What about the famous one from "Good Will Hunting?", aka "It's not your fault."

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What about the famous one from "Good Will Hunting?", aka "It's not your fault."

I'd never seen the movie before, but I just watched the scene.  I've never been too fond of Matt Damon, but Robin Williams (may he rest in peace) does a very nice job comforting him.

In the past, the closest thing to a male-male crying and comforting scene I could have come up with is the scene from Schindler's List known as "I could have got more."  As Liam Neeson (Schindler) is breaking down, Ben Kingsley (Stern) attempts to put his arms around him -- though the difference in height between the two actors makes the moment look somewhat awkward.

Edited to add:  Actually, there was another male-male comforting scene I knew of; it occurs in the 1981 short film The Wave, which was made to teach about the dangers of conformity that led to the Holocaust (like me, some of you may have watched The Wave in school).  At the end of the film, the teacher who taught the lesson finds a student crying, puts his arm around him to comfort him, and walks with him out the door.  Now, the crying student is not a very admirable character, so I don't feel much sympathy for him; the teacher, on the other hand, is very kind and big-hearted, IMO, to take the time to console him.  Fast forward to 45:00 of this video and watch it until it ends:



    

Last edited by White Tulip (May 30, 2016 3:12 am)

Wow, thanks for all those links!  I haven't watched all of them yet, but the Emmerdale one is very good.

Haha! In the first Breaking Bad link, the poster has put the description of the video as: "Jesse Crying- Fucking Sexy" and then in the comments section someone wrote: The description - "fucking sexy."
How even?, this shit is depressing! " to which the reply was " Some weird fetish he has??  Lol...the suffering, depression fetish!"

And my story for the Good Will Hunting it's not your fault scene:

We had to watch that movie my senior year for some class (what we were supposed to be learning from it, I can't remember)

I'm not much of a Matt Damon fan and was fairly ambivalent about watching most of the movie, then that scene came on and I was like, transfixed. I remmeber some kid in the class going "whoa, he's really crying..."

Then I suddenly had to go rent the movie for a few more watches still didnt know I wasnt the only one