Favorite Movie Soliloquy
POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Saturday, August 26, 2006 17:17
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Got to have this from Big Trouble in Little China:
Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
"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
OK. I give. What's that from?
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Conquest of The Planet Of The Apes.
How could you not know?
Ape has killed Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Conquest of The Planet Of The Apes.
How could you not know?
Ape has killed Chrisisall
My youthful aversion to sequels forced me to stop watching after the second flick.
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Have you ever heard Paul Gross give a soliloquy? The man is magic! If you don't know who he is, he was the lead actor of another of my favorite long ago canceled shows called Due South. I think my favorite one he gives though is from a little known movie he did called "Men With Brooms", and for all of you who haven't seen it, if you can some how get you hands on it watch it cause I laugh my butt off every time I see it!
The only one I could find all the words to is from an episode of Due South called "An Eye for an Eye", it was so good they even put it on the soundtrack!:
"Where I come from, the challenges are quite different. There are no drug
dealers or pimps, and few thieves to bother with. There is only the
environment. And surviving in the face of it is the challenge of the Inuit.
A mother gives birth somewhere out on a glacier field....hundreds of miles
from the nearest outpost. And she nows that the odds are stacked against
her son even living to see the spring......disease, or a lack of food....the
elements..... and - even if they should survive, and if he should grow to be
a boy - she knows very well....that all he has to do is lose his footing on the
smooth surface of the glacier and that'll be that. In other words, she should
know that her son cannot live. So.....why should she try?
Well, I know this woman............I helped deliver her son. She was weak
and...er.... undernourished, but the next morning she stood up and she picked
her child up into her arms, and ..... and she set out again into the blinding
snow. And I think.....I think that was the single most courageous act I have
ever seen."
It just not the same unless you hear him say it really.
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I thought I was the only one that loved Due South.
Here's one of my favorite soliolquys. It's from "Stripes". Bill Murray is trying to get the guys to work together after Sgt Hulka's been blown up. I couldn't find the whole thing but here's part.
`We're all very different people. We're not Spartans, we're not Watusi, we're Americans, with a capital ‘A.' That means our forefathers were thrown out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts.'
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Although there are many memorable soliloquies from the Lord of the Rings, this one really stuck with me.
"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold."
- Frodo, The Return of King
Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, so long as you do it quiet like.
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Here is another quote that I love. Its from 'V for Vendetta', where V is introducing himself to Evey. I love the way Hugo Weaving says this bit!
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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Terence Mann
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
Gabriel
You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?
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I do not kill with my hand.
He who kills with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.
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{preamble} Not as loquacious as some of the above, and certainly not a passionate or funny. But somehow encompasses them all.... {/preamble}
Quote:
- I didn't come on the bus either.
- So how did you get here then?
Well, basically, there was this little dot, right, and the dot went bang. And the bang expanded.
Energy formed into matter. Matter cooled, matter lived. The amoeba to fish, the fish to fowl,
the fowl to froggy, the froggy to mammal, the mammal to monkey, the monkey to man.
Amo, amas, amat. Quid pro quo.
Memento mori. Ad infinitum.
Sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till doomsday.
From "Naked".
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I swear, it was the writer/director and the lead actor what drew me to the movie, and not the title! {/yeahright}
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