Any actual monologues in Firefly/Serenity?
POSTED BY: ShinyLetsBeBadGuys
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 23:26
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You guys are awesome, I knew I could come here and enlist the help of fellow browncoats.
I'll try to find Mal's "I aim to misbehave" speech, but I'm not sure if it'll be long enough. As of right now Simon's speech is looking like my best bet, but I'm gonna keep thinking about other moments in the series and BDM.
Thanks again for the help ya'll, if anything else comes to mind dont hesitate to post! We dont have to have it until next week, so I'll take all the help I can get.
Ya'll have rekindled my faith in browncoats on this site, thanks!
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How about from Buffy?
Her speech in Chosen about how every potential will become a Slayer? *Shrug* Just a thought.
Hopefully the site I'm copying this from is accurate.
"I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil, and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish, a whole lot of the time, that I hadn't been. I know a lot of you wish I hadn't been either. But this isn't about wishes. This is about choices. I believe we can beat this evil. Not when it comes, not when its army is ready, now. Tomorrow morning I'm opening the seal. I'm going down into the hellmouth, and I'm finishing this once and for all. Right now you're asking yourself, "what makes this different? What makes us anything more than a bunch of girls being picked off one by one?" It's true none of you have the power that Faith and I do. So here's the part where you make a choice.
So here's the part where you make a choice: What if you could have that power...now? In every generation, one slayer is born... because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say my power should be our power. Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of the scythe to change our destiny. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a slayer will be a slayer. Every girl who could have the power will have the power power... can stand up, will stand up. Slayers... every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?"
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There's some good stuff in the deleted scenes from the series- Mal's long speech from OMR in particular, and Zoe's cut scenes from the pilot.
Or how 'bout Wash's dino scene from the pil.ot, for a change of pace ?
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Originally posted by ShinyLetsBeBadGuys:
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!
"Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:
Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave."
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Not sure if you'd be interested in doing a girl's part, but one of my favorite monologues has always been River's from Objects in Space, the one that starts with "It's okay, I'm going with you," and ends with, "And I'll just fade away."
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"...and I'll just fade away..."
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Another possibility would be Tracy's dying speech, and the prerecorded tape that he made in "The Message." Mal and Zoe say a word or two while he's dying, but I think it'd be very dramatic.
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Mal: Saffron, you're pleasing, you're all kinds of pleasing, and uhh...it's been awhile, a long damn while, since anybody but me took a hold of my plow.
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I've done two differnet monolouges from Firefly for two different acting classes. I spliced together a bunch of River's dialouge from Objects in Space into a real shiny monolouge for this workshop...that my director made me cut to heck before I could proform it. It wasn't even the same peice anymore by the time I was done...but the point is the words "Firefly" and "Joss Whedon" got on the program.
Then, for a high school drama class, I used Kaylee's thing from the same eposode, where she was telling everyone what River did back in War Stories. Went to some interesting places emotionally for that one, and stayed truer to the origional...which made me happy.
They're both really good monolouges. Or, at least, so I think.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://www.serenityday.org/
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im sorry to bring back a dead post, but i too need a monologue, but mine needs to be 5-8 mins. if there is actually one that long
thanks in advance for your sugustions, gadget
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I don't think that there is one that long. What you will have to do is splice some stuff together. Find a good scene and see what will fit. It's okay to drop some of the words to make things fit.
Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me?
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.
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This question came up last year. At that time I was gonna put together one, combining Zoe's description of the battle of Serenity, from the deleted scene in the Pilot with The Operative's description of the same battle, from the deleted scene in the BDM. . Never got tit done, but the two speeches combine to tell the same story.
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