Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Proper Cryin'
- Thread starter Cubist
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- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
This on the other hand, really does make me cry.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Sad, but also, I dunno, sort of happy. He gets to fly!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Loved it but what's happened to the HD video quality... the original was stunningly clear....
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Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
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Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
I felt a real visceral pang after watching that ... very moving...
Sad, but the look of triumph on Kiwi's face when he'd finally got the last tree in position says it all.... a life's ambition realised. Was that a tear of sadness, or of joy at finally being able to fly? A regret at what it had cost him, or a realisation that it was all nearly over. Wow. Very very moving.
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Plastic Manc
- Location
- Leafy Berkshire
I went to buy a parrott today the shopkeeper had 1 cage with 2 perches in and said the if you have one on the bottom perch they are £500 the ones on the top are £100 a month for 12 months. I said but they all look the same to which he replied yes but the more expensive ones are on higher purchase. (sorry)
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
It's a kiwi... on a suicide mission.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
I saw that film quite a long time ago and read an interview with the people who made it. They said that they didn't show you the Kiwi landing deliberately so that you could draw your own conclusions as to whether it killed itself or whether it survived to jump another day, it may even have set up a soft landing for itself at the bottom, its up to you to decide, so don't feel too sad.
Also the tear they said could either have been from emotion or simply the cold air!
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De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I thought that... the slow motion footage and the cut to poppy fields is still the second most poignant moment that I've experienced.... the first being in church when the ordinary, rather lonely 'old man' from mdown the street who had been in both world wars, who I'd seen nearly every day walking, got up from his seat walked to the back of the church by the font, took out a bugle and in the shocked silence and disruption to the normal routine, played the 'Last Post' so beautifully, without missing a note, the last note fadingto stillness, despite the tears rolling down his face.... you could have heard a pin drop. I didn't know what Remembrance Sunday was really about until then, and it's stayed with me since. Everyone in the congregation, and the vicar [a dour, sad man], were crying too... it must have been around 1965 so I was 6, only 20 years since WW2.
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Appropriate for today..
One of those emotional moments for me was the first time i saw the ending of Blackadder, when they went over the top.
Stunningly effective and so totally unexpected in the way it cut from brilliant comedy to such an evocative moment
I daren't run that bit now, I've just watched the John Lewis ad in Dell's thread and I'm already on the edge!
