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| jimmy |
Posted - 07/26/2007 : 21:30:48
I'm wondering- why is it that certain art forms are more likely to produce a strong emotion response than others?
I'm thinking of movies that made me almost cry a little ( I don't cry, I'm way too manly ): Searching for Bobby Fisher, for instance. Also, some scenes from the West Wing TV show.
For music, I can only think of two songs that gave me chills or goosebumbs once: The Pogues's "Fairytale of New York" and FB's "Pan American Highway". And the Talking Heads "(Nothing But) Flowers" can make me feel like that in a happy way.
But have I ever felt that way about a painting? Nope. Almost, maybe, with Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties, the one with the father waiting with his college-bound son at the train station.
Are there certain songs, movies, or books that were able to get a strong emotional response from you? And what I'd really like to know- was there ever a painting or sculpture that gave you an emotion as strong as you got from a song, movie or book?
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 11:48:46
I've re-read so yeah. I call it trying to cut through the shit but it ain't working for me anymore. Thanks again Steve. BDH, you're still a little devil though.
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:51:33
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Originally posted by PixieSteve
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Originally posted by mr.biscuitdoughhead
aren't you late for.... whatever it is you do?
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
hahahaha
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:50:06
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Originally posted by mr.biscuitdoughhead
aren't you late for.... whatever it is you do?
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard.
posts condescending messages on internet fan forums. he's right on time
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:41:06
Hee
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:39:08
oh. well exceeeeeeeeeeeeeeuse me.
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:38:05
No
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:08:48
aren't you late for.... whatever it is you do?
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard. |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 10:06:52
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Originally posted by mr.biscuitdoughhead
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Originally posted by trobrianders
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
I cried when Bigwig died in Watership Down. I was like 12. Bright Eyes can't compete with that, though Art Garfunkel is a classy guy.
he was talking about the band.
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard.
Aren't you late for skool mr bdh?
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| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 08:18:50
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Originally posted by trobrianders
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
I cried when Bigwig died in Watership Down. I was like 12. Bright Eyes can't compete with that, though Art Garfunkel is a classy guy.
he was talking about the band.
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/31/2007 : 07:25:57
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
I cried when Bigwig died in Watership Down. I was like 12. Bright Eyes can't compete with that, though Art Garfunkel is a classy guy.
I can get an emotional response at all the usual, books, movies etc., but two really unexpected rushes of emotion I have felt were at Twyla Tharp's troupe dancing to Philip Glass' In The Upper Room and Jackson Pollock's drippers at the Hayward Gallery.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/31/2007 : 15:03:10
What, at the petrol station?
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/31/2007 : 05:19:14
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Originally posted by Carl
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Sorry I was referring to the band.
Oh. How can a light that shines so brightly, suddenly turn so cold? Bright eyes.
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus.
Stop it Carl, I'm filling up here.
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| jimmy |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 20:48:49
Seeing ET made me want to be an actor. All day I'd daydream that Henry Thomas would meet me and we'd be really good friends and he'd get me into the movie business, then everyone would like me more and forget about him.
Then after seeing The Lost Boys I was obsessed with Corey Haim- I read somewhere that his favorite drink was orange-flavored New York Seltzer; I stocked up on 6-packs of it and set it up on a little table in my room along with my Cape Cod shot glasses. I was like ten or something. He was so cool and I wanted to be just like him. As it turns out, we like a lot of the same drugs.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 17:51:32
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Sorry I was referring to the band.
Oh. How can a light that shines so brightly, suddenly turn so cold? Bright eyes.
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus. |
| Jefrey |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 16:05:14
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Originally posted by jimmy
Another thing about ET...something it does very well, something I think that is very important to any movie, is that it sets a mood:
Like one of the early scenes where the kids are having pizza and soda for dinner on a friday night with their friends- watching it, you feel like you're there with them, you recognize the situation and completely believe that those actors are really sitting around having fun over dinner.
The first two Halloween movies too, especially part 1. It feels like Halloween. You recognize the excitement and end up feeling that excitement.
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That and the way Spielberg fucked with those kids (especially Drew Barrymore) to make them think all this stuff was real. She was really crying, so it makes you cry too. I mean who wants to see a little girl cry because she thinks her friend is dead and/or leaving forever?
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| vilainde |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 13:47:40
I cry whenever Jack Dawson drowns. That is ART.
Denis
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 04:44:50
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Originally posted by Carl
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car.
That is a beutiful song.
Oh no! I posted a serious response!
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus.
Sorry I was referring to the band.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 13:08:49
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car.
That is a beutiful song.
Oh no! I posted a serious response!
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus. |
| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 11:21:48
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car. I used to open the door and role out, but after breaking most of the bones in my body, I just sit there and cry until she stops now.
ha, i was at caribou coffee the other day, and they were playing a bunch of bright eyes. it didn't make me cry, but i thought about killing myself. plus the drink i got was shit.
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| coastline |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 10:30:40
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Originally posted by Superabounder
I have experienced lumps in my throat when visiting art museums and seeing something beautiful (like the texture of the paint in certain Van Gogh paintings that you cannot see in a print or photograph, but when you are 3 feet away and can see how he wove the paint into a basket weave effect: phenomenal).
I'd rather be anywhere or doing anything
Ditto. Paintings and sculptures don't make me cry, but I've had that very same reaction to seeing a Van Gogh or a Monet in person. It's when you get right in there and discover how it was put together, and you realize that you could never do anything half as elegant in a million lifetimes, that you realize how special some artists -- and some art -- are. I've gotten the same feeling when listening closely to Frank Black's music -- the piano part on "I'll Be Blue," for example. So elegant, it's sick.
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| Superabounder |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 08:53:09
I seem to remember crying at the end of the book "A Prayer for Owen Meanie" by John Irving. Definitely had similar emotional responses to books by Pat Conroy when I was young; "Prince of Tides" and "The Lords of Discipline". The tortured family life he wrote about, combined with the beauty of the coastline of the american south, were quite moving.
I have experienced lumps in my throat when visiting art museums and seeing something beautiful (like the texture of the paint in certain Van Gogh paintings that you cannot see in a print or photograph, but when you are 3 feet away and can see how he wove the paint into a basket weave effect: phenomenal).
I'd rather be anywhere or doing anything |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 03:15:54
I cry whenever my girlfriend puts Bright Eyes on in the car. I used to open the door and role out, but after breaking most of the bones in my body, I just sit there and cry until she stops now.
Actually, linked to that (and Art Garfunkle), Watership Down always used to make me cry as a child (as did ET).
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/28/2007 : 16:06:09
I remember reading an interview with Dave Grohl where he said that things like ET don't make him weep, but that emotive music really makes him cry!
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus. |
| jimmy |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 22:46:52
Another thing about ET...something it does very well, something I think that is very important to any movie, is that it sets a mood:
Like one of the early scenes where the kids are having pizza and soda for dinner on a friday night with their friends- watching it, you feel like you're there with them, you recognize the situation and completely believe that those actors are really sitting around having fun over dinner.
The first two Halloween movies too, especially part 1. It feels like Halloween. You recognize the excitement and end up feeling that excitement.
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| jimmy |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 22:39:54
Another is The Wizard of Oz- not exactly a movie that would make anyone cry, but it brings a response. I wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that a lot of us saw those movies for the first time as kids, and we like them for sentimental reasons.
Visually, The Wizard of Oz is such a beautiful movie, like Gone With The Wind, I can't think of any movies from the last 30 years that have attractive colors like that, the old Technicolor. ( There are certain scenes, though, in movies like Remains of the Day and Eyes Wide Shut that come close. )
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| coastline |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 19:49:13
Funny. You'd never call ET "high art," and yet it strikes a more emotional response in many of us than pretty much anything out there.
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| jimmy |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 19:07:24
A few months ago I was flipping around and caught the end of ET on sci-fi...they were trying to get away on their bikes- I had a lump in my throat and by the time they got to the woods I had tears in my eyes. The lights, the music, those sad kids...I cried like a baby.
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| Jefrey |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 16:09:16
E.T. makes me cry every time. I'm not kidding. And I know it's coming too.
With paintings sometimes I get an emotional response via some nostalgia/event associated with the art. Like a print that used to hang in a friends dorm room in college could trigger some happy or sad memory. I don't know if I've ever looked right at a piece of art and had an emotional response, unless it's laughing at "Dogs Playing Poker" or something.
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| coastline |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 14:27:16
I'm with Carl. That's just about the sweetest thing ever.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 09:32:08
I feel a bit silly admitting this, but I cried watching Grave Of The Fireflies. It's an anime movie based on a true story about a boy looking after his sister during WWII. Roger Ebert reckons it's one of the greatest war films ever:
Totally unexpected link.
Also, I remember being in a bit of a weepy mood once, and happened to be reading a Calvin And Hobbes story about a racoon dying. The floodgates opened (see below):
I'm so ashamed. You tend to be more open online, although actually these aren't things I'd be too embarrassed to admit to friends. |
| vilainde |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 04:01:35
What, his haircut?
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| coastline |
Posted - 07/27/2007 : 03:07:40
Makes me weep like a baby.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
