Saddest moment in a Disney movie

[Cordy_Biddle]

I have to admit, the ending of "Lilo & Stitch", where Stitch talks about family, gave me a lump in my throat the first time I watched it.

[wdwnut4life]

yup i agree w/ya there. where's my tissues?

Scenes that almost always make me tear up:

Dumbo: "Baby Mine"
Make Mine Music: "Without You;" The death of Willie
Melody Time: The ending of "Pecos Bill;" ("Move Along Blue Shadows")
The Rescuers: "Someone's Waiting for You"
The Fox and the Hound: "Goodbye May Seem Forever"
Beauty and the Beast: The death of the Beast
Pocahontas: "If I Never Knew You;" The ending
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Esmeralda kisses Phoebus; Quasimodo thinks that Esmeralda is dead
Tarzan: Jane and Professor Porter leaving for England ("But you love him.")
Lilo and Stitch: "Aloha Oe"
Brother Bear: Kenai admits to Koda that he's killed his mother
Bolt: Bolt and Penny almost dying in the fire ("You're my good boy....")
The Princess and the Frog: The death of Ray
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: "Nobody's Problems"
Pete's Dragon: "Candle on the Water"
Enchanted: "So Close;" Robert whispers to Gisell before kissing her ("Please don't leave me.")
Toy Story 2: "When She Loved Me"
WALL-E: EVE thinks that WALL-E's memory has been deleted
Up: "Married Life;" Carl looks through the Adventure Book; Carl gives Russel the Ellie Badge
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure: Tinker Bell wastes her wish and cries for Terence

[Widdi]

1. Jenny tell Faggin she just wants her kitty back in Oliver & Company
2. Widow Tweed drops Todd of in the forest in The Fox and the Hound

These are the only sad moments in Disney films that make me cry.

[Scarred4life]

Baby Mine. It just kills me. Every time. Definelty the saddest moment ever.
Mufasa's Death
Bambi's Mother's Death

[Super Aurora]

The saddest moment is when Disney became something else(see disney channel) and lack any sort of good family substance.

[Cordy_Biddle]

The saddest thing about the "Baby Mine" scene in DUMBO is what actually comes just before it... The revelation of Dumbo's mother being locked up in chains as a 'mad elephant'. I remember even as a child being highly disturbed by that scene.

[DisneyFan09]

It seems stupid, but every time I see the dwarfs cry over Snow White it gets to me. Even though I know she is going to wake up in a minute.

The farewel scene between Pocahontas and John Smith is also very sad, but I don't remember crying over it.

*Sniff* "Baby Mine" *Sniff*

"When she loved me"

Don't worry, the former one is not stupid.

[dvdjunkie]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion, and I will grant you that I get a lump in my throat when Mufasa dies, and in "Dumbo", and "Oliver and Company", but these are animated films and we should be judging 'real' movies on their merits of emotion, shouldn't we.

Maybe I am way off base, or just because I am the oldest Disney freak here, that fact has passed me by. I love all Disney movies, but I would never cry in an animated one, sorry.

[Margos]

Live action and animation are just mediums. All films, when made by talented people, can capture the same basic principles, and that's what a lot of people don't understand. It's that kind of thinking that makes a lot of people see animated films as "kids' movies" instead of the works of art that they really are.

Anyway, I just thought of another one!

James and the Giant Peach: "My Name is James"

[Rudy Matt]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion, and I will grant you that I get a lump in my throat when Mufasa dies, and in "Dumbo", and "Oliver and Company", but these are animated films and we should be judging 'real' movies on their merits of emotion, shouldn't we.

Maybe I am way off base, or just because I am the oldest Disney freak here, that fact has passed me by. I love all Disney movies, but I would never cry in an animated one, sorry.

Wow. So animated films can make you get a lump in your throat, but they can't go all the way and make you cry? Sounds like you're the problem, not the medium. Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.

[Duckburger]

Let's see, I have quite a few:

-In 'Oliver & Co.' when all the cats are picked out of the box on the street by someone except for Oliver, don't really know why - but that always has me going 'there's something in my eye'.

-When Lilo is talking about her parents. Something about deceased parents that always makes me tear up. And of course 'Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind' always gets me.

-The beginning of Up - seriously that's one of the saddest and most beautiful moments at the same time I've ever seen in an animated film.

-When Eve believes that Wall-E's memory was erased. Sure they're robots -but they have feelings.

-And lastly the ending to 'The Fox and the Hound' when she drops of the fox. Very powerful moment for a very underrated film.

-I still can't bring it up to watch Bambi, I know it's gonna have me crying my eyes out. I guess I'll wait for the Diamond Edition - and then watch it.


I'm not really much of a crier but Disney films usually bring up a lot of emotions, mostly because I expect them to be there - kinda weird to understand.

[Cordy_Biddle]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion, and I will grant you that I get a lump in my throat when Mufasa dies, and in "Dumbo", and "Oliver and Company", but these are animated films and we should be judging 'real' movies on their merits of emotion, shouldn't we.

Maybe I am way off base, or just because I am the oldest Disney freak here, that fact has passed me by. I love all Disney movies, but I would never cry in an animated one, sorry.

Wow. So animated films can make you get a lump in your throat, but they can't go all the way and make you cry? Sounds like you're the problem, not the medium. Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.

OMG, that movie haunted me for weeks after I saw it. So sad. Totally agree.

[pap64]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion, and I will grant you that I get a lump in my throat when Mufasa dies, and in "Dumbo", and "Oliver and Company", but these are animated films and we should be judging 'real' movies on their merits of emotion, shouldn't we.

Maybe I am way off base, or just because I am the oldest Disney freak here, that fact has passed me by. I love all Disney movies, but I would never cry in an animated one, sorry.

Wow... Color me stunned.

First off, animated movies ARE real movies. They tell stories, develop characters and even feature techniques commonly used in live action films. They take a lot of hard work, dedication and love to complete so to me animated movies are real movies.

Second, for someone who claims to be a Disney fan I am stunned that you would say that animated movies aren't real enough to create emotions in the movie, especially when Disney himself worked really, really hard to convey emotion in animated films. And he was extremely successful for it. People actually cried and sobbed during Snow White's funeral at the premiere, so they did a good job of getting an emotion out of the audience even though they were just really watching animated drawings.

Finally, you say that since animated movies aren't real. Well, live action movies can be considered fake too. Yes, it has living, breathing people. But the emotions they portray are fake. They are told to act sad, happy, surprised, angry and sarcastic. They rehearse when they are dying or when they are in love. Someone told the actors to act that way so the story is better.

Let's go even further, shall we?

E.T. is just a rubber puppet. The shark in Jaws is just an animatronic. The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were animatronics and CG characters. Most of the time the actors are talking to dead air in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The lady's blood in the show scene in Psycho is really just red powder. Most of the sound effects in the Star Wars movies came from trash and other stuff. Hell, the Na'vis in Avatars were just motion capture actors in black suits with white dots on them.

See what I mean? By your logic, these movies shouldn't move people because everything is fake, acted out, rehearsed and planned. Movies are fake, therefore no emotion should be created in the viewer.

But still, we defy that logic because at the heart of all these movies is the story. We humans have a great skill: imagination. Its imagination that makes us enjoy wonderful stories, whether they are read to us or being watched in a giant screen, told via sock puppets or on a grand and prestigious stage. Its our imaginations that allow us to forget the fact that we are watching is often fake and lead us to believe that its real. Most importantly, we connect to the characters emotionally.

THAT'S why people feel sad for Dumbo when he visits his mother, THAT'S why we shed a tear when Simba realizes his father is dead, THAT'S why we jump for joy when the shoe fits Cinderella, THAT'S why we are thrilled when we see the forest sprite come back to life and revive nature after a devastating volcano eruption, and THAT'S why we feel sympathetic towards Carl Fredicksen when he is declared a public menace, even though all he ever wanted was to live life at peace.

Again, all we are watching are hand drawn characters painted in either ink or via a digital inking program or characters created in a character. But our imaginations allow us to look past that and see the characters as extensions of our own hearts and souls, effectively creating emotions and pathos towards the characters. And the greater the story, the stronger that connection becomes.

To end this... "Does anyone here watch real movies?" What? Did you actually insult the intellect of the posters here because they confessed that they cried or felt sad watching an animated movie? First of all, if you actually bothered to check the other forums we DO watch "real" movies, enough to create long and never ending debates about screen rations, plot holes, lazy acting and the like. Second, just because you don't feel any emotions when watching animated movies it doesn't give you the right to insult anyone else that does. Finally, as of late, animated movies have proven to be better than most "real" movies nowadays.

I'm surprised at you, dvdjunkie. You proclaim yourself to be the eldest poster in this forums, yet you sometimes post some degrading, insulting and just plain bigot comments in this forum. There's more to being an elder than just a number. It takes a lifetime of knowledge and experiences, and it surprises me that with your experience you act in a childish manner just because we don't share the same views as you.

[zackiellovedisney]

My top 10 saddest scenes

10. Lady and the Tramp: the pound scene
9.Alice in Wonderland: Very Good Advice
8.Old Yeller: Death scene
7.Up: Married Life
6.Hunchback: Quasi humiliated at the Feast of Fools
5.Finding Nemo: One Survivor
4.Princess and the Frog: Ray's Death
3. Hunchback: Esmeralda kisses Pheobus
2. Lion King:Death of Mufasa
1. Bambi: You know exactly what scene I am talking about

[Margos]

Very well said, Pap!

[Super Aurora]

Wow. So animated films can make you get a lump in your throat, but they can't go all the way and make you cry? Sounds like you're the problem, not the medium. Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.

Great movie, but not the saddest i've seen in the anime/manga category. Some of the saddest and depressing stuff come from most action oriented series like Black Lagoon.

[Elladorine]

I don't think it really matters if it's live-action, animated, or what . . . all films are made up of stories and characters, and the reason they touch our lives and make us cry is the way we find ourselves relating to whatever it is that we see on the screen.

It always gets me when Lilo says she remembers everyone that leaves. When Widow Tweed says, "and now I find we're both alone." When Timothy pulls Dumbo away from his imprisoned mother. When Jessie says, "you never forget kids like Emily or Andy . . . but they forget you." And of course, when Bambi's father says, "your mother can't be with you anymore."

[Marky_198]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion, and I will grant you that I get a lump in my throat when Mufasa dies, and in "Dumbo", and "Oliver and Company", but these are animated films and we should be judging 'real' movies on their merits of emotion, shouldn't we.

Maybe I am way off base, or just because I am the oldest Disney freak here, that fact has passed me by. I love all Disney movies, but I would never cry in an animated one, sorry.

And that's the beautiful thing about the animated classics.
They are films with real emotions.
People are really touched by it and yes, it makes them cry.

The classics are pieces of art, truly masterpieces.
Emotional rollercoasters.

Calling it just a "cartoon" would be the same as calling a live action film "a bunch of people walking around and there happened to be a camera".

Films are about story telling. It doesn't matter what or who acts these emotions out.

Edit: Oh, just read the other reactions, like pap64, I agree.

[Goliath]

Okay, after reading this thread from the very beginning, and including my posting, I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.

Animated films are great, but they can't show true human emotion,

That's only everything Walt Disney ever strived for. And he has succeed in doing so. People -adults, famous actors- were crying at the premiere of Snow White, when the Dwarfs mourn her. If you really feel this way, I'm surprised you're a Disney-fan.

[Goliath]

And of course, when Bambi's father says, "your mother can't be with you anymore."

I'm sorry, but I've always found Bambi's dad to be extremely laughable. He's so pompous, it's so overdone...

Besides the Medusa & Penny-scene, another good, sad moment is the 'Feed the birds'-sequence in Mary Poppins.