Hopper's Letter | Stranger Things 3 | Netflix
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- This is THE letter. Watch as Eleven reads the heart-to-heart speech that Hopper wrote for her and Mike. (Disclaimer: you might want to grab tissues.)
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2019 be like:
Avengers Endgame: *"And I am Ironman"*
Stranger things: *"Keep the door open 3 inches"*
XD
I know I watched stranger things so long ago and this made me cry again
500th like btw
Vaibhav naw I love you 3000
LTB_GAMING956 this is how it goes
2016 viewers:Knew him for 4 yrs so were the saddest 😭😭😭😭
2017 viewers:Knew him for 3 yrs so were the 2nd saddest 😭😭😭
2018 viewers:Knew him for 2 yrs so were the 3rd saddest 😭😭
2019 viewers:Knew him for 1 yr so were the least saddest😭
Ps. I could be wrong, but I started watching it in 2016 so I was supper sad
When life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you are out of that cave.
-Jim Hopper
Stop it 😪🥲
That line gets me 😢😢
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Definitely the most emotional moment I've ever seen in a tv show
The ARROW S7 finale made me cry and Ruelle's song "The Other Side" didn't help at all. I'm NOT READY FOR THE CRISIS CROSSOVER AT ALL and it's coming in 3 months (guest stars including 60s Robin, Smallville's Clark and Lois, 90s Batman, Oliver's gonna die, Barry still to go missing)!
Avengers: Endgame made me cry so hard. The Shadowhunters #Malec wedding and proposal made me cry tears of happiness
but this is too much 😭😭😭
@@vgg31 The death of Martin Stein in the Earth-X crossover was pretty emotional too. Maybe not *as* emotional as the others, but definitively cry-worthy!
@@paintedink I forgot about that one. It definitely was tear-jerking
@@vgg31 I mean his death and this scene were the only one where I had tears in my eyes. And I am no emotional Person at all
Yes
Fun Fact: *YOU CRIED IN THIS SCENE*
McTootlebottom 5 stop stalking me
Yeah😭
No
True
How did you know? stalker
y’all want to make me cry
Already did 😥
Me too😥😥😥
I was nearly crying but I couldn’t as I wanted to see the scene play out if I was crying I wouldn’t have seen it
Your right
yeeyee
who else agrees this is by far the best show of 2019?!
Em Graham This is the best show in this entire generation
* {Serenn} * facts
PFFT this is the best show of all eternity.
Before I watched it, I was gonna argue that Game of Thrones was the better show before the season 6 and forward, but after watching Stranger Things, I completely disagree with my own opinion. Stranger Things has made me laugh, cry and feel uneasy and satisfied. It's the entire experience, I loved every bit of it.
Me
Everyone: *Stops crying because of ST*
Netflix: *Uploads*
Everyone: *Cries*
would like but it has 420 likes
Aby Pelton sorry, but I kept my door 3 inches open
True
Teaser trailer season 4:
_We are not in Hawkins anymore_
Demogorgan:
*Packing his stuff*
😂😂😂😂
underrated comment
This breaks my heart into a million pieces
It so sad 😭😭😭😭
A millieon.. ha get it?
ThatGirlChløePrice please....no....
My tear stained face lol
Same here
The biggest tear jerker in this scene imo is that Hop finally refers to himself as El's Dad 💔💔💔
adopted dad but her biological dad is unknown but we do know her biological mom is terry ives from season 1-2
@@standiferjaquorian701 leave out the adopted. The other guy was Just a seed donor. What hopper did,feels,says,.. This defines a dad.. A real dad
@@sparkcakes💯❤️
"in the sake of your poor old dad keep the door open three inches" 😢
for*
Hopper noooooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Omg while watching that part made me cry 100x harder.
Writers put that's in becuase what they mean is keep portal open 3 inches
There's something I've been wanting to talk to you both about. I know this is a difficult conversation, but I care about you both very much. And I know that you care about each other very much, and that's why it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward so we can build an environment where we all feel comfortable, trusted, and open to sharing our feelings.
Feelings. Jesus. The truth is, for so long I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place. In a cave, you might say. A deep, dark cave. And then I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life. For the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-Decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching Westerns together before we doze off.
But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. I guess, if I'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came in here, to try and make stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just not how life works. It's moving, always moving, whether you like it or not. And yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad. And sometimes, it's surprising. Happy.
So you know what? Keep on growing up kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em. When life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.
When Mike's mom hugs him, it's like a callback to when she comforted him after Will's 'death'. I'm glad they brought back the good mom from Season 1 this season.
when did she become a bad mom
@@AlexGonzalez-yh9syI just meant that in the 2nd season (and the start of this one) she was played as just clueless about her kids, and was also flirting with a teenage boy. But this season, she was shown to be a more caring mom again (encouraging Nancy's ambitions, comforting Mike, etc).
@@BenBanjo87 yeah I'm happy she improved to that " Good Mom " 🙂
STOP POSTING THIS PLEASE WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY SO BADLY STOPPPPPPP 😭 😭
The only thing making me cry, is your pfp! alexei!!!!!!
Fun fact: Eleven/Jane/Millie actually cried during filming this scene. She read this letter for the first time on purpose.
Any source ??
I would too 🤣🥲
Millie is one of the best actors i have ever seen
You're right. She is amazing! Beautiful acting. I've been trying to learn to cry on cue for years and it never worked, but as SOON as I first saw this scene and cried, all of the sudden I was able to do it on command (watching her amazing acting/crying on cue changed something in me and I can bring that emotion up even though I don't have any traumatic memories).
She applies so much emotion to the character. Stranger Things would be so different without her.
@@sugaandspice5014 she is one of the best actors I have ever seen same thing with the actor for primrose from the hunger games
AND she's young holy crap
@@meka4085 shes the youngest in the group
This scene broke me since I'm graduating from high school in two weeks time. I couldn't stop sobbing when Hopper talked about change, distance, and pain...
I'm going to miss my friends so much.
i hope these last 5 months have been kind to you, friend. If i could go back 15 years to that time, i'd be better at communicating. i'm not sure if you moved away, or your friends did, but tell them you love them still, often. all of my friends from that time period are just a memory to me at this point, and i miss some of them, dearly. its simple, but effective. cheers.
That timing sucks 🥲
Exactly how El , Jonathan , Will and Mrs Byers had to leave.....
Everybody behind 😪
The text
There's something I've been
wanting to talk to you both about. I know this is a difficult conversation, but I care about you both very much. And I know that you care about each other very much, and that's why
it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward so we can build an environment where we all feel confortable, trusted, and open to sharing our feelings.
Feelings.
Feelings Jesus. The truth is, for so long I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one
place. In a cave, you might say. A deep, dark cave. And then I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life. For the first
time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, guess I've been feeling distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something.
I miss playing board games every night, making triple decker Eggo extravaganza at sunrise, watching Westerns together before we doze off.
But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. I guess, if I'm being really honest,
that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came
in here, to try and make stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back
to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just not how life works. It's moving, always moving, whether you like it or not. And yeah,
sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad.
And sometimes, it's surprising. Happy
So you know what? Keep on growing up kid.
Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em. When life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches
Thank you for taking your time to do this. Now I just have to print it out and put it on my wall and cry every time I see it
I'm crying
To turn back the clock, to make things go back...
Season 4 maybe will be about mind flayer revenge, time travel, saving hopper, stopping Russians, and Hawkins being infected by the upside down
@@realprime3807 hopper is definitely dead they sayed in the news and on his instagram 😩
Hopper is not dead if u see the post credits there’s an extra scene in Russia and a guy went to pick someone to get eaten by the demogorgan and someone else next to him said ‘no not the American’
My 11 year old daughter is growing up and growing distant. She’s all I have. My world that revolves around one person for the last 11 years is changing and I can’t stop it.
I bawled at this scene.
“I’ve been afraid of changing, cause I build my life around you”
Same😭😭😭😭❤️
Unfortunately, that's just how things are... if you try to keep her stuck to you, she'll end up just being unhappy...
Good news is, they come back. It is hard, the detachment phase, but they come back. My girl is my best friend. The second one entering that stage now and as hard as it is, you have to let them go, let them grow.
😪
This scene has a separate fan base 😭♥️
I agree i cried literally at last scenbe
Yeah I was dying
i came in here like: “i’m less sensitive today, i’m not gonna cry”
hopper: there’s something i’ve been wa-
me:😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hopper: *b r e a t h s*
Me: ☹😢😭
I can’t wait for season 4 🥺
Mi either, I wonder if 11 gonna get her powers back
@@MZPOETSKYLOVEBLACK You know about the theory that a part of the mind flayer is stuck in El?
Me too
@@MZPOETSKYLOVEBLACK ofc she is. i mean she the *role leader* yanno?
Me too
“For the first time in a long time I started to feel happy” that breaks my hart 😢😭😭😭
Someone cutting onions????
The Soviet Union? It's onions* btw
Troy is cutting onions because he's still upset El made him pee his pants.
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually Karen was cutting cucumbers and there was an onion on the side 2:36
"And when life hurts you because it will, remember the hurt.The hurt is good it means you're out of that cave."
Most saddest and inspirational quote.
This is the first time ever I've ever cried so much.... The way how hop speaks letter it's like he is the best dad... I'm sure those who watch stranger things they all want father like hop...... And when life hurts you because it will remember the hurt.. This is so hurt touching..... Thank you stranger things... Thanks to all of you who watch this... Thank you The Duffer Brothers..... Thank all of you.... I don't know what I'm talking about but when I watch this scene I remember my life how it hurts.... ❤️
I DO have a father like hopper he represents him perfectly 🥺 that’s my biggest flex ❤️😭
You do know what you're talking about, homie. Feel and keep feeling. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Take care internet stranger.
I've never cried so hard at a series in my entire life. I was actually bawling my eyes out. The scene, speech, music, and acting are all phenomenal. This is one of the most perfectly crafted endings I have ever watched.
Yeah I EXACTLY feel you ✊
I was too. Even after watching it a second time, I was just crying
God I'm crying and I didn't even started playing it yet 😭😭😭😭😭😭
_Only 6 words..._
*Keep*
*The*
*Door*
*Open*
*3*
*Inches*
That's 5 words 3 is not a word three is dumbass..jk no hate
@@JUJU-sh8bl no it’s 6 if you couldn’t see
i never knew 6 words could make me cry 😭
Y'all really just uploading this to make me cry?
JOKES ON YOU HOPPER ISN'T DEAD
Edit: I'm crying
I have a theory. Terry (eleven's mom) is going to contact El in her sleep or sumn and she is going to want to talk and they will go back to Hawkins from Maine (that us where Bob wanted to go in S2) and Terry is going to show El Hop and he is still alive. Then Eleven is going to ask Kali for help since her powers are disabled. They will focus on Hopper the season and Russian Demogorgles
Norexxen wow great theory it could be right
@@ob18ob39 because David Harbour posted a sunflower (Terry's dream circle) talking about different dimensions and a rainbow talking about spectrums
Norexxen ok
YALL @STRANGERTHINGSTV POSTED A VIDEO ON THEIR STORY WHERE YOU CAN HEAR DEMOGORGEONS AND THERES A CLOCK. IN THEIR BIO THEY HAVE 🕰🙃. THE EMOJI PROBABLY MEANS SOMEONE IN THE UPSIDE DOWN OR THE UPSIDE DOWN. THE CLOCK PROBABLY MEANS THAT SOMEONE QUICKLY WENT TO THE UPSIDE DOWN OR THAT THEIR TIME IS RUNNING OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA DIE. sorry for the caps I'm just so excited
I've just finished this season and can't stop rewatching this scene... What a beautifully crafted season it was! Hopper's speech was utterly emotional, reminding me of Rick's heartfelt letter to Carl in The Walking Dead. I'm completely obsessed with this show! Onto the next season, ASAP!
Millie said she want to do this scene as natural as possible, so she didn't read the letter before and read during the actual take. What a gifted actress she is!
If you're a dad with a daughter who's growing up too fast you cried during this scene. Because as inelegant as Hopper is at expressing his emotions, he just summed up every thing a dad wants to tell to his daughter in that one letter.
Not just dads, EVERYBODY CRIED.
@@crimson5574 for real
the fact that el put the speech in the left side, just like hopper made me cry so much... now its literally a “heart to heart” speech 🥺❤️
I just want to heap some genuine kudos on the writing in this series, especially touching scenes like this that tap into our experiences through life. This kind of stuff is what makes Stranger Things not just a really good science fiction coming of age thriller; it makes the show a special gem, a relatable experience that shares wisdom with its audience.
True thansk
Thanks
me: *watches this video*
the fbi agent spying on me: “why the hell is she crying so much”
Aniela Pham The FBI agent is also crying with you girl
✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 team Hopper
2019 emotional moments:
😔😩😩
Avenger's Endgame:
"...I love you 3000"
Toy Story 4:
"For Infinity....& Beyond!"
Stranger Things 3:
"....For the sake of your poor old dad PLEASE keep the door open, 3 inches."
IT. Chapter 2:
"We're loser's. And we always will be."
Star Wars. Rise of Skywalker: ????
2019 is the year of heartbreak
I'm cryin in the club rn
Uh man
2019 is taking all my pieces of nostalgia and crushing it right infront of my eyes 😢
Nothing worthy of note in Rise of Skywalker to be completely honest
Star wars Rise of the Skywalker: what's your family name?
Skywalker.
It’s even more saddening because that was her raw reaction to it
This letter is why I believe SS should have ended in this seadon as a trilogy. Simply perfect ending with some pain. But that pain is what makes life realistic. We all had that phase where we had to move out and we missed some of the best childhood friends we ever had.😢
Oh no I’m crying again. Most beautiful scene on stranger things yet. I miss those kids so much
2 years ago we were crying with this. Can't believe 2 fucking years. Love you and miss you.
Seeing Will cry makes me cry. This whole season, his friends took his friendship with them for granted. All he wanted to do was play D&D.
No truer words were ever typed 😪
Lucas and mike took will and dustin for granted
Dustin then got busy with steve and robin in the translation of russian tape but will kept trying to make them realise what they were doing
I felt so bad for him the whole scene especially the scene when he and mike fight and then he destroys all the pictures of them in the will castle
A very nice detail: When El departs with Will, Joyce and Jonathan she was crying and a lot of shadows can be found on her face from the trees but when they left Hawkins and Hop finished telling the good memories they had, El cheered up and there is more sun shining on her face
Even after 2 years, I still tear up
One of the most heart touching scenes in the entire series for sure 😢
when i first watched this i was going through a period of time where i didnt have a good relationship with my parents nor myself honestly and i remember watching this and crying so hard and holding myself for a good ten minutes and just shaking and crying and its been a while since that and i swear this was a wake up moment for me and now im in the car listening to this through my headphones while driving and im gonna cry again i love you mom
idk why but I cried and my mom was like “ why u crying it’s just a show”
I was like “ mom it’s very emotional “
I need to show my mum this.
This scene would be even more emotional if they just kept hopper dead
0:48 “Feelings... Jesus, truth is... for so long I forgot what those even were” that line will always make me break down
This scene makes me cry 😢 and I am waiting for season 4...
Same, season 4 needs to happen at some stage.
It's been teased
Corona time
Not me reading this right after volume 2 dropped-
My dad died in 2020. The year that I watched this episode. Now 3 years later I'm looking back on it, thinking about how similar Hopper and my dad were. This heart to heart reminds me of the letters my dad wrote to me before he passed. He knew I had bad depression. So, he wrote me beautiful notes to tell me how proud he was of me. Even to this day, I cry, so hard, when watching this.
sometimes i thought why i watched stranger things.. it gives me 50% pain and 50% happiness
in 50% there is love, emotions, connections, best moments, having second family
and other 50% is pain, stress, feels like losing something important.
But im feeling lucky to watch this series it felt so connected. LYSM ST CAST AND TEAM THANK YOU SO MUCH
I barely cry at movies or tv shows, but this scene broke me into pieces
Man what hopper wrote i totally feel it i have been in that cave that you cant get out of and when you get out of it of something you want to keep happening what makes you happy and ya dont want to change it. I feel it sometimes i wish things could stay the same as it used to be how it was before everything happens... but Jim is right life keeps moving forward even if its scary or ya dont want it to change but life is full of surprises and just take it day by day! like he says sometimes its happy sometimes it sad doesn't matter how old you are you always keep growing!
This speech was so powerful and so good! thanks Jim Hopper!
At 1:55, i started crying hysterically when i was watching it for the first time. i was literally so sad. just the way he misses playing board games and hes remembering all the memories.
This scene hit hard; had me in actual tears. Good job to the casts, they did well.
i was crying until he said keep the door open three inches and laughed.
im so happy hes alive
this lowkey never fails to bring me to tears like ... this was the first show to make me break down in tears, bawling like a baby.
I can't wait to see El find out that her beloved father is alive. I will cry so much as soon as they are reunited.
How on Earth is Millie Bobby Brown such a magnificent actress, she's not even 20 years old. One of the best I've ever seen, she's going to win lots of awards in the future, I'm sure
If you cried during this scene your a true stranger things fan.
Put your headphones on, turn off the lights, and cry.
As the moving truck drove out of Hawkins, Indiana, while the children were crying and hugging each other hoping that maybe they would see each other again soon, while the sun shone through the windows shining rays of hope and sadness. It was a time of separation, loved ones moving away, but sometimes, it just has to happen, and you cannot go back in time. So live every moment to the fullest. :)
2019 is all about "I love you 3000" and "Keep the door open three inches"... 💔😭
Enough to make a grown man cry, literally
never even come close to crying at anything in a film or TV show in my whole life - this beat me!
Can't agree more 😭😭
This poem became so personal between me and my daughter that I had to dedicate it to her!! Such a beautiful message!! Thank you so much for this..
as somebody that was deported from the US a few years back, after living his entire life there, leaving family , ex girlfriend and friends behind, practically starting new in a foreign country, where I don't even feel like I am part of, this hurt me so deep, this scene literally was so powerful.. I cried... just like Eleven, I had to leave everything behind, "nothing is forever" and the more we keep dwelling in those feelings the more we suffer.. I guess I now understand what the buddah was trying to say..
When he addresses El by “kid”, the strings of my heart are pulled to an extreme!
This scene still gets me emotinal even though i watched season 3
I’m gonna be totally honest, when I first saw this while watching stranger things I cried. I’ve never cried while watching a show,movie or really anything. But this did it. W show.
Starts with old mans nagging
Turns into confession of his life
Ends with a love letter to his beloved daughter
One of the finest piece of writing in tv show
i just finished the season an hour ago. they did such an amazing job with making this as emotional as possible, so well done netflix, you succeeded at making a fandom cry 😭😭
2019 was full of emotional moments beacuse they knew 2020 was coming so they wanted to say an emotional goodbye
this just shows how much a father can love a daughter 🤧
i’ve rewatched this with my mum, my step brother, my uncle and my ex. i don’t understand why i love this show so much, i can’t seem to get away from it without feeling emotionally unstable.
The was so powerful. They should have written the story to end with season three. They'll never top this as an ending.
Lucas and Dustin giving away their D&D stuff is a underrated gut punch.
Who didn’t cry in this scene? I felt like I was in a deep dark cave and then I left some eggos out in the woods, and you came into my life and started to feel things again.”😢😭
This speech had me in tears. It's crazy how a show can make you cry like that. Definitely the most ive ever cried during a show/movie. WHO ELSE READY FOR SEASON 4?!
This currently has 321,000 views. I don't know who the other 21,000 are, but I've watched this alot. It's perfect.
Definitely feels like a finale moment. This honestly should have been. It pretty much ties everything up with a pretty emotional bow.
It should have, at the very least been the end of Hopper’s character. In keeping him alive for a Russian storyline, it cheapens his sacrifice and final words to Eleven..
They could have ended it here for a few years, and brought it back when they were all older.
Hopper it's very emotional person and I'm sure is not dead
The line " keep the door open 3 inches " touches the heart 3 miles inside ❤️
The saddest part of the whole series.
Watching this was *nearly* as touching as watching it the first time I'm crying.
No matter how many times I watch.........I always end up crying
*The most* saddest ending in tv show history I *literally* cried soooo hard
This is how many tears we sheaded out
💦
OOF Only 4
nahh stop its still making me cry to this day
back after season 4……..this hits different now….
"The hurt is GOOD, it means you are out of that cave"
God, those words will always be an anthem to my heart forever.
I was up until 8 am watching this crying my eyes out whilst in the only one awake in my household 😂😭
Mia and Lucy same same
I still get encouraged a lot from this scene when I am depressed and alone
lyrics: 😭
"There's something I've been wanting to talk to you both about - and I know this is a difficult conversation. But I care about you both very much. And I know you care about each other very much and that's why it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward so we can build an environment, where we ALL feel comfortable, trusted and open to sharing our feelings."
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"Feelings. Jesus. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place - in a cave, you might say. A deep dark cave. And then, I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life and... for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy.
But lately, I guess I've been feeling... distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off.
But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. And I guess... if i'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came here, to try to maybe... stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were.
But I know that's naive. It's just... not how life works. It's moving. Always moving whether you like it or not. And yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's surprising. Happy.
So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em, and when life hurts you - because it will - remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave.
But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches."
missing some words
Easily one of the best and most impactful, truthful, poignant moments of television, ever.
Hopper:Feelings
My feeling:💔😥😫😭😭
In the least consistent season of the show they managed to create probably the most emotional sequence of the entire series’s so far (haven’t watched season 4 yet, catching up).
That speech hit so close to home.
If you can watch this without crying, your a legend becuase i cant
When your are 38 Years old and you sit in front of your TV and tears ran all over your face...what a wonderful moment, what a wonderful Show. Thank you all for this Moments. Im so thankful!
still crying to this
I saw this for the first time a few months after my first son was born. After this episode I sat and stared at him and cried for hours. This letter perfectly explains what being a father feels like.