Favorite Movie Soliloquy
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George Patton:
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.
Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
When you were kids you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball player, the toughest boxer. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.
Now, we have the finest food, equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know, by God I, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against, by God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards; we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.
Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty.
The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.
Now there's another thing I want you to remember: I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose.
Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you: "What did you do in the great World War II?" You won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana."
Alright, now you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh... I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere.
That's all.
(Patton (1970))
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Deckard: [voice-over] I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
(Blade Runner - 1982)
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Not really a soliloquy, but I have a favorite quote (technically from a book but also movie).
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
As you can guess, it's harry potter.
Yea, I know I'm a dork...
"Am I a lion?"
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"Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke from this day foward my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan, for the inevitable day of man's downfall. The day when he finally and self-destructivly turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie burried under radio-active rubble. When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity, and we will build our own cities, in which there will be no place for humans, except to serve our ends! We will build our own cities, our own armies, our own DINASTY!
And that day is upon you, NOW!"
Caesar Chrisisall
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This was a cool idea for a thread. Okay, here it goes. One of my favorite quotes or speeches.
D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough.....
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man!Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer.....
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
Animal House (1978)
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Great thread!
Hmmmm. So many good ones to choose from (Duval and the napalm in Apocalypse Now , the precious bodily fluids in Dr. Strangelove , Freeman on rehabilitation in The Shawshank Redemption and Tomei on the witness stand in My Cousin Vinny are what first pop into my head).
For soliloquy I'd probably go with Gregory Peck's closing argument in To Kill a Mockingbird .
For favorite side of a conversation I'm torn between two that Bacall did (with Bogie, naturally 
). The horse conversation in The Big Sleep and the whistle one from To Have and Have Not .
Quote:
from To Have and Have Not and copied from http://filmsite.org/toha2.html
Slim: (She pulls a wad of bills from beneath the lapel of her dress.) Here. Can you use this?
Steve: I thought you said you were broke. (He snickers harshly at her.) You're good. You're awful good. [He quotes her own words about her desire to return to the United States.] 'I'd walk home if it wasn't for all that water.'
Slim: Who was the girl, Steve?
Steve: Who was what girl?
Slim: The one who left you with such a high opinion of women? She must have been quite a gal. (She holds out the money.) You think I lied to you about this, don't you? Well, it just happens there's thirty-odd dollars here, not enough for boat fare or any other kind of fare. Just enough to be able to say no if I feel like it. And you can have it if you want it.
Steve: I'm sorry, Slim. But I still say you're awful good. And I wouldn't...
Slim: You wouldn't take anything from anybody, would you?
Steve: That's right.
Slim: You know, Steve, you're not very hard to figure. Only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say - most of the time. The other times (She sits in his lap), the other times you're just a stinker. (She plants a kiss on his lips.)
Steve: What'd you do that for?
Slim: Been wondering whether I'd like it.
Steve: What's the decision?
Slim: I don't know yet.
(She kisses him again. Stands up)
Slim: It's even better when you help.
(She starts walking towards the door)
Slim: (She holds up the bills again.) Uh, sure you won't change your mind about this?
Steve: (affirmatively) Uh-huh.
Slim: This belongs to me and so do my lips. I don't see any difference.
Steve: Well, I do.
Slim: Okay. You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. (She opens his door and pauses.) You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow.
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You guys have some really good ones - Soupcatcher, the Duval napalm speech in Apocalypse Now is a great one and of course To Kill A Mockingbird is classic. I keep thinking of good movie lines and this one from Cool Hand Luke always made me laugh. Boss Carr is laying down the law.....
Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...
Luke: ...the box.
Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.
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Many good choices already. I'll add this from The Fellowship of the Ring:
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Here's one of my favs.
"We got sonic, electronic ball breakers... Hey check this out. Hey, Ripley, me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you.
Check it out. Indepentantly targetable particle cannon phalanx gun. FWAP!!! Fry half a city with this puppy.
We got pulse rifles, we got smartguns, RPGs. We got nukes, knives, sharp sticks..."
"Hudson" Aliens
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For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die along, unremembered and unsung...
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My all-time favorite:
The President: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
Sex and violence on the big screen, where it belongs.
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