THIS is the scene that won Hanks the Oscar. As a former opera singer and Callas worshipper, The message behind the aria is no coincidence. It speaks of love, and the will to live. "I am Divine!"......I am moved to tears EVERYTIME I see this. Director Jonathon Demme is incredible as is Denzel Washington. But Bravo Hanks! And Brava to La Callas!!! This scene is the turning point in the way Washington's initial homophobic character is transformed.
Incredibly powerful scene. Denzel's character, unfamiliar with opera yet wholly moved by Hank's character, whose empassioned response to the music engulfs him. So moved, he goes home and passionately hugs his sleeping child and wife. Such a scene would make an opera fan out of anyone!
Could someone give me the REAL point of this scene please? My english teacher challenged me to find out the point of this scene and I wold appreciate your interpretations. Pizuzuzimmer I respectfully ask you to not comment on this.
If he loves life so much, why does he engage in death-seeking activities?
He has earned his death, and his whining and crying at this point deserve no sympathy. Let him at least try to face the grave with dignity, since he couldn't live his life with it.
@Pizuzuzimmer Nice Try.read Wikipedia:Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film that was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. The film stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. It was inspired in part by the story of Geoffrey Bowers, an attorney who in 1987 sued the law firm Baker & McKenzie for wrongful dismissal in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases.
And how do you think that changes the facts I presented, cretin? He got AIDS in 1987. So you think homos knew nothing about the connection between the disease and butt fucking before that? You need to read some history before you run your mouth. And Wikipedia doesn't count.
@Pizuzuzimmer get over it,homosexual people has the same right to love each other like the heteros.And we dont know if he get aids in 1987,cretin!He sue the Old Bastards in 1987.
No, no one has any "right" to love anyone. This is a total misconstruing of the notion of rights. Not rare among you homo loving types to know exactly shit about the things you insist on talking about.
Correction: he had had AIDS, or at the very least HIV, for quite a few years in 1987. It would be quite unexpected to suddenly just 'have' AIDS all at once. Normally you have HIV for quite some time before it progresses into AIDS so it it possible, no, -probable-, that they had no idea about that connection to HIV/AIDS at that point. Get all the facts before criticizing people about something you obviously know very little about.
I still don't get what the point of this scene was. I've seen this movie four times and I still don't get this scene. Could someone please explain the point of this scene to me?
A homosexual dying of his homosexuality is relating to a healthy, normal human his obsession with a mediocre, fourth-rate piece of music. The healthy man is incredulous, embarrassed to be party to such a lugubrious display, and leaves in haste. The dying homosexual is left alone with his mediocre music and the ineradicable sense that he has brought on his own death through his mental sickness.
My understanding of this scene is that what matters in life ultimately is to love and to be loved.Love is what gives value to somebody's existence.In spite of Magdalena's tremendous pain over her mother's death illustrated in that beautiful aria,just like Andy's pain-the pain of leaving this life so early-the fact that he has loved and was loved,is what mattered the most. This is what Denzel's character learns that evening:that love is the most important thing in life.
No one has a "right" to be here. We're all here by chance and we stay here insofar as we obey the laws of nature. Do you think somebody who insists on jumping off tall buildings because he thinks he can fly is being cheated of his "right to be here" when he falls to the ground and becomes a splotch on the ground? People who insist on sticking their dicks up assholes, or letting others stick their dicks up their asshole, are flirting with disaster in the same way.
Wow! You certainly know how to construct a logical argument. Are you one of the GOP candidates for President? Your ability to repeat the same jingles and conveniently ignore the meat of any salient arguments against your "stance" is very Republican circa 2011. I understand that your moral convictions spurred you into action. It would wrong to call you a bigot. That your commitment to remedying gay pathologies only goes as far as trolling a youtube video of a famous aria is just a coincidence.
He needs to find an opera where the subject matter is the moral sensibilities of a man who, while claiming to be in a committed relationship with someone he deeply loves, finds a random person in a public bathroom, gets fucked in the ass by him and gets AIDS, then brings the AIDS home to the person for whom he purportedly cares so deeply. THAT'D be an appropriate musical choice for the Hanks character.
@Pizuzuzimmer Yes, he got AIDs from fooling around with someone without protection in a movie theater. He didn't realize the person had the disease, though that was definitely irresponsible behavior. Luckily his parter forgave him. He made a mistake like lots of people do, and it cost him his life. People cheat and catch STDs every day. Frankly, your comment reeks of homophobia. It's astonishing to me that of all the things to take from the movie and this scene that's what you came up with.
People who do immoral things and reap negative consequences are responsible for their fates. Period. His action brought his death, and it is his responsibility. Too bad for him. The moral lesson is: don't let people stick their dicks up your ass if you want to greatly decrease your risk of getting HIV.
@Pizuzuzimmer Um, I'm not sure whose "morality" you're imposing on these fictional characters, but getting a dick stuck up your ass does not give you HIV. Being exposed (sexually or otherwise) to the blood of someone who has the virus does. It sounds like you are taking issue with his homosexuality and not his one instance of promiscuity. If he had been gay and caught the disease from a poorly administered blood transfusion, what would be the justification for your condemnations?
Why don't you check out the stats and see which # is larger: homos who get HIV from infected dicks up the arse, or homos who get HIV from blood transfusions?
@Pizuzuzimmer Why don't you stop making straw man arguments in an effort to peddle offensive diatribe as genuine moral outrage? AIDs is not a punishment for gay men. The virus spreads most quickly amongst gay men because the community is so small and blood vessels around the rectum are highly susceptible to bursting. What's your moral justification for being outraged over lesbian sex? They're "homos" too right? No HIV epidemic or dicks up their arses? What's their punishment via fatal disease?
What? You mean the anus is easily damaged by thrusting penises? This sounds like a homophobic slur to the effect that the anus was not constructed primarily as an instrument for the expression of homolove. You bigot! And how dare you insinuate that the homocommunity effectively spreads the disease around essentially because they all indiscriminately fuck one another like animals in heat?! The LGBT avengers will be knocking at your door in short order!
That would be me, indeed. I've never sinned, as sin does not exist. Depravity, however, certainly does, and the Hanks character represents it in this film.
@tedsler Not only have I seen it but I saw it at the theater, years ago, and several times since. I love the movie. I love the scene. What I don't understand is whyit goes from that scene to Denzel W's going home, hugging his sleeping child, etc. What was the director trying to say? It seems he was making a comparison between Mr. Hanks' character and life and Mr. Washingtion's, doesn't it? It was unsettling, at least.
aokwian, You are sick. And a very closed minded person. What If one of your children are gay. Would you kill him or just kick hm like a dog. You are scum. Please excuse my comment to @Pizuzuzimmer, I apologize my comment was meant for this asshole okwian.
@Pizuzuzimmer, You are sick. And a very closed minded person. What If one of your children are gay. Would you kill him or just kick hm like a dog. You are scum.
@Pizuzuzimmer While I think the judgment of people who have unprotected sex with multiple partners and expose themselves with risky behavior is poor, I do not condemn them or not feel compassion for them. Your excessive hatred says a lot about you although you obviously can't see that. You have a hole in your soul. While you are definitely annoying, the most I feel is pity for you.
I feel contempt for people like you, because you do not even extend to other people the dignity of responsibility for their own choices. You call it 'compassion' to feel bad for people who have acted in ways they *knew* to be reckless and foolish and who have suffered for their stupidity? I call it treating adults like children. They are grown and responsible for themselves. If they perish from their stupidity, that's fewer stupid people to make life unpleasant for me.
@Pizuzuzimmer Well it doesn't surprise me you feel contempt for someone who has compassion for someone very ill or dying. I don't feel bad. I feel compassion, empathy and sympathy. Being compassionate in no way treats them like children. You're trying to rationalize your hatred and its coming across poorly. My last post as I'm not going to feed your inhumanity and trolling.
The last thing on earth I need to do is rationalize anything I believe to a human error like you. Go stick your prick in a fecal canal and churn until you make cocoa butter for you and your friends.
@Pizuzuzimmer Is that really the best you can do? Personal attacks, 8 year old insults, and boorish vulgarity. You are the most classless individual I've seen in some time and your debating skills are non-existent. You have no intelligible response so this is what we get.
Get one thing through your thick head: I have never had any interest in debating you. One does not debate with a rabid dog. One kicks it in the head and moves along. Consider yourself kicked, Cujo.
@Pizuzuzimmer I'm a 60 year old heterosexual with 4 grown children. I have six years of formal post doctoral training. For you to call me a rabid dog says a lot about you. In China we say xin tong. A hurt in the heart for someone as broken as you are. You are also a very scary person. It's frightening to know such hatred exists in the hearts of men. BTW, stop kicking dogs.
I'll kick dogs as long as I see fit when they are slobbering rabidly all over the place like you are.
When are you coming out of the closet to destroy the lives of your children? That is the standard practice for homosexual men, you know. Pretend you're normal and have a bunch of kids, then start looking for shit-filled anuses to stick your dick in.
People like you, who cannot distinguish life from feces worshiping death, are the scary ones.
@Pizuzuzimmer I see. And because I have compassion for someone dying of AIDS that automatically makes me a homosexual. You're flailing about because you have nothing else to offer. And truly your vulgarity only defines you not me. Your act is old and fails. Hopefully you are very young and very very foolish.
I don't know, my favorite is the dying scene in La Traviata . The death comes quicker; it is more personal and doesn't involve any relationship with Violetta's municipality, just her relations. . T'was good int this movie, Maria. Thanks for posting. . . Cheers. from, del-boy.
Disconnect with humanity? I beg your pardon, sir. I disconnect from those things that represent a necrophiliac attack on humanity, such as two men probing into one another's shit holes until they get sick and die. Maybe coprophagia is your thing, but that's your problem.
Is that seriously your basis for not giving Tom Hanks for his ACTING performance? You still haven't given a reason for why Tom Hanks performance wasn't impressive. Actually the fact that his character made you that furious is impressive by itself. I understand that you don't like gays. I just don't see why that should keep you from acknowledging a phenomenal acting performance. You know.. because it is ACTING. Tom Hanks isn't ACTUALLY gay.. you know that.... right?
I know what lugubrious means. Superfluous ... LOOK IT UP. YUCK. The point of words is to EXPRESS not IMPRESS.
Anyways you really are out of touch if you think the amount of sorrow his character has is unreasonable or unrealistic. His body is falling apart, inside and out, and at the same time his world is, and millions are voyeurs to his demise. It is just plain stupid of you to just dismiss the performance as exaggerated. It sounds like a cop-out to me.
The man chose his own death, and he got it. Any sadness expressed as a result is excessive and lugubrious. Sane people don't lay in the highway and then express shock when they are run over by cars.
What you are saying is beyond idiotic. First off, since when have only sane people had emotions? Using your bastardized line of logic, someone could easily make the argument that anyone who signs up to join the army during a time of war should keep their lips zipped if they are dismembered, or if any of their friends are. I mean those that signed up for world war II had just as much a chance of dying as someone having anonymous sodomy. (Continued)
That you apparently cannot see the difference between a soldier's morally serious decision to go fight the spread of fascism in WWII and a coprophiliac's frivolous, sick desire for a new shithole to stick his dick in says worlds about the kind of person you are. Shame on you.
Sure, the soldier's decision was more dignified. No argument there. But the point remains that since they signed up for something that has a staggeringly real chance of killing them, then it would be "excessive and lugubrious" for them to take human life, particularly their OWN, seriously. Your eye must be sore from squinting to see through that peephole of humanity you have. Actually, make that a peephole for logic and art, too.
"*More* dignified"? This implies that there is at least some dignity to be found in the decision to indiscriminately poke your penis into a hole filled with feces, or allow oneself to be buggered by an AIDS-infected coprophiliac.
I know what lugubrious means. Superfluous ... LOOK IT UP. YUCK. The point of words is to EXPRESS not IMPRESS.
Anyways you really are out of touch if you think the amount of sorrow his character has is unreasonable or unrealistic. His body is falling apart, inside and out, and at the same time his world is, and millions are voyeurs to his demise. It is just plain stupid of you to just dismiss the performance as exaggerated. It sounds like a cop-out to me.
Perhaps to give you a better grasp of the words you use, watch my one uploaded video "Existential Breakdown, Breakthrough, and Beyond". This is an example of something I would understand you dismissing as lugubrious, but even then, it was how I felt at the time. Humans can't always be "dignified". Tom Hands lost composure in a very real, touching way - and this monologue has moved a lot of people.
Some people are just cold. That isn't Tom Hanks fault.
To finish off my point (sorry about the multiple posts my phone is laggy) ...
I could receive the news that my family died while right infront of you, and immediately collapse, puke, etc. Now maybe this won't have an effect on you. You will just feel uncomfortable and label my sputterings as lugubrious. That doesn't make my feelings any less meaningful, or my crisis any less tragic.
Once again, You are missing a link in your humanity, and therefore in art.
Then, after he takes his leave, unable to continue watching the poor man make a fool of himself, he wonders at the door "I hope the homo isn't too offended by my abrupt exit--perhaps I should apologize? No, he wouldn't understand. He is after all a lugubrious homosexual."
And, once he arrives home, he hugs his child and his wife, cherishing all the more these gifts of love and life that the homosexual can never know after seeing the suffering this poor homosexual has brought on himself.
The systematic misreading of this scene by the homophiliacs is predictable, if still entertaining in its spectacular stupidity. Any sane viewer can read the emotions on the Washington character's face as he's watching the Hanks character in his lugubrious performance. The chief emotion is embarrassment--"what is this homo doing? Jeez, are they all this overwrought and...gay? I thought those were stereotypes, but here it is, right in front of me."
@Pizuzuzimmer Why are you here? It seems like all you have to say about this performance is a negative statement or a rude connotation to a gay man? Stop trying to make yourself seem like an educated person and stop over analyzing the scene. I would imagine that someone with such "outspoken" critic would be in the works of writing and directing something better than this. If not, I would just shut the fuck up and stop commenting on YouTube videos.
The direction in this is brilliant!!! One of the things I love the most about movies is that we can translate for ourselves what the director is trying to say. In this scene we see Miller undergo a transformation of the soul. He no longer sees a homosexual dying of AIDS, he sees a man who loves his life and doesn't want to leave it. He goes home and stares into the darkness not saying a word-yet we can feel what he is feeling. Love this! I am so mad I didn't watch this movie sooner!
Yes, speak the banal language of fatuous political correctness, and the self-appointed Hollywood 'experts' will congratulate you for accepting their blinkered view of the world.
Some airhead who thinks Beyonce and Coldplay are the height of musical achievement is now going to proclaim what is and what is not proper aesthetic judgment on film. Spare me your flatulence, you uneducated gutter dweller.
You seem incapable of understanding English. I don't give a damn if the movie got an Oscar; that says precisely nothing about whether it is aesthetically interesting. It is not. It's a PC political statement trying (and failing) to masquerade as art.
The fact that philistines like yourself are the cheerleaders for this laughable film speaks volumes about its quality.
@Pizuzuzimmer I suggest you read the opera and especially the aria even if in English or preferably both Italian and English. The opera is as tragic as Andrew's life. The heroine dies with her lover rather than live without him. Then listen to different artists sing the aria. You will find a great deal of difference. Perhaps then you will understand how magnificent Callas was. If you don't appreciate the movie perhaps you will the opera including the aria and Callas.
As I have said many times, this homosexual's life is not tragic. Tragedy requires nobility, and there is no nobility in shit and AIDS. The aria is another question altogether, as its narrative does not involve men willingly bringing about their own end by sticking their penises into shit and churning.
The artistry of Maria Callis with the sheer brillance of Tom Hanks probably the most moving scene ever tugs at the heart strings. Would love to see a copy with English sub titles
The aristry of Callis with the sheer brillance of Tom Hanks probably the most moving scene tugs at the heart strings wonderful. Would like to see the video with English sub titles
I don't get it, what is the point of this part of the movie? Is it supposed to show how Denzel Washington's cold character began to be more sympathetic to Tom Hanks'? It's memorable but I never really got the point of this part.
solche Filme zeigen uns, dass wenn man sich bemüht, doch das ende nah ist. Mit einer großen Ecke im Verständnisse habe auch ich ein verdenk Dr. Otto Jahn, dieses steh vermögen würde ich mir wünschen.
This scene always makes me cry. I have rarely experienced such passion. In addition Denzels homophobic character suddenly realized the authenticity of Hanks character. In my interpretation, Denzel connects and actually considers a more "intimate involvement". Yet decides otherwise at the last moment. His questioning is supported because Denzil goes home to reconfirm his straightness by making violent lobe to his wife.
Yeah, the truth is that everyone on earth is naturally homosexual and it's only the evil machinations of the homophobes (who are actually secretly homosexual themselves) that makes 98% of the population pretend to be heterosexual. Oh, the humanity! If only we were all able to follow our true, natural homosexuality (which of course we see as the dominant sexual force in non-human animals), we'd all be much happier!
@Pizuzuzimmer Actually we would in that argument be pansexual and without label neither homonormative or heteronormative. Everyone should be able to love who they love and sex should only be prevented if it causes inequality or pain but I feel we can't relegate either way. I feel you are using as much bad science as people are using against you, we should promote freedom and not sheer people to our concept of free.
What a pile of fatuous horseshit. You apparently don't know English well, in addition to being fundamentally confused. Tell you what--so long as your partner is of age and willing, I don't care what you have sex with. But when you get horrific diseases because you have insisted on putting your penis into places it was never intended to be, don't come asking for my sympathy or the research dollars funded by my taxes. With freedom comes responsibility.
You went from " everyone is homosexual, love and peace baby", to absolute moralist insanity. And both perspectives are rampant with the bad science and the absolutism used against the community currently. I was saying that homonormativity can be as segregating as heteronormativity and the only kind of sexual congress which should be discouraged is that which hurts people, ie those who cannot give consent. I dont know where this bizarre diatribe came from nor your rape of the english language
@Pizuzuzimmer For your information heteronormativity is the philosophy that condemns homosexuality as unnatural while homonormatvity parallels this train of thought. Neither lead to the happiness of all persons nor explain the fundamentals of individual psychology and biology. I can only assume you posted to the wrong person or have been stricken with sudden schizophrenia.
That would AN intolerant jerk. This intolerant jerk at least speaks and writes his language correctly, you illiterate cow. Check out the stats to see how much greater the presence of AIDS among those who stick their penises into anuses. "He can put his penis wherever he wants, it's his penis!" Indeed, this is the philosophy of NAMBLA as well.
@Pizuzuzimmer Apparently you don't since you omitted the word "be" just like I omitted an "n" which doesn't make me illiterate it makes me someone who occasionally makes a typo. And yes, I am well aware of the statistics of HIV/AIDS and no one is asking your permission to do anything. You are nothing or no one. Just another miserable suppressed homosexual who bashes gays to avoid dealing with your real feelings.
You robots are nothing if not predictable. In the Know Nothing world of Homo Friendly Groupthink, anyone who fails to fall in line with the PC lockstep dogma is by definition a self-hating, closeted homo. You lot are exactly like the braindead evangelicals--there's a simple code for everything, and all other positions can be made sense of by a kind of mentally retarded paint by numbers repetitive spasm.
You will now repeat the same thing you already wrote.
@Pizuzuzimmer You can't stand when people decide to live differently than you think they should. You use a few big words and convince yourself you are smarter than other people therefore better. You decide to go to a video and watch a scene in a homosexual themed movie then bash anyone who enjoys the Oscar winning performance. If you were truly this appalled by homosexuality you would not want see it being glorified.
Yes, isn't it an awful thing that some people actually dare to be literate? If only everyone would just wallow in the moronic, monosyllabic, PC cesspool that is the homo-friendly movement...
I think the all movie gave Tom Hanks and oscar but I think this is the final piece to a masterpiece. like the "funny guy" scene of Joe Pesci in the movie Goodfellas. There acting during the film is excelent but there is a scene where you say... if they don't give him the oscar for that, they never will...
To me, what I take from the interaction between Denzel Washington & Tom Hanks is that Wasington's character, heretofore a homophobe who hasn't seen Tom Hanks as a full person now does; he realizes that the character of "Andy" & he share the commonality of both being transformed by Love & that "Andy" is a man, not some perverted statistic.
Tears are running down my face every now and again I watch Tom Hanks` brilliance in this scene listening to maria callas - and Denzel escapes..... so moving.
And you know what about cinema? I mean, really. THIS as one of the best scenes in film history?! Have you ever even heard the names Eisenstein, Welles, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Godard, Fellini, Bergman?
You reveal yourself as a halfwit with this kind of remark. And doubtless there are plenty of your fellow halfwits here to share your philistine tastes in cinema.
What I always wondered was why did Denzel act so uncomfortable and weird after the whole opera part and leave right away. And how he was going back and forth in the hallway, like he wanted to go back inside. Did he think he was also gay maybe and was attracted to Tom Hanks' character? It always confused me.
hey I read you comment and was replying back but I have to split it up now. and i've wondered to. BUT! I don't think it has anything to do with sexual attraction. I think Denzel who is very homophobic, he finally sees the somber aspect of aids right before him, he sees the very soul of andy, and he sees him for what he is. a beautiful human being being stricken by the unstoppable cruel death of aids.
homophobic? I donno he's just a average guy, no? He thinks he's a live and let live type. He gets to question his own predjudices. I had a tiny example of unthinking prejudice shown towards me and that was enough to start to wake me up to my own ignorance. Thanks Mastouris69 ♥♥♥♥♥♥
. that's why he's soo moved, and is sad. however it's soo heavy and emotionally excessive for him,that he's not sure whether he should stay longer and talk to andy. but when he goes home, he realizes now,how precious his life is.
hehe ehh, what can I say I love films. I like to go into deep analysis, i'm even contemplating finding an english speaking uni somewhere in europe where I can get a minor or do a bachelor in film studies.
You might want to consider watching some GOOD films in advance of taking up the study of cinema. See: Eisenstein and Welles to start, then get back to me.
THIS is the scene that won Hanks the Oscar. As a former opera singer and Callas worshipper, The message behind the aria is no coincidence. It speaks of love, and the will to live. "I am Divine!"......I am moved to tears EVERYTIME I see this. Director Jonathon Demme is incredible as is Denzel Washington. But Bravo Hanks! And Brava to La Callas!!! This scene is the turning point in the way Washington's initial homophobic character is transformed.
bravaLiz 2 weeks ago
This isn't one of my favorite movies, but I have to say, the acting in this is just superb!!! He puts so much emotion into this part
ilovemyschnauzer1 2 weeks ago
Incredibly powerful scene. Denzel's character, unfamiliar with opera yet wholly moved by Hank's character, whose empassioned response to the music engulfs him. So moved, he goes home and passionately hugs his sleeping child and wife. Such a scene would make an opera fan out of anyone!
MrFreekbrother 1 month ago
Could someone give me the REAL point of this scene please? My english teacher challenged me to find out the point of this scene and I wold appreciate your interpretations. Pizuzuzimmer I respectfully ask you to not comment on this.
coolsquirrels 1 month ago
@coolsquirrels
It shows that he is a human being who loves live and not simply a being who is contaminated with aids.
xaxie1 1 month ago
@xaxie1
If he loves life so much, why does he engage in death-seeking activities?
He has earned his death, and his whining and crying at this point deserve no sympathy. Let him at least try to face the grave with dignity, since he couldn't live his life with it.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer at this point he became the HIV,this desease wasnt known like today.So you cant say it was death seeking activitie
mastouris69 1 month ago
@mastouris69
Nice try. AIDS has been widely known since the early 1980s, and this film was made in the early 1990s.
By this time, all homos knew quite well that their desire for shit and the anus was a call from the grave.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Nice Try.read Wikipedia:Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film that was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. The film stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. It was inspired in part by the story of Geoffrey Bowers, an attorney who in 1987 sued the law firm Baker & McKenzie for wrongful dismissal in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases.
mastouris69 1 month ago
@mastouris69
And how do you think that changes the facts I presented, cretin? He got AIDS in 1987. So you think homos knew nothing about the connection between the disease and butt fucking before that? You need to read some history before you run your mouth. And Wikipedia doesn't count.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer get over it,homosexual people has the same right to love each other like the heteros.And we dont know if he get aids in 1987,cretin!He sue the Old Bastards in 1987.
mastouris69 1 month ago
@mastouris69
No, no one has any "right" to love anyone. This is a total misconstruing of the notion of rights. Not rare among you homo loving types to know exactly shit about the things you insist on talking about.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer people who think like you killed other people in the past for no reason.
mastouris69 1 month ago
@mastouris69
People who cannot think, or refuse to do so, as you cannot, kept humankind in the caves for millenia.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
Correction: he had had AIDS, or at the very least HIV, for quite a few years in 1987. It would be quite unexpected to suddenly just 'have' AIDS all at once. Normally you have HIV for quite some time before it progresses into AIDS so it it possible, no, -probable-, that they had no idea about that connection to HIV/AIDS at that point. Get all the facts before criticizing people about something you obviously know very little about.
wolf0995 1 week ago
I still don't get what the point of this scene was. I've seen this movie four times and I still don't get this scene. Could someone please explain the point of this scene to me?
coolsquirrels 1 month ago
@coolsquirrels
A homosexual dying of his homosexuality is relating to a healthy, normal human his obsession with a mediocre, fourth-rate piece of music. The healthy man is incredulous, embarrassed to be party to such a lugubrious display, and leaves in haste. The dying homosexual is left alone with his mediocre music and the ineradicable sense that he has brought on his own death through his mental sickness.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
My understanding of this scene is that what matters in life ultimately is to love and to be loved.Love is what gives value to somebody's existence.In spite of Magdalena's tremendous pain over her mother's death illustrated in that beautiful aria,just like Andy's pain-the pain of leaving this life so early-the fact that he has loved and was loved,is what mattered the most. This is what Denzel's character learns that evening:that love is the most important thing in life.
smartcookie38 1 month ago
god bless tom hanks for being one of the best actors ever
jesuscat29 1 month ago
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Beautiful, just beautiful! It is such a meaningful song with such emotion and power!
26Liwia 1 month ago
god bless that baby monkey
crete484 1 month ago
I was Homophobic, Then I watched this film :)
xaxie1 2 months ago 13
@xaxie1
And then you decided that it was a lovely thing that men stick their peepees up one another's butts and give one another fatal diseases?
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
Im not gay, I just feel as though gays have as much a right to be here as us.
And I have gay friends who don't give each other fatal diseases?
xaxie1 1 month ago
@xaxie1
No one has a "right" to be here. We're all here by chance and we stay here insofar as we obey the laws of nature. Do you think somebody who insists on jumping off tall buildings because he thinks he can fly is being cheated of his "right to be here" when he falls to the ground and becomes a splotch on the ground? People who insist on sticking their dicks up assholes, or letting others stick their dicks up their asshole, are flirting with disaster in the same way.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
That comment doesn't make any sense?
Im not fighting with you, this is a beautiful song and having a comment arguement just beats the point of the movie.
xaxie1 1 month ago
@xaxie1
Bless you for your truth; so few of us get to witness such moments.
jdtynan 1 month ago
Wow! You certainly know how to construct a logical argument. Are you one of the GOP candidates for President? Your ability to repeat the same jingles and conveniently ignore the meat of any salient arguments against your "stance" is very Republican circa 2011. I understand that your moral convictions spurred you into action. It would wrong to call you a bigot. That your commitment to remedying gay pathologies only goes as far as trolling a youtube video of a famous aria is just a coincidence.
OperaBoy1986 2 months ago
@OperaBoy1986
The only meat you've offered to this conversation is in your mouth and up your butt.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
He needs to find an opera where the subject matter is the moral sensibilities of a man who, while claiming to be in a committed relationship with someone he deeply loves, finds a random person in a public bathroom, gets fucked in the ass by him and gets AIDS, then brings the AIDS home to the person for whom he purportedly cares so deeply. THAT'D be an appropriate musical choice for the Hanks character.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Yes, he got AIDs from fooling around with someone without protection in a movie theater. He didn't realize the person had the disease, though that was definitely irresponsible behavior. Luckily his parter forgave him. He made a mistake like lots of people do, and it cost him his life. People cheat and catch STDs every day. Frankly, your comment reeks of homophobia. It's astonishing to me that of all the things to take from the movie and this scene that's what you came up with.
OperaBoy1986 2 months ago
@OperaBoy1986
People who do immoral things and reap negative consequences are responsible for their fates. Period. His action brought his death, and it is his responsibility. Too bad for him. The moral lesson is: don't let people stick their dicks up your ass if you want to greatly decrease your risk of getting HIV.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Um, I'm not sure whose "morality" you're imposing on these fictional characters, but getting a dick stuck up your ass does not give you HIV. Being exposed (sexually or otherwise) to the blood of someone who has the virus does. It sounds like you are taking issue with his homosexuality and not his one instance of promiscuity. If he had been gay and caught the disease from a poorly administered blood transfusion, what would be the justification for your condemnations?
OperaBoy1986 2 months ago
@OperaBoy1986
Why don't you check out the stats and see which # is larger: homos who get HIV from infected dicks up the arse, or homos who get HIV from blood transfusions?
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Why don't you stop making straw man arguments in an effort to peddle offensive diatribe as genuine moral outrage? AIDs is not a punishment for gay men. The virus spreads most quickly amongst gay men because the community is so small and blood vessels around the rectum are highly susceptible to bursting. What's your moral justification for being outraged over lesbian sex? They're "homos" too right? No HIV epidemic or dicks up their arses? What's their punishment via fatal disease?
OperaBoy1986 2 months ago
@OperaBoy1986
What? You mean the anus is easily damaged by thrusting penises? This sounds like a homophobic slur to the effect that the anus was not constructed primarily as an instrument for the expression of homolove. You bigot! And how dare you insinuate that the homocommunity effectively spreads the disease around essentially because they all indiscriminately fuck one another like animals in heat?! The LGBT avengers will be knocking at your door in short order!
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
You are so right!!!!
the person that has never sinned throw the first stone!!
jonathanhvicuna 1 month ago
@jonathanhvicuna
That would be me, indeed. I've never sinned, as sin does not exist. Depravity, however, certainly does, and the Hanks character represents it in this film.
Pizuzuzimmer 1 month ago
την αγαπησα αυτην την ταινία<3
LidaPar66 2 months ago
strange, strange scene.
kcdrew69 3 months ago
@kcdrew69 what's strange about it? have you seen the whole film? if not, it is worth it.
tedsler 2 months ago
@tedsler Not only have I seen it but I saw it at the theater, years ago, and several times since. I love the movie. I love the scene. What I don't understand is whyit goes from that scene to Denzel W's going home, hugging his sleeping child, etc. What was the director trying to say? It seems he was making a comparison between Mr. Hanks' character and life and Mr. Washingtion's, doesn't it? It was unsettling, at least.
kcdrew69 2 months ago
just fantastic
Metall1st1992 3 months ago
best scene ever!!
tikunakilljoy 3 months ago
And the Oscar goes to!!? Maria Callas!
MrThanasis55 3 months ago 5
@MrThanasis55 Absolutely - La Divina! Irreplaceable.
TheVaughan5 2 weeks ago
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MrThanasis55 3 months ago
A musical orgasm.
petdetail 3 months ago
@petdetail
You couldn't have said it better! Perfect!
poetsnlilies 3 months ago in playlist Nether Lands
the best scene ever with Tom Hanks
MrCurtwinslow 4 months ago 2
aokwian, You are sick. And a very closed minded person. What If one of your children are gay. Would you kill him or just kick hm like a dog. You are scum. Please excuse my comment to @Pizuzuzimmer, I apologize my comment was meant for this asshole okwian.
sa65cn1 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer, You are sick. And a very closed minded person. What If one of your children are gay. Would you kill him or just kick hm like a dog. You are scum.
sa65cn1 5 months ago
@sa65cn1 I'm not the one cursing and being an "asshole". I think you are confusing me with Pizuzuzimmer. He's the one talking about kicking dogs.
okwian 4 months ago
@okwian u mad bro?
Agomongo1235 4 months ago
@Agomongo1235 No but I think someone is playing games. And I don't want to be confused with Pizuzuzimmer.
okwian 4 months ago
SHE'S MARIA CALLAS THE GODDESS OF OPERA:)
sttar1982 5 months ago
@zok35
You're clearly several parsecs away from an understanding of either of those terms.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
when a man is having sex with a woman a human being having sex with another human being, so in a way, we're all homosexuals!?
qiovanni 6 months ago
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@qiovanni
What in the hell are you rambling about.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@qiovanni thats the stupidest thing i have ever heard
gabe08213 5 months ago
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qiovanni 6 months ago
I doubt you have the capacity to appreciate it. Your hatred is overwhelming.
okwian 6 months ago
@okwian
The void inside your head is overwhelming.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer While I think the judgment of people who have unprotected sex with multiple partners and expose themselves with risky behavior is poor, I do not condemn them or not feel compassion for them. Your excessive hatred says a lot about you although you obviously can't see that. You have a hole in your soul. While you are definitely annoying, the most I feel is pity for you.
okwian 5 months ago
@okwian
I feel contempt for people like you, because you do not even extend to other people the dignity of responsibility for their own choices. You call it 'compassion' to feel bad for people who have acted in ways they *knew* to be reckless and foolish and who have suffered for their stupidity? I call it treating adults like children. They are grown and responsible for themselves. If they perish from their stupidity, that's fewer stupid people to make life unpleasant for me.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Well it doesn't surprise me you feel contempt for someone who has compassion for someone very ill or dying. I don't feel bad. I feel compassion, empathy and sympathy. Being compassionate in no way treats them like children. You're trying to rationalize your hatred and its coming across poorly. My last post as I'm not going to feed your inhumanity and trolling.
okwian 5 months ago
@okwian
The last thing on earth I need to do is rationalize anything I believe to a human error like you. Go stick your prick in a fecal canal and churn until you make cocoa butter for you and your friends.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Is that really the best you can do? Personal attacks, 8 year old insults, and boorish vulgarity. You are the most classless individual I've seen in some time and your debating skills are non-existent. You have no intelligible response so this is what we get.
okwian 5 months ago
@okwian
Get one thing through your thick head: I have never had any interest in debating you. One does not debate with a rabid dog. One kicks it in the head and moves along. Consider yourself kicked, Cujo.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer I'm a 60 year old heterosexual with 4 grown children. I have six years of formal post doctoral training. For you to call me a rabid dog says a lot about you. In China we say xin tong. A hurt in the heart for someone as broken as you are. You are also a very scary person. It's frightening to know such hatred exists in the hearts of men. BTW, stop kicking dogs.
okwian 5 months ago
@okwian
I'll kick dogs as long as I see fit when they are slobbering rabidly all over the place like you are.
When are you coming out of the closet to destroy the lives of your children? That is the standard practice for homosexual men, you know. Pretend you're normal and have a bunch of kids, then start looking for shit-filled anuses to stick your dick in.
People like you, who cannot distinguish life from feces worshiping death, are the scary ones.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer I see. And because I have compassion for someone dying of AIDS that automatically makes me a homosexual. You're flailing about because you have nothing else to offer. And truly your vulgarity only defines you not me. Your act is old and fails. Hopefully you are very young and very very foolish.
okwian 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer u mad bro?
Agomongo1235 4 months ago
How can anyone not be moved by both the aria and the actor?
okwian 6 months ago
@okwian
It helps if that anyone has any knowledge of art whatsoever, in which case a derisive chuckle is the only possible response.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
MoilAndToil 6 months ago
Pizuzuzimmer,
The only thing worse than a disconnect with humanity is bad art.
You strive at both.
ProfoundComedyStudio 6 months ago
@ProfoundComedyStudio
Disconnect with humanity? I beg your pardon, sir. I disconnect from those things that represent a necrophiliac attack on humanity, such as two men probing into one another's shit holes until they get sick and die. Maybe coprophagia is your thing, but that's your problem.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
Is that seriously your basis for not giving Tom Hanks for his ACTING performance? You still haven't given a reason for why Tom Hanks performance wasn't impressive. Actually the fact that his character made you that furious is impressive by itself. I understand that you don't like gays. I just don't see why that should keep you from acknowledging a phenomenal acting performance. You know.. because it is ACTING. Tom Hanks isn't ACTUALLY gay.. you know that.... right?
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@ProfoundComedyStudio
Lugubrious. Look it up.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
@Pizuzuzimmer
I know what lugubrious means. Superfluous ... LOOK IT UP. YUCK. The point of words is to EXPRESS not IMPRESS.
Anyways you really are out of touch if you think the amount of sorrow his character has is unreasonable or unrealistic. His body is falling apart, inside and out, and at the same time his world is, and millions are voyeurs to his demise. It is just plain stupid of you to just dismiss the performance as exaggerated. It sounds like a cop-out to me.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@ProfoundComedyStudio
The man chose his own death, and he got it. Any sadness expressed as a result is excessive and lugubrious. Sane people don't lay in the highway and then express shock when they are run over by cars.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
What you are saying is beyond idiotic. First off, since when have only sane people had emotions? Using your bastardized line of logic, someone could easily make the argument that anyone who signs up to join the army during a time of war should keep their lips zipped if they are dismembered, or if any of their friends are. I mean those that signed up for world war II had just as much a chance of dying as someone having anonymous sodomy. (Continued)
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@ProfoundComedyStudio
That you apparently cannot see the difference between a soldier's morally serious decision to go fight the spread of fascism in WWII and a coprophiliac's frivolous, sick desire for a new shithole to stick his dick in says worlds about the kind of person you are. Shame on you.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
Sure, the soldier's decision was more dignified. No argument there. But the point remains that since they signed up for something that has a staggeringly real chance of killing them, then it would be "excessive and lugubrious" for them to take human life, particularly their OWN, seriously. Your eye must be sore from squinting to see through that peephole of humanity you have. Actually, make that a peephole for logic and art, too.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@ProfoundComedyStudio
"*More* dignified"? This implies that there is at least some dignity to be found in the decision to indiscriminately poke your penis into a hole filled with feces, or allow oneself to be buggered by an AIDS-infected coprophiliac.
Pizuzuzimmer 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
@Pizuzuzimmer
I know what lugubrious means. Superfluous ... LOOK IT UP. YUCK. The point of words is to EXPRESS not IMPRESS.
Anyways you really are out of touch if you think the amount of sorrow his character has is unreasonable or unrealistic. His body is falling apart, inside and out, and at the same time his world is, and millions are voyeurs to his demise. It is just plain stupid of you to just dismiss the performance as exaggerated. It sounds like a cop-out to me.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
Perhaps to give you a better grasp of the words you use, watch my one uploaded video "Existential Breakdown, Breakthrough, and Beyond". This is an example of something I would understand you dismissing as lugubrious, but even then, it was how I felt at the time. Humans can't always be "dignified". Tom Hands lost composure in a very real, touching way - and this monologue has moved a lot of people.
Some people are just cold. That isn't Tom Hanks fault.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer
To finish off my point (sorry about the multiple posts my phone is laggy) ...
I could receive the news that my family died while right infront of you, and immediately collapse, puke, etc. Now maybe this won't have an effect on you. You will just feel uncomfortable and label my sputterings as lugubrious. That doesn't make my feelings any less meaningful, or my crisis any less tragic.
Once again, You are missing a link in your humanity, and therefore in art.
ProfoundComedyStudio 5 months ago
And the central thought in his mind at the end of the scene: "Thank God I am not like him."
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
Then, after he takes his leave, unable to continue watching the poor man make a fool of himself, he wonders at the door "I hope the homo isn't too offended by my abrupt exit--perhaps I should apologize? No, he wouldn't understand. He is after all a lugubrious homosexual."
And, once he arrives home, he hugs his child and his wife, cherishing all the more these gifts of love and life that the homosexual can never know after seeing the suffering this poor homosexual has brought on himself.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
The systematic misreading of this scene by the homophiliacs is predictable, if still entertaining in its spectacular stupidity. Any sane viewer can read the emotions on the Washington character's face as he's watching the Hanks character in his lugubrious performance. The chief emotion is embarrassment--"what is this homo doing? Jeez, are they all this overwrought and...gay? I thought those were stereotypes, but here it is, right in front of me."
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Why are you here? It seems like all you have to say about this performance is a negative statement or a rude connotation to a gay man? Stop trying to make yourself seem like an educated person and stop over analyzing the scene. I would imagine that someone with such "outspoken" critic would be in the works of writing and directing something better than this. If not, I would just shut the fuck up and stop commenting on YouTube videos.
Alexander87oclock 6 months ago
@Alexander87oclock
I am here for the same reason civilized people go to the zoo--monkeys are entertaining, at least in limited quantities.
Pizuzuzimmer 6 months ago
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@Pizuzuzimmer Piss off you stupid cunt.
jakebiomask 6 months ago
A homo who identifies with female operatic singers. Original.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@AnotherAlias07
You haven't seen very many good movies, have you?
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
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amberjade11 7 months ago
The direction in this is brilliant!!! One of the things I love the most about movies is that we can translate for ourselves what the director is trying to say. In this scene we see Miller undergo a transformation of the soul. He no longer sees a homosexual dying of AIDS, he sees a man who loves his life and doesn't want to leave it. He goes home and stares into the darkness not saying a word-yet we can feel what he is feeling. Love this! I am so mad I didn't watch this movie sooner!
amberjade11 7 months ago
i'm just cryin/////o m g!!!!!!!!
diaTeri 7 months ago
This scene made me buy my first Maria Callas CD.
jwesleyjohnson37 7 months ago
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jwesleyjohnson37 7 months ago
and this children is how you win an oscar
lola92393 8 months ago
@lola92393
Yes, speak the banal language of fatuous political correctness, and the self-appointed Hollywood 'experts' will congratulate you for accepting their blinkered view of the world.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer you cannot deny he was brilliant in this movie and deserved the recognition he got. and I'm sure this scene is what won him that oscar
lola92393 7 months ago
@lola92393
I've just denied it, you dolt.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer then you are clueless and shouldn't comment on this video to begin with
no one wants to hear you say that you don't think Tom Hanks was brilliant in this movie which he was
lola92393 7 months ago
@lola92393
Some airhead who thinks Beyonce and Coldplay are the height of musical achievement is now going to proclaim what is and what is not proper aesthetic judgment on film. Spare me your flatulence, you uneducated gutter dweller.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer look twat, I am commenting saying this scene is what convinced the academy to give him the award for best actor in 1993
if you don't agree tough shit cuz he got the oscar anyway so kindly fuck off
lola92393 7 months ago
@lola92393
You seem incapable of understanding English. I don't give a damn if the movie got an Oscar; that says precisely nothing about whether it is aesthetically interesting. It is not. It's a PC political statement trying (and failing) to masquerade as art.
The fact that philistines like yourself are the cheerleaders for this laughable film speaks volumes about its quality.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer I suggest you read the opera and especially the aria even if in English or preferably both Italian and English. The opera is as tragic as Andrew's life. The heroine dies with her lover rather than live without him. Then listen to different artists sing the aria. You will find a great deal of difference. Perhaps then you will understand how magnificent Callas was. If you don't appreciate the movie perhaps you will the opera including the aria and Callas.
okwian 6 months ago
@okwian
As I have said many times, this homosexual's life is not tragic. Tragedy requires nobility, and there is no nobility in shit and AIDS. The aria is another question altogether, as its narrative does not involve men willingly bringing about their own end by sticking their penises into shit and churning.
Pizuzuzimmer 6 months ago
After this scene I went out and purchased my first Maria Callas CD
normallawrence 8 months ago
crrrrringe
FridayFace 9 months ago
I am so much afraid!!!!!
stresimeludo 9 months ago
The artistry of Maria Callis with the sheer brillance of Tom Hanks probably the most moving scene ever tugs at the heart strings. Would love to see a copy with English sub titles
Musicman19371 10 months ago 2
The aristry of Callis with the sheer brillance of Tom Hanks probably the most moving scene tugs at the heart strings wonderful. Would like to see the video with English sub titles
Musicman19371 10 months ago
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Musicman19371 10 months ago
This scene changed me. I felt a sudden change in myself while this scene was going on when I watched this movie.
KristianKronicles 10 months ago
@KristianKronicles
Moved by such kitsch? Sorry for you.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
This was a great film. I love Denzel's transformation and how important this film was for tolerance and education about HIV/AIDS.
afrocentricdime 10 months ago 2
what a powerfull part in the movie .. you can feel everything
jonoblack72 10 months ago
FANTASTICO DENZEL!!!! BRAVO TOM!!!!
vangoghmatisse1 10 months ago
I don't get it, what is the point of this part of the movie? Is it supposed to show how Denzel Washington's cold character began to be more sympathetic to Tom Hanks'? It's memorable but I never really got the point of this part.
JesuXPIPassio 11 months ago
Tom Hanks and Maria Callas: what else?
alber6161 1 year ago
Why i'm crying?
willdrummer33 1 year ago
solche Filme zeigen uns, dass wenn man sich bemüht, doch das ende nah ist. Mit einer großen Ecke im Verständnisse habe auch ich ein verdenk Dr. Otto Jahn, dieses steh vermögen würde ich mir wünschen.
Ulrich Fischer
LuxGonderange 1 year ago
Tomorrow world aids day, just all watch the video and mourn or celebrate life, think of all the people infected, just one day in a year, thanks.
Sunnyeric1965 1 year ago
This scene always makes me cry. I have rarely experienced such passion. In addition Denzels homophobic character suddenly realized the authenticity of Hanks character. In my interpretation, Denzel connects and actually considers a more "intimate involvement". Yet decides otherwise at the last moment. His questioning is supported because Denzil goes home to reconfirm his straightness by making violent lobe to his wife.
Cerulean0987 1 year ago
@Cerulean0987
Yeah, the truth is that everyone on earth is naturally homosexual and it's only the evil machinations of the homophobes (who are actually secretly homosexual themselves) that makes 98% of the population pretend to be heterosexual. Oh, the humanity! If only we were all able to follow our true, natural homosexuality (which of course we see as the dominant sexual force in non-human animals), we'd all be much happier!
Pizuzuzimmer 10 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Actually we would in that argument be pansexual and without label neither homonormative or heteronormative. Everyone should be able to love who they love and sex should only be prevented if it causes inequality or pain but I feel we can't relegate either way. I feel you are using as much bad science as people are using against you, we should promote freedom and not sheer people to our concept of free.
tiemedown 9 months ago
@tiemedown
What a pile of fatuous horseshit. You apparently don't know English well, in addition to being fundamentally confused. Tell you what--so long as your partner is of age and willing, I don't care what you have sex with. But when you get horrific diseases because you have insisted on putting your penis into places it was never intended to be, don't come asking for my sympathy or the research dollars funded by my taxes. With freedom comes responsibility.
Pizuzuzimmer 9 months ago
You went from " everyone is homosexual, love and peace baby", to absolute moralist insanity. And both perspectives are rampant with the bad science and the absolutism used against the community currently. I was saying that homonormativity can be as segregating as heteronormativity and the only kind of sexual congress which should be discouraged is that which hurts people, ie those who cannot give consent. I dont know where this bizarre diatribe came from nor your rape of the english language
tiemedown 9 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer For your information heteronormativity is the philosophy that condemns homosexuality as unnatural while homonormatvity parallels this train of thought. Neither lead to the happiness of all persons nor explain the fundamentals of individual psychology and biology. I can only assume you posted to the wrong person or have been stricken with sudden schizophrenia.
tiemedown 9 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Wow. What a intolerant jerk. Heterosexuals get AIDS too dumb ass. And he can put his penis wherever he wants, it's his penis!
amberjade11 7 months ago
@amberjade11
That would AN intolerant jerk. This intolerant jerk at least speaks and writes his language correctly, you illiterate cow. Check out the stats to see how much greater the presence of AIDS among those who stick their penises into anuses. "He can put his penis wherever he wants, it's his penis!" Indeed, this is the philosophy of NAMBLA as well.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Apparently you don't since you omitted the word "be" just like I omitted an "n" which doesn't make me illiterate it makes me someone who occasionally makes a typo. And yes, I am well aware of the statistics of HIV/AIDS and no one is asking your permission to do anything. You are nothing or no one. Just another miserable suppressed homosexual who bashes gays to avoid dealing with your real feelings.
amberjade11 7 months ago
@amberjade11
You robots are nothing if not predictable. In the Know Nothing world of Homo Friendly Groupthink, anyone who fails to fall in line with the PC lockstep dogma is by definition a self-hating, closeted homo. You lot are exactly like the braindead evangelicals--there's a simple code for everything, and all other positions can be made sense of by a kind of mentally retarded paint by numbers repetitive spasm.
You will now repeat the same thing you already wrote.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer Aren't there enough neo-Nazi and KKK videos for you to watch?
amberjade11 7 months ago
@amberjade11
What a dull-minded creature you are.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer You can't stand when people decide to live differently than you think they should. You use a few big words and convince yourself you are smarter than other people therefore better. You decide to go to a video and watch a scene in a homosexual themed movie then bash anyone who enjoys the Oscar winning performance. If you were truly this appalled by homosexuality you would not want see it being glorified.
amberjade11 7 months ago
@amberjade11
Yes, isn't it an awful thing that some people actually dare to be literate? If only everyone would just wallow in the moronic, monosyllabic, PC cesspool that is the homo-friendly movement...
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
One of the biggest representation in film is exciting, I'm always on youtube, watch, and extremely exciting.
666discomusic 1 year ago
such a fabulous soundtrack!
cmorgan63 1 year ago
I think the all movie gave Tom Hanks and oscar but I think this is the final piece to a masterpiece. like the "funny guy" scene of Joe Pesci in the movie Goodfellas. There acting during the film is excelent but there is a scene where you say... if they don't give him the oscar for that, they never will...
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unclesam89 1 year ago
To me, what I take from the interaction between Denzel Washington & Tom Hanks is that Wasington's character, heretofore a homophobe who hasn't seen Tom Hanks as a full person now does; he realizes that the character of "Andy" & he share the commonality of both being transformed by Love & that "Andy" is a man, not some perverted statistic.
DavidKerrATL 1 year ago 3
Tears are running down my face every now and again I watch Tom Hanks` brilliance in this scene listening to maria callas - and Denzel escapes..... so moving.
gaby3101 1 year ago
moving
debs1971ful 1 year ago
this only took 1 shot
DarkSoulja24 1 year ago
@DarkSoulja24
Banality requires little practice.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
This scene is spectacular. Always brings me to tears, such an inspirational and moving scene. This totally underrated!! Amazing <3
no1iraqiya 1 year ago 2
Such a wonderful song! Great Movie, and Mr. Hanks what more could one ask! :)
hewballz 1 year ago
Simply one of the best cinematic scenes in film history. Perfection in cinematography, direction, music, and acting. Absolutely beautiful.
rervousneck 1 year ago
@rervousneck
And you know what about cinema? I mean, really. THIS as one of the best scenes in film history?! Have you ever even heard the names Eisenstein, Welles, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Godard, Fellini, Bergman?
You reveal yourself as a halfwit with this kind of remark. And doubtless there are plenty of your fellow halfwits here to share your philistine tastes in cinema.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
l'eleganza
mgarovano 1 year ago
Tom Hanks is truly amazing!!!
He is one of the great actors of our time!
This is the most touching part of "Philadelphia" , thank you mastouris69 !
MusicStreamInTheWind 1 year ago
some movies make u feel.... and some others understsnd....this is one of them
Nucolya 1 year ago 2
Une pure merveille !!!!
titabeille 1 year ago
L'un des plus grand film du 20eme siècle avec La plus Grande Cantatrice de tout les temps!!! un chef d'oeuvre!!!!!!
mercuroprice 2 years ago
@mercuroprice
Quelle connerie.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
Tom was phenomenal, Denzel was so sexy, but Maria Callas was the star of this scene! Brava. Wonderful movie!
htshoward 2 years ago 3
What I always wondered was why did Denzel act so uncomfortable and weird after the whole opera part and leave right away. And how he was going back and forth in the hallway, like he wanted to go back inside. Did he think he was also gay maybe and was attracted to Tom Hanks' character? It always confused me.
achilles6221981 2 years ago
hey I read you comment and was replying back but I have to split it up now. and i've wondered to. BUT! I don't think it has anything to do with sexual attraction. I think Denzel who is very homophobic, he finally sees the somber aspect of aids right before him, he sees the very soul of andy, and he sees him for what he is. a beautiful human being being stricken by the unstoppable cruel death of aids.
YouriH190 2 years ago 8
@YouriH190 I agree with most of what u say but;
homophobic? I donno he's just a average guy, no? He thinks he's a live and let live type. He gets to question his own predjudices. I had a tiny example of unthinking prejudice shown towards me and that was enough to start to wake me up to my own ignorance. Thanks Mastouris69 ♥♥♥♥♥♥
mrsthursday 1 year ago
. that's why he's soo moved, and is sad. however it's soo heavy and emotionally excessive for him,that he's not sure whether he should stay longer and talk to andy. but when he goes home, he realizes now,how precious his life is.
YouriH190 2 years ago 23
very good comment!
mastouris69 2 years ago
hehe ehh, what can I say I love films. I like to go into deep analysis, i'm even contemplating finding an english speaking uni somewhere in europe where I can get a minor or do a bachelor in film studies.
YouriH190 2 years ago 2
@YouriH190
From one film nut to another- go for it!
mrsthursday 1 year ago
@YouriH190
From one film nut to another- go for it!
mrsthursday 1 year ago
@YouriH190
You might want to consider watching some GOOD films in advance of taking up the study of cinema. See: Eisenstein and Welles to start, then get back to me.
Pizuzuzimmer 7 months ago
@YouriH190 nice comment, and that is the beautiful thing, to remember life is precious......
BeauJames59 1 year ago