How To Make The Audience Cry
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2017
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Here is my guide on how to bring the reader to tears. In this video essay I analyse Up, The green mile and interstellar to try and figure out what makes them so sad.
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“I’m a nerd, I’ve never even had a girlfriend”
Head up king, your crown is falling
It went to show how well he understood and mastered the subject he was describing. I am sad now.
My best friend once told me that. It brought tears to my eyes❤
That was the part of the video that made me cry 😂
That made me cry
@@hasancankirac9265 Seriously? Wow.
You guys are overthinking this too much. Just get pepper spray and spray it on the audience.
That was wonka's original plan. Instead of sending chocolate through the tv, he wanted to mace people through the tv.
Wonka- "ahhhhh.....not a dry eye in the house.......soon.....not a dry eye in any house 😠".
Ah so that’s the weird smell there always is in drama cinema showings
@@khatunamezvrishvili6211 well fuck you
Angsty Tantrum was that an attemt at a joke?
No, use tear gas.
That one scene in the Green Mile is one of the most heartbreaking things in film making. Mr. Duncan's performance was absolutely painful to watch, but also genuinely one of the best deliveries ever.
yes
Yeah, truly , John was an amazing character.
And during emotional scenes Mr. Duncan would recall his father leaving him as a child to evoke such profound emotions
What also makes John's death heart wrenching is that the guards offered to let him run, but he said no and stated that he wished to die because he had enough of how cruel the world is
That makes my heart break
Imagine that one annoying audience saying "not sad, didn't cry"
@@briman2000 lol
That's me tbh. The second Guardians of the Galaxy. Saw that and the theatre was packed. I remember hearing people sniffling all around me as they cried at the end. And with what happened, no spoilers, in my head I was like "Why are you all crying? You couldn't guess that this was coming? I was literally aware of this about five minutes before this "sad" moment started."
@@s.k.1603 did you literally not understand the point of the comment they're saying people who do that are annoying jfc
@@xxxtelethapy4823 No need to be rude. You got nothing better to do then criticize people for leaving their thoughts and opinions?
@@s.k.1603 wow. You’re so cool. So smart. I bet you get ALL the bitches,
The part most noticed by viewers: "I'm a nerd, I've never even had a girlfriend."
Their reaction: empathy and sadness, offerings of hugs
Reason: INJUSTICE!
*Internet hug*
i kinda feel like this was totally intended and i love it
Nerd? Lucky that he is smart in some way. I'm an ugly duckling and I'm an idiot.
An example of “you don’t need to empathize with a character to be sad when they die” that I couldn’t help but think of during this was Walter White. He became a horrible person, and barely anyone in the audience could empathize for him, yet it was still very sad to watch when he died
It’s a masterpiece at a redemption arc!
@@zeej80 i wouldnt say redemption. Walter just rights his wrongs with Jesse and cleans up everything connected to him. Him dying is him being victorious in never being caught and having lived his life to the fullest in the short time he had left.
I had a different experience with breaking bad. Empathize means to understand someone's feelings, Walter might have made some horrible decisions and was straight up evil towards the end but he was also well fleshed out, his motivations made sense, we could see how everything effected him, and I still found him easy to empathize with. If I dont have that kind of connection to character and the show wants me to feel sad then it better have some damn good music
@@ah-sh9dw understand evil, but do not sympathize with it
AGGGGHHH SPOILER WARNING PPLEASE
No matter how many times I watch this, the, “I’m afraid of the dark” line will always, and I mean always make me cry.
How To Make The Audience Cry:
"I'm a nerd, i dont even have a girlfriend"
Never even had a girlfriend*
Facts
Injustice... It makes me cry
Denny FatKid 😭
Thanks. Spilled all my coffee.
"I'm a nerd, I've never even had a girlfriend."
Damn, you need a hug bro?
:(
Girlfriends get in the way of overwatch. I have my priorities sorted out...
The Closer Look I don't want no teenage queen, I just want my M14
Chrispy Cine He's just trying to make everyone cry.
hugs are appreciated
Such a sad man....
Bryon Cranston the actor of Walter white in breaking bad said that if the character cries, then the audience doesn’t have to. But if the character tries not to cry, that’s when the audience will.
In Up when Carl notices that Ellie filled out the rest of the adventure book with their life together makes me cry, too.
The contrast of Carl feeling like he failed Ellie then him finding out that Ellie didn’t feel like they failed at all is so cute and loving.
More moving than sad, but still makes me cry.
I felt like this scene was hugely overshadowed by the audience for a long time now. This scene feels incredibly emotional because the audience saw how broken and desolate Carl was after the passing of Ellie. Him being a cheerful and happy young person at the beginning of the montage only to turn into a lonely and depressed old man by the end. Throughout the movie Carl does everything to honor Ellie, like choosing to save their house over saving Kevin despite Russell's urgent pleas, because he feels that he failed Ellie on accomplishing their trip to Paradise Falls. To especially point out that Carl kept avoiding to look at the adventure book after her death at first, and be finally strong enough to open the book and realize how in Ellie's perspective, she was happy and accomplished with her life. And Ellie's message for Carl to move one and start his own adventures was what I believe started to steer him to a more happy and determined direction about saving Russell and Kevin. It's one of my favorite scenes in Pixar.
@@joserios4409 I agree wholeheartedly with you
I agree, that scene makes me more emotional than the beginning, actually.
That part had my husband sobbing
I don't agree with henryboseley / Closer Look's interpretation that the Up segment is about injustice. I prefer to call it love and grief. His life is not a tragedy - it was a wonderful thing. Ellie was a gift to him, even if it were taken away in the end.
The most important aspect of this thing was that it explained why Carl was so attached to the house and the idea of the vacation and adventure.
you missed one more important thing, it's the music
Infinity War?
He mentioned it in up he said the camera and the music were the only things to create the story
@@Melina_Evarblume_Seelie The guy literally said Infinity War. So i wanted to know if he was an adult or not. I am not a pedophile lol
yikiio I cried in infinity war
Wanted to cry in infinity war tbh, but there was no music, it was quite empty, and I also knew that everything was not the end.
"Don't put that thing over my face. Don't put me in the dark, I'm afraid of the dark." that part always makes me burst into tears. He is just so innocent.
same
It's the handshake while he's shackled to the chair that gets me
nope nope
I have your profile pic as mine in what's app 😂
I have never seen that move but in the scene that he showed and the knowledge of the character and the situation he was in got me Reeeeeeeeeeeal sad
Denise Cornelius geuss who be crying right now boi
as a man, I have never cried
harder than when I watched green mile
Same, Green Mile was the closest I've ever came to crying over a show or movie. Absolute masterpiece
I haven’t even watched it but from the clips I have seen, I can flood mars with the tears I shed
Even looking at the still images makes me tear up
Same. I cried for 20 minutes
Its the only movie I have cried in but I cried more when the guy with the mouse dies (I don’t remember he’s name)
or watching Sabaton's version of 1916... or Rammstein's Zeit
Thank you for this, i was trying to find how to make a sad video game, all I got was “SADDEST MOMENTS IN ROBLOX HISTORY 🥺😭” , “top ten most sad moments in video games💔…😔😔” and “ SAD SKIBIDI TOYLET SKIBIDI DEATH😭😭😭” this was the only thing I found, and it really helped me
Me, crying, and taking notes: g-good point.... mate...
LITERALLY SAME FUCK
Joloxi L i c h r a l l y
yeah ;-;
MOOODD FHDHD
The way you describe it is so funny I'm sorry I can't help laughing
that "don't put me in the dark" line is absolutely heartbreaking.
even that little it without any build uo made me cry as is someone just stabbed my granny to death in front of me . . .
just how innocent and how utterly resigned he is to his fate breaks me every time and how the only thing that renderes the guard able to pull the leaver is knowing anything else would be even worse for out stweet hard. . . . .
The build up of the "i am tired line . . . ." fuck was that effectiv
I’ve never even seen this movie and I burst out into tears watching this, goes to show the great filmmaking that went into this scene.
I've never even watched the film, but seeing that scene and hearing "I'm afraid of the dark" just H U R T
“i’s afraid of the dark” I’M NOT CRYING YOU ARE
Yeah:(
I rarely cry but that scene from The Green Mile gets me every damn time...its just too painful not to shed a tear.
Honestly, I feel like I cry hardest when a scene is sad but also has a beautiful undertone.
I remember Klaus (spoilers) makes me ugly cry every time when Klaus disappears into the woods after announcing to his late wife that he’s coming. He’s not scared, he’s satisfied with the life he lived, which is something not everyone gets when it’s their time.
When it shows Jesper looking for him, asking everyone they’ve met throughout the movie, I got this sad sad feeling. Klaus is happy, but he left so many people behind. The movie ends when Jesper has two children, tucking them into bed before he sets out some milk and cookies before sitting in a chair and staring at the chimney. The last thing he narrates is “I don’t know why or how, but once a year, I get to see my friend again.” As he hears someone come down the chimney
Something about tragedy that is interlaced with a beautiful undertone really hits me and a lot of my friends, since you don’t always see things like death highlighted in a more positive way, allowing us to know that everything isn’t always as bleak as it seems
“A confused viewer is never going to cry”
Cries in Your Name
"Cries in your name"
it actually sounds really confusing to the people who haven't watched that movie
Edit: Yes, I know it's a movie named "Your Name."
*cries in steinsgate*
I love that movie
Song of the Sea
@@Sleepy_boi206 oh my gosh someone else who knows song of the sea!!
“don’t put me in the dark boss. I’s afraid of the dark.”
@Ryan Lynch Oh god yes! The mouse getting killed by that douchebag prisoner, the moment we realised the real meaning behind John Coffey's statement about the two girls - "I couldn't take it back"... yeah, there was a LOT of sadness mixed in with the lighter moments.
I bawled my eyes out when I first watched that scene. I've got tears in my eyes right now just thinking about it. Poor John Coffey...
You ever seen just mercy
The scene of Herbert's death is just heart breaking you feel bad cause hes on death row hes a nam vet and as hes strapped in the chair the people watching hear cups clanging as all the other inmates are rattling there cups and just yelling " WERE ALL HERE FOR YA HERBERT" and just before the switch is pulled he smiles a little and I'm crying writing this
I have only cried once at film in the last 10 years, and it was that damned movie
Stephen King decided that day to stop making people scared and start making them depressed.
"A confused viewer is never going to cry"
Me watching my maths teacher explaining literally anything
on the contrary, the confusion is exactly what makes me cry
As a FMA fan, I can agree. It's not Hughes death that make me cry every time. It's the funeral after.
a real g.
"a confused viewer is never going to cry"
*Me watching cats*
bruh, this deserves a thousand likes
"Cries from bad movie "
The comment that burst the laughter in me like popping a balloon
Fans who had their shows/animes turned into shitty live actions: First time?
The comment was better than the film
"a confused viewer is never going to cry"
*infinity war flashbacks*
kitkatisweird how was infinity war confusing
what if he didn't watch other marvel movies
AnimaSuper O
Dude I watched Endgame, the only marvel movie I ever watched. Half the time, I didn't understand anything. I still got the goosebumps when cap america said 'assemble'. Almost felt like crying right there
@@animasuper1343 actually, i hadn't seen other marvel movies (except spider-man:homecoming) and i was able to get a really good grasp on the film.
In The Outsiders, Johnny Cades’s death is the same way. He was abused all his life, rescued children from a church fire, and he still died, while Ponyboy, his friend, couldn’t do anything to help him. Great video!
I know. I personally find the fact that he had done good all his life yet faced such injustice. He wasn’t even happy when they won the fight, just disappointed. It shows that Johnny had not cared about the darker side of the world anymore.
@@Liability2 IGuess that’s the key to the sadness in the film.
@@Therealjjinxed_turtle yeah. I cried when I first read the book
@@Liability2 same here 😭
You don't have to have the same experiences as someone else to have sympathy for them. That's called empathy.
I cried as you explained the cinematography of Up wtf
Same. I felt like a damn crybaby. Glad I am not alone. Lol
Same
YOU BETA MALE!
Ostrich Feet right
Maayan Abutbul me too! We all did
"I'm a nerd, I've never even had a girlfriend" Like if you cried.
Its the injustice
Now that's sad
*F*
I came to comment section looking for u
I understood his pain. I'm in the same boat. I cried on her, so much more relatable than a lot of movies I watch. These three choices were sad movies though. Very rememberable to.
I was coming in and out of my room to the kitchen in my house, and I kept passing my mom folding laundry watching the green mile for a while. I stayed and watched the last thirty minutes. I have never cried because of a movie before, but just those thirty minutes put tears in my eyes.
I've never seen The Green Mile, but that scene you included at the end, those scant seconds where the convict is asking not to be hooded, was like a stab of sorrow that brought me to immediate tears. Even without knowing anything about the story. Amazing...
I watched it myself and let me tell you, I got a headache from crying so much but it's a truly beautiful film
This is how to make them cry
-sad backstory
-funny and likeable character
-friends
-one goal they never achieve
-death
Boom tears
Holy shit I'm gonna die. I have made it to step 3......
@@nitroxylictv at least people will miss you
JoJo?
-Have a kid have mom troubles with no dad
-have him have an escape from this world where he can enjoy himself
- He makes friends and has a good time
-Make him realize his mom is the only real thing he had and make him regret his actions
-Some kid in a wolf suit
Nairobi from La Casa De Papel
How to make the audience cry:
-Have a king
-Make him roam around and interact in a kingdom
-Captures monsters
-Monsters escape
-Wife dies
-Jumps off a balcony
-done
Josh fallen kingdom 🤧
yeees
OMG that's so good why had nobody done this yet
Sounds like he used to rule the world, can’t lie
@@oblongman yeah i bet chunks would load when he gave the word
Inside Out was also a great movie that followed this formula of contrasts and injustice. Strangely, the scene that nearly made me cry was when the monkey island fell down. Riley lost Joy and Sadness to no fault of her own and watching the grey barren island (each island had a personal resemblance) fall down into a void of damp darkness, it was accompanied by cutscenes of happy memories of Riley being a complete goofball and having playful fun, just being a kid. It's powerful because it reflects losing a very defining part of yourself because of circumstances you cannot control.
Another example was, interestingly, Minecraft: Story Mode, chapter 4. The writers made Rueben the pig such a lovable companion to the gang, and the big injustice is that Rueben essentially saved the day, the poor piglet didn't deserve to die. This shows that sometimes serving justice to everyone else comes at the cost of injustice to you, you did your part for everyone else, and you get no reward, no chance to see the bright world afterwards that you helped save. It's what made Iron Man's death very compelling as well in Avengers: Endgame, which I will mention, Tony dying did not make me cry, Tony's hologram telling Morgan, "I love you 3000" is what made me bawl my eyes out. Tony always learns from his mistakes, he never got to say goodbye to his parents, so he left a message behind so that he could say goodbye to his daughter one more time. And the cherry on top was the "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart" on a bouquet sent into the stream, a callback to the message that kept him going in the first Iron Man movie 11 years (15 years chronologically) before.
Inside out was MY first movie to strongly trigger tears from me... at a late age 35, too! For me it was when Joy was stuck in the pit thinking Riley may never be happy again, especially when she said "Do you remember... when she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring?"
That was like "OK GAME OVER" for me...!
No matter how much I brace for it, the "I's afraid of the dark" still makes me tear up.
“A confused person is never going to cry”. Someone’s never seen Evangelion
Imagine how would a sad confused person sound like
Underrated comment lmao
I think even if you don't really understand every aspect of Evangelion the troubled relationships between the characters and the main theme of people being unable to express or relate to others without pain can be felt regardless.
The person who cried is the one who lost a friend or family because of the clusterfuck of that ending (seizure)
Someone hasn't seen the death of Kakyoin
"I've never even had a girlfriend" that's got to be the saddest thing in this video
That made me cry
Plot twist he's gay they have two disposable incomes travel a lot and live blissfully in-between their careers as writers...
I can't say I cried over it, but that did strike me when I heard it. I'm so used to seeing these red pill incels online, that it never occured to me such a thoughtful invividual that clearly constantly works on improving themselves might fit into that category 😳 All I can say is, I hope he does stumble upon someone who can see past the awkwardness, if he so wishes.
I doubt it helps any, but I have found a shit-ton of confidence working a customer service job. With the ready-made formula to every interaction, and the option to stray from that to add a bit more personality bit by bit as you gain more confidence, that has changed my life completely. In the state I was in before I started, I could maybe talk to an interesting shell on the beach, but that was the amount of strangers I could handle
@@Inka.R. My TLDR is basically, the media and different social movements have grown the divide in the ideologies of the original genders. We are saying we want things that we were told to want and in some cases, compromise or settling for things that we don’t want but don’t have the leverage to attain.
@@Inka.R. Yeah, there's a lot of incredibly toxic redpill incels and it can make you forget that at least broadly, the term can and does probably apply to a lot of perfectly decent people.
Me and my family watched interstellar and we all thought it would be a fun adventure movie but god damn that was something
Perosnally, the part of Interstellar that nearly makes me cry every damn time is when Coop is in the black hole. Slowly he starts to realise he's the one that's been sending Murph messages through the bookshelves. The point that he realises that, no matter what he does, he can't make himself stay in the past. The "Don't let me leave, Murph", is what gets me every time.
put onions under their seats.
It was just a prank bro
IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO LOOK AT THE CAMERA!!! (GONE WRONG) (IN THE HOOD) (COPS CALLED) (ALMOST STABBED) (GUN PULLED)
DeviNation 1 (GONE SEXUAL) (NOT CLICKBAIT)
Helen Hall that doesnt work, put a small midget under everyone's seat and order it to cut the onions
ALDAVLOGS but then everyone will have a pool of midget tears under their seats
How to make the audience cry:
- create a compelling and appealing character for your audience
- have the audience learn to care for the character
- have them follow the character’s journey for years
- kill them off
Congratulations. You made the audience cry.
All I see is Loki
So danganronpa
HIm: you absolutely don't need to relate to the character. you ust need the audience to empathize
You: no
*it's alright boah*
The Walking Dead (the Telltale series), Lee and Clementine (kinda)
I've never cried over a movie until right before I moved in to college. I rewatched Toy Story 3 and the scene when Andy left the toys and went off to college had me shedding a few tears since I actually was starting to feel what it was going to be like to leave.
Oh wow what timing for you to watch that movie too! That movie is infamous for tears!
Inside out was MY first movie to strongly trigger tears from me... at a late age 35, too! For me it was when Joy was stuck in the pit thinking Riley may never be happy again, especially when she said "Do you remember... when she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring?"
That was like "OK GAME OVER" for me...!
WHY AM I CRYING
THE FILM IS SAD ENOUGH BUT WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT ITS JUST VERY HEART BREAKING
It's ironic that the movie called _“Up”_ puts everyone's mood _down._
But you can't get more up than by starting at the bottom...
@@ritaress9910 That is true.
@@jennyneon I agree with what Rita said. The title of the movie carries strong double meaning. In the literal sense, the title "Up" is fitting because they are going up into the sky, but it could also be interpreted as Carl starting the film at an all time low, and slowly rising up, and bringing the audience with him, as he finds something new to live for.
🌽
That movie had so many gutpunch moments, interspersed between moments of absolute joy. It puts you both up and down, which makes for good writing.
*sees video*
"Oh? I wonder how this will go-"
*Hears first note of piano theme from UP*
*SOBBING* "THAT WAS A CHEAP SHOT"
😭
I relate so much, it's a childhood classic 😭
I don’t think I’ve ever cried from the beginning of Up, but I started crying when my favorite character died in a video game😂
@@bridgetthefridget777 I didn’t know someone could have wrong emotions.... unless the video game character was papyrus
@@comrade8185 Nope. Clementine from TWD. It’s not easy to make me cry, but no one lays a finger on Clementine.
The first time I cried watching something was ATLA's "Tale of Iroh". Leaves From the Vine will always have a place in my heart
Interstellar's 23 years scene is the most powerful movie moment. It's easily Matthew McConaughey's best performance. Just the idea of being stuck in space, watching as your families lives flash in a blink of an eye while you are billions of lightyears away from the Earth. Jessica Chastain's emotions in that scene really hit home too its just so heartbreaking
Interstellar was a HUGE surprise for me. But first, one little backstory:
Inside out was FIRST movie to strongly trigger tears from me... at a late age 35, too! For me it was when Joy was stuck in the pit thinking Riley may never be happy again, especially when she said "Do you remember... when she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring?"
That was like "OK GAME OVER" for me...! In fact, (as I later researched, because the effects had confused me at first!) ... some feel-good brain endorphins had come along WITH those tears, as they sometimes do even if we do not notice... but THOSE were so noticeable I was actually CRAVING MORE tearjerkers after that movie.
But finding another one that "did that to me" was easier said than done.
Three years later, I stumbled upon Interstellar. I knew NOTHING about it so was not expecting much... then noticed (as I was still trying to eat my salad while watching!) tears dripping down my nose during that 23 years scene!
@@sathvamp1 interstellar just has like the perfect movie pacing.
One particular scene that gets me is the scene on I Am Legend where Will Smith's character has to kill his dog that is infected with the virus. The close up to his face while he's angry and crying really expresses the injustice that he feels of his dog getting robbed of its life and not only that but he is getting robbed of his only living friend.
what really gets me is the scene just after that, when he goes into the shop and is desperate for the dummy to speak to him, "please say hello to me"
RazmOnnen that's a great scene too. The movie deal with loneliness really good, until the woman appear
That's the only scene ever in a movie that has made me cry
and it had me crying like a bitch...
Also because it's a dog and for some reason we emphasize more with people losing animal companions.
“I’s afraid of the dark.”
That line right there, always brings me to tears.
"I'm tired boss"
Everything about the Green Mile just burns an absolute hole in my chest. Its such a GREAT movie.
i didn't even watch the movie and i got a little watery
He's very childlike there.
That line hurts
This video is all about oversimplifying a masterpiece. A good movie that brings you joy is not a methodical work but an artistic one that requires talent.
i recently watched intersteller. now, it didn’t make me cry, as i dont easily with movies, but i was very close to doing so. i have wanted to watch it for a while, and it was such a beautiful movie. 10/10 would recommend
I assumed that Carl and Ellie had a miscarriage. It makes more sense as to why they never have another child.
I think he meant that too, but actually, when I first saw the movie, I thought Ellie was unable to give birth.
garner montgomery I believe they were refering to Ellie being infertile-- miscarridges happen pretty often.
garner montgomery I always thought she was infertile.
It might be that the first miscarriage made them look deeper and discover an issue with her body that makes it impossible to carry an infant to term.
I'm pretty sure she had the same issue that Marilyn Monroe did, like endometriosis or her ectopic(tube) pregnancy were there would have been no saving the child. Bc why start setting up a nursery if they weren't getting ready for the baby?
"I'm a nerd, I've never even had a girlfriend" relatable content
most emotional moment in youtube history, i cried
that's a huge injustice right there
How ignorant.
Injust, evokes sympathy and empathy. Now we just need to see you react XD
Jamin You Have No Jims this made me cry
I just finished the green mile and the line "I'm tired boss" and "Don't put me in the dark" made me cry
i loved the green mile. as in a sad context. by far the most heart wrenching movie ive ever watched
The green mile hit me harder than the others, that dude was the most innocent dude
Same
I also think the racial aspect made it more powerful as well. The attitudes towards black people at the time and place the film is set (not to mention the fact that he was convicted of a very violent crime against a white girl) made it so the guards who liked Jon Kofi couldn't openly express their grief and sadness at his unjust execution. Which I think adds to that strong sense of injustice.
@@knucklescapricorn31 it also adds to their strong friendship and trust the guards had for him considering the circumstances
ThatBlackChickWithNoHair The saddest part is when they want to bring him back to trial and perhaps save him, but Jon refuses and states that he’s tired of feeling everybody’s pain and not being able to help everybody. Man that was rough.
Also, it hits you that he was trying to save those girls in the beginning. He was crying for them.
When he said, “I’ve never even had a girlfriend” I instantly started crying. Great vid
Mikhail Buchanan. Lol you mean from laughing...😂
I know! It's so relatable...
why is that sad? plenty of people go through life alone and are quite happy
Dustoe McDust Stop... My heart can't take this...
But humans are social creatures. I think you should see the movie Into the Wild.
I MOSTLY AGREE WITH AND UNDERSTAND your conclusions in this video, BUT I think you should've brought up examples of how movies and other art have given the audience tears of joy. You may be unfamiliar, but my textbook example due to being firmly nested in the fandom for almost a decade is that I and many others know only too well how many tears have been excreted by people due to their love of Stampy's Lovely World and their gratitude to its creator (Joseph Garrett) for changing their lives, digitally raising them, and giving them childhoods lightyears better than anyone could've ever deserved. Also, even though I've never thought of watching it and still don't plan to, the writing and visuals in that one scene from Interstellar you showed overwhelmingly screamed the deafening message "this movie is a masterpiece". I hope I will put such talent and emotion into my art someday...
I’ve never even watched the green mile but that 2 second scene was all it took for me to cry.
The green mile is one of my favorite movies ever...when John coffee said “please don’t put me in the dark...I’m afraid of the dark” I bursted into tears
Raven Edge every one did
He’s spelled different
Not like the drink...
That is the saddest line ever in a movie
Whats even sadder is the fact that he is really dead now. Breaks my heart when good people like him die. Love is the strongest emotion and the world could use more of it.
Im glad he died
I'm kind of suprised you didn't mention the impact of the music. In my opinion one of the most crucial things to make people feel the emotions. Nevertheless, great analysis on the visual part :)
Roald S. "Someone flew over the cuckoos nest" agree
Yeah, exactly. I was thinking about Doctor Who, and how the limited music in the Peter Capaldi run just kept my emotions in check. But I even shed a tear at the Jodie Whittaker Doctor episodes, because the music was there to enhance a scene.
dude i was talking about the movie with Jack Nicholson
Sometimes silence is also really powerful
Silence can be a powerful tool, but music can manipulate your emotions (maybe except fear) in a way no other sound can do.
I cry everytime i listen to Schindlers List's Soundtrack, no matter how often i heard it!
Thank you for all this work. I’m an aspiring filmmaker and I’m paying attention to every word you say. This is so helpful. If filmmakers can follow and compile all of these tips, you’ll have an amazing movie! Thank you.
I love that he explains about Up being so good in the montage. I've always found it underrated, and the day I finally got to write a review about Up for a schoolproject of mine, I took my chance and described the beauty behind it with the exact same words. Thank you for making this video
Literally anyone:
*mentions Interstellar
Me:
*loud crying
Lizzy Sima me omg
I don’t find it sad but the soundtrack gives me the goosebumps with the intense moments like in the black hole scene or in the scene where they start playing mountains
Same
This movie is really strong. I mean, it has everything. Space, drama, impossibly good soundtrack, exciting visuals and the most important part, crying in total gloom over a relationship at the same time impossible to apply to yourself and incredibly empathetic for probably anyone
I cried at _four_ different points in the film. One of them was not even sad!! I cried at the goddamn docking scene after Mann blew up the hatch! 🤣
Yes I am pathetic.
"I've never even had a girlfriend, how can I be sympathetic ?"
That, that is how you make someone cry
Drewwy i cant, idk why, but i dont feel empathy or sympathy at all. Do you know why, i would like to know?
Xanthrax MC&MORE™ you're a psychopath mate.
Bear i know
Xanthrax MC&MORE™ more information please? I don't think I can just outright say you're a psycho/sociopath without knowing more.
r khan lol
one of the most amazing and thoughtful ideas I have seen in a video. Great execution and examples
One thing that always gets me is right when someone begins their journey to developing as a character only for them to have their chance ripped away. American History X in the end is a harsh movie to watch due to this. Seeing someone just get on the right path for their chances to be ripped away is painful.
How to make the audience cry:
Make a dog movie and get it killed in the end, works everytime
Not me, because I will probably not watch the movie.
there is one movie in which the same dog reincarnates in different dogs and they kill him everytime. They kill like 5 times the same dog and the dog is the narrator
Throne of Glass did a wise job in having a dog, not killing it off and making all the audience cry in at least one point in the series
I don't cafe if dog will die
@@EpicBoy94 it was called ‘A dog’s purpose’ I’m pretty sure
I just realised something about these movies
The sad moment of Up happens at the beginning of the film
The sad moment of Interstellar in the middle
And the sad moment of The Green Mile at the end
now imagine a film with sad moments all throughout the movie
@@souhiyori8032 that isn't possible to pull off. You know why? Because sad moments can only work when they get uplifted by the rest of the film. You can't make your audience sad if you exhaust this emotion all the way through. The same thing applies to scariness in horror movies
@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 mf have you seen the movie about the dog that keeps being reborn after death
@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 I mean interstellar kind of pulls that off. the scene where coper has to say goodbye to murph towards the beginning and then the middle, and when they reunite at the end. While i didnt cry at all 3 they all at least made me tear up
Green mile is heartbreaking the entire way through for me. Even Del and Bitterbuck made me upset
I remember the first time I watched the green mile, I was having such a hard time breathing because I was crying so much. That scene is so powerful. It pulled my heart strings so damn hard! I cried a damn ocean! and just as I am watching this video without the movie sound and just the narrators voice, I'm still tearing up.
Great video! I would like to argue for Up though, that the scenes that made me burst into tears was the shot where Ellie gives Carl the book, the shots where Carl looks in spots where he used to see Ellie, and the moment where he looks in the book to see "Things I'm Going To Do" because these moments were so tender to Carl.
Sometimes what can make a scene sad is a moment of joy in a terrible situation, such as in "Train To Busan" when the dad turns into a zombie while smiling since in that moment he's having flashbacks of his daughter when she was a baby.
“I’m not married. I’m a nerd, I’ve never even had a girlfriend.” That’s the most relatable thing I’ve heard.
It is
I can’t relate to that at all - I’ve had probably 50 girl friends
@@stephenpassaggio9975 I have found 50 dead bodies in ur basement. What did you do
@@Officiall_Bean You don't seem to understand that they were already like that when he started dating them
@@_the_rizzler 💀
*How to make a UA-cam audience cry:*
begin your video with the heartbreaking Up sequence
_Done_
there's no question to all these films being incredibly affecting my whole being with the presented melancholia..
i just got reminded of one particular anime film "Your Name" with that particular scene when the protagonists were about to finally meet, but then, you already know the "injustice" that took place (don't wanna spoil it to those who haven't watched it)
the fact that the just the up music being played in the beginning of the video alone made me tear up shows how well made that scene is
"A confused viewer, is never going to cry"
Totally agree, when I was a child and saw Up for the first time, I didn't understand how devastating the loss of a baby is, that the funeral of Ellie was indeed her funeral (I thought that Karl wanted to re-visit the place where he got married or smth) and those two key elements to make sadness totally failed me, I learned too late what meant what so I think I'll never cry to that scene again unless I want to, damn it
Can’t you just watch it again? The reveals aren’t the only sad part, it’s the contrast with the good and bad
Just wait a decade and rewatch it like me
Same was with Mufasa death
Dawg I didn’t know those things either as a kid and still cried my ass off
@@mintyhippo8125 At least for me this doesn't work. If I cried once because of a film or series, I will not again. It's still sad, but idk just not sad enough to make me cry again.
Didn't cry at Interstellar.
Up came close, but I held it together.
The Green Mile got me good.
same. i think interstellar as an epic space adventure. the visualisation and soundtrack is what gets me. The Green Mile on the other hand...
I feel the exact same
LondonIrishRover
Elfen lied did.
Damn I need to see that
Same
I'm so glad I finally stumbled upon your channel - Your insights teach me a lot about how to analyse movies better :)
As of yet, The Green Mile is one of the movies I've cried over the most, and now I know why✌
For me, the first Red Dawn made me cry, it was late at night and I watched with my dad, over time I could hear slight sniffles from him and over time, I started to gain sadness as well. The loyalty, the betrayal, the happiness, the sadness as well as the suspense always brings me to tears.
I am so happy I'm not the only one!!!! There was something about these children being left to fend for themselves in such a trying time and only 2 of them making it out alive was just devastating. What was most tear-jerking for me was how Jedd's dad told him and Matt to not cry for him ever again, and how Jedd kept trying to but failed
Sympathy is a requirement, actually. You've confused it for empathy. Empathy is feeling what another person feels. Sympathy is being emotionally affected even though you can't relate.
Well if you watch it again I pretty much say that. Sympathy is not a requirement. I cried at interstellar yet I am 19. I don't have nor have I ever even thought about having children. It was empathy rather than sympathy.
Empathy is understanding a character's emotions.
Sympathy is feeling a character's emotions.
For the audience to find a situation sad, they need merely understand.
The Closer Look Those words have the opposite definitions from what you assume is what I'm saying. Empathy is deeper and tends to come from shared experience and, if not, is about putting yourself in the person's shoes to feel their pain. Sympathy is pity for another person's circumstances, in a way that doesn't require a change of your own perspective. Empathy isn't just about understanding the pain, it requires the pain to be felt. Empathy IS feeling a character's emotions. Sympathy does not require equal or proportionate pain to be felt by the audience, merely understanding.
Sympathy is "Gee, that's sad."
Empathy is "That makes me sad."
Yeah I see what you mean. Ok I admit I didn't understand the difference. I'll be sure to not make that same mistake in the future :)
The Closer Look No problem at all, it's a common one.
Fan of your work. Love the effort you put into your videos, especially for such a new channel.
UltimateKyuubiFox I've read a few definitions about sympathy and empathy, and they all said that empathy is understanding the pain and sympathy is feeling it. Do a quick google search and you'll see too.
Things that make me cry in movies:
Remembering
Forgetting
Accomplishing A Dream
Finishing A Journey
Forgetting hurts. Dementia is one of the saddest things you can do in a film.
dog dies
Leaves from the vine.
@@muhammadmohad4829 falling so slow
@@fugit1vegaming397 like fragile tiny shells,
i’ve seen the green mile. watching the clips you put made me cry again. it really does work
I put my eyes on the thumbnail and started to cry. So yeah, I clicked on it.
Thank you so much for this video! I often watch different movies, some are very good at writing scenes that make the audience feel, some seem like they don't know what they’re going for.
Of course it's hard to put a good fictional character together, even with the bad traits that a normal human being would have, and then, make the audience feel. Put me there side to side with this person, let me hold them and say everything's gonna be fine.
I have the DVD of The Green Mile till today, I watched it with my father when I was a little kid. I remember to cry a lot. The big guy was so nice, and so I was waiting for the nice big guy to be happy in the end, of course, isn’t this the normal way? And so he did not. Man, I could watch this movie thousands of times and I would cry the same way, because the connection that the writers and directors created was so strong that even just looking at the screen, seeing just some parts of their days…
Had to add Logan to the short list of films that made me cry. "It wasn't me, Charles, it wasn't me..."
Freya The Playa So... that's how it feels like...
That's the line that broke me
DeadStrike99 For me it was "Daddy." Can't get over that one. I realized that all I was looking at was an 11 year old girl who had lost everything watch the last person that was important in her life die. The injustice bwing that she had lost her childhood and her every meaningful relationship she ever had. And she was so young. Compound that with the end of Wolverine and I couldn't handle myself
Adam Woolston
I'm still recpvering from LOGAN emotionally.
Freya The Playa fuck you just opened the flood gates again.
Freya The Playa Logan was the best Marvel Movie emotional wise, it wasn't about the characters as superheroes anymore as they are innocent people dealing with life. Even all the easter eggs which if it were any other Marvel film people would flip out in excitement, in Logan people were so silent as they let it sink in because the Easter Eggs were still amazing but so sad tone wise
*Hears the piano music from up*
*immediately starts crying*
Dude I fuck with your profile pic
@@rider3117 is that speedwagon
i stared sobbing the second i heard the piano
Wow this video is very spot on! And now I can understand why Naturo’s parents goodbye scene breaks me every single time I watch it. Not only the music, but the injustice and the emotion from theme are sooo emotionaly powerful… damn
Expert advice, thanks dude!
I haven't even watched The Green Mile and just the parts that you provided made me sad
Callum O'Hanlon SAME WTH 😭
You should really watch it, its a very good movie
It’s even worse when he doesn’t want them to put that sheet over his face because he’s scared of the dark. That had me SOBBING
The movie really makes you a blubbering mess
@@caustic9921 Just thinking about it makes me tear up.
Forrest Gump definitely got me the most. The biggest theme that the film deals with is innocence, even perpetrated by Forrest's mental disability which makes him so lovingly naive in the first place.
He strives for happiness, and instead finds the ones he loves die around him. It is a truly heartwrenching module of injustice in any film, possibly the most significant.
Tom Hanks is a master of injustice:
Green Mile
Forrest Gump
Cast Away
Apollo 13
Ja.
Forrest hump?
@@crackedearth1412 out of the 4 movies you listed, I have watched 3 of em
same bro. I cried my eyes out watching that first time.
To this day, I still can’t watch that opening in Up without breaking down into pieces, especially now that I’m a father it hits more
Great advice. I’ll be adding some of your recommendations to my story for school.
For me, the moment in the Green Mile when I cried was not the execution scene, but the scene before it where Paul is talking to John and he says "On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and he asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles... what am I going to say?"
Because it is a horrifying scene, you know it is kind of terryfying. Not the "crying" sad it is the "fuck why did he have to die like this" sad
it didn't make me sad, it just made me really angry, and the anger kinda overwrote the sadness. I just wanted to see that guard-prick being tied to the chair.
Dragonetta Gay dude? What gay dude?
How was delacroix gay wtf... and how were like 4 other guys going along with what ur saying
In the novel, Delacroix was on death row for raping and murdering a young girl, then setting her body on fire to hide evidence which eventually led to the deaths of several other people.
How to make the audience cry:
-Kill off a character that greatly impacted the story and plot for the greater good, saved the world, and had a great sendoff that completes their character arc and shows what a great hero they truly were with strong acting to support it all 😐😑😴❌
-Kill off a character’s dog 😱😢😭✅
No no no john wick not gonna like that
I said the same thing! What is it with movies killing off dogs? Is everyone in Hollywood a cat person or something?
John Wick was the only good example of this, and it's only because he spends the rest of the movie murdering everyone to avenge that dog. XD
What about a dark turn? Killing the character whis done alot to help the plot suddenly to change the mood drastically for the rest of the time it's going?
I am Legend shits on John wick
Ive only watched the green mile once and after not seeing it for so long, it still makes me cry so much
This video has brought me back many memories and emotions. The Green Mile and Interestellar are in my top 5 fav movies and you showed me why.
Just showing The Green Mile in the thumbnail was enough to make me tear up
And interstellar
Green mile was so sad, dell's death made me sob like a baby first time i saw it, especially when percy told dell that mousevile isnt real, that moment and the iconic line about not wanting to be left in the dark are the things that made me and every person i know weep like a child, the only happy death was billy the kid's death
same thinking about that movie makes me wanna cry
Reading a quote from it in the comments makes me want to cry
:(
I think what also makes the Up sequence especially sad is that it's so perfectly normal. There's no fantastical tragedy that sweeps his life. It's simply a view of a plausible life, as we see 5 second snipets of Everyman's life story. There is happiness, love, joy, sadness, death, and loneliness. These are all experiences we are nearly guaranteed as humans.
It serves as an overview of our own pointless fleeting mortality and that terrifies and saddens us. The rest of the movie uses this understanding of existence to make a point that it's never too late to seek adventure and find joy in life once again.
Well said.
Dang...
The real "great tragedy" is the "small tragedy" and by decoding that from the movies, you can learn a lot about human behaviour and the great tragedy that is life ;-)
I love that Pixar always (or at least usually) tries to bring a great message behind each movie
Robo0595 well said
I don’t cry..but the opening of Up gets me every single time, even after seeing it countless times it still punches you right in the heart.
The green mile was the first movie that’s ever made me cry ever