Film question: the best monologues

[Barcalounger]

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My first thought was George C. Scott's rendition of Patton's monologue in that masterpiece.

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[diebitter]

25th Hour, Independence Day, and Henry V are indeed terrific movie monologues. I'll add:

Blade Runner: 'I've seen things...'
Dracula (1931): 'Listen. The Children of the night...'
Delivered by Martin Landau playing Bela Lugosi in 'Ed Wood': 'Home? I have no home...'

Star Trek: First Contact: Picard delivering quotage from Moby Dick: "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it. "


And from a DVD Club pick 'Naked', there's 2:

Johnny: Was I bored? No, I wasn't [censored]' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new as long as it's new as long as it flashes and [censored]' bleeps in forty [censored]' different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not [censored]' bored.

And the one about barcodes and the bible - I can't find a monologue to quote.

[Coffee]

A very underrated monologue

[samsdmf]

I have to say 'I have seen things...' is my favourite but special commendation goes to Matt Damons character in 'Good Will Hunting' who delivers a fantastic monologue which really shines in a pretty average film

"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody 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 in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had a no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a [censored]. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And 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, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and [censored]' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the [censored]' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure [censored] 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."

[Pokerlogist]

wow... well done...Warriors is great cult movie....hardly ever see it anymore

[it would have been nice if this clip hsd gone on about 20 more secs. BTW]

[mflip]

I really enjoyed Al Pacino's in Any Given Sunday. I know guys who would listen to that before every sporting event they participated in.

[Wondercall]

Sam,

Great monologue.

[wiggs73]

25th hour monologue:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ponWum-8JRc

[Wynton]

The best monologue I ever saw performed was Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh. It lasts, I think, about 15 minutes and is considered one of the most dramatic scenes ever on stage.

But I never saw a film version, and have no idea how good that is.

Edit: I just found a brief clip on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mhYNX_KCIY

[xx44]

Jaws, Quint's story about the USS Indianopolis was awesome.