Nice speech, Jim

Bard

Best un-interrupted speech by a single character in a movie?

... A 'soliloquay', if you will ... (except that they're not necessarily talking to themselves as they would be in theatrical play terms)

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I'll go for Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) and his closing remarks to prove the conspiracy in the case against Clay Shaw in Oliver Stone's "JFK".

bonkey

I'll go for Matthew McConaughey's closing arguments in "A Time To Kill".

I fully expect someone to put forward JN's rant from A Few Good Men, but it just doesnt do it for me.

jc

dccarm

De Niro in Taxi Driver - "Are you talkin' to me?"

Shiminay

Jay from Dogma when God kills Ben Afleck
"WHAT THE **** IS THIS **** - WHAT THE **** HAPPENED TO THAT GUY'S HEAD....."

I never laughed as much at a single outburst!

sceptre

Has to be something featuring Al Pacino.

Nominate either Scent of a Woman or City Hall

(I'd also pop in Michael Douglas's Gordon Gecko but I think he was interrupted too much)

Lex_Diamonds

The one to one between Pacino and Deniro in Heat

BLITZ_Molloy

There are loads of unforgetable ones in Glen Garry Ross with Jack Lemon, Pachino, Spacey and Alec BAldwin. I love that film so much.
Everybodys got their own little rant and they never listen to the other characters.

Vincents rants in Pulp Fiction were fantastic too. I know it's not interrupted but IT's still great:

JULES
(to Brett)
Oh, I'm sorry. Did that break your
concentration? I didn't mean to do
that. Please, continue. I believe
you were saying something about
"best intentions."

Brett can't say a word.

JULES
Whatsamatter? Oh, you were through
anyway. Well, let me retort.
Would you describe for me what
Marsellus Wallace looks like?

Brett still can't speak.

Jules SNAPS, SAVAGELY TIPPING the card table over, removing
the only barrier between himself and Brett. Brett now sits in
a lone chair before Jules like a political prisoner in front
of an interrogator.

JULES
What country you from!

BRETT
(petrified)
What?

JULES
"What" ain't no country I know! Do
they speak English in "What?"

BRETT
(near heart attack)
What?

JULES
English-mother****er-can-you-speak-
it?

BRETT
Yes.

JULES
Then you understand what I'm
sayin'?

BRETT
Yes.

JULES
Now describe what Marsellus Wallace
looks like!

BRETT
(out of fear)
What?

Jules takes his .45 and PRESSES the barrel HARD in Brett's
cheek.

JULES
Say "What" again! C'mon, say
"What" again! I dare ya, I double
dare ya mother****er, say "What"
one more goddamn time!

Brett is regressing on the spot.

JULES
Now describe to me what Marsellus
Wallace looks like!

Brett does his best.

BRETT
Well he's ...he's...black --

JULES
-- go on!

BRETT
...and he's...he's...tall --

JULES
-- does he look like a bitch?!

BRETT
(without thinking)
What?

Jules' eyes go to Vincent, Vincent smirks, Jules rolls his
eyes and SHOOT Brett in the shoulder.

Brett SCREAMS, breaking into a SHAKING/TREMBLING SPASM in the
chair.

JULES
Does-he-look-like-a-bitch?!

BRETT
(in agony)
No.

JULES
Then why did you try to **** 'im
like a bitch?!

bonkey

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
The one to one between Pacino and Deniro in Heat

Exactly how is this un-interrupted speech by a single character ???

jc

Chubby

lol, it's quite funny how people always seems to ignore the original questions in threads like this. Bard asked for a soliloquay and 2 of yas replied with conversations, BLITZ_Molloy even printed the whole thing out.

One good soliliquay that comes to mind is the freedom speech in Braveheart by Mel Gibson before that big bloody battle.

BLITZ_Molloy

He said an uninterrupted speach and then said soliloquay which are very different things. He should have defined it more clearly. I just took him to mean either/or.

Ok ok... here we go:

To be or not to be, that is the question.
Wether it be nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or by opposing end the.

To die, to sleep. But in that sleep what dreams may come..blah blah.

I can't remember the rest, been years since i did it :P. Happy now Chubby?

ObeyGiant

But still...don't you realize? The next time we see sky it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the bestest stuff for us, but right now they gotta do what's right for them, 'cause it's their time, their time, up there. Down here it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up "Troy's bucket".

*sniff*
still brings a tear to my eye.

Panda

One of my favourite speechs was the

"You need people like me!!!!"

speech by Al Pacino in Scarface.
He just has this outburst in a crowded posh restaurant, whilst drunk.
Theres lots of other great speechs in that film aswell....

I'll think of more.......

Chubby

Originally posted by BLITZ_Molloy
He said an uninterrupted speach and then said soliloquay which are very different things. He should have defined it more clearly. I just took him to mean either/or.

Yeah an uninterrupted speech and a soliloquay are quite different. In fact, none of the listed speaches here are soliloquays, they only really happen in plays so the characters can let us know what they are thinking or planning etc. Bard is really just looking for good uninterrupted speaches I guess. What you originally typed though was still a conversation!

But speaking of Pulp Fiction, that speach from Samuel L.Jackson at the end is another very good one. The one when he was explaining to Tim Roth what his bible quote now meant to him.

...The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin'. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.

mike65

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 Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Roy Batty at the end of Blade Runner.

It don't sound like much on the page but its a powerful
moment in the film.

plastic membrane

All of the above are indeed fine speeches, but personally, Robert Shaw's "The Thing about a shark" speech in Jaws gets me ever time. Of course, Pauly Shore's moving speech about his own anus at the end of "In The Army Now" would come pretty close, if it actaully existed..

Cake Fiend

Originally posted by mike65
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 Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Got there before me

One of the most moving speeches in any movie I've ever seen.

azezil

Originally posted by bonkey
I'll go for Matthew McConaughey's closing arguments in "A Time To Kill".

Yeah great sceen, I loiked it alot <---- prolly not the appropriate smiley ah there we go.

Bard

Originally posted by plastic membrane
Robert Shaw's "The Thing about a shark" speech in Jaws gets me ever time.

Ok- I am changing my vote. Sod JFK... I agree with plastic membrane

mike65

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/perki/records/brunner2/
click on track 12 for that Roy Batty speech.

go here for the whole end sequence.
http://dcslab.snu.ac.kr/~ilhwan/share/Tears%20In%20Rain.mp3

Btw, if you like the Vangelis score try my stuff below esp.
Etoile Nord.

Mike.