Did anyone else cry?
Did anyone else cry during that scene in Deerhunter when DeNiro just got back from Nam, and drove past his welcome home party in the cab and went straight to the motel. When he sat on the chair with his head in his hands with that music playing in the background, I broke down and cried. Did anyone else do the same?
Sometimes I just put the movie on, pour myself a good stiff Jack Daniels and Diet Coke, wait till the instrumental theme song starts to play, close my eyes, and just drift off into another emotional plane. Call me a lunatic if you will, but I also got quite emotional at the end of Scarface, when Pacino copped the hailstorm of bullets from the Columbians. It's amazing what things can cause a grown man to become emotional. I also became quite distressed when Randy 'Macho Man' Savage lost his first match up in the WWF.
I didn't cry but I felt bad when the scene was over. and yes the music was VERY depressing...I have never been a vet myself, but I can only hint at the stuff going thru their head, the relief of being home, and being alive, and just wanting to be left alone to recenter your heart and soul, what's left of it....another good character study of the Vietnam vet BTW is the Emilio Estevez film "The War At Home." This one I cried at the ending of..as well as certain parts of the film where it was apparent that he just needed someone to talk to, and not another battlefield in his life.
Very interesting Dagons Blade. I would also indicate a great mini series by Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks, ' Band of Brothers'. Some pretty gut wrenching stuff in there too. The war at home was a good flick, I only saw it once. Apocalypse Now is another Vietnam War movie that gets the cogs turning in your head. Another movie masterpiece.
Originally posted by Sir R DeNiro
Very interesting Dagons Blade. I would also indicate a great mini series by Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks, ' Band of Brothers'. Some pretty gut wrenching stuff in there too. The war at home was a good flick, I only saw it once. Apocalypse Now is another Vietnam War movie that gets the cogs turning in your head. Another movie masterpiece.
Apocalypse Now-the quintessential flick. I admit crying in Platoon as well-THAT had a sad musical score.... Private Ryan also had me in tears-the old man coming back to visit the graves every year and bringing his family. Through life and death, they truly were 'A Band Of Brothers.'
And it's this ideology that makes the American soldier the BEST-everyone goes home, noone gets left behind,and you are not alone. 😎
Yes, Casino was a very good flick too, DeNiro. And Saving Private Ryan was an absolute ball tearer as well. There's just something about a good war flick that gets the blood pumping through your veins and the cogs turning in your brain. I think it's because you know what you are watching might have actually happened, or at least something very close to that. It also gets you thinking about what you would do if you were in that same position knowing that it could very well happen some day. It is inevitable that war will always be present. Especially now since Sept. 11, ElQuada has basically said " The gloves are off ".
When I finally exit this world, I would like to die by the bullet, fighting for something that I believe in. I'd much rather go like that, than let cancer or heart disease get me. Whether the bullet comes from a drug dealer or from a terrorist, it doesn't really matter, as long as I go down fighting for the cause.
I would like to go out like Bruce Willis did at the end of Armageddon, when he blows the meteor and himself up to save the world.