Working at the University of California, Berkely, back in 1988, Robert Levenson and James Gross were researching the relationship between movie scenes and emotion. Specifically, they were searching for a scene that succeeded in eliciting only a single emotion at a time, Smithsonian Magazine reports. After testing hundreds of movie scenes across almost 500 undergraduate volunteers, they discovered that the ending scene in Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 remake "The Champ" was not only able to elicit sadness exclusively, but it evoked sadness more often than any other film they screened.
"The Champ" follows an aging boxer on the verge of a comeback, and in the climax of the movie, the boxer dies, leaving behind his 9-year-old son (Rick Schroder). The researchers were able to prove that the movie's ending scene — where the boy is weeping for his dead father — evoked sadness at a higher rate than any other movie they tested (with a close second being "Bambi"). Since then, "The Champ" has been cited in more than 300 different scientific articles, and while the scientific community seems to believe the scene is evoking emotion in a powerful way, the critical response to the film continues to be abysmal to this day. Hilariously, the movie only has a 36% score on Rotten Tomatoes, so while scientists may be convinced of its importance, perhaps being a sad movie doesn't make it a good movie.
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