Jason KingThe Scientifically Saddest Scene in Movie History
September 2nd 2011 23:31
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And I Cry in Trailers LOL
Category: Interesting
Supposedly scientists have been trying to identify film clips that could "reliably elicit a strong emotional response" in labs for years. Hundreds of clips have been tested on subjects and they have discovered that Ricky Schroder elicits the saddest response of all films.
For me - I can cry in trailers so I am a horrible judge. There are a couple of scenes in Romeo and Juliet and then Titanic that always make me cry. The end scene of ET always makes me cry and White Squall (Jeff Bridges and Ryan Phillippe) has a scene that always makes me sob. I think the scenes that elicit the saddest moments involve children and the hurting or destruction of innocence.
Two psychology professors in the U.S., James Gross and Robert Levenson, have been working since 1988 to find the perfect sad film clip so they can use it on test subjects in experiments on how sadness affects behaviour.
"ÂThe Champ' . . . produced levels of sadness that were much greater than any other emotion," the researchers wrote in an article.
They evaluated over 250 movies and film clips before whittling down the list to 78 contenders for the saddest movie ever title.
"The Champ" eventually defeated "Kramer vs. Kramer."
While a "saddest movie title" might sound superfluous, it actually is quite helpful to social scientists.
Ethics mean psychologists can't trick a subject into thinking something awful has happened in order to induce feelings of sadness. But people are perfectly willing to pay money to cry in a theatre and then walk out minutes later with no long-term emotional damage done, making movies a easy and ethical way for scientists to get those tears.
Sad films for me include the ones above but then things like Cinema Paradiso, Life if Beautiful, Schindler's List, Brokeback Mountain, The Notebook, Finding Neverland, Into the Wild, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Stand by Me, The Pursuit of Happyness, anything where Leonardo or Efron cry
and so on.
What films always make you burst the eye dams??
Chances are you have not heard of "The Champ" and there might be good reason for that. Critics have not been kind to "The Champ," which scores a lowly 38 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
"The tear-jerking is so determined and persistent that your ducts feel as if they'd been worked over with a catheter," Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote.
For me - I can cry in trailers so I am a horrible judge. There are a couple of scenes in Romeo and Juliet and then Titanic that always make me cry. The end scene of ET always makes me cry and White Squall (Jeff Bridges and Ryan Phillippe) has a scene that always makes me sob. I think the scenes that elicit the saddest moments involve children and the hurting or destruction of innocence.
Two psychology professors in the U.S., James Gross and Robert Levenson, have been working since 1988 to find the perfect sad film clip so they can use it on test subjects in experiments on how sadness affects behaviour.
"ÂThe Champ' . . . produced levels of sadness that were much greater than any other emotion," the researchers wrote in an article.
They evaluated over 250 movies and film clips before whittling down the list to 78 contenders for the saddest movie ever title.
"The Champ" eventually defeated "Kramer vs. Kramer."
While a "saddest movie title" might sound superfluous, it actually is quite helpful to social scientists.
Ethics mean psychologists can't trick a subject into thinking something awful has happened in order to induce feelings of sadness. But people are perfectly willing to pay money to cry in a theatre and then walk out minutes later with no long-term emotional damage done, making movies a easy and ethical way for scientists to get those tears.
Sad films for me include the ones above but then things like Cinema Paradiso, Life if Beautiful, Schindler's List, Brokeback Mountain, The Notebook, Finding Neverland, Into the Wild, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Stand by Me, The Pursuit of Happyness, anything where Leonardo or Efron cry
and so on.What films always make you burst the eye dams??
Chances are you have not heard of "The Champ" and there might be good reason for that. Critics have not been kind to "The Champ," which scores a lowly 38 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
"The tear-jerking is so determined and persistent that your ducts feel as if they'd been worked over with a catheter," Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote.
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