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Top 3 Emotional scenes...


What do you consider to be the most emotional scene?

1. Scene outside the board meeting, with the thousands of people staring at the windows screaming "We are Marshall..."
2. Red Dawson crying near the end...
3. Annie Cantrell crying when trying to give back the ring to Paul Griffen.

If you haven't seen this film, then you have no business seeing this...

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Y'all knew I couldn't pass this one up!!



1. After they win the Xavier game and they're telling where all the people are now-esp. when they tell about Nate and when they say Red never returned to Football.

2. Cemetery scene- when they're at the graves of the six who couldn't be identified.

3. The opening- when she goes through "in the middle of Huntington,WV there's a river..." when she gets to the Fountain I'm done. (You have to remember am Marshall alum)

4. When the screne goes dead when the plane crashes.

5. When she talks about how bad we were in the 70's

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I got emotional when:

He went outside and everybody was going to the game.

That Father was eating alone in the booth-his family gone :(

The wife was crying in the bed and then the husband came home. She didn't get the message he wasn't on the flight.

When the plane flashed and the screen went blank.

Cindy

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One not mentioned yet, is when Nate and Red talk at halftime of the Xavier game and Red tells him "you've done enough".

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1. When Red comes home and Carole realizes he wasn't on the plane.

2. Jack Lengyll reflecting to President Dedmon about something happening to a member of his family.

3. Call me crazy, but the whole beer case thing was pretty emotional for me.

4. The grave of the unidentified.

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There we so many.

1. When you saw the MU and cross in green on the back of the WVU helmets. I loved that the WVU coach helped them out, just awesome.

2. When Red Dawson pulled in his driveway after the crash.

3. Any scene that the announcers little boy was in, he just broke my heart.

I could go one, but I think those are my top 3.

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1) The very beginning when Kate Mara narrating "In the middle of Huntinton, WV there is a river." Then they show the arial view of campus. I'm always like "that's my school."

2) When Red's wife runs out in the rain to meet him b/c she never got the message he'd left her. I can't imagine the amount of relief that she must have felt.

3) Being a recent graduate of Marshall, I have seen this movie numerous times. I STILL cry at the part where Nate Ruffin is trying to convince Coach Lengyll to not take him out of the game. When Coach hits Nate in the shoulder and Nate says "My shoulder's fine, my shoulder's fine." Then breaks down. Kill me everytime. Just thinking about the weight and responsiblility that he had been carrying.

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1. Carole crying on the bed when she thinks Red was on the plane, and then his car pulling up and her seeing him in the driveway and when he says, "you didn't get my message," and she runs into his arms, hits him, and then hugs him.

2. When the fireman walks up to Mr. Griffen and hands him Marshall's playbook and that whole scene in general when everyone finds out Marshall's plane crashed

3. The entire ending from when the ball went up in there with all the flashbacks to the ending monologue.

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When they were at UWV looking at game tapes and two players came in looking for their coach. When they leave their helmets have MU and a cross on them McConoghey says "First class guys, first class.

Well, it choked me up.



I'm getting the word 'Nonce'

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I agree. The WVU helmets and the coach helping out was my no. 1 emotional moment.

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"1. When you saw the MU and cross in green on the back of the WVU helmets. I loved that the WVU coach helped them out, just awesome. "

That one was mine.



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This. I've watched the scene a half dozen times over a span of years and it gets dusty in the room every time I see those crosses, even though I know that it's coming.

I remember the Saturday night when I heard the news. It was raining in Dayton too. I was on a weekend break from the police academy and not much older than the players who died.

The scene reminds me of all that those kids missed in these intervening 46 years, and the torment for all the survivors that never truly goes away.

A gesture of remembrance is, most of all, a gesture of understanding.

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UGH im crying now i just got done watching the movie.


1. Any scene with Annie and Paul(griffen) I know some people thought she was stale but i thought his father/daughter relationship with her was beyond touching and well done.


2. Red crying at the end


3. The first 20 or so minutes were emotional right off the bat

4. Im sorry i had to add one more: NATE breaking down about his team. As someone who knows how that feels to lose a teammate or something along those lines, that grief hit home.


"Because I knew you, I have been changed...for good."

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1) The sequence leading upto the crash because you realize that you are watching the last moments of peoples lives and they have no idea.

2) The pregame speech at the cemetary

3) The epilouge

4) The scene in the church.

5) The two funeral processions meeting at the intersection (I figured this out the second time I saw it after reading the real life story).

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1. "When you saw the MU and cross in green on the back of the WVU helmets. I loved that the WVU coach helped them out, just awesome." Already mentioned.

2. When Jack Lengyel explained the reason why he wanted to be the coach. Simple but powerful reason in my opinion.

3. When Jack Lengyel went outside to see the entire town going to the game.

4. when President Dedmon goes to NCAA and stands in the rain asking (almost breaking down and begging) for exception for their situation. Real powerful scene for a man in high level to go that far for something that was not for his own.

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"4. when President Dedmon goes to NCAA and stands in the rain asking (almost breaking down and begging) for exception for their situation. Real powerful scene for a man in high level to go that far for something that was not for his own."

Although it didn't happen that way (NCAA immediately told Marshall they would allow them to play freshman at the "varsity" level), I love it when he says "Excuse ms, Sir..."

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#1. We came here today to remember... 6 young men, and 69 others who will not be on the field with you today. But they will be watching.

#2. What day is it son?

#3. When that day comes, that's when we'll honor them.

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"2) When Red's wife runs out in the rain to meet him b/c she never got the message he'd left her. I can't imagine the amount of relief that she must have felt."

That was excellent acting. Red thinks thinks his wife knows he wasn't on the airplane. She did not know. She's relived, happy, angry, and frustrated all at once. She's hugging him and gently beating him at the same time.

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The WVU coach was Bobby Bowden and he did actually help out Marshall's coaching staff like we saw in the movie. Not just that, but that plane crash also actually hit him pretty hard too. I read this story where many many years later when WVU played a game against Marshall, WVU won but still it was just very emotional for Bobby Bowden. I think that whole thing really says a lot about the type of man he is. He's a good man.

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Thanks for the trivia Tom_Rocks.

My favorite part is this: "Remembering 29#"

The music and the acting from Matthew is just great.

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1. The final montage on the last pass of the game.

2. The opening narration.

3. Giving Dedmon the football.

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This wasn't emotional, but to me this line was the one that struck and touched me deeper than any other in this film, and perhaps more than any other film I've seen:

"I went to twenty homes, sat in twenty living rooms and I promised twenty mothers that I would look after their sons. That would have been the class of '73. There's not one of them left. So let me ask you Jack, how am I supposed to ever look a mother in the eye and promise her anything ever again?"

"...There's not one of them left..."
I cannot imagine how tough that was to deal with for the real Red Dawson.

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1. The Game-winning play (from snap to TD celebration) has me swimming in tears its so emotional.

2. When the one player's father is yelling "Is this my son's plane" when they see the wreck.

3. The pregame speech at the cemetery.

There are SO MANY more...I think I cry during most of this movie.

Others are:
---My Shoulder's fine--Nate Ruffin.

---The Plane crash were it looks like it got hit by lightning.

---The Marshall fans going to the game after Coach Llyengal races his son to the newspaper.

---When Red has flashbacks during the road loss at Morehead State.

---Red having a meltdown at the practice in week between Morehead game and Xavier game.

---Basically so many other scenes.

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1. "My shoulder's fine!"

2. Mrs. Dawson running to meet Red.

3. Red in the locker room after the win against Xavier.

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