Tagged! Movie Monologues

[abbynormal0ne]

Really great films in your list! Oh, Legue of Their Own made me cry and cry and cry.

[Maxdwolf]

Limiting myself to full monologues and not just memorable scenes or quotes, there are only two that I can call up off the cuff. The Voigt "rub that spot" piece from runaway train and George C. Scott's speech in "Patton". There was also one other I caught on late night tv once. Memory is vague, but there are these young men going awol in the civil war. The scene involves a traveling preacher giving a sermon on the horrors that is uncomfortably realistic. Can't remember a line of it right now.

[DLandonCole]

I'm tempted to do a video... I would include, though, Orson Welles' 'cuckoo clock' speech in the Third Man:

"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

[DLandonCole]

@DLandonCole I'm going to post a sort of related response - a two parter I did of my ten favourite movie scenes.

[papafox]

@DLandonCole Cool! Thanks.  :-)

[tex959]

Check out the movie "Up In The Air." I just saw it tonight. There were quite a few interesting quotes in that movie.

[tex959]

from shawshank redemption: "I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left."

[Resurrected06]

Don't forget that great scene from "five easy pieces" with Jack Nicholson.

1- "you want me to hold the chicken?"

2- "I want you to hold it between your knees."

[debbieomi]

Great choices!

I think a lot of people will remember the great monologues from the classics vs anything from the past 15 years or so.

[awatson945]

The Schofield Kid: [after killing a man for the first time] It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.

Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.

Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.



[awatson945]

Loved 'em all.

[jmm1233]

i am surprised Casblanca is not on your list

[papafox]

@jmm1233 I had to go with the less-obvious ones :-)

[jmm1233]

@papafox some of them were obvious , especially gone with the wind and wizard of oz , and to some a christmas carol , very popular oldies

[awatson945]

@papafox On the waterfront is obvious but it's great. "I coulda been a contender". I coulda been somebody instead of a bum.

[wimsweden]

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."

[prodigyat9]

YES! YES! So many great scenes from so many great movies! I hope others do one of these too. I really loved the Wizard of Oz line also and the one from Christmas Carol! Dickens never left you wondering how he felt about social issues! Thanks for doing this; it was great!

[papafox]

@prodigyat9 It was fun - yeah, there are so many great movie scenes out there. :-)

[applefrog111]

Talladega nights

"I'm to drunk to taste this chicken"

[deedubya286]

Casablanca If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him you'll regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life....

[prodigyat9]

@deedubya286

Yes!