Now I was thinking about this when watching something on television yesterday. Sad films or episodes on TV are indeed sad and can make you cry but, the pure moments of genius are when the acting stops and the REAL emotion comes out. The moment may only last a second or less but is powerful enough to hit you like lightning.

A break in someone’s voice, a hand movement, even a gesture of the eyebrows can be enough to just trigger that emotional response in your brain. It is long-lasting and powerful and is actually very rare in drama today. I mean, I know watching Jack freeze to death at the end of titanic is sad (yawn) but it all feels very acted and the idea itself is sadder than the actual performance.

I’m going to add just a handful of moments I can remember where such segments exist. If you look them out, you’ll see exactly how powerful they are:

SEGMENT 1:
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
(STRAINED RELATIONS)

At around 22minutes in, Del & Rodney are having an argument over grandads funeral and the sentence where Delboy utters the line:

“Families, I’m finished with them what do they do. Hold you back, bring you down and then break your bleeding heart”

At the moment he says heart his voice breaks and it’s extremely powerful.

SEGMENT 2:
WILL & GRACE
(RULES OF ENGAGEMENT)

When Nathan breaks up with Grace, Will walks in and says ‘Oh Sweetie’. When she goes up to hug him, you get another emotional moment. Nothing said, just powerful.

SEGMENT 3:
FRIENDS
(THE FINAL ONE)

When Ross gets to Rachel in the airport, the line where he says “i am so in love with you, please don’t go”. Brilliant scene, raw.

More to come, if anyones got any send em over

tom

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