Winston T. Boogie
Senior HTF Member
OK, movies are made up of a lot of things, acting, photography, costumes, sets, but man do I love some good dialogue. I've wanted to do a thread like this for a long time and figured I would finally start one. I searched to see if there was already a thread like it but could not find one.
Here's what I would ask of anyone who wants to participate, post a video of the speech if you can find one. I would like to watch the scene if you can find it. If not you can just post the speech itself, just the dialogue if you have that, or if you want to just be lazy you can say the such and such speech and name the film it is in and who gives it. Like Quint's Indianapolis speech from Jaws.
It's up to you if you want to make some comments about why you love the speech, what you think makes it great, and how it stands out to you in movie history. That's optional, you can let the greatness of the speech speak for itself.
What am I hoping we get out of this thread? Well, great movie speeches can be really inspirational and moving. Who could not use that these days? Plus I want to see if there are speeches I've never heard because I have not seen the film. I feel like they don't write great speeches for characters as often these days, I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong if you have some speeches from more recent films you would like to share.
So please participate if there is a movie speech that has always made you feel inspired or emotional or had you transfixed.
I'll kick things off with a few classics and thank you in advance if you do participate.
(I was going to post this in the Movies section because that was where I thought it belonged but it seems you need to add a link to The Movie Database to do that and this is not about a specific film so that did not apply. If this thread can be moved to the Movie section, fantastic, if not here is fine.)
Here's what I would ask of anyone who wants to participate, post a video of the speech if you can find one. I would like to watch the scene if you can find it. If not you can just post the speech itself, just the dialogue if you have that, or if you want to just be lazy you can say the such and such speech and name the film it is in and who gives it. Like Quint's Indianapolis speech from Jaws.
It's up to you if you want to make some comments about why you love the speech, what you think makes it great, and how it stands out to you in movie history. That's optional, you can let the greatness of the speech speak for itself.
What am I hoping we get out of this thread? Well, great movie speeches can be really inspirational and moving. Who could not use that these days? Plus I want to see if there are speeches I've never heard because I have not seen the film. I feel like they don't write great speeches for characters as often these days, I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong if you have some speeches from more recent films you would like to share.
So please participate if there is a movie speech that has always made you feel inspired or emotional or had you transfixed.
I'll kick things off with a few classics and thank you in advance if you do participate.
(I was going to post this in the Movies section because that was where I thought it belonged but it seems you need to add a link to The Movie Database to do that and this is not about a specific film so that did not apply. If this thread can be moved to the Movie section, fantastic, if not here is fine.)
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