Greatest Monologues

[richpoyle]

Merry Christmas!

Based on writing, performance and importance to the film I'm voting for Robert Shaw's 'Indionapolis' speech from JAWS and Daniel Day Lewis's 'this was an honourable man' speech from GONY.

What are other people's favourites?

[The Bear]

Bill Pulman in Independence Day - Feel the cheese :|

Or...

Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

[Toothy]

Mark Renton - Trainspotting

It`s EDITED being Scottish.....

:notworthy

[Dan]

Morpheus in The Matrix: Reloaded. :|

[bruce-leroy]

Phoebe Cates on why she hates Christmas (Gremlins) :clap:

Chris Walken in Pulp Fiction (Butch's watch) :clap:

[Gozer]

Bob Hoskins on Britain at the end of a Long Good Friday.

[CrackD0wn]

Chris Walken in Pulp Fiction (This watch...)

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (Tears in the rain)

[dannywonderful]

Dennis Hopper to Chris Walken in True Romance.

Now tell me, am I lying?

[bruce-leroy]

O Ren Ishii in Kill Bill

The Bride at the end of Kill Bill vol. 1.

[evilsly]

Samuel L Jackson Unbreakable


'they called me mr glass'

[andrewcalderuk]

Spalding Grey (Gray?)

[vsehijpal]

Sam in TTT

[Thomasd]

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross

[Listy]

Dillons speech over the furnace funeral & "Bambi-Burster" scenes in Alien 3: Workprint Cut (it's alot more effective with the Ox scenes rather than the Dog one's)

[Creamstick]

I like Rosie O'Donell's monologue in Beautiful Girls - I can't stand her normally, but it's just such a great performance in a wonderful film.

[Robby]

You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make '.....'. Unbelievable, unremarkable '....'. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if -- now here's the tricky part -- what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?

John Travolta - Swordfish

[new forms]

Ferris Bueller :notworthy

[karellen]

I'll 2nd Alec Baldwin in Glengarry.

Tyler Durden has many but my favourite is -


...I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s...t we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very p'd off.

[stefmcd]

Rutger Hauer in 'Bladerunner'

Michael Caine in 'Sleuth'

MIchael Douglas in 'Wall St'

Jack Nicholson in 'A few good men'

:)

[Jonny G]

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Kevin Costner's courtroom stuff in JFK :clap:

[Jon B]

Kevin Costner's as Crash Davis in Bull Durham


"Well, I believe in the soul, the edit, the edit, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. "




edited for naughty words.