Most emotional scene/s
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cat_woman83 — 19 years ago(August 31, 2006 05:27 PM)
I also cried alot in all the scenes you've described above (mostly, I think because I'm a Christian and I'm ashamed of some of the things that the church those days did, but also because I believe in the missionary causeb (I wanted to be a missionary myself).
I saw this movie for the first time in 2000, beacuse it was on the school's program, and I was the only one who cried on the movie, but I'm not ashamed of it, maybe it shows that I have the perception of the wrong things that the "conquerors" and the church did back than.
I own now the DVD and saw it again, and I cried over it again and actually I think I always will.
Everytime I hear "Nella fantasia" version I get covered in goose pimples.
"Can it be true? My old man, Jeff Murdock, are you Spancman?" -
zelda1964 — 19 years ago(September 14, 2006 06:48 AM)
The flute Jeremy Irons plays, would calm and soothe the curious Natives. It was as if Music was a Language to bridge the Gap of people. "Music soothes the savage Beast", and I loved it when the other Indian handed the broken instrument to Irons.
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blackdouglas76 — 19 years ago(October 04, 2006 07:47 PM)
i had to smile when the load of mendoza was cut of and fall into the water.
as it is written in the bible:
"He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast !all their sins into the depths of the sea!"
Holy Great Point Batman,
I never thought of that. That does make that scene a lot more powerful now. I wonder if they intended that? -
montecristo42 — 19 years ago(January 04, 2007 09:40 AM)
This movie speaks to me, not necessarily because of the message, but because of how well it portrays its message.
I vacillate between being an agnostic and an atheist, but the power of this film, and how well its message is portrayed, is so compelling.
So many great scenes, but here are my favorite:- When the native offers DeNiro his sword at the end. Perfectly executed scene. It is only okay for DeNiro to accept the blade because it is one of the natives who is demanding it of him (whereas before, they were the ones who only had the power to cut away his weapons).
- The two scenes between DeNiro and Irons close to the end. In the first, DeNiro has asked Irons to allow him to renounce his vows. In the second, DeNiro requests Irons's blessing, which he does not give. Best line: "Because God is love. . ."
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ari-64 — 19 years ago(March 02, 2007 08:27 PM)
I would never have known that Biblical reference if not for you. Thank you so much for your post, and for providing the Verse.
Since the redemption of Mendoza is one of the two major themes, I wouldn't be surprised if the screenwriters were intentionally using the scriptural image. Now I'll have to listen to the "commentary" track on my DVD to see if they say anything about it.
Ditto me for that scene, and for the same ones everyone upthread listed.
The one I'd add: when the Papal legate Altamirano (Cardinal? Bishop?) is being canoe'd to the Guarani Mission, and that awesome Morricone choral music swells in the background
I think it was right before that when somebody referred to the Mission as being like Eden? So the Guarani were like the innocent Adam and Eve before the Fall. And Altamirano has this like blissful smile on his face as he first sees the Mission and its people knowing he has to take it away from them and destroy it, and knowing the kind of people that he has to send to do that. Heartbreaking. -
Hardyboy09 — 18 years ago(June 06, 2007 07:02 PM)
I agree with all of the moments mentioned. No one has mentioned this one, which makes me tear up everytime I see this movie.
When Gabriel and the Cardinal Guy are walking at night and the 2 scared little kids come up and ask Gabriel a question and he responds, something like:
Cardinal: What did they say?
GABriel: That they were scared and didn't want to go back into the jungle.
Cardinal: What did you tell them?
Gabriel: That I would go with them.
(I know this isn't exactly right, but right after this conversation, Gabriel's theme starts to play and WOW! Waterworks. -
keyanmk — 18 years ago(June 08, 2007 01:41 PM)
for me its the scene where deniro dies. just before he dies , he holds his life desperately and watches jeremy . even at that moment all he wanted was jeremy's safety. deniro conveyed this beautifully with the look on his face. after jeremy gets shot deniro gives up. wow, great direction. really emotional .
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hitman80804 — 18 years ago(July 02, 2007 09:58 PM)
The scene which displayed Mendoza's life with the Guarani with DeNiro's voice over: Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth and love is kind. Love envieth not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. But now abideth faith, hope, love these three. But the greatest of these is love.
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The scene where Cabeza gets his first glimpse of the mission of San Jose and says
"Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever". I like the way the camera moved up above past the canopy of some trees to reveal the forest's lush beauty. -
tbone47 — 16 years ago(March 15, 2010 07:09 PM)
i liked this too. i saw it as a realization of father gabriel's quote that "if might is right, then there is no room in this world for love." by showing love, gabriel's death has a much more powerful statement than that of mendoza.
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monum — 18 years ago(July 17, 2007 04:21 PM)
It has got to be:
- The scene with Mendoza's redemption.
He knew he deserved to die even though it was a so called duel with his brother which lawfully he was not guilty of. But his own mind condemned him and so did Gods law. Even more so he deserved to die for the lives of the Indians he took. So at that turning point when the knife did not take his life but his load he was set free. That is what forgiveness is about. That is what love is about. That is what God is about! - Gabriels struggles with Gods loving nature versus the violent world. But in the end he knows it's man who is to blame and not God. He keeps on doing the work God asked of him, even until the very end.
- The scene with Mendoza's redemption.
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demonflower_honeythorn — 17 years ago(February 10, 2009 11:39 AM)
The scene where the Guarani, Gabriel, and Mendoza hold council with Altamirano, and it is revealed that the Portuguese plan on taking over their (the Guarani) territory. Their anger and hurt at this injustice still strikes a chord in me, and I applaud their use of reason as well as their ultimate commitment to defending their territory.
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javajk-javajk — 16 years ago(April 28, 2009 11:34 AM)
Good posts already here in the thread. To my astonishment, however, nobody has mentioned the scene where the parents must abandon some of their children, because an adult could carry only one child a time during the escape. (Maybe some parents struggled to carry two children, but I don't recall that any did.) Some of my children already were born by the time I first watched this film, so I reacted as a parent to this scene. The agony overpowered me to the point that, although I later watched the film one more time (to share it with a friend), I never again shall watch "The Mission" because of this scene. It simply hurts too much.
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anticaria — 16 years ago(August 18, 2009 10:02 AM)
mendoza's redemption is a powerful moment which will go down as one of the most moving in the entire history of cinema.. right alongside the heartbreaking massacre of father gabriel as he marched holding the monstrance..
however, there's one scene which practically tore my heart to pieces:
'the light shines through the darkness and to this day, the darkness has not overcome it..'
as those words appear on the screen, we are treated to the humbling sight of the surviving but now orphaned guarani children getting on canoes and heading back into the jungle frightened, bewildered, confused, and alone, with the older children having no option but to assume responsibility for the very young ones.. the resilience of children is truly empowering..
in the end, the powerlessness and impotence one feels at the shattered innocence of a frightened child is an extremely tragic and sad emotion.. and although i recognize that the scene also represents hope of a new beginning, the thought of the orphaned children now having to fend for themselves after having just witnessed the horrendous massacre of the only people they loved, their own parents and the priests they had come to love and trust with their own lives, conveys the demoralizing notion of a child's broken trust better than any i have ever seen on film.. ;-( -
lionelsmendezp — 16 years ago(March 17, 2010 04:58 PM)
Well, not talking about emotional scenes here, but for me the most significant are:
- When Mendoza is fatally wounded at the end and keeps watching F. Gabriel march. It looks to me that for a moment Mendoza starts to get convinced of "the path" F. Gabriel followed, that truly he was right by choosing peace and love over war and violence. Despite the explosions and shots, F. Gabriel keeps marching as if he was capable of receive no harm from the evil of the world. However, after some moments, he's shot and falls abruptly in a "non poetic" manner (so to speak). And to me it seems like Mendoza thinks: "I was believing it, I was about to get convinced that his way was a better optionbut no, we ended up all the sameso even his way was not enough".
For me this is one of the strongest messages in the movie, F. Gabriel and Mendoza, each tried his own way to achieve the same thing, they fought with their own separate means for the same cause, and at the end you see that they both perished because of the selfishness, greed and indifference of men. - The scene with Altamirano after the end credits. I think it is a way to get the viewer involved in what just happened. As if you were not only a witness but a protagonist of the events. It gives a sense that they are talking to you and they were well aware of your presence there throughout the movie so no choice for you to turn your eyes and look the other way. I think it relates to the previous idea and is like if Altamirano was saying: "yes, the world is ugly, men are evil, and bad things happen in the world and whether you decide to fight against them (as Mendoza) or you decide to embrace love, peace and a non-violent approach (as F. Gabriel) you can end up overwhelmed by it all the samebad things happen in the world, and you are part of that worldso what about you?"
- When Mendoza is fatally wounded at the end and keeps watching F. Gabriel march. It looks to me that for a moment Mendoza starts to get convinced of "the path" F. Gabriel followed, that truly he was right by choosing peace and love over war and violence. Despite the explosions and shots, F. Gabriel keeps marching as if he was capable of receive no harm from the evil of the world. However, after some moments, he's shot and falls abruptly in a "non poetic" manner (so to speak). And to me it seems like Mendoza thinks: "I was believing it, I was about to get convinced that his way was a better optionbut no, we ended up all the sameso even his way was not enough".