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Started by alandhopewell, January 13, 2014, 02:00:37 PM

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alandhopewell

January 13, 2014, 02:00:37 PM
     This may have been made into a thread before, I'm not sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_seKyGYlTHY
If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

     The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

Trevor

#1
January 13, 2014, 08:46:11 PM
Morgan Freeman's pre-test speech to his children in LEAN ON ME. Wow: truly inspirational.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

indianasmith

#2
January 13, 2014, 11:16:50 PM
The St Crispin's Day speech delivered by Kenneth Brannon in HENRY V.
Anthony Hopkin's closing argument before the Supreme Court in AMISTAD.
And the whole "Today we are canceling the apocalypse!" spiel from PACIFIC RIM.
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Trevor

#3
January 14, 2014, 01:00:57 AM
Denzel Washington's "illegal gathering speech" in Cry Freedom.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

retrorussell

#4
January 14, 2014, 11:13:20 AM
The ones with such good intentions that come off so cheeseball and trite.  :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJnxlXepsY
Or come on the heels of the hero committing multiple acts of murder:  :bouncegiggle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2NeCowTwU
"O the legend they say, on a Valentine's Day, is a curse that'll live on and on.."

Josso

#5
January 14, 2014, 03:15:29 PM
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The apparently now famous speech in Synecdoche, New York even though there is a lot more profound stuff in that film. If this wasn't limited to film I would put in so much of Picard  :teddyr: - I'll have to give this thread some thought, I watch quite a few dialogue heavy films

fulci420

#6
January 14, 2014, 09:49:27 PM
No contest IMO. Perfect writing and preformances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZg_ALxEz0

Trevor

#7
January 16, 2014, 06:42:38 AM
Coach Rig (Robert Loggia) in Necessary Roughness:  :teddyr: :teddyr:

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Coach Rig: NOT A [expletive deleted] THING'S been working for us. Like this [expletive deleted] suit doesn't work for me... and this stinking tie... and this [expletive deleted] shirt. IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME. YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY WINNING HARD-NOSED FOOTBALL? YOU PLAY FOOTBALL LIKE ED GENERRO PLAYED FOOTBALL. A guy who gave his life for this football team. He was a 140-pound halfback, and HE PLAYED LIKE A [expletive deleted] WILDMAN! NO! LIKE A [expletive deleted] RAMPAGING BEAST! And that's the way you got to do it! YOU GO OUT THERE! YOU TEAR THEIR [expletive deleted] HEADS OFF, AND YOU [expletive deleted] DOWN THEIR NECKS! Let us pray.

It's the "Let us pray" part of that speech that always cracks me up.  :teddyr: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

#8
January 16, 2014, 06:47:02 AM
I forgot to add the text of Morgan Freeman's speech from Lean On Me: wow.  :thumbup:

QuoteJoe Clark: Alright people, here we are. In one hour, you are going to take an exam administered by the State to test your basic skills and the quality of education at East Side High. I want to tell you what the people are saying about you and what they think about your chances. They say you're inferior! You are just a bunch of [expletive deleted] and poor white trash! Education is wasted on you! You cannot learn! You're lost! I mean ALL of you!

I want all the white students to stand up. All my white students, stand up. Stand up. C'mon, stand up. These are my white children and they're the same as all of you! They've got no place to go, if they had, they'd have abandoned us a long time ago like everybody else did. So, here they are in East Side High, just like the rest of us. You can sit down.

Are you getting my point, people? Is it beginning to sink in? We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall, we meet our fate together! Now, it took the help of a good, good friend to make me know and understand that and I do understand that and I'm grateful. I'm eternally grateful.

And now, I've got a message for those people out there who've abandoned you and written you off! Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Good!

You are NOT inferior! Your grades may be, your school may have been. But you can turn that around and make liars out of those bastards in exactly one hour when you take that test and pass it and win! So here's what I want you to do. When you find your thoughts wandering, I want you to knuckle back down and concentrate. Concentrate! Remember what's at stake and show them what East Side High's all about: a spirit that will not die!
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

ChaosTheory

#9
January 16, 2014, 03:25:03 PM
The Work of John Doe

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"(Network - 1976)

Michael Fassbender: Hunger ("Foal") Monologue

QUINT'S USS INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH


Couldn't find a video of it, but I always loved this little bit from CITIZEN KANE -
Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chance opts between two worlds
Fire walk with me

Trevor

#10
January 17, 2014, 01:42:29 AM
David Niven's 'to-hell-with-everything' speech in The Guns of Navarone: shows just how anti-war this film really was.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Ted C

#11
January 17, 2014, 07:43:54 AM
"Slugs?  He created slugs? I would have started with lasers, six o'clock, day one!" -- Evil, Time Bandits

Trevor

#12
January 17, 2014, 10:28:48 AM
Bill Murray's you-know- wassamarrer-with-you-all-STOOPID speech in STRIPES.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

alandhopewell

#13
January 17, 2014, 11:48:54 AM
If it's true what they say, that GOD created us in His image, then why should we not love creating, and why should we not continue to do so, as carefully and ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of?

     The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.

tracy

#14
January 17, 2014, 12:29:53 PM
Yes,I'm fine....as long as I don't look too closely.
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