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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9658425" data-attributes="member: 3400">OK, confession time. I don't cry at a lot of movies - a few scenes get me from time to time like Riley breaking down about her sadness to her parents in Inside Out (I mean, I'm a father to two daughters, how is that not going to hit me?), CS Lewis and his stepson Douglas sobbing together over Joy's death in Shadowlands.But the big one was Dumbo. Oh, not the "Baby Mine" scene that gets so many other people. I was a senior in high school and Dumbo happened to be on the TV one night as I was making my dinner, the rest of the family being out. I sat down to eat and it was the scene near the end where Dumbo jumps from high in the big top but loses his grip on the magic feather. Timothy desperately tries to convince Dumbo that it was never the feather, it was always him. And, sure enough, that little bugger flies. Not only does he fly, he really lets his bullies and detractors have it. And the whole time, my heart is screaming, "YEAH! GO, DUMBO, GO! YOU GET THOSE SONSABITCHES!" And before I know it, tears are streaming down my face. It's not like I had never seen Dumbo before. I knew the story. But, WOW, did the triumphant emotions hit me in that moment.</blockquote>