Favorite Movie Monologues (2 Viewers)

[faceman]

George C. Scott's Patton speech when the movie opens.

Missed this earlier,but one of my favorites. George C. Scott was held back due to 1969 censorship. Th real Patton
speech is available online. Suffice to say he made sailors blush. It taught me our forefathers cursed as much as
we do.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Very NSFW - Edward Norton monologue tangent in the 25th Hour

 

[kizzy821]

Very NSFW - Edward Norton monologue tangent in the 25th Hour

He said, "With their dirty garbardine and dandruff." LMAO

I have rants I could start now that wouldn't end until the Lions won the Super Bowl.

This monologue was very inspirational

 

[Cage1]

Crom! I’ve never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought or how we died. No, none of that matters. All that matters is that two stood against many. That’s what’s important. Valor pleases you, Crom. So grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!

That’s from memory.

Honorable mention is Gene Hackman’s pregame speech in Replacements. “…but for you, there is no tomorrow and that makes you all! Very! Dangerous! People!”

 

[Yatman]

great scene from mississippi burning

language warning; skip to 3:25 for the short, attention-grabbing monologue

 

[Consigliere]

Mr. Orange - the Commode Story

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

He said, "With their dirty garbardine and dandruff." LMAO

I have rants I could start now that wouldn't end until the Lions won the Super Bowl.

This monologue was very inspirational

He left no NY stone unturned. My favorite of all time.

 

[Tapxe]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Thread’s over with this one
I held back letting you people get your grubby eyes and ears on this one bc it’s special to me
Choreographer who I danced with (in and out of the studio ) made a duet from this

Wings of Desire

 

[Taurus]

I have no idea how we got so many pages before the GOAT, but here we are.
It's not just the words, it's the totality, the expressions, the physical acting, the whole package.

 

[Torgo]

Lots of Tarantino clips. Might as well tack on another.

NSFW obviously.

 

[Optimus Prime]

What are some of your favorite movie monologues?

Just an actor talking for X minutes, and you are riveted

Here are some of mine:


I first saw Jaws in the early 80s and loved it. The end of the movie, The shark finally attacks, 'You're going to need a bigger boat', this is getting good. Then this boring story comes along and grinds the movie to a halt. or so I thought when I was young. Now its one of my favorite scenes of the movie

The “USS Indianapolis” speech, impeccably delivered by the legendary Robert Shaw in Jaws, is regarded as one of the finest monologues in motion picture history. However, the debate over just who wrote the monologue is mired in murky waters.

In the blockbuster film helmed by then-budding director Steven Spielberg, which swam into theaters 47 years ago today, Shaw’s Quint reveals to Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) that he is one of the 316 survivors of the actual World War II USS Indianapolis disaster. The Indianapolis sank in July 1945 after being torpedoed by an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine during the Indianapolis’ top-secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components.

There seems to be no debate that it was the late Howard Sackler who conceived (in an uncredited script rework) the “Indianapolis” moment, which when he penned it was only two paragraphs, Spielberg explained previously in a making-of featurette. The director recognized that the scene, if done right, could be an extraordinary character study of Quint and a pivotal scene in the film.

And thus begins the debate.

In the featurette, Spielberg says he asked John Milius, who contributed dialogue polishes, to take a crack at the speech as it needed to be beefed up in order for the director to capture the moment as he saw it in his mind’s eye.

Milius is said to have dictated the speech “over the phone,” which resulted in a 10-page monologue, “which basically is very close to what’s in the movie,” Spielberg said, adding that Shaw took the beast of a speech and cut it in half. “It’s Milius’ words, and it’s Shaw’s editing,” the director says in the featurette.

However, Jaws co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb has taken issue with the Milius version of the production lore.

In a previous interview with The Writer’s Guild Foundation (watch below), Gottlieb contended that it was actually Shaw who wrote the “USS Indianapolis” speech and that Milius had been given undue credit over the years thanks to his friendship with Spielberg…….

‘Jaws’ and the Internal Debate Over Who Wrote the Iconic USS Indianapolis Speech

The blockbuster film helmed by then-budding director Steven Spielberg swam into theaters 47 years ago today.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

How well known was the story of the Indianapolis at the time?

When Quint says his tattoo is from the USS Indianapolis was most of the audience’s reaction the same as Hooper’s “oh my god! You were on the Indianapolis?

or was it more, “what’s the USS Indianapolis?”

Thats a question JoeOKC would probably know the answer too

 

[Optimus Prime]

He's so damn ignorant to that which doesn't affect him.

But the way she goes from calm to rage, back to calm. How tired she seems underneath it all. It's how I exist.

Pure... white hot hatred. Periods of calm. Anger so deep that I can't see nothing, even with my eyes wide open. Moments of peace. Over and over, forever.

This movie has been sitting in my DVR for literally 2+ years

Finally watched it last night. Great movie and powerful scene

 

[kewee]

It's more powerful to me without the cliché part where we get to see the white person demonstrate how enlightened they've become (after humiliating her in front of all those men).

But I'm not surprised you felt the need to include it.

This seems like a very extreme take..