Movie Score Makes You Sad

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Movie Score Makes You Sad

Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:36am

The Saddest Music in the World thread prompted me to think of what movie score makes me the saddest.
At the moment "Mrs. Soffel" comes to mind.
Which movie score makes you the saddest?

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

re: Movie Score Makes You Sad

Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:38am

The grave scene in Forrest Gump and scoring under it makes me weep....and weep.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:40am

Issac Stern's solo in Schindler's List is almost more than I can listen to.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:42am

The Brooklyn Bridge scene in "Sophie's Choice" is beautifully sad.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:45am

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:46am

i can't think of an entire *score*, but there are moments in Beaches that make me want to open a vein, and the scene in Boys On The Side where Whoopi sings to Mary from the doorway...OY!

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 10:09am

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FORREST GUMP
SCHINDLER'S LIST
LITTLE WOMEN (1994)

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Philadelphia: Especially the opera scene. Engrossing.
The Laramie Project: The parade and Angel Action. Wept.
Schindler's List: The entire score is heartbreaking.
The Hours: I love this movie so much because it is so honestly, genuinely heart wrenching. The kitchen scene with Clarissa...Amazing.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 10:36am

"Ice Dance" from Edward Scissorhands always gets to me.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:33am

James Horner -- perceived to be the kitsch-meister (see the Bernstein thread) -- wrote a very moving score for "The Perfect Storm."

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:34am

The Hours puts me into a very gloomy mood...and it's one of my favorite movies. Works both ways.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 11:57am

Eddie Varley got to it before I could. Forrest Gump has the saddest score ever. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:14pm

Schindler's List
Requiem for a Dream
Dancer in the Dark

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:15pm

TITANIC also had a beautiful score that deserved it's Academy Award.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:16pm

Requiem's score isn't sad, it's downright creepy. I think that it scared me more than the movie did...

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:21pm

LOVED the score for TITANIC as well

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:26pm

The soundtrack for "The Alamo" which was released in April. Very melancholy. Carter Burwell used gaelic themes to underscore the tragic events of that March in 1836. "Flesh and Blood", "What We are Defending", "The Last Night"--and the first & last Battle segments also are particularly moving.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:50pm

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - effectively used in the film of "The Elephant Man" and "Platoon", and a million other places...

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:54pm

"Return of the King"'s score is beautifully sad, especially Sir James Galway's flute solos and "Into The West." And the score for "Schindler's List."

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#20

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 1:31pm

The John Barry score played at the end of MIDNIGHT COWBOY--not the Harry Nilsson song. Indescribably sad.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:40pm

Agree with Matt_G about Joy Luck Club (damn that movie is good!) and Little Women.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 8:53pm

You guys beat me to them all. I agree on Forrest Gump and Titanic. Titanic's score is beautiful.

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Posted: 8/19/04 at 9:04pm

Sorry to stray a bit, but if you like TITANIC and have a real good sense of humor, you must listen to the Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up It's Act mud flinging tribute to the Broadway and Film versions of TITANIC.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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