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But are these the movies that make them get out their handkerchiefs? In my experience the combination of sports and death is the proven way to make grown men weep. Think of Bang the Drum Slowly, Pride of the Yankees, Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones in photo above). Does anyone know any guy who wept at Gladiator?
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Re "Big Boys Do Cry" when I was a little boy the sports/death movie that brought me to tears every time was the Babe Ruth Story with William Bendix as the Bambino. I had to make absolutely sure no siblings or parents were in the vicinity if I wanted to watch it, so embarrassed was I by my unfailingly tearful reaction to it.
Of course, nobody watches it now, but I wouldn't be surprised if I started sobbing as soon as The Sultan hit that home run for little hospitalized Timmy (not his real name).
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That mention of Gladiator reminded me of a conversation I heard at university between a film studies professor and her student. They were discussing Russell Crowe in Gladiator, and the student was saying that she was absolutely not attracted to Crowe after seeing the first shot where he is running his hands over the field of wheat because he had "stubby fingers"!
Amazingly the professor agreed with this, as if such an arbitrary judgement was acceptable!
What made this stick in my mind was that a couple of weeks before I'd listened to the commentary track on the Gladiator DVD and heard Ridley Scott saying that the shot of the hand caressing the wheat had been done with a double!
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