Feels like Hans Landa deserves a spot here somewhere
Quint's monologue is my favorite. Its done just perfectly by Shaw. A brilliant balance between nostalgia and fear.
I am ridiculously disappointed you missed a very important monologue: the dying breath speech. By all means, my favourite is Blade Runner's (tears in the rain). You didn't even mention it :(
The speech from the great dictator is IMO one of the finest speeches ever written end of! It is truly timeless, leagues above just a speech in a film!
"I've seen thing you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire......"
what I love most about CineFix's top 10s is that each individual winner is a "#1 choice" in a specific field. So when you look at it that way they're all #1 instead of the number they landed on the list.
"I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for."
I loved seeing Quint from Jaws. That scene of the movie was so perfect. From terrifying action during the day, to the men hanging out together talking and comparing scars... then it's calm, we're tuned into every word their saying, and Quint in his sharp, clear and calm voice continues to cut the silence with his terrifying story. PERFECT!
"AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS THE LORD, WHEN I LAY MY VENGENCE UPON THEE..."
'Network' is THE monologue. It's the single greatest monologue written for the screen of all time.
“I hope to meet my friend and shake his hand, I hope the pacific ocean’s as blue as it’s been in my dreams, I hope....” gets me every time. the redemption in that film is Red’s, not Andy. Andy never lost hope
Nothing deserved the #1 spot like A Few Good Men. Absolutely perfect monologue from a perfect scene in a brilliant film.
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho has so many great monologues, particularly the morning routine and the hip to be square ones, I can't believe not even one got mentioned. Any of Verbal's monologues in Usual Suspects are inspired and perfectly performed by Kevin Spacey. Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly also had a few heart wrenching monologues.
The court room monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird was so moving to me. I recently watched the movie in class and everyone was completely silent. Groundbreaking.
One of my favorites is Bill's monologue in Kill Bill II. At the end about Superman. Brilliant.
That Jaws scene gives me chills every time I hear it. Fantastically written and beautifully delivered.
It’s amazing how many people don’t seem to understand that this a list compiling ten examples among millions of choices. Not every monologue is going to be on here, and the choices are going to be extremely subjective.
that chaplin scene is mind blowing...and im not really into those older movies..but he fuckin nailed it...literal goosebumps
That speech Quint gave in Jaws is one of the greatest things ever put to film.
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