1. The bit where they are carrying on in the snow, laughing and being happy. Its a nice moment.
2. Then she can't move her body at the Ice Rink. So Oliver has to help her to a Taxi. When that scene occurs its really sad, because you know shes running out of time.
For me, its the first and last scenes. Which are really the same scene where Oliver was sitting alone on the bench by the ice rink.
If you're watching for the very first time, you'll realize how well these 2 scenes "book-ends" the movie together. It was very powerful to me, especially when its repeated in the end. Maybe its because I'm a guy and I can more easily relate from a guy's point of view. You realize that special once-in-a-lifetime some one for Oliver is gone forever. You can't help but reflect on the events from the whole movie as he's talking about Jennifer in that monologue. It gets me misty and choked up every time.
To lighten the choking up atmosphere with some humor. Which was the funniest dialogue of the movie? I think when the couple drive to see the Barett mansion, Jenny says "Yeah, but why is it that I suddenly wished my name was Abigail Adams or Wendy Wasp".
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Well, there was a pretty funny bit right in the same scene you're talking about. When they arrive at the mansion, the butler addresses him as "Master Oliver"
Jenny says something like, "Master Oliver! What, is he your slave or something?"
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The part where Jenny wants Oliver to hold her, when she's dying. When he lies next to her and they just hold each other one last time, oh oh. That moment nearly made me cry. And the very end, where the score begins to swell even more. My ideas on love have changed even more. I want someone to love me like that.
shareMy favorite scene of all is the snow scene. It's so nice, so fresh, you just can't dislike it. I love it !!!!!!! I also love the kiss scene where Jenny said to Oliver: I care. Actually I loved all the love scenes but I must say finally the last scene of Jenny and Oliver together moved me so much, when he lies next to her one last time, holding each other...
shareI do not like the snow scene, one of the worst scenes. And that woman howling...it's like fingernails to blackboard. EEWWW!
And believe me snow IS that cold!
Many of the scenes are tearjerking actually..among them:
1. The beginning itself when Oliver says the famous like 'What can be said about a 25 year old girl who died? That she likes Mozart, Bach, The Beatles and me?'.
2. The last part when Oliver tells says to his dad 'Love..Love means never having so say that you're sorry'.
I find it pretty hilarious when he refer to his dad as son of a B***h when talking to Jenny..
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I think the 2 most moving scenes were when they had that fight in their apartment because Oliver refuses to go to his father's birthday party and Jenny tells him he's wrong for that and they get into that big argument and she runs out and he runs out after her and searches the campus for her. I always start to sob at that scene where he's opening and closing the doors in the music department searching for her, the look of fustration and regret on Ryan O'Neal's face and the way they play the theme in the backround, it just gets to me. And that part of the scene where he finally go home and she's there, locked out without her jacket. He says to her "I'm sorry Jenny" and she just looks at him and says "Don't, Love is never having to say you're sorry". It was the first of the 2 times that line is used. The other, of course, is the deathbed scene, which is, to me the second most moving scene. The part where she watches him ice skate in the Wollman rink in Central Park and then they go for some Hot Chocolate and he has to help her into the Taxi is a close third.
shareMaybe I'm wierd but to me the saddest most moving scene took place after Jenny died and Ryan O'Neil sees his father coming into the hospital and they exchange words. That to me was far more moving and realistic than Ali McGraw's zappy phoney death bed scene!
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I agree with toyguy. I really love the opening and the closing, and also when he's searching for her all over.
As for Oliver and his dad embracing, I think I would be all for that, but maybe it wouldn't be the right time. I feel like Oliver needed that moment alone to reflect first. But I have to ponder that some more.
When Oliver flat out refused to even RSVP his dad's birthday. I watched it today, and if I was Jennifer I would've just accepted for myself and to hell with Oliver--husband or not.
shareWhen Oliver offers to take Jennifer to dinner in the middle of the week. He knows she's ill and she doesn't yet. (That's some sexist *beep* right there. The doctor told her husband instead of her! The hematologist did the right thing.) Jennifer made a smart-assed remark about Oliver having a mistress. Ryan O'Neal made the ultimate Tragic Face. I have never been able to forget it. The very thought of losing her breaks his heart and he shows it without a word.
Send lawyers,guns and money/The *beep* has hit the fan
The two most moving scenes for me are when Oliver carries Jennifer up the stairs to their new apartment and when Jenny is looking at Oliver ice skate. You can see that they truly love each other during those two scenes.
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