Movie buffs and trivia experts?

[Pastor Gary]

Looking for a possible clip for an illustration; can you think of a movie in which someone is about to die, or about to leave (off to war, departing for a long time, etc.) and they are saying something they feel is of great importance -- parting thoughts they hope will make a lasting impression.

Any ideas?

[Mike Vande]

Gary Cooper, in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", I think that's the name of it. He's playing an American fighting in the Spanish Civil War(post WWI, pre WWII) and he's got a broken leg and can't go on with the group he's been fighting alongside as they try to escape the approaching government forces. He's telling his beloved, Ingrid Bergman, who doesn't want to leave him, if she goes on without him and carries on his memory, he won't really die.

It's a heartbreaker of a scene, and sounds kinda like what you're looking for. It's an old film, but it ought to be fairly easy to find in the classics section of a video rental store, or perhaps a public library. The book it's made from, and the script, I think, were written by Ernest Hemingway.

[Mike Vande]

I just happened to to think of another one froma more recent film. In the second Lord of The Rings film, the Two Towers, when Gandalf fights the Balrog in the Mines Of Moria and wins, but is caught around the ankles by the Balrog's whip as he plunges to his death, Gandalf is hanging onto a ledge and grits out his last few words, "Fly, you fools!" before he dragged into the depths of Moria by the falling Balrog.

That's sorta like what you asked for, I guess...

[Mike Vande]

Double post, sorry...

[Pastorbps]

Tom Hanks character in Saving Private Ryan - "Earn This."

[Pastor Gary]

Tom Hanks character in Saving Private Ryan - "Earn This."

You're the second person who suggested that scene. (And thanks, Mike V for the input... good ideas.)

[soulsearcher]

From "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)

Tom Joad's (Henry Fonda) "I'll be there" farewell speech to his mother Ma Joad (Jane Darwell): ("...I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be ever'-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.")

[RamboPreacher]

there's a scene in "the theory of everything" where a professor, who is dying of brain cancer is trying to discover a unified theory, and is describing how 10 space-time dimensions are possible by analogy plucking a leaf of a tree and describing how a two dimensional creature can perceive a third dimension or not. then mentioning that is perhaps how heaven is.

[KBevangelist]

I like the quote and have used it alot in youth ministry from Spiderman

Uncle Ben says "With great power comes great responsibility"

KB

[Linda]

Gone With The Wind

Rhett finally leaves Scarlett and as he's going out the door he says...

"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a *&$*#&"

Sorry, PG, couldn't resist.

[fezzik]

Mel Gibson's character gives a nice parting speech to his training class just before they are shipped to Vietnam. The movie is about one of the first and bloodiest battles in the war in 1965 and he is their commanding officer. His speech in the stadium before they leave is a good one....WTTE "No matter what, I will not leave a man behind...."

[Mike Vande]

John Wayne's dying speech to the kids after Bruce Dern has shot him to pieces in the "The Cowboys" is another good one.

[dolfan]

there's a scene in "the theory of everything" where a professor, who is dying of brain cancer is trying to discover a unified theory, and is describing how 10 space-time dimensions are possible by analogy plucking a leaf of a tree and describing how a two dimensional creature can perceive a third dimension or not. then mentioning that is perhaps how heaven is.

I saw a guy on TV once actually pluck a leaf with a caterpillar on it and make that same analogy. It was really very interesting stuff.

[RamboPreacher]

there's a scene in "the theory of everything" where a professor, who is dying of brain cancer is trying to discover a unified theory, and is describing how 10 space-time dimensions are possible by analogy plucking a leaf of a tree and describing how a two dimensional creature can perceive a third dimension or not. then mentioning that is perhaps how heaven is.

I saw a guy on TV once actually pluck a leaf with a caterpillar on it and make that same analogy. It was really very interesting stuff.

I have used a similar analogy with Mr. and Mr's circle meeting the dynamic Mr. Sphere. heheheee

[dolfan]

One just hit me. The end of M*A*S*H*, the departing scene between Hawkeye and BJ.

Hawkeye: Look, I know how tough it is for you to say goodbye, so I'LL say it. Maybe you're right, maybe we WILL see each other again, but just in case we don't, I want you to know how much you've meant to me. I'll never be able to shake you; whenever I see a pair of big feet or a cheesy mustache, I'll think of you.
B.J.: Whenever I smell month-old socks, I'll think of YOU.
Hawkeye: Or the next time somebody nails my shoe to the floor...
B.J.: ...or when somebody gives me a martini that tastes like lighter fluid.
Hawkeye: I'll miss you.
B.J.: I'll miss YOU. A lot. I can't imagine what this place would've been like if I hadn't found you here!

That last one's the line I've always remembered.