Monologues in films (movies)

[Danny McG]

I was browsing around in YouTube and I came across this scene from Jaws.
Quint talks about the sinking of the Indianapolis.
Robert Shaw plays a blinder here, brilliant acting for a man simply telling a story - I remember sitting enthralled in the cinema watching this.

Any other gripping scenes you recommend out there in the silver screen?

 

[Vince W]

Roy Batty's death.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Hitchcock is my favorite director, Shadow of a Doubt is one of my favorite films by him, Joseph Cotten is one of my favorite actors, so... perfection here. This is a very dark scene, and still very effective, IMO. As a warning, the scene is very misogynistic, but this is the character Cotten plays. Also, I hope this is long enough to qualify as a monologue... it starts after the first few moments:

 

[paeng]

Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross (Warning: NSFW)

 

[paeng]

Olivier from Hamlet (1948)

 

[paeng]

Von Sydow from The Seventh Seal

 

[paeng]

Brando from Apocalypse Now

 

[paeng]

Brando from On the Waterfront

 

[Mr Cairo]

Not going to post it but Dennis Hopper speech in True Romance when he is facing Christopher Walken, Walken wants to know where Hoppers son is and the only way Hopper can avoid telling him is to provoke Walken into killing him, its sedate and the music compliments it beautifully

Great Monologue.

 

[paeng]

Ned Beatty from Network

 

[paeng]

Welles from The Third Man

 

[paeng]

Lars Rudolph from Werckmeister

 

[paeng]

Several from Judgment at Nuremberg, including those from Lancaster and Schell

 

[paeng]

Several from Taxi Driver, including from de Niro and even Scorsese (Warning: NSFW)

 

[paeng]

Pacino from Dog Day Afternoon (Warning: NSFW)

 

[paeng]

Douglas Rain from 2001

 

[paeng]

Nicholson from Five Easy Pieces

 

[paeng]

Murray from Stripes

 

[paeng]

Murray from Caddyshack

 

[paeng]

Scofield from Man for All Seasons