Best Monologues in Film history

I suspect that you hate fantasy, which is your prerogative.

 

Hamlet (1948) - To Be Or Not To Be. One of the greatest.

More recently, Eric Liddell's soliloquy in Chariots of Fire (I'm not religious but I'm honest enough with myself to say that I just don't know---either way...) "And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, "Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me." If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race."

And most recently what comes to mind is a little one from Finding Forrester:

"Forrester: My brother and I, we were here for every game. Till he left for the war. I thought it'd be the same when he came back, but, uh, he talked a little less...and drank a little more. I promised my mother I would help him get through it all. So I caught up with him this one night and I was already half a dozen drinks behind. So we had a few more. And after awhile, he tells me he wants to drive me back to the apartment. Heh, I said, "No, thanks." We were all still living there then. I just stood there and watched him drive off. Makes it through the whole goddamn war and I let him drive. Later that night, the nurse was typing whatever it is they type and you know what she tells me? She tells me how much my book meant to her. My brother's getting cold in the next room and all she can talk about is a book. Well...everything changed from then on. Within five months, I buried him, my ma, my father. All of them here in the Bronx. We'd spend our summers here. And if we were lucky, the fall."

 

Chariots of fire is in my top 5 best films of all time.

"Where does the power come from? From within. Jenny, God made me for a purpose but he also made me fast....and when I run I feel his pleasure"

Then he throws his head back and floats towards the finish line.

Great stuff

 

i just hate that turgid elizabethan-lite shit you get in fantasy movies where they're trying to confer profoundity on stuff that might otherwise sound silly. If you can't make a world believable without falling back on that crap, try harder

 

Fuck, forgot about Quint!

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Splendid! Good catch. Finally something we can agree on.

 

Ouch, Hut. It may be overblown and a bit windy, but it's a fantasy movie. They tend to get that way.

 

John Milius wrote that soliloquy, I think.

 

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Apparently that was the real Liddell's running style. I think he believed it got him more oxygen to power his body, and he might've been right.

 

The apocalypse now guy? Interesting!

 

Also the guy who helped publicize the UFC at the beginning and wrote and directed Conan The Barbarian. Very talented man.

 

Conan the Barbarian....now's there's an underrated film.

 

"...to crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of their women." Plagiarized from Genghis Khan, but an entertaining and fearsome line of dialogue just the same.

 

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Petre

 

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Julianne Moore in "Short Cuts."



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Henry Fonda's "I'll be there" speech from The Grapes of Wrath

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Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch closing statement from To Kill A Mockingbird
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Dennis Hopper Sicilians nagger bloodline in True Romance

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"I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?.......Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!"

 

That's a great one that came out of nowhere. Good shout on Tom Joad, panch.

 

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Home! The English are too many! ::

By the bye, it took a bit of a slagging but i thought Gibson's accent was OK. It veered off a few times & was slightly odd but generally it was pretty good. Sounds like it might have been a person from Falkirk who's been living abroad for 10 years.

 

Rutger Hauer 'Tears in the rain' speech Blade Runner

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Mandy Patinkin 'My Name is Inigo Montoya" The Princess Bride

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