How To Make The Audience Cry
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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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"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
“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
“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.
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
"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.
“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.
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.
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
"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.
"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....
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
“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 💀
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.
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.
"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
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.
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
The whole time he's building up his character to be this nice likable guy, who has done nothing wrong and we begin to feel as if we know him. Then he lays it on us "I've never even had a girlfriend, I'm a nerd." This not only makes the viewer weep with empathy, but it's also a twist, which is a call back to some of his earlier work --- Well done.
Eli Lastnamington this comment needs to be viral.
Eli Lastnamington Literally the funniest comment ever
Underrated comment😂😂😂
Best comment Ever !!! Hands down
I'm getting you a medal
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)
*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
I rarely cry but that scene from The Green Mile gets me every damn time...its just too painful not to shed a tear.
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
“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
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
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.
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
:(
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 😭
Bruh I cried during the scene where Wilson gets lost in Castaway
Same
That film is soooo underrated
Exactly, because of of Tom's dramatic reaction and sadness over it
I did too , but not for wilson , for the characters mental state
Omgg I was bawlinggg
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?
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...!
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.
Remember that scene of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,when Will Smith's dad leaves and Will's like "How come he don't want me back?" Not gonna lie,I cried watching that scene.
i remember that one, it was really sad
Literally teared up reading this comment, how dare you
Thats a meme in latin américa he says in spanish "como es posible que no me quiera?" Which means "How is posible that she Doesn't love me?"
A lot of people are talking about how music is needed for scenes that make you cry, but sometimes pure slience and allowing the full force of the emotions to come through is better. Exhibit A being the scene you commented about.
That part wasn’t even scripted.
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
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
When he showed the shot of the up guy sitting alone at his wife’s funeral I started crying
You know it's effective when even the out of context analysis of a scene makes you cry.
No matter how much I brace for it, the "I's afraid of the dark" still makes me tear up.
The green mile made me ball my eyes out. It was probably the most powerful moment in film for me. Especially when the mouse died, I yelled out “NO!”
That scene with the mouse was horrendous, I was crying about that for months after I watched it
*bawl
i’m a writer, not a filmmaker, but your channel still helps me a lot and i just wanna day THANK YOU
You are a writer but cant spell say right lol good luck buddy
Awesomelalo512 well..there goes my writing career
Awesomelalo512 people have spelling mistakes. Get over it please..
@@awesomelalo5125 That's why editors exist. Good grammar makes writing passable, but good ideas make writing separate from every other novelist trying to make a buck. Also, don't jab at someone if you don't know how to end a sentence or start new ones.
Austin Jobst damn you got him good.
A good emotional scene for me is one that will always make me cry or tear up, even after seeing it many times or know what’s about to come. Perfect example: The Iron Giant. I don’t think there’s ever been a time where I didn’t get choked up at the scene when the Giant flies into the nuclear missile to save the entire town.
You are who you choose to be
Same damn near makes me weep
It didn’t used to do that to me, but now every time I watch the movie, I am on an emotional roller coaster.
To me one of the best scenes of the iron giant is when he thinks Hogarth is dead. Seeing how he just breaks is just something else.
Same, one of the few movies that can choke me up
You don't have to have the same experiences as someone else to have sympathy for them. That's called empathy.
*How to make a RUclips audience cry:*
begin your video with the heartbreaking Up sequence
_Done_
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...!
I feel like it is
1. The effect of the sad action is shown.
2. Something bad happens to a character.
3. It's a character that you actually care about.
Getting to care about the characters seems like it should be the most important part of making the audience feel for them, but then you have instances like the beginning to Up. So there's something else going on here.
Thanks sans
ok sans
Correct
Yea. I think that's the reason Y "Steven Universe" is such a sad story (as a whole). The main character - Steven - is very likeable, and by that, I mean that he's that cute child you want to protect, and you just don't want him to get hurt, but unfortunatily, he does... He gets hurt because of all the terrible things his mother did, before she died during his birth. But there's more... In the new season (which was a timeskip sequel), it was shown that most of his "adventures" in the story gave him a serious trauma, and in the end, he turns into a monster, and becomes the endgame villian... Honestly, this story was so sad, I always get sad when I think about it...
"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.
“This right here is the most powerful sho-“
*LETS PLAY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS*
raid shadow legends is trash
HAHAHAHA
Same thing happened to me, but it's this ad about degreaser. It the started buffering and still is. I'm reading the comments right now waiting for it to continue. I never thought it would come to this :(
@@MrAlien23 best of luck to you hero
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.
"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
The scene in Interstellar when her daughter said "I'm the age you were when you left" made me sob.
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.
"You can sleep now, Tony".... always makes me cry.
Or “we won mr stark, c’mon sir you did it” and “it’s okay” endgame is a sad ass film
The russos
We know you grew up with this character
So pepper 2008 is more important than spiderman 2016
Didn't cry during Interstellar. Not gonna lie, got choked up during UP. Bu definitely cried during The Green Mile. And if you didn't at least feel for the character, then you are a sociopath
I about cried just watching the clip in the video, and I haven't even watched the movie
Lori Granger I was bawling at the end of this video 😭
Dude...I'm in a mall, people look at me like a weirdo cause I started to cry on the las part...
Just the couple of seconds shown in this video made me cry, I don't think I would handle the movie.
8:15" im a nerd ...i dont even have a girlfriend "...... i understand bro ... i understand
nah he said he NEVER even had a gf R.I.P
How to create Empathy 101
gearhead Personally, I think life’s better without a gf/bf....not gonna cry.....not gonna cry.......
Very very relatable
EmGee Vic My heart hurts
How to make the audience cry:
Say "I'm a nerd, I've never even had a girlfriend"
I summoned 69 likes
How true! Waaaay sadder than the topic. Dude you've got 611k subs. You've gotta be likeable so get off your pc, head to the nearest bar and talk to peeps.
You're breaking my heart!
Stolen.
@@Bane520 wut 😂
"That's enough to make a grown man cry, and that's ok."
-Terry
-the best charactor in cinema*
1: Turn all the new characters to dust at the end
Too soon dude, too soon.
that hurts...oh dear lord that really hurts UGH
but that was the first movie I cried at. literally THE FIRST
Iron Knight that wasn’t sad. The only emotion that any sane person would feel during that movie is indifference.
Iron Knight I’m assuming this is that shitty movie rogue one?
@@wasp2272 yep! /s
The Green Mile is that film that never fails to break me. Either in the scene described or the one later where we see the mouse still alive in the current time, one or both of those will have me crying. I first saw the film around the time it was released as well so it's not a new film to me either.
I think the other thing worth mentioning in both Interstellar and the Green Mile is the acting. Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar and Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan all put in superb performances, and I think it's no coincidence that these great moments are also examples of superb acting.
for me a big moment in the green mile was, when the build up of the line "I am tired" payed of . . . oh fuck that hit hard.
@@SingingSealRiana Yeah, that was the one that hit me too. I remember John said:
"and sometimes I feel so alone, .. like a sparrow in the rain" (John Coffee in the same speech)
And I could FEEL that :)
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.
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
Helplessness helps, too.
Understanding why a character’s sad, and watching them accept that there’s nothing they can do…
but cry.
I didn't even watch the whole damn montage and I still dropped a tear when he was sitting alone in with the balloon.
Me and my family watched interstellar and we all thought it would be a fun adventure movie but god damn that was something
“I’m a nerd, I’ve never even had a girlfriend”
We’re all with you man
Am i the only one who cries harder at the scene where he finds the book towards the end of the movie, when he thinks he has failed to make the woman he loved happy by giving her the one thing they wanted to do only to discover that in the end she regarded him and the life they shared as her greatest adventure? Because everytime i think about it (including now) i tear up.
Yeah, that got me too :(
I totaly agree. This scene is much deeper and makes me way more sad then the beginning one.
I just finished the green mile and the line "I'm tired boss" and "Don't put me in the dark" made me cry
How to make the audience cry:
1- turn a character into a donut
2- "Are we just gonna leave him here, Bucciarati?!?"
3- watch the fans cry
I had tears in my eyes whole time watching Jojo
Not because I was sad but instead because I was yawning of boredom
@@cifer8070 i dont remember asking
@@cifer8070 normies usually don't apreciate higher art.
step 1: good character
step 2: donut
step 3: profit
Arigato, Abbacchio…
"How Carl's been a good person and lived a life without sin"
Little did we know, that he was cooking meth in an RV without his wife's knowledge.
“Alexa, play Baby Blue by Badfinger.”
Pixar's ''breaking bad"
@@jaydenrise7186 “Russer, we need to make methane for Goose Fringdê”
What's the difference between murdering someone without anybody knowing and with someone knowing? Yes, there's a witness but it doesn't change anything about the murder.
@@projectpitchfork860 i think when you "kill" someone you KNOW you did it,so there's no "nobody know" even when there's none arround
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
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.
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
Take a shot for every time he says “Injustice”
Drunk and dead. I miss my friend.
4 shots lol
I think I did the wrong type of "shot". I've got multiple bullets holes in me and I'm bleeding.
Frosty thats literally what the video is about, what is your point?
The line where MCD asks to not be "put into the dark" was a gut check for sure. Fantastic writing and phenomenal acting by a legend.
I’ve never even watched the green mile but that 2 second scene was all it took for me to cry.
"The key of creating sadness does not lie in the action but rather the reaction of those affected by it." Truer words have never been spoken - and that sentence is not only valid for movies but for real life as well...
My mother died last week. She has been ill for a long time so it didn't came as a surprise. I was at peace with it. But we had to tell my father that his beloved wife was dead. And to see him being crushed by the sad news, to see him realize that the world as he knew it just ended, to see him break down and cry - that completely devastated me.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
how to make audience cry:
purple grape snaps fingers
tin can snaps fingers, dies
everyone cry. easy.
stale memes wow almost impossible to call this a spoiler
Fayad Remix yeah, its too bad that the spoiler grace period for the movie im referencing ended two weeks after it came out though
Zee zee?
oof xD
@@fayadios3773 :'!
I was watching The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and the part that hit me was when the mom started crying and that last shot of that movie just lets it sit with you for a while. I didn't cry but it gave me a weird numb "oh..." type of feeling
Serious(WithDaysOff), dude... that movie man... I cried there bro, that was also injustice I see.
Same. It just gave me a “well, shit” kind of feeling.
That’s a movie? I read the book...would have been really emotional if I understood the book. (I was in 3rd grade and I was uneducated about history then)
I watched that movie at school. The part that hit my class was after the death of the kids, when it just showed the door to the gas chamber and everything was still. The whole class got quiet
Star Fruit Glory aye I hear u, I’ve had the same thing with my class, years ago. My class was silent and I was confused. When the credits rolled I was like,”....Oh shit! They dead! They gone!”
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.
Even watching the explanation of UP made me cry.
grandaddyflexmaster the music alone makes me cry
spoilers for the end of interstellar and the green mile:
interstellar: the scene that made me shed tears the most is the ending where coop's daughter is a grandmother by the time he comes back.
the green mile: while his execution made me cry, what made me cry even more as a bonus was also the ending where the mouse still lived.
I looked up the green mile scene
Ah shit there goes my happy
Same with me at the Interstellar scene.
Same. Also in UP I cried when he sees the message of his wife at the end of the book.
Lord Stewie Griffin
“Thanks for the adventure - now go have a new one!”
Great, I’m tearing up as I write this.
In the book a bully at Paul’s retirement home stomps on the mouse ☹️
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.
Lori's death in The Walking Dead wasn't what made me cry, it was when Rick dropped to his knees and started wheezing that did it
Im pretty sure everyone was begging for Lori to die for all the bullshit she caused. But yea, when it came to Rick, it was hear breaking.
it was a good scene indeed, but the fact that it was memed so hard it watered down the very serious scene into a chuckle.
Corallllllllll
Ricks reaction was sad
I started crying at 2:20, the moment I saw the shot of him alone with the balloon. I had forgotten how heartbreaking that moment was.
"The real kick in the balls"
oh, it was so much more than that. The Green Mile, ripped out my heart and stabbed it multiple times, then proceeded to run it over with a truck. I was actually starting to cry during this video when you were summarising it.
Same here....It was like re witnessing Christ's death
I haven't even watched the movie and it made me cry
dude,same
Agreed.
I thought it was sad how much the crowd hated him even though he didn't do it
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)
I cried when bubba said he wants to go home and then dies...
Warwick, Your grandma's fear ~....injustice....~
He did go home, heaven was his home
Warwick, Your grandma's fear oh god yes, I didn't even cry when Jenny died or his mom. But that simple plea of a boy turned into a man by war begging to go home to his mom just broke me.
From what I’ve learned from Up is that symbolism can be such a powerful tool. From the ballon, to the adventure book, to the grape pin, all of those things were given to the main character when he was living out his youngest, happiest moments, by his love interest. And when he’s much older, when she’s gone, when time is slowly running out, the audience can see he still holds onto those things, reminiscing without words, holding onto the good of the past. Take the mailbox, they built it in and painted it in a significant, happy moment in his life. And when he’s older, it’s slowly crushed under a moving vehicle (I don’t know what it’s called sorry ;-;). This is such a powerful moment, because he still lives in the past, he just accepts he’s going to die and decides to live his last moments in his memories. Even the entire house symbolizes his life with his wife, carrying so much weight on his back to get to grand falls, a dream he was never able to achieve so young. But a lot of his problems come from the fact he’s carrying an entire house on his back. A house of memories, as he continues to live in the past. It’s crazy how much this movie gives and there is so much more I could pick apart, but just remember. You can use symbolism to your advantage, show empathy in your characters through the change of that symbolism in contrasting moments, and the change of that character. Without using any words at all.
I’m shocked that one of my favorite CHILDREN’s movies is following an old man in his adventures to find theirs so much more to life he hasn’t discovered yet. That’s the power of writing.
The two movies I've cried to are Logan and an all time classic The Iron Giant.
Jacob Keary I cryed in Logan and in gotg 2
Jacob Keary I cried at the end of the dead poets society.
Jacob Keary "Superman"
Watch Grave of the Fireflies then , Ghibli sure knows how to make you cry
Grave of the Fireflies is insanely sad for me :(
I’d argue a sense of helplessness (on the main characters’ part), reminding the audience of what’s being lost and how the circumstance is unfair, and showing the characters recognize this and the resulting pain caused by that realization are critical points too. The injustice part is key, but there’s more to it than just a tragic premise; add the characters’ RESPONSES to that premise, and you’re gold.
A cheat is to tap into a primal fear all humans experience (fear of death, loss, you’re worst fear coming true despite your best efforts, helplessness, etc). If you can have a character in the scene verbally connect the two in a single line of dialogue, even better.
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
What about making the audience cry out of happiness? Is there a science to that as well?
*There is no place for happiness here, mate.*
HoopsAndDinoMan I think the key to creating tears of happiness is the triumph after a long struggle. The best examples I can think of are both from The Return of the King, Sam’s triumph in remaining Frodo’s dearest friend after three movies of hardships and strained bonds (“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you!”) and Frodo’s triumph in receiving praise from all the peoples of Middle-earth after three movies of hardships and near-failures (“You bow to no one.”).
happiness is capitalist propoganda
It's called psychology.
I think My Hero Academia S3 when Deku was fighting Muscular is a great example, try to analyze that scene, it shows that Deku was struggling trying to save someone then when he failed to do it someone gave him hope and it gave him power to defeat Muscular.
Look at how endgame used this by preping you for 11 years
Lol did anyone actually cry for endgame though? I know some people were sad but....
@@whitehairedbadass3475 at the funeral part
@@whitehairedbadass3475 when I watched it some grown ass dude was balling his eyes out.
@@whitehairedbadass3475 I never really related to any chatacters or grew a strong bond to them. The movie series was really boring to me-
Elijah Kitsmiller Hey, so you’re 15 like my great granddaughter!
The way how Paul says "Roll on, one" and hesitates, he's choked up, he doesn't want to do it. He even asks John if he wants to be set free, but John declines and tells him not to "do such a foolish thing", he explains how people act towards each other, how they act, how they feel, what they think, and how saddening it is to him to see humanity like this, he doesn't want to see it anymore, he's tired of it. Paul even goes on to saying that why should he kill someone that was brought by God himself, "because it was his job?" And by the end, John even pleads not to put the cloak over his head, he afraid of the dark, and that child like innocence sticks with the viewer, he's afraid, yet he's ready to go.
(I even had to stop myself from crying while typing this.)
Rez Boy man, that moment when he said he was tired of the bad things in the world, i already was very sad, but that moment he said sorry for being who he was, i bursted into tears. What a masterpiece of storytelling!
It's even worse in the book... so is delacroixe death.
@Dwyane Wade he sure did!
The green mile made me cry so much. It made me think back to my peers that died such horror deaths. In 7th grade, which was about 3 years ago, there was this girl, Abigail, who was in my orchestra class. One day, she and her mother were driving to the place to get her violin fixed, but a truck ran a red light and T-boned them, killing both Abigail and the mother… our school set funds to finish the job of fixing her violin and gave it to her brother who just entered middle school. And then 1:37 , there was this boy in my math class in 9th grade last year who drowned at night when riding Jetskids with his family member. His Jets Ku didn’t work so his family member got a rope to pull him back and when he arrived, he was missing, with the life vest floating on the water… he drowned in Jordan lake and our hs community is still saddened and will forever remember him. This movie is just sad with the people dying and makes you think back to personal expiró en es you have of people you know dying… no kid my age at 16 shoud never have experience 2 classmates who died of terrible deaths…
this is exactly the reason I cried every single episode of violet evergarden, simply the the fact what this has been submitted to all of the horrible things and why they were bad, coupled with her seeming lack of emotion at things that would destroy people, and the fact that throughout all of this, she is still kind to people even though she has every right to hate them, makes for a heartwrenching yet beautiful image