Best Movie Monologue of All Time

[Master of Pain.]

There are several good monologues by Johnny in Naked, but none are obviously better than the others, so I can't pick.

 

I've also got to add 'St Crispins Day' from Henry V by Branagh.

 

[Vanilla Shake]

From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

 

 

We're all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the '60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion", without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him is the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway straight into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom.

 

 

[makeshyft]

I was going to suggest the 'wave breaking speech' from the same film. Not only is it a brilliant piece of prose, but it's also what Hunter S. Thompson considered to be the best thing he ever wrote.

 

 

[Mullen]

i love Donald Sutherland's wedding speech in Little Murders. check it out:

 

 

[tuff_luv_capo]

 

 

The whole f*cking trilogy is full of epic monologue.

[Randall Flagg]

Taxi Driver is sweet to.

 

 

Edited November 15, 2008 by Randall Flagg

[tuareg]

 

 

Has to be my favourite.

[Canofceleri]

i love Donald Sutherland's wedding speech in Little Murders. check it out:

 

 

f*ck yes! Man that movie is so crazy and that monologue is just... amazing.

[Scarface187]

I've seen things......

 

 

 

 

 

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[darthYENIK]

Robert Shaw "Quint" from Jaws...

 

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

 

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Honorable mention to Sam Neil "Alan Grant" from Jurassic Park...

 

Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, [gestures with his hands] from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.

They aren't particularly cool, but I like them.

[fox09]

In the Cowboy Bebop movie, when Vincent is talking about the "beautiful butterflies". I really like that one. I couldn't find a video of it, unfortunately.

[Mister Pink]

Dennis Hopper in True Romance

 

 

 

 

[WidowMaker]

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross.

 

Coffee is for closers only.

[Mister Pink]

That film is great.^

[MrJohn666]

Jules Winnfield's “I’m Tryin' Real Hard to Be the Shepherd” Speech from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

 

 

[Hart]

The ending to How To Get Ahead in Advertising.

[Ottae]

Ending of American Beauty.

 

Warning, Spoilers:

 

 

 

I love Kevin Spacey.

[Otter]

 

The ending to How To Get Ahead in Advertising.

Let me second that one. What a brilliant end to a fantastic film. "...Jesus Christ, there wouldn't be any more packets!"

Edited November 17, 2008 by Otter