Too big for my heart; my five most powerfully affecting moments on fictional TV

[corbyinoz]

I need something to distract me this morning, so I got thinking about the five fictional scenes on TV that really knocked my socks off. Well, why not? There are plenty of sporting moments, because I do like watching a lot of sport - Steve Waugh's 100 at the SCG, Sally Pearson winning gold at the Olympics, Makybe Diba's third Melbourne Cup, Sydney

Comments

[willows_mom]

First of all, I wanted to echo what you said about Abbott. What a sad day in Australian history

[corbyinoz]

What??? Amy and Rory die??? Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Well, shit, that just tops a shitty day. Richmond got beaten, the Liberals are in power and now Amy and Rory die. Bugger. We've just started on S5. (You weren't to know, and it's been around long enough I would never complain about spoilers).

I know you love animals. I feel that way about kids. I can't really enjoy Hunger Games. It's well done, and so on, but at heart - ten children die. It's awful. I don't think I've ever grieved for an animal on TV (have done big time in RL), but I get it, I really do - and don't worry about it being animated. I remember getting into an animated series in the 80s, I think it was, some boring name like Starship or something, a character called Derek Wildstar? Starfire? And I got completely hooked. I psychoanalysed the character to death and really thought and worried he was going to end horirbly. I take it as a sign of our powers of imagination and empathy *g* (and hey, anyone who's not moved by Miyazaki films ain't got a heart).

[willows_mom]

Oh crap I am so so sorry:-( I didn't mean to spoil it. I guess there is a positive in tht I didn't say how it happens, but I am still really sorry.
And I get what you're saying about Hunger Games, it is pretty dark that the whole premise is that 10 children have to die.

[corbyinoz]

Oh, no, really, you weren't to know. I don't like spoilers, but you have to be reasonable; unless it happened last week (and I know it can't have, because I knew there was a new companion), then you cna't complain if you get accidentally spoiled. I'll just have to be brave as we watch...

Yes, THG is just downright depressing.

[timian]

I just read the Hunger Games trilogy a few months ago, after having seen the first movie. The movie was done well, EXCEPT that the childrens' deaths were all, without exception, instantaneous and seemingly painless. How getting skewered or stung to death doesn't hurt I have no idea, but the movie just made them look vaguely dreamy then close their eyes

[corbyinoz]

Miyazaki - genius. I first saw 'Spirited Away' and was left so elevated and inspired. Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of the Winds, Ponyo, and my favourite, Howl's Moving Castle. This is a bloke who can create drama without hatred or malice ever entering the screen. Mostly, in his world, conflict comes from misunderstanding or lack of generosity. Conflict is resolved through kindness and courage. Girls are central to the whole story. I must get MNTotoro

[timian]

I tend to be more troubled by violence that isn't disturbing rather than violence in and of itself. I always think back to Terminator 2, where Arnold shoots some poor nightwatchmen in both kneecaps and then makes the joke, "He'll live."

That just. I. RAGE STORM. Some poor, total innocent was just maimed for life, and the entire audience just howls in mirth. That stuff FREAKS ME OUT.

Someone was just mauled! It isn't funny! It's never funny. I know most people don't go to the movies to have their thoughts provoked or their consciousness raised. I get that. But seeing something that SHOULD be horrifying treated as either comical or sanitized fucks with my head

[corbyinoz]

'Quips'. It's a saying in our place, a term of opprobrium, and it refers to people killing others and then 'quipping'. The "I guess he lost his head" lines. It instantly writes off a film for me. Bond is full of them, which is a reason why I loathe the old Bond films. It's utterly sociopathic. It makes some kind of sense that a cyborg could do it, because it speaks of a complete lack of any kind of human feeling, but unfortunately it's done time and again

[timian]

Oh god, ANOTHER Arnold movie: in the first Predator, after this giant side of beef of a guy gets shot (more than once, I think), he grits his teeth and says, "I don't have time for pain." And then he kills forty men.

Wow! What a real man!

Blerch.

[corbyinoz]

Ugh. There's a reason I avoid Arnie moofies...