Author Topic: best movie speeches (Read 3893 times)

Charon · « **Reply #30 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:17:57 PM »

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Miller: A lot of people don't realize what is really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize there's a lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.

Give you an example, Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone will say, "Plate" or "Shrimp" or "Plate of shrimp", out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?

Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know the way everybody is into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about the Bermuda Triangle, UFO's, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing. Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There aint no difference between a flying saucer or a time machine.

People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. Every year in South America thousands of people turn up missing. Nobody knows where they go. They just disappear. But if you think for a minute, realize something, there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well where did all these people come from? I'll tell you where, the future. Where did all these people disappear to, the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really, yeah you got it, time machines.

I Think a lot about this kind of stuff. I do my best thinking on the bus. That's how come I don't drive. See I don't want to know how. I don't want to learn. The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

midnight Target · « **Reply #31 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:51:17 PM »

Oboe wins.

FiLtH · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:12:52 PM »

My favorite is Captain Quint's from Jaws, but the General in Dr.Strangelove is one I love also. "Essence"

Vulcan · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:14:28 PM »

My all time favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLGaTELIfHw

Airscrew · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:22:38 PM »

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven", is that it?

Why not? I'm here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I've nurtured every sensation man's been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I'm a fan of man! I'm a humanist. Maybe the last humanist.

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, ****in' bellybutton off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!

rpm · « **Reply #35 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:30:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Blooz
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate.

The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.

Then they built a small plane. The X-1. Men came to the high desert of California to ride it. They were called test pilots and nobody knew their names.

"The Right Stuff"

Dang it Blooz, ya beat me to it!

DiabloTX · « **Reply #36 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:33:29 PM »

You know, a good slow night will find me watching The Right Stuff and then going right into From The Earth To The Moon.

**** yeah, I never get tired of that.

Hap · « **Reply #37 on:** March 12, 2007, 01:09:22 AM »

The Vicar at the end of "Mrs. Miniver."

For those who have not seen it, RENT IT! Heck, buy it sight unseen. It's that good, and has great lessons.

1942, wins 7 Oscars, and Greer Garson walks away with the Best Actress award.

You can watch it with your family and be glad you did.

Take Care,

hap

rpm · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2007, 01:43:30 AM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
You know, a good slow night will find me watching The Right Stuff and then going right into From The Earth To The Moon.

**** yeah, I never get tired of that.

I hear ya.

tedrbr · « **Reply #39 on:** March 12, 2007, 01:49:15 AM »

Major T. J. "King" Kong's (Slim Pickens) memorable patriotic speech delivered over the intercom to his B-52 crew - a parody of the totally-loyal American sent on a glory mission:
("Well, boys, I reckon this is it. Nuclear (pronounced 'nookular') combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies...Now look, boys. I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches. But I got a pretty fair idea that somethin' doggoned important's going on back there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human beins if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat. But I want you to remember one thing - the folks back home is a countin' on ya, and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. Tell ya somethin' else - this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions an' personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for every last one of ya, regardless of your race, color, or your creed. Now, let's get this thing on the hump. We got some flyin' to do.")

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's (R. Lee Ermy) degrading, intimidating introductory speech to new inducted recruits at Parris Island:
("If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, f****** beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian s***. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on n******, k****, w**** or g*******. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?")

Red's expectant "Get busy livin'" closing monologue after being paroled and invited to come to Mexico by Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins):
("Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. That's god-d*** right. For the second time in my life, I am guilty of committing a crime. Parole violation. Of course, I doubt they'll toss up any roadblocks for that. Not for an old crook like me... I find I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.")

Just three that I thought to look up off the top of my head.

Angus · « **Reply #40 on:** March 12, 2007, 03:52:05 AM »

The Kungan's speech:
"I have something to say. It's better to burn out, than Faaaade awaaayyyy"

DiabloTX · « **Reply #41 on:** March 12, 2007, 03:56:39 AM »

That's more of a quote than a speech. Unless you guys speak very quickly in Iceland. You know, one word sentences.

WMLute · « **Reply #42 on:** March 12, 2007, 04:19:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Angus
The Kungan's speech:
"I have something to say. It's better to burn out, than Faaaade awaaayyyy"

"Kurgan"

Excel1 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 12, 2007, 05:14:15 AM »

Hedley Lamarr:

"Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp-out runaway decency in the west. Now, you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor"

"I want rustlers, cutthroats, murders, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con-men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglars, horse thieves, bull-dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh**-kickers, and Methodists"

Curval · « **Reply #44 on:** March 12, 2007, 07:16:33 AM »

The Durango-95 purred away real horrorshow ó a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. Soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. We fillied around for a while with other travelers of the night, playing hogs of the road. Then we headed west, what we were after now was the old surprise visit, that was a real kick and good for laughs and lashing of the ultra-violent.

Then, brothers, it came. O bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was gorgeousness and georgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise, silver-flamed and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again, crunched like candy thunder. It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures. There were veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was smecking all over my rot and grinding my boot into their tortured litsos and there were naked devotchkas ripped and creeching against walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them.