Film monologues

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Hello. I hope you are all well. I need some suggestions for film monologues for a project I am working on. Can you think of any? I am trying to avoid any John Cusack/Woody Allen-style direct address, and am going for less self-conscious scenes where a lone character is talking to themselves, an object, or an imaginary character.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, no shakespeare either.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

well fuck...

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

the bit in search and destroy where illeana douglas pitches the idea of the movie abt the penis-claw

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i mean, it's to griffin dunne, but it's quite easy to pretend not

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The scene in the beginning of 'Porky's 2' where he thinks he's broken his dick

― dave q, Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The end of W.R.—Mysteries of the Organism where Milena's severed head lectures the doctors performing her autopsy on the beauties of socialism and orgasm.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Belushi in Animal House

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Duvall in Apocalypse Now...

"...This war's gonna end someday."

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

haha affleXor's "today is that girl" bit from changing lanes

(this is ilm semi-lurker slutsky's area of expertise - i'll try to summon him later this afternoon)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Summon: Slutsky.

There was a girl in my Jr. High class with the last name Slutsky. One day we had a substitute who started sniggering when she saw it on the roll sheet.

She was a little upset about that -- rightfully so. She was always very sweet.

Surely there's something from A Christmas Story...

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

That's nothing, there was (and for all I know still is) a substitute teacher in my middle school named Dick Seaman.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 9 February 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the scene in 25th Hour where Edward Norton calls out the entire human race in a bathroom mirror?

I can't think of anything from The Christmas Story. The only thing is the narration but that doesn't fit the criteria at all.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 9 February 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Fair 'nuff.

...and speaking of Spike Lee there's the Love/Hate Radio Rahim bit from Do The Right Thing.

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast, another bathroom mirror.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 9 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Belushi as the Allen Klein parody in The Rutles. Er, yeah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 9 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot about the famous, oft quoted mirror conversation-with-not-there-character Travis Bickell had in Taxi Driver.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 9 February 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The long monologue at the end of Eustache's "La maman et la putain" sampled in Diabologum's third album, where the actress talks about being a slut (metaphorically)

― Bruno, Sunday, 9 February 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The start of "Pi" where Max Cohen is explaining the concept of chaos theory and how mathematics is the language of nature. Mesmerising. But then, I'm a wee bit obsessed with this movie.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 February 2003 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

HAL shutting down in 2001.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 February 2003 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Marwood thinking to himself in the greasy spoon at the start of Withnail & I

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 10 February 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the "People will come" speech at the end of Field of Dreams? Terrence is talking to Ray, but he's not really addressing Ray, he's addressing his own background and doubt.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Marwood thinking to himself in the greasy spoon at the start of Withnail & I

Dammit James why didnt I think of that one? *pout* Some withnail fan I am!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually Ally, it only looks like he's addressing his own background and doubt. There are a bunch of old guys in the right of the shot, but you've probably only seen the pan-and-scan TV version.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Lee there's the Love/Hate Radio Rahim bit from Do The Right Thing.

not to mention where he stole it from - Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter (1953)*

*n.b. - did not feature Public Enemy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the "People will come" speech at the end of Field of Dreams? Terrence is talking to Ray, but he's not really addressing Ray, he's addressing his own background and doubt.

hmm, i never got that. i don't know if there's more to say about it, but - expound?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not even funny, N. Besides everyone knows there is no pan and scan on the tv version of Field of Dreams.

gabbneb: The thing is I've read the book that Field of Dreams is based on and I think I throw that in occasionally, but he basically thinks Ray is a total nut job for obv. reasons until the end of their journey. Still it's hard to comprehend such a big realization in your life such as come back to life baseball players running around in Iowa. So that speech is just the formulation of his ability to believe in this, the crystalization of it if you will. It's in reference to Ray's dilemma with selling off the farm, but it's more of a general address than anything else - it has little to do with convincing Ray because obv. you just have to go, "Ray, don't sell" and he's like, ok, because random voices in his head previously prompted him to destroy his land by putting in a baseball field = not very difficult to convince of things.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 10 February 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Sam Elliot's voiceover from The Big Lebowski

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Slutsky here, jones.

The art and science of movie monologues are indeed very close to this semi-lurker's heart, as I have performed some of cinema's most stirring soliloquies in my now-annual series, "When The Lights Go Down."*

So far I've done Matthew Perry begging Salma Hayek to stay in "Fools Rush In;" Al Pacino laying down the law to K. Reeves in "The Devil's Advocate;" Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio bringing the love to Ed Harris in "The Abyss;" and most recently, Alec Baldwin's immortal "I am God!" harangue in "Malice."

Any of the above should suit your needs, Nordicskillz.

* I know these aren't all soliloquies, but the alliterative possibilities were too hard to resist.

― slutsky, Monday, 10 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Robert Mitchum's "Love vs Hate" in Night of the Hunter?

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost half of "The Seven-Year Itch" is what you describe, Skillz!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, dude just talks all the way through that movie. I found it pretty disconcerting when I first saw it.

Furthermore--Tom Ewell--feh.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The opening scene in Patton is the shit, although possibly to direct for you.

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The I Believe in speech from Bull Durham

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlie Chaplin - the end of "The Great Dictator"
Robert Shaw - "Jaws"
Nicole Kidman - "Eyes Wide Shut"

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Alec Baldwin - "Glengarry Glen Ross"

― Simon Generic, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 06:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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