Any actual monologues in Firefly/Serenity?

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SHINYLETSBEBADGUYS

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:19 PM

Howdy everyone

I wasnt sure where to post this, but it concerns the episodes so thats why I decided here! In my acting fundamentals class at Texas A&M (Any aggie browncoats on here let me know!), and today we were assigned the duty of finding a monologue and performing it in a week.

We can do any medium and I thought what better than the Firefly/Serenity universe? Plus it could help get the message out to people in my section on somethin they're missing out on!

Any help here on any episode you know where someone speaks for longer than a minute let me know! Thanks guys!

LVS2READ

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:57 PM

What about Mal's 'I aim to misbehave' speech in the BDM? Not sure how long it is, but that's the first one that comes to mind.

"I love my captain."

MSG

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:58 PM

How long does it need to be?

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

MSG

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:02 PM

Depending on how skilled you are at dramatic pause, this could work( I pulled together several of Mal's speeches and shifted to make transitions)
So when they terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, and some were rich and flush with new technologies, some were not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. Out here, people struggle to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of the Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, rescued his genius sister from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is."I look out for me and mine. That don't include you 'less I conjure it does. Now you stuck a thorn in the Alliance's paw -- that tickles me a bit. But it also means I gotta step twice as fast to avoid 'em, and that means turnin' down plenty of jobs. Even honest ones. Put this crew together with the promise of work, which the Alliance makes harder every year. Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well not be another. So here's us, on the raggedy edge and you know what keeps us flying?Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.I learned something from Nandi. Not just from what happened, but from her. The family she made, the strength of her love for them. That's what kept them together. When you live with that kind of strength, you get tied to it, you can't break away. And you never want to.

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

ECGORDON

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:05 PM

Simon's monologue in the pilot describing how he was able to get River out of the Academy was the first thing that came to my mind.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

DONCOAT

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:24 AM

For a shorter one, there's Mal's "Love keeps her in the air" speech at the end of Serenity (movie).

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I'm pointin' right at it!

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Simon's monologue in the pilot describing how he was able to get River out of the Academy was the first thing that came to my mind.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

Ooh OOh I was thinking Mals "I aim to misbehave" as well but Simons speech! Yeah thats the ticket!

I am torn betwixt two loves.......

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FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:28 AM

Oh, you sneaky browncoat, you! What a marvelous opportunity to pique interest in the 'Verse.

I, too, would vote for Simon's speech about River. It's definitely long enough, and it gives a taste of the show, laying out the whole Simon/River back-story and delineating their relationship.

Only bad thing might be if there were stealth browncoats in the audience. In that case you'd have to be as good as Simon!

Break a leg.

bun
9/20 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAPTAIN MAL!!!

JOSSISAGOD

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:57 AM

I was gonna say Simon's monologue about River, but that's already been mentioned. It's one of, if not my favorite monologue EVER! I'd have to agree on Mal's "Love" monologue at the end of Serenity as well. Those are two of the greatest monologues/speeches I think I've ever heard.

Fe'nos Tol
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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WHITEFALL

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:52 AM

What's funny is, i've actually DONE simon's river monologue as an audition. I got ensemble, but then, back then I couldnt sing, so probably wasnt the monologue's fault. Let's see if I remember it.

I am very smart.
I went to the best Medicad in Osiris, graduated top three percent of my class... finished my internship in eight months.
So when I tell you that my little sister makes me look like an idiot child, I want you to understand my full meaning.
River was more than gifted, she, she was a gift.
Everything she did: music, math, theoretical physics, even dance, there was nothing that didnt come as naturally to her as breathing does to us. She used to be a real brat about it to. I remember when she...
There was a school: a government sponsored academy, we had never even heard of it, but it had the most exciting program. The most challenging. We could have sent her anywhere, we had the money, but she wanted to go, she wanted to learn.

She was... fourteen.

I got a few letters, at first, but then I didnt hear for months. Then I got a letter that made no sense, she talked about things that never happened, jokes that we never....
It was a code. It just said

"They're hurting us. Get me out."

[opptional addendum]:
I did it with money. And luck. For two years I couldnt get near her, then I was contacted by some men, some underground movement, they said she was in danger, that the government was "playing with her brain". If I funded them, they could sneak her out in cryo, get her to Persephone, and then I could take her... wherever. I don't know what they did to her. Or why. I just have to keep her safe.

That whole spiel is from memory. The last bit is spliced together from the quick lines that Zoe and Inara have in between. It's a great monologue.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"We take all the money we got saved right now, we could maybe buy a moderately sized gerbil." -Mal

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