Greatest Movie Monolouges

[IrishCanadian25]

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Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

The greatest film speech ever given on free market capitalism took place from the mouth of Michael "yes, I put a bun in Catharine Zeta Jones's oven" Douglas, from the classic film Wall Street.

This monolouge captured style, grace, intensity, good and evil, and a snapshot of the lifestyle of upper class Americans in the 1980's. It's the greatest film monologue every made.

Do you agree?

 

[Papa Shango]

It's quite good. It's Wall Street's fantastic screenplay that I think has helped the movie stand nearly twenty years. But there's one monologue that I personally feel is better:

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[Y 2 Jake]

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Swordfish:

Not the best film. It's really just enjoyable trash. But the opening monologue is great. In fact the whole film goes down hill after it. If the whole film had been of the quality of the first few minutes then it would be a classic. As it is I'm sure in a few years most people will struggle to remember the film.

 

[Slyfox696]

Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it, and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself 'cause I did my job well.

But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army *flash to Shawn's office* in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. 1500 people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are saying "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there getting shot, just like it wasn't them when their number got called 'cause they were off pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, because he'll work for $.15 a day and no bathroom breaks.

Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course, the oil companies use a little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices, a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at $2.50 a gallon.

They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course. Maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper, who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't to long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic.

So now, my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemmoroids. And meanwhile he's starving because every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

So what did I think? *shrugs* I'm holding out for something better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard. I could be elected President.

The above was quoted ENTIRELY from memory. It was not copied and pasted, and it was not written out along with a video. Completely from memory.

That's how much I love that little speech, and how amazing that movie is. The movie is Good Will Hunting, starring Matt Damon. People who know me well know that I'm a huge Matt Damon fan, and this movie, and that speech in particular, is a HUGE reason why. It's so powerful, so educated, and delivered so well, especially in the context of the movie, that every time I hear it I pump my fists with an adrenaline rush. Simply amazing.

For those of you who have not seen this movie, check it out. Good Will Hunting.


And I found a Youtube video of the speech.

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[Davi323]

I prefer the irreverance of Kevin Smith, myself. This speech, from Randall to Dante, is a very good illustration of the importance of not developing an overblown sense of self-worth. Not that we cannot have it, but that there is a danger in thinking of ourselves as more important than perhaps reality can justify. This can apply to Wall Street CEOs, Hollywood actors, anyone.

"...You sound like an asshole! Jesus, nobody twisted your arm to be here - you're here of your own volition. You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulder, like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you over-compensate for having what is basically a monkey's job. You push f--kin' buttons! Anybody could waltz in here and do our jobs. You - you're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante - and badly I might add. I work in a shitty video store, badly as well. You know, that guy Jay's got it right, man, he has no delusions about what he does. Us - we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper or God forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so f--king advanced, what are we doin' working here?"

 

[Shadowmancer]

The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom. A lot of people will tell you that a phony fever is a dead lock, but if you get a nervous mother, you could land in the doctor's office. That's worse than school. What you do is, you fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, (confidentally) you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.
I did have a test today. That wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European, I don't plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they're socialist? They could be fascist anarchists - that still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car. Not that I condone fascism, or any ism for that matter. Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism - he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: "I don't believe in Beatles - I just believe in me." A good point there. Of course, he was the Walrus. I could be the Walrus - I'd still have to bum rides off of people.

This is from Ferris Bueller's Day off. This is my favourite Monologue, just because of the entire thing just sticking in your head because it is a traditional play monologue where the actor breaks the Fourth Wall to deliver a compelling speech. How the usual method is abandoned for it you want to watch what happens.

 

[ROHDude]

Originally posted by George Jung, Blow
Hello Dad. You know I remember a lifetime ago, when I was about 3 1/2 feet tall, weighing all of 60 pounds, but every inch your son. I remember those Saturday mornings going to work with my dad, we'd climb into that big green truck. I thought that truck... was the biggest truck in the universe pop. I remember how important the job we did was, how if it wasn't for us, people would freeze to death. I thought you were the strongest man in the world. And remember those home videos when mom would dress up like Loretta Young, barbeques and football games, ice cream, playing with the Tuna. And when I left for California only to come home with the FBI chasing me, and that FBI agent Trout had to kneel down to put my boots on and you said, "That's where you belong you son of a bitch, puttin on Georgie's boots." That was a good one pop, you remember that. And remember that time when you told me that money wasn't real. Well old man, I'm 42 years old, and I finally realize what you were trying to tell me, so many years ago. I finally understand. Your the best, pop, just wish I could have done more for you, wish we had more time. Anyway, may the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. I love you Dad. Love George.

Favorite part of my favorite movie. This is the scene where Georgie Boy is talking into the tape recorder and his dad listen's to it out in the garage.

 

[IrishCanadian25]

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One of the greatest, and most clever "Sympathy for the Devil" monlouges of all time - Al Pacino is such a master at sinister volume and inflection. Plus, the use of the candles to dance on Pacino's face as he maniacally delivers it truly makes me think he's the Devil incarnate.

 

[jmt225]

Okay, so Slyfox took my favorite. I thought about it, and I had to go with this amazing speech by Al Pacino in the movie "Any Given Sunday". It just gives you fucking chills, man. I mean, it's the type of speech you really buy into if you were an athlete. A lot of these sports movies have some of the dumbest inspirational speeches imaginable, but this one was beyond fucking awesome.

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Secondly, this isn't a monologue per say, but it's worth mentioning because it was all in one continuous shot. It's from Jack Black's "School of Rock" film. This part of the movie is absolutely incredible.

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[LadyFranchise]

When I think of the word monologue, this scene in "V for Vendetta" immediately comes to mind. It's just awesome how he uses all those huge words that begin with the letter V and then introduces himself as "V".

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[The Mark of Zur-En-Arrh]

Dammitt! Shango already used my pick!!!!

Ok well i'm going not going to bother looking for youtube clips or any of that shit, but i'd have to mention Travis Bickle's narration of the letter he writes to his parents while he's preparing himslef to assassinate the presidnetial candidate, and he starts going on and on about the filth and the degenerates of New York.

I also wanna give honourable mention to Marv's soliloquy's in Sin City and ALL of Jigsaw/Hoffman's video tape messages throughout the SAW series. It really set the tone of the movie having Billy the Puppet appear on the TV and explain how and why the victims had ben chosen and what awaited them.

 

[tarp]

I don't remember the exact words, but I am a sap when it comes to sad times in a movie but when Bruce Wills says good by to Liv Tyler in Aramgeddon, it gets me everytime, also a nice quick saying from that movie is when the pilot say "permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I ever known". Pick all you want but it was classic!

 

[FromTheSouth]

When I saw the title of this topic I instantly thought of Gordon Gekko. That speech made me want to invest. It made me want to make money. It is the reason I went to business school.

I wish I could have been the one to pick it for discussion. Wall Street is one of my favorite movies, and it is Charlie Sheen's best work.