Favourite Monologue from a Film or TV Series?

Von Paulus · **Favourite Monologue from a Film or TV Series? -** 02-06-2003, 01:59 AM

This won't last long, but meh...

I'm sure you all know this means one person talking, it can be part of a conversation... but, just one person.

I'll get the ball rolling, here's my favourite from "Snow Falling On Cedars"...

Nels: "There is no evidence of anger at Carl, much less rage, much less murderous rage. No reason for premeditation and no evidence of it. Anywhere. (Nels stands very still. Hands resting on the rail. As calm and quiet as his adversary had been dramatic.)
Nels: He had asked his childhood friend Carl to sell him some land. And Carl was considering it. (Leans forward. Just a little.) Carl's own wife testified that her husband had not made up his mind! Strange moment to follow and kill a man, don't you think? (He spreads his palms.) And yet the state is required to prove these things. Beyond. A reasonable. Doubt. (His eyes widen) There is more than reasonable doubt, but reasonable doubt is all that's needed. Why is Kazuo's D-6 battery in Carl's well, if Carl was helping him? Why? Isn't the blood on the gaff more consistent with Carl's hand wound than a skull fracture? Given the absence ofbone fragments or brain tissue. (And now. he begins to pace, limping slightly, eyes down.) What Mr. Hooks asks you to believe is that no proof is needed. Against a man who bombed Pearl Harbor. Look at his face, the prosecutor said. Presuming that you will see an enemy there. He is counting on you to remember this war. And to see Kazuo Miyamoto as somehow connected with it. (He stops. Looks at the jury..) And indeed he is. Let us recall that First Lieutenant Kazuo Miyamoto is a much decorated hero of the United States Army. (The feeling wells in the old man. It bleeds through the very quietness of his voice. He leans his elbows on their rail, as if confiding in them.) Now Kazuo Miyamoto did one thing wrong. He wasn't certain he could trust us. He was afraid that he would be made a victim of prejudice. As Mr. Hooks is urging you to do. (Silence.) And there's reason in his uncertainty. Why? We sent him. And his wife. And thousands of Americans to concentration camps. They lost homes, belongings, everything. Can we now be unforgiving of his mistrust?
(Looking in their eyes. As if waiting for an answer. They shift their weight, fidget beneath his gaze.) Nels: Now our learned prosecutor would have you do your duty as Americans. Proud Americans. Of course you must. And if you do, Kazuo Miyamoto has nothing to fear because this great country is supposed to be founded on a set of principles. Of fairness. Equality. Justice. And if you are true to these principles, you will only convict a man for what he has done. Not for who he is. (He holds their gaze) I am an old man. I do not walk so well anymore, and one of my eyes is close to useless. My life is drawing to a close. Why do I say this? I say this because it means I ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you do not. I feel like a traveller descended from Mars, astonished at what passes here. What I see is the same human frailty passed from generation to generation. We hate one another. We are the victims of irrational fears. (He straightens his spine. Winces slightly, with the pain of it.) You may think this is a small trial. In a small place. Well, it isn't. Every once in awhile. Somewhere in the world. Humanity goes on trial. And integrity. And decency. Every once in awhile, common folks get called on to give the report card for the human race. (The eyes are watering. But the voice gains strength.) In the name of humanity. Do your duty as jurors. Return this man to his wife and children. Set him free. As you must."

02-06-2003, 05:33 AM

Dont tell me you wrote all that down. DO NOT TELL ME YOU WROTE ALL THAT DOWN!

wintersforge · 02-06-2003, 11:10 AM

"Conan! What is best in life?"

Bazooka_Joe · 02-06-2003, 04:34 PM

The Princess Bride

"Hello, My name is Vigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die. . ."

anti_hero · 02-06-2003, 05:00 PM

fear and loathing in las vegas

"jesus christ, i was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! and someone was feeding booze to these god damn animals"

pop tart commercial

"BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM"

Cool_Dude · 02-06-2003, 05:55 PM

The you think i am funny part in goodfellows. the feet rubbing part in pulp fiction.

Captain Bunny · 02-06-2003, 06:03 PM

"yippi kay yay muthafucka"

hamsters united · 02-06-2003, 06:13 PM

[quote="anti_hero":4353a]fear and loathing in las vegas

"jesus christ, i was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! and someone was feeding booze to these god damn animals"

pop tart commercial

"BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM"[/quote:4353a]

heh that movie was on another level(literally)

u should check out some of the other books that guy wrote btw. (the rum diary/ hell's angels) funny shit

Bane · 02-06-2003, 10:16 PM

[quote="Bazooka_Joe":f6653]The Princess Bride

"Hello, My name is Vigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die. . ."[/quote:f6653]

Hell yeah Joe. That movie was cool. My favorite is from Swordfish:

Gabriel Shear: You know what the problem with Hollywood is. They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker, that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. (slight chuckle) No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words than many of 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 one of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. (cuts cigar) The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top notch. But. (lights cigar, puffs twice) 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 blond in the bellbottoms gets it in the back of the head." Bam, splat! "What, still no bus?" Come on. How many innocent victims splattered across the window would it take to have the city to reverse it's 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 would be the, the biggest story from Boston to Budapest. Ten hostages die. Twenty, thirty. Relentless, bam bam, one 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? (takes deep breath) I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema...but what if?

Slinky2397 · 02-06-2003, 10:35 PM

This is from a Jerry Seinfeld CD:

My favorite is the Olympics. I think I have a problem with that Silver medal. If I were an Olympic athlete, I would rather come in last, than win the Silver, 'cause, you think about it, you know you win the Gold, you feel good, you win the Bronze, at least you got something, but you win that Silver, that's like, congratulations, you..almost won. Of all the losers, you came in 1st in that group, you're the #1 loser..No one lost ahead of you. They don't lose by much, you know, these short races, 3 hundreths of a second, 2 hundreths of a second, and I don't know how they live with this for the rest of their lives, you gotta tell the story "Congratulations, Silver medal. Did you trip? Do you not hear the gun go off? Tell us what happened" I trained, I worked out, I exercised my entire life, I never had a date, I never had a drink, never had a beer, I was doing pushups since I was a fetus, I flew halfway around the world, everyone I knew my whole life was there. Some of the events in the olympics make any sense, I don't understand their connection to any reality, like in the Winter Olympics, they have that Biathilon, the one that combines Cross-Country Skiing with a gun, how many Alpine snipers are into this? Why not mix swimming and strangling a guy? Just put a guy at the end of the lane...

I did type all that. Some pretty funny stuff on that CD.

Bazooka_Joe · 02-06-2003, 10:44 PM

OOOHH OOH! How could I forget??!

1) The 10 minute speech from Ed Norton at the mirror in the bathroom at his fathers bar in "25th Hour" (FAVORITE, screw Princess Bride! heh)

2) The "Choose Life" speech in the beginning of Trainspotting.

Pfc.Green · 02-06-2003, 10:58 PM

My favorite is from Gettysburg, its a scene where Col. Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) is trying to get some 'mutineers' to join his regiment.

"This regiment was formed last fall, back in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There's not three hundred of us now. But what is left is choice. Some of us volunteered to fight for the Union. Some came mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. So came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came...because it was the right thing to do. All of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or they just like killing. But were here for something new. I dont...this hasn't happend much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set men free.

This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. It is'nt the land...theres always more land. Its the idea that we all have value, you and me, where worth something more than dirt, but I'm not asking you to come and join us and fight for dirt. What were all fighting for, in the end, is each other."

(sorry if I went alittle long)

Jedi Marksman · 02-06-2003, 11:50 PM

The Honeymooners:

"One of these days, Alice. POW! right in the kisser!"

SoLiDUS · 02-06-2003, 11:51 PM

The Princess Bride

" Inconceivable! "

Wolf-Man · 02-07-2003, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoLiDUS

" Inconceivable! "

Thats not a monologue, its a word.

From Gladiator:
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

From Braveheart, not really a monologue, but still great:
William Wallace: And if this is my army, why does it go?
Soldier: We didn't come here to die for them!
Second Soldier: Home, the English are too many.
William Wallace: I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Soldier: Against that? No, we will run, and we will live.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live...at least a while. And dying in your deathbeds, many years from now, wouldn't you be willing to trade all of that from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take away our freeeedoooomm.