A powerful scene, but strangely, I remember the scene differently from when I saw it in 1983. Aurora and her daughter, Emma, were alone together in the hospital room. POV was Aurora's, level with bed. Emma opened her eyes, looked at Aurora, POV Emma on Aurora. Back to POV Aurora on Emma, medium shot. Emma smiles and closes her eyes, POV Emma on Aurora who wakes up. Emma is gone. Something like that. I cried then, and I cried now. Strange. Did the film have two different endings? One for Europe and one for America? Or have I just "misremembered" the earlier death scene?
Their daughter walks into the scene and we feel the nine years of his absence collapse and vanish because the same underlying loud, fractious relationship between her parents that would probably have been her last memory is unchanged; she hears his sarcasm and her piety. What gets me in the scene are the small details: DeNiro’s character gently ensuring that the Duke’s coat doesn’t get caught in the car door as they’re leaving, DeNiro’s change in expression as he refuses the daughter’s offer of money, his eyes initially expressing appreciation for her kindness and subtlety moving to a look conveying acknowledgment that she can’t fully understand his refusal and a desire to comfort her in her hurt and thwarted desire to help. You really feel their pain and his love for her young, good soul that seems to have survived the turmoil. “I’m a white collar criminal” cracks me up every time!
@@MichaelJ44 Jerry Lewis was informed of the cure/Origin of Muscular Dystrophy and he told the producers of his telethons and they shut the telethon down. Parasites are the cause of 95% of cancers and disease.
Forget the byased media rankings, which are tainted my racism, discrimination and personal animosity, Jim Brown (the greatest and most dominant player in league history ), O.J. Simpson ( the greatest record in team sports ), and Gayle Sayers are the top 3 greatest running backs in league history.
