Favorite Movie Soliloquy
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Blade Runner -
"I have seen things you cannot imagine. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams sparkle in the Tannhauser Gate. All these moment will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time...to die."
Chokes me up every time.
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There are a million movie quotes or speeches which we can easily toss up, but a soliloquy is not just a speech or a few favorite lines snipped from a movie.
Here's one soliloquy from a Sergio Leone film.
The Good,The Bad, and The Ugly - Eli Wallach delivers a Soliliquy in the Thieves Grotto AKA The Chicken Scene (extended DVD version)
Tuco reflects on his life of thievery - if we work to live, then why do we work ourselves into the grave?
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I had to look up sololiquy in the dictionary. I vaguely remembered hearing that word in High School. I can't think of one now. I think there was a few in Ferris Beuler's Day Off that I liked though. Something about stopping and smelling the roses and not letting life pass you by.
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Quote:
Originally posted by MalBadLatin:
but a soliloquy is not just a speech or a few favorite lines snipped from a movie
Malbadlatin – you’re right about the definition of soliloquy – actually it should be a speech delivered with no listeners present or monologue. I probably used the term incorrectly in my opening, but in the case of the “endeavor to preserver” speech I started with, soliloquy seemed to fit – now that I think about it – I was probably wrong about that.
I think what I was looking for was the defining moment of a movie expressed by the screenwriter or director.
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This is from the show Coupling. The episode: Lesbian Spank Inferno.
Oh, because it's got naked women in it! Look, I like naked women! I'm a bloke, we're supposed to like naked women, we're born like that! We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one. Halfway down the birth canal we're already enjoying the view! Look, it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like: Naked Women, Stockings, Lesbians, and Sean Connery best as James Bond, because that's what being a boy is. And if you don't like, darling, join a film collective. Look, I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there, but that does not stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die, because that's what being a bloke is. When man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!” As soon as Caxton had invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey hey, naked bottoms! We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been a story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Quite frankly girls, I'm not sure how insulted you really ought to be.”
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Paul Gross' speech about the Robert Mankenzie from Mountie on the Bounty I'm not gonna quote it, except " The captain's last transmission read ' 32 down on the Robert Mackenzie'"
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Yes! Coupling...I love that show, and I'm sure I miss 20% of the jokes because I'm not British.
Anyways, here's one of my favorites from 25th Hour:
We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country Monty, it's beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. I drove out west with your mother one time, before you was born. Brooklyn to the Pacific in three days. Just enough money for gas, sandwiches, and coffee, but we made it. Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Nobody honkin' atcha. No madmen cursin' or pissin' in the streets. You find the silence out there, you find the peace. You can find God. So we drive west, keep driving till we find a nice little town. These towns out in the desert, you know why they got there? People wanted to get way from somewhere else. The desert's for startin' over. Find a bar and I'll buy us drinks. I haven't had a drink in two years, but I'll have one with you, one last whisky with my boy. Take our time with it, taste the barley, let it linger. And then I'll go. I'll tell you dont ever write me, dont ever visit, I'll tell you I believe in God's kingdom and I'll see you and your mother again, but not in this lifetime. You'll get a job somewhere, a job that pays cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions, and you make a new life and you never come back. Monty, people like you, it's a gift, you'll make friends wherever you go. You're going to work hard, you're going to keep your head down and your mouth shut. You're going to make yourself a new home out there. You're a New Yorker, that won't ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you're still a New Yorker. You'll miss your friends, you'll miss your dog, but you're strong. You got your mother backbone in you, you're strong like she was. You find the right people, and you get yourself papers, a drivers license. You forget your old life, you can't come back, you can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your live the way it should have been. But maybe, this is dangerous, but maybe after a few years you send word to Naturelle. You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life Monty. Give them what they need. You have a son, maybe you name him James, it's a good strong name, and maybe one day years from now years after im dead and gone reunited with your dear ma, you gather your whole family around and tell them the truth, who you are, where you come from, you tell them the whole story. Then you ask them if they know how lucky there are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening.
Or the one from American Psycho (I cut out the naughty bits):
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that I really didn't understand any of their work. It was too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think "Invisible Touch" is the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility, at the same time it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding
three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship and sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to "Land of Confusion." In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problem of abusive political authority. "In Too Deep" is the most moving pop song of the 1980s about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. The
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My foes will become nothing.
My friends will become nothing.
Likewise, I too will become nothing.
All will become nothing.
- said by the character of the Dalai Lama in "Kundun"
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“Slither: Nathan 'Malcolm Reynolds' Fillion fights mutant slugs. I don’t really care what else the film has to offer aside from Fillion shooting slugs and being awesome. He is, after all, the captain of Serenity." - John Lichman, Washington Square News
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Well, what would a thread like this be without something from BraveHeart:
"Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace."
"William Wallace is seven feet tall."
"Yes, I've heard. And if he were here, he'd consume the English with bolts of lightning from his eyes, and fireballs from his ass.
"I *am* William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in the defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?"
"Fight? Against that? No. We will run. And we will live."
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM?! ALBA GU BRATH!!"
--William Wallace, from BraveHeart
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You do that, and you'd best make peace with your dear and fluffy lord.
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Boondock Saints had a good one. This is the prayer they always said when they were about to shoot someone in the back of the head.
"And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et filii et spiritus sancti."
"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."
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