Lost Love Montage: Difference between revisions

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A variant of the [[Falling in Love Montage]] where the love in question is in the past. Sappy music is playing while all of the wonderful scenes are shown from the now severed relationship, as the person in question realizes how good he had it.

A variant of the [["Falling in Love" Montage]] where the love in question is in the past. Sappy music is playing while all of the wonderful scenes are shown from the now severed relationship, as the person in question realizes how good he had it.

Contrast with [[Falling in Love Montage]] and [[Sad Times Montage]]. If the person has a particular item or keepsake of their lost love's that they kept, this may become a [[Cradle of Loneliness]].

Contrast with [["Falling in Love" Montage]] and [[Sad Times Montage]]. If the person has a particular item or keepsake of their lost love's that they kept, this may become a [[Cradle of Loneliness]].

When the character watches home videos of their past life, see [[Happier Times Montage]], which is closely related. See also [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]].

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* Used in ''[[Once]]''. The music is particularly wistful.

* Inverted in ''[[Family Ties]]''. Alex has one of these, when Ellen leaves to get engaged. The only thing is Alex and Ellen hadn't yet dated at this point. He was dating her roommate, but was falling in love with Ellen.

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' features something similar: Eddie Valiant looks over photographs of a happier past with his late brother Teddy and Dolores.

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' features something similar: Eddie Valiant looks over photographs of a happier past with his late brother Teddy and Dolores.

* Used at the end of the BBC "Scene" programme's ''Two Of Us'' from 1987. Teenaged Matthew watches the train on which his boyfriend Phil is leaving with his, Phil's, girlfriend, and has a series of flashbacks of his and Phil's happy times together. {{spoiler|In the version which was cut so as not to seem too gay-positive, this is it; in the original version, it turns out that Phil wasn't on that train after all, because he shows up immediately afterwards.}}

* Parodied on ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. The song "When We Didn't Get Along" accompanies flashbacks of fighting after Perry the Platypus [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|gets dumped by]] his [[Foe Yay|nemesis]] Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

* Short one appears in one ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' trailer.

* The [[Orange Range]] song "Sayonara" uses a Lost Love Montage during the refrains as a way for the widow to reflect on her husband.

* ''[[~~Mother 3 (Video Game)|~~Mother 3]]'' shows this between {{spoiler|Flint and Hinawa}} almost immediately after news of the latter's death.

* ''[[Mother 3]]'' shows this between {{spoiler|Flint and Hinawa}} almost immediately after news of the latter's death.