I cry very easily at books, but quite rarely at TV or movies. Somehow I notice the manipulation of my emotions more on screen, and of course on screen you don't really get inside the character's heads in the same way. Only exception I can think of is the handing out of the weapons to the children and old men of Rohan at Helm's Deep - that gets me every time!
Whereas books... LOADS of Sutcliff. Poor Artos and Guinhumara after they lose their little girl. The death of Ambrosius. Owain when he sees the Red Dragon and knows he has to go back to the Saxons. The whole end of The Shining Company (that's an Y Goddodin retelling so unsurprisingly tragic). Boudicca and her daughters dying in battle...
Death of named animal characters too, but I actively avoid reading stuff that dwells heavily on death of animal characters, I find it too hard. I'm not entirely sure why. I don't cry for Aragorn (maybe a little for Arwen left behind) but Hazel the rabbit dying in extreme old age at the end of Watership Down? FLOODS!
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Date: 2012-11-04 12:30 pm (UTC)Whereas books... LOADS of Sutcliff. Poor Artos and Guinhumara after they lose their little girl. The death of Ambrosius. Owain when he sees the Red Dragon and knows he has to go back to the Saxons. The whole end of The Shining Company (that's an Y Goddodin retelling so unsurprisingly tragic). Boudicca and her daughters dying in battle...
Death of named animal characters too, but I actively avoid reading stuff that dwells heavily on death of animal characters, I find it too hard. I'm not entirely sure why. I don't cry for Aragorn (maybe a little for Arwen left behind) but Hazel the rabbit dying in extreme old age at the end of Watership Down? FLOODS!