Charles Spencer Chaplin once said that making the audience laugh is more difficult than squeezing tears from him. This, of course, is true, but to create a film that will awaken in a person sympathy, compassion, kindness and a desire to become better is also not easy. After all, the tears themselves do not yet indicate that after viewing the viewer will leave the room at least a little more mercifully. In many cases, sympathizing with the suffering of the character, people return to the harsh realities of the world around them, and their hearts become hardened again.
So what should be the films that even men want to cry for , and what kind of artistic techniques do their creators use?
Technology and ingredients
The concepts of the modern pace of life and the general technological revolution suggest that almost any goal can be achieved if a certain verified sequence of targeted operations is applied and a strictly calculated amount of resources is spent.
For the most part, films that make you cry are created on the same principle as any other production. They should have three main plot elements: a character, good and defenseless, someone's evil will and monstrous injustice. All of these ingredients, when mixed in the correct proportion, will result in the desired tear consistency. Fortunately, there are exceptions. True, in recent years there have been fewer of them.
American movie about a huge black psychic
In the film "Green Mile" there are all three components. A black worker is unfairly suspected of killing a little girl. In fact, he wanted to help her and was stained with the blood of the victim. No defense arguments apply to the judge and jury, the prejudice against African Americans in the southern states of the United States causes a righteous spectator indignation.
The defendant himself has the ability to treat serious illnesses, but in everyday life he is naive and helpless, which together leads to his death and the triumph of evil. The main character, an employee of the penitentiary system, at first treats the prisoner guarded by him as habitually indifferent, but then falls under the influence of his charm and revises many of his views, becoming kinder. I would like to wish the same to the audience.
Green Mile Benefits
Talented actors were involved in the filming, including Tom Hanks. Despite the standard scenario approach, which distinguishes almost all American films from which one wants to cry, the Green Mile nevertheless fulfills a certain artistic super task. The spectator feels pity and sympathy for the victim. I even want to take some kind of firearm and shoot all the villains and unjust judges.
Soviet film about Bima
In the early seventies in the Soviet Union was published the story of Gabriel Troepolsky "White Bim Black Ear". If we say that she became a bestseller, then it will be too weak. The whole country sobbed, closing the last page of this wonderful book. She touched even the most hardened hearts, not to mention the souls of sentimental people. The writer himself in an interview explained that, plotting the plot, at first he wanted to make the main character a man, but he did not succeed.
Why is the main character a dog?
Being a mature man at the time of writing, Troepolsky knew too much about people and understood that such a character would be something like an angel descending from heaven, and he did not want to idealize it. Then a dog appeared - a Scottish setter rejected by the cynological commission , which became a "touchstone" for people he met on a difficult and dangerous path.
In 1977, director Stanislav Rostotsky filmed a literary work. He attracted the wonderful actors of the Soviet film school, and the main "human" role was played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov, whose popularity after "Seventeen Moments" was simply Gagarin's. Needless to say, the film was a success. She exceeded all the films from which I want to cry, shot earlier. Her role is great in promoting love for the "little brothers." Unfortunately, not all people, even those who watched the movie, were re-educated, which follows from the fact of the existence of numerous "dog hunters", but it brought undoubted benefit.
Long live the cranks!
Fortunately, not only technological methods are used by filmmakers around the world. There is still room for real art. The list of films that make you cry is continued by the wonderful film “Forrest Gump”. There is no monstrous, abominable massacre of an innocent victim, insidious villains and obvious injustice.
There is a hero, very unusual and even eccentric, who from childhood has been haunted by various troubles. Guys like him are often called fools and losers. So it would be with Forrest, if not for his ability to forgive his enemies and the desire to do good deeds, without even thinking about how it looks from the outside and what it could threaten in the future.
How close is Forrest Gump to us
The lack of a natural desire for most men to appear brave and strong does not prevent the young man from accomplishing a feat on the battlefield, saving his comrades, standing up for his beloved girl and at the same time letting her go every time she wants to leave.
“Forrest Gump” surpasses many films, after which I want to cry, precisely because the kind person does not look like a victim at all. Sorry for others, those who could not understand it. And the tears that appear in the eyes of the audience, rather come from the realization of the happiness that such people are among us.
How are lonely hearts doing in Atlantis?
Anthony Hopkins does not play in bad films. The very presence of his name in the credits is a kind of “quality mark”. The plot of the picture "Hearts in Atlantis", filmed in 2001, is unusual and mysterious. It has love, betrayal, friendship, loyalty, psychic abilities, FBI agents in the service of McCarthyism, the entourage of the American fifties, and much more. But there are few stamps here, one can say that there are almost none.
Hopkins’s character does not have an exaggeratedly handsome appearance, he is not at all helpless, but rather confident in himself, but this does not prevent him from showing active kindness without offending anyone. And another very important feature of this hero is that he is always calm. The film creeps to tears with the feeling that even such an outstanding person is powerless to confront a powerful state machine that calls itself "the most democratic in the world."
"Titanic" drowned in a sea of tears
Musical accompaniment since the advent of sound cinema has become the most effective means of influencing the psyche. There are films that I want to cry for, starting from the first chords when captions appear on the screen. The plaintive song, performed by Celine Dion, stirs the soul of everyone who comes to mind to review the famous blockbuster "Titanic".
The role in this film was glorified by DiCaprio, but she did not become the best in his career. Growing up, he gained skill and played in many more films, much more interesting.
Despite the huge amount of money spent during the filming, the titanic scenery, the cyclopically monstrous in scale computer effects and the super-sentimental soundtrack, in essence this film is the most common melodrama shot against the background of a historic sea disaster. And this abyss swallowed this ... In general, almost all died.
Do cuckoos have nests?
For almost forty years, the iconic film “Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest” with Jack Nicholson in the lead role was celebrated. The scene is a psychiatric clinic, the characters are patients and doctors. The picture is very tough, and in some places cruel. The main reason why she causes tears is the empathy of a strong person who was not able to maintain his outstanding personality.
For Randle McMurphy, death is the best way out after it has been broken, turning into a slurring muttering doll. He was able to prove his moral strength simply by “at least trying” to resist evil and ruthless cruelty. And he managed to find a true friend where others only passively endure. It was this strange type that rendered him the last service, having saved him from plant life.
Films that make you want to cry are common. Some of them are tragicomic, like the works of the great Chaplin, and in them the funny echoes the sad. There are talented works that have become attempts to awaken the best human features of those who watch them. Others are like a bulb, equally tearful and unsophisticated. Everyone chooses a movie to their liking. The main thing is that after viewing, there will be no regrets about the wasted time, because, besides him, we actually do not own anything in this life.