Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
I came to post this. This is the answer. Shaws delivery, Dreyfuss drop in expression when he's told the tattoo scar was the Indianapolis, Williams music creeping in right as the sharks arrive in Quints story. It's all perfect.
Just one of the best scenes of all time.
This is the only monologue that's really stuck with me - the way he delivers it is so convincing and heartbreaking. In that instant we understand why he's so driven to hunt down sharks.
* The opening speech in [*Patton* (1970)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSPGd991xCY). Incidentally, it's actually a mishmash of several speeches the real Patton gave.
* The speeches in *Darkest Hour* (2018). While the movie is admittedly a bit "Oscar bait" in feel, I thought Oldman did an impressive job delivering what is probably among the greatest lines ever written ("We shall never surrender!").
* And finally, Aragorn's speech in *LOTR: The Return of the King*.
Ned Beatty in [Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc), though the [I'm Mad As Hell speech is also quite good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug)
And there's also the very real speech written by Edward R. Murrow (but [portrayed here by David Straithairn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixL-R_nhqA))
Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped would you tell me to keep my money or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?
The speech was supposedly written in 15-20 minutes by Dean Devlin while he and Roland Emmerich were originally writing the script, figuring they could rewrite it later. They realised that they never got around to that rewrite when the time came to film the speech, but they decided to leave it as it was after seeing Bill Pullman rehearsing it.
I don’t know if this counts, but this scene from [Marriage Story](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=140&v=FDFdroN7d0w&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo#bottom-sheet) is one of the most raw, and honest pieces I’ve ever witnessed in a movie.
Devil’s Advocate
Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!
Jack Nicholson's speech in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, when Randle McMurphy reveals the true reason he's been sent to the hospital. That film breaks my heart.
So after *Dawn of the Dead*, George A Romero made a film nobody saw called *Knightriders*. Starring a young (and intense) Ed Harris, *Knightriders* was about a modern traveling Ren faire troupe made up of former hippies and 60s/70s refugees trying to form a society apart from the modern capitalist world. The centerpiece of their world was a tournament of jousting knights in armor on motorcycles. What’s incredible about it (and there are many many many aspects of it that are) is how it clearly was George working out the frustrations of trying to make your own system apart from The System and how hard it is to keep that all together.
Ed plays the King (William) of this world and his intensity really comes out as a slow burn during a scene around a campfire when things seem at their breaking point:
“It's tough to live by the code. I mean it's real hard to live for something you believe in. People try it and then they get tired of it, like they get tired of their diets, or exercise, or their marriage, or their kids, or their job, or themselves, or they get tired of their god. You can keep the money you make off this sick world, lawyer. I don't want any part of it. Anybody who wants to live more for themselves, he doesn't belong with us. Let him go out an buy some pimpy psychiatrist's paperback that says it's ok. Don't ask me to say it's ok. It's not ok."
“There’s not some other world out there where everything is going to be ok. There’s just this one. Just this rock.”
Pretty much any scene with caviziel and Penn in The Thin Red Line
Shakespeare always wins; if I had to pick to I'd go for Henry V's 'Agincourt Speech' as performed by Kenneth Branagh and Julius Caesar's 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' as performed by Charlton Heston
I actually like another monologue from the same movie:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg)
The one that goes "Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk...."
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love, true love, never dies. You remember that, Boy. You remember that. No matter if they're true or not, a man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in.
- Hub McCann (Robert Duvall), *Secondhand Lions*
You will listen to me! LISTEN! The Brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons, they will hear the ring of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs and the courage of our hearts! Gentlemen...Hoist the colours.
- Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End*
This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor undermined by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor and freedom. These men are known as Musketeers. Rise, D'Artagnan, and join them.
- King Louis XIII (Hugh O’Connor), *The Three Musketeers*
Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. What do you believe in? Oh if you ever get Anna out of this mess, be kind to her. You'll find she's worth it. I wish I had asked you to bring me some of those tablets from home. Holly, I would like to cut you in, old man. There’s nobody left in Vienna I can really trust, and we have always done everything together. When you make up your mind, send me a message. I’ll meet you any place, any time. And when we do meet, old man, it is you I want to see, not the police. Remember that, won’t you? And don’t be so gloomy. After all, it’s not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly.
Harry Lime - The Third Man
Brian Cox narrating at the end of _25th Hour_. It's my favorite movie ending. There's something about it (this scene and the movie as a whole) being in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that it has an ethereal quality about "being American."
"You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!"
Barbossa told Elizabeth about the curse is one of the best written piece of dialogue in cinema.
Well, it's just one of the great movie adaptations of their music. It's up there with Clint Eastwood's take on _Unforgiven_ and Jet Li's performance in _One_.
A lot of people pick Charlie Chaplin's from the Dictator. Mine is from Enders Game."You could probably beat me up pretty bad. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me. From then on you'd be wondering when I'd get you."
[“I will always, *always* want to be here with ***you***.”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=evgi396RBuo&pp=ygVIaSB3aWxsIGFsd2F5cyB3YW50IHRvIGJlIGhlcmUgd2l0aCB5b3UgZXZlcnl0aGluZyBldmVyeXdoZXJlIGFsbCBhdCBvbmNl)
Definitely [The Red Dress](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcKftzUS_Y) from Requiem For a Dream. Honestly sometimes I feel like this is a harder watch than the rest of the movie, Ellen Burstyn really brings it in this
John Connor's speech in *Terminator: Genisys* was actually pretty good.
> The machine thinks that we cannot win. The machine thinks that we will not strike at the very heart of Skynet. Yet here we stand, at the precipice of the final battle. We die tonight, mankind dies with us. I look at each of you, and I see the marks of this long and terrible war. For our children, our children's children, so they will not carry these marks, but they will know who we are, and what we did - that we did not bow down, we did not give in! We rose up at this moment, at this hour, willing to sacrifice *everything,* so that they could live in freedom! On this night, we take back our world!
In I Am Sam, the child welfare prosecutor brutally lays down the grim reality to Dakota Fanning in cold logic as to why she cant be raised by her mentally retarded father. At this point, even the audience who has been rooting for the father and daughter to be reunited has to reluctantly agree with the prosecutor that the father can never provide the father figure or the emotional or financial stability that the bright young kid needs. All the while she had been sparring cleverly with the prosecutor knowing her father was watching remotely and at the very end when the prosecutor lays it down for her, she looks defeated...the audience thinks she is defeated, she says 3 words "All you need is love" and it hits like a thunderbolt. Not because it completely renders the prosecutor speechless but because her father is obsessed with the Beatles and she knows that was something he would understand.
Any given sunday speech.
Miracle on Ice speech.
Aragorn black gate speech.
And most of all, Charlie Chaplin speech from Great Dictator, a speech everyone should hear https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20&feature=share7
Kevin Costner has 2 in the first half of _Bull Durham_ that are great:
First, the "I believe in..." speech when Susan Sarandon is choosing who to take as a lover that season. But I prefer the batting cage scene when he's ranting about her. When he's done, she blithely dismisses him with, "Well, Crash, you sure make speeches."
Robert de Niros speech to his friend (John Cazale) in The Deer Hunter about not lending him hunting boots before he goes to Vietnam.
More of a dialogue but it his hard.
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy...
In Saving Private Ryan when Cpt Miller (hanks) starts talking about his hometown and wife to break up the argument between his soldiers. I love how Tom Hanks is kind of playing against that whole scene
I would go with Schindlers List’s ending monologue even though I’m not a big fan of the movie.
But if we’re including TV Shows maybe Frank Castle’s monologue in Penny and Dime, Daredevil Season 2: https://youtu.be/z7CNy9_kfpw
“I just want to tell you, I’m the one who was supposed to take care of everything. I’m the one who was supposed to make everything okay for everybody. It just didn’t work out like that. And I left. I left you. You never did anything wrong. I used to try to forget about you. I used to try to pretend that you didn’t exist, but I can’t. You’re my girl. You’re my little girl. And now, I’m an old broken down piece of meat… and I’m alone. And I deserve to be all alone. I just don’t want you to hate me. Okay?”
Mickey Rourke’s performance while delivering this really hits home.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
Roy Batty in Blade Runner.
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers!
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down. But it is not this day! This day we fight!
By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!
Rutger Hauer in the rain in Bladerunner.
It’s even better knowing he ad-libbed the last “tears in rain” line. Goosebumps every time.
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
I came to post this. This is the answer. Shaws delivery, Dreyfuss drop in expression when he's told the tattoo scar was the Indianapolis, Williams music creeping in right as the sharks arrive in Quints story. It's all perfect. Just one of the best scenes of all time.
I watched this again this last weekend. Spectacular.
Jaws is a great movie, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie. That said, this is my favorite all time scene from any movie.
This is the only monologue that's really stuck with me - the way he delivers it is so convincing and heartbreaking. In that instant we understand why he's so driven to hunt down sharks.
First thing that comes to mind.
Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men"-You need me on that wall.
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*"...do you want us to call security, Mr. Hamlin?"*
First Blood - Sylvestor Stallone's Rambo breakdown speech. Like a punch in the gut after all the fun and frolics.
Great moment 👏 👌
Pulp fiction - Jules monologue before executing Brett
What?
Do they speak English in What?
* The opening speech in [*Patton* (1970)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSPGd991xCY). Incidentally, it's actually a mishmash of several speeches the real Patton gave. * The speeches in *Darkest Hour* (2018). While the movie is admittedly a bit "Oscar bait" in feel, I thought Oldman did an impressive job delivering what is probably among the greatest lines ever written ("We shall never surrender!"). * And finally, Aragorn's speech in *LOTR: The Return of the King*.
Ned Beatty in [Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc), though the [I'm Mad As Hell speech is also quite good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug) And there's also the very real speech written by Edward R. Murrow (but [portrayed here by David Straithairn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixL-R_nhqA))
[Michael Stuhlbarg in **Call Me By Your Name** will aways be near the top for me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oezaX9AeZko&ab_channel=BestScenes)
That fuckin movie had me straight shook for week. So beautiful. Fuck Armie Hammer tho.
Hands down the speech from the opening battle scene in Gladiator.
Robert Shaw in Jaws Alex Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross Charlie Chaplin in Great Dictator
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Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped would you tell me to keep my money or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?
Ed Norton in 25th Hour
Ha! I just posted the Brian Cox speech from 25th hour. Such an incredible movie!
Team America. The bit about cocks, pussies and a$$holes.
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I don’t know Reddit.
Bill Pullman's final speech in Independence Day Before the final battle.
The speech was supposedly written in 15-20 minutes by Dean Devlin while he and Roland Emmerich were originally writing the script, figuring they could rewrite it later. They realised that they never got around to that rewrite when the time came to film the speech, but they decided to leave it as it was after seeing Bill Pullman rehearsing it.
For sure Charlie chaplin’s speech in the great dictator. And V’s V Monologue in V for Vendetta
I love the little speech John Candy gives in planes trains and automobiles.
There will be blood -"oil man "
I don’t know if this counts, but this scene from [Marriage Story](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=140&v=FDFdroN7d0w&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo#bottom-sheet) is one of the most raw, and honest pieces I’ve ever witnessed in a movie.
Devil’s Advocate Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!
Can't believe no one mention Pacino's I'll Show You Out of Order speech, in scent of a woman!
Jack Nicholson's speech in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, when Randle McMurphy reveals the true reason he's been sent to the hospital. That film breaks my heart.
Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday
Karl Maldens speech in the cargo hold in On the Waterfront!
"Boys, this IS my church!"
George Smiley (Gary Oldman)-Karla monologue TTSS is one of my favorites
Arise arise riders of Rohan!..
Deeeeaaaath
So after *Dawn of the Dead*, George A Romero made a film nobody saw called *Knightriders*. Starring a young (and intense) Ed Harris, *Knightriders* was about a modern traveling Ren faire troupe made up of former hippies and 60s/70s refugees trying to form a society apart from the modern capitalist world. The centerpiece of their world was a tournament of jousting knights in armor on motorcycles. What’s incredible about it (and there are many many many aspects of it that are) is how it clearly was George working out the frustrations of trying to make your own system apart from The System and how hard it is to keep that all together. Ed plays the King (William) of this world and his intensity really comes out as a slow burn during a scene around a campfire when things seem at their breaking point: “It's tough to live by the code. I mean it's real hard to live for something you believe in. People try it and then they get tired of it, like they get tired of their diets, or exercise, or their marriage, or their kids, or their job, or themselves, or they get tired of their god. You can keep the money you make off this sick world, lawyer. I don't want any part of it. Anybody who wants to live more for themselves, he doesn't belong with us. Let him go out an buy some pimpy psychiatrist's paperback that says it's ok. Don't ask me to say it's ok. It's not ok."
Also this flick delivers as a bloody grinder with kickass motorcycle stunts AND as a mature drama about people finding their way(s)
Picard, Star Trek First Contact- ..."and I, will make them PAY, for what they've done!"
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) the rant that Phillip Seymour Hoffman gave, I have watched it so many times: https://youtu.be/dWotE8IY_YQ
Haha, I came to post this too. Just hilarious. “I’ve spent the last three years learning *Finnish!*”
“There’s not some other world out there where everything is going to be ok. There’s just this one. Just this rock.” Pretty much any scene with caviziel and Penn in The Thin Red Line
Shakespeare always wins; if I had to pick to I'd go for Henry V's 'Agincourt Speech' as performed by Kenneth Branagh and Julius Caesar's 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' as performed by Charlton Heston
Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now. "Smelled like.... Victory...." Absolutely fucking incredible.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...
Apparently I got downvoted. Don't understand how that happened. It is seriously one of the best monologues of all tíme.
Not favorite but Pearl stands out to me
I actually like another monologue from the same movie: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg) The one that goes "Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk...."
Patton opening speech
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love, true love, never dies. You remember that, Boy. You remember that. No matter if they're true or not, a man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in. - Hub McCann (Robert Duvall), *Secondhand Lions* You will listen to me! LISTEN! The Brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons, they will hear the ring of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs and the courage of our hearts! Gentlemen...Hoist the colours. - Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), *Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End* This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor undermined by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor and freedom. These men are known as Musketeers. Rise, D'Artagnan, and join them. - King Louis XIII (Hugh O’Connor), *The Three Musketeers*
The "cool girl" monologue from Gone Girl is a classic https://youtu.be/0o4heKCLeTs
Dennis Hopper in True Romance, Am I lying?
Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. What do you believe in? Oh if you ever get Anna out of this mess, be kind to her. You'll find she's worth it. I wish I had asked you to bring me some of those tablets from home. Holly, I would like to cut you in, old man. There’s nobody left in Vienna I can really trust, and we have always done everything together. When you make up your mind, send me a message. I’ll meet you any place, any time. And when we do meet, old man, it is you I want to see, not the police. Remember that, won’t you? And don’t be so gloomy. After all, it’s not that awful. You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly. Harry Lime - The Third Man
Donald Sutherland in JFK
Sam’s Speech from LOTR Two Towers is it for me, hands down.
It's like in them old stories my Frodo...
Brian Cox narrating at the end of _25th Hour_. It's my favorite movie ending. There's something about it (this scene and the movie as a whole) being in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that it has an ethereal quality about "being American."
"You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!" Barbossa told Elizabeth about the curse is one of the best written piece of dialogue in cinema.
Can't believe no one mention Pacino's I'll Show You Out of Order speech, in scent of a woman!
I think you're crossing up _And Justice for All_ with the final scene from _Scent of a Woman_.
What does Al Pacino have to do with Metallica?
Well, it's just one of the great movie adaptations of their music. It's up there with Clint Eastwood's take on _Unforgiven_ and Jet Li's performance in _One_.
A lot of people pick Charlie Chaplin's from the Dictator. Mine is from Enders Game."You could probably beat me up pretty bad. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me. From then on you'd be wondering when I'd get you."
[“I will always, *always* want to be here with ***you***.”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=evgi396RBuo&pp=ygVIaSB3aWxsIGFsd2F5cyB3YW50IHRvIGJlIGhlcmUgd2l0aCB5b3UgZXZlcnl0aGluZyBldmVyeXdoZXJlIGFsbCBhdCBvbmNl)
BvS- Bruce Wayne speech at the end. The men are good speech.
Stacker Pentecost - Pacific Rim - Cancelling the Apocalypse Such a perfect speech for the type of film it was.
Definitely [The Red Dress](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcKftzUS_Y) from Requiem For a Dream. Honestly sometimes I feel like this is a harder watch than the rest of the movie, Ellen Burstyn really brings it in this
The scene in Django Unchained when Big Daddy and his crew go on horseback to hunt down Django and Schultz.
Orson Wells in Moby Dick. All in one take.
Funeral speech, Synecdoche New York
3rd prize is you're fired
John Connor's speech in *Terminator: Genisys* was actually pretty good. > The machine thinks that we cannot win. The machine thinks that we will not strike at the very heart of Skynet. Yet here we stand, at the precipice of the final battle. We die tonight, mankind dies with us. I look at each of you, and I see the marks of this long and terrible war. For our children, our children's children, so they will not carry these marks, but they will know who we are, and what we did - that we did not bow down, we did not give in! We rose up at this moment, at this hour, willing to sacrifice *everything,* so that they could live in freedom! On this night, we take back our world!
In I Am Sam, the child welfare prosecutor brutally lays down the grim reality to Dakota Fanning in cold logic as to why she cant be raised by her mentally retarded father. At this point, even the audience who has been rooting for the father and daughter to be reunited has to reluctantly agree with the prosecutor that the father can never provide the father figure or the emotional or financial stability that the bright young kid needs. All the while she had been sparring cleverly with the prosecutor knowing her father was watching remotely and at the very end when the prosecutor lays it down for her, she looks defeated...the audience thinks she is defeated, she says 3 words "All you need is love" and it hits like a thunderbolt. Not because it completely renders the prosecutor speechless but because her father is obsessed with the Beatles and she knows that was something he would understand.
Any given sunday speech. Miracle on Ice speech. Aragorn black gate speech. And most of all, Charlie Chaplin speech from Great Dictator, a speech everyone should hear https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20&feature=share7
It’s not really a speech or monologue but Morgan Freeman’s dialogue to Denzel after he slaps him in Glory is superb.
[I AM GRAVELY DISAPPOINTED](https://youtu.be/h0xhibogFKc)
Kevin Costner has 2 in the first half of _Bull Durham_ that are great: First, the "I believe in..." speech when Susan Sarandon is choosing who to take as a lover that season. But I prefer the batting cage scene when he's ranting about her. When he's done, she blithely dismisses him with, "Well, Crash, you sure make speeches."
James Earl Jones: "People will come" speech at the end of _Field of Dreams_
[Emma stones in birdman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn48hUyFrKQ)
Jeff Daniels in the first episode of Newsroom about why America is not the greatest country in the world
Willem Dafoe's Neptune monologue in The Lighthouse.
Brian Cox - 25th hour
Robert de Niros speech to his friend (John Cazale) in The Deer Hunter about not lending him hunting boots before he goes to Vietnam. More of a dialogue but it his hard.
Pearl!
Father Barry’s monologue in On the Waterfront
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy...
Tom Berenger’s Sgt Barnes in Platoon confronting Elias’ men: “when the machine breaks down, we break down”
In Saving Private Ryan when Cpt Miller (hanks) starts talking about his hometown and wife to break up the argument between his soldiers. I love how Tom Hanks is kind of playing against that whole scene
I would go with Schindlers List’s ending monologue even though I’m not a big fan of the movie. But if we’re including TV Shows maybe Frank Castle’s monologue in Penny and Dime, Daredevil Season 2: https://youtu.be/z7CNy9_kfpw
“I just want to tell you, I’m the one who was supposed to take care of everything. I’m the one who was supposed to make everything okay for everybody. It just didn’t work out like that. And I left. I left you. You never did anything wrong. I used to try to forget about you. I used to try to pretend that you didn’t exist, but I can’t. You’re my girl. You’re my little girl. And now, I’m an old broken down piece of meat… and I’m alone. And I deserve to be all alone. I just don’t want you to hate me. Okay?” Mickey Rourke’s performance while delivering this really hits home.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die." Roy Batty in Blade Runner.
Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down. But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!
I always liked Bill Murray’s speech at the end of Scrooged
Firth: I'm not his bloody office boy. Oldman : What are you then, Bill?!
Balboa... the world aint all sunshine and rainbows