse head on a non-Buffyverse body:Free to anyone, enjoy, enjoy.
And second, .
1. What scene in which movie is guaranteed to make you cry?
Despite agreeing with
qowf about the blatant manipulation therein, the "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" montage in Beaches nails me every time. This is partially a result of my DAL for Bette Midler, partially because, when I was growing up, my friend Liza and I decided this was Our Movie, and partially because (see also titles like "Everybody Having a Good Time") the resonance of the lyric "human kindess is overflowing" against the terrible terrible irony of dying of a miserable disease is just my speed. I may cry right now.2. What scene in which television show makes you tear up no matter how many times you've seen it?
I'm going to answer this question in five parts, with the third part first and the first part last.
1. O'Connell's "Everything, Fleischman. All I never said." In Fleischman's last episode of Northern Exposure, where he and O'Connell set off for the Jeweled City of the North, and she loses him to a New York only he can see. The first time I saw this episode I cried so hard I fell off the couch. In retrospect, it's pretty clear I had some personal stuff going on at the time, but I was broken up all night, sobbing on the floor while my friend Zara held me and everyone wondered what the hell was wrong. Literally, fell off the couch, kaboom.
2. Gary's funeral in thirtysomething, specifically (and I've only been quoting this scene for ten years so stop me if you've heard this one) Melissa sitting alone in Michael's room, Michael saying, "we have to remember who the real widow is," Susannah coming up and talking to Melissa, saying "I only knew him a year, you all had so much more of him than I did."
3. Yeah, um. The animal babies montage at the end of Sports Night, "The Hungry and the Hunted," when Jeremy's on the phone with his dad and says "I got the call" and is just so, so overcome. Sue me. The Pretenders version of "Hymn to Her" swells in the background and I just fucking lose it. Honestly, if you want to get me, hopeful-yet-tragic-and-ironic music against an utterly hopeless, or utterly hopeful story (see Beaches above) will slay me every time. Throw in animal babies and I'm a dead duck.
4. Speaking of dead ducks. The chicken scene from M*A*S*H's "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" is a killer. Hawkeye screaming, the bus, the bottle, I watch it through parted fingers every time and it still gets me, oh, it's awful, it's so, so awful. shuddering.
5. And while we're on music, any occasion to use "Sloop John B" or "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (see also several Sports Night, X-Files, any of half a dozen ERs and sitcoms, etc) will effectively reduce me to tears. Honestly, the cast could be playing street hockey, you put that soundtrack on and I'm toast.
Picturing some ensemble cast playing street hockey, full of friendship and love after an undoubtedly tough day of discord and suspicion, "Have Yourself..." playing, oh, fuckin' A, I'm nearly crying *now.*
6. "Sun's coming up," in Babylon 5's "Sleeping in Light," being one of the only non-soundtrack-provoked gut-wrenching moments. Follow that with the slow march out, the silent explosion, and Ivanova's "there can always be new beginnings. Even for people like us," and, oh, the trembling and the woozy and the nausea and the crying and the being unable to find the remote to shut it off and make it go away.
7. Actually -- though not soundtrack-induced -- I have to add "...and the sky's the limit," from ST:TNG's "All Good Things...", courtesy
selenak. It's that overhead crane shot, and Picard so full of love, so insistent upon showing his friends how he feels about them, this time, and seven years of TNG wrapped up. Mmm.3. Is there any famous tear jerker of a scene that leaves you cold? Or worse, makes you laugh?
Well, XF's "Memento Mori" never did anything for me; neither did "Requiem." Angel's second death on Buffy. Farscape never actually reduced me to tears.
4. Do you cry when a character on screen cries, or is it something else that gets the tears flowing?
Aside from the obvious soundtrack trigger, I'm more likely to cry when a character on screen is happy/relieved, when someone's shown kindness they don't think they deserve, when friends stick together. I can usually take the lumps okay, but afterward, in the recovery period when it's "don't worry. I forgive you" or even "so, what's next?" with that weak grin, I just lose my shit. Since more often than not, that's the scene with the slightly dissonant ironic hopefully soundtrack swelling, I get knocked with the double whammy and I'm toast for sure.
5. One fic that makes you cry.
Huh. I don't know. I'll get back to you.
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Date: 2004-03-23 01:13 pm (UTC)ACK ACK ACK!
:::grabs a tissue:::
Man, I'm glad OfficeMate has gone home, so I don't have to explain why I'm tearing up while writing my performance review. *g*
You know, my mother refuses to watch the M*A*S*H finale. She doesn't want to accept that it's over. So she's never seen that scene.
I don't think they MAKE that much Kleenex.
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Date: 2004-03-23 10:05 pm (UTC)They definitely don't. OUCH, dude. That episode. Just.
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Date: 2004-03-23 01:35 pm (UTC)But I do want to hear what fic makes Sab cry. *g*
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Date: 2004-03-23 01:38 pm (UTC)I cried when I saw the Nigerian swimmer who'd only ever swum in a small pool swam his race at the Olympics and everyone was cheering for him so much that even though he was dead last and there was no one else in his heat, he climbed out and he thought he might have won... ::snorfle, reaches for tissues:: Actual tears.
I cried when Lizlet talked about going to give blood on 9/12/02. Something about her post.
Shit like that. Little triumphs.
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Date: 2004-03-23 07:22 pm (UTC)You don't tear up at Momento Mori? Maybe it's because I watched it on rerun at midnight, but that had me in half-tears the entire episode. Gillian Anderson was sosadsosad.
I want to read cancer!fic now and mock it. Thanks. :-P