The greatest movie speeches of all time!!! (1 Viewer)

[Winston T. Boogie]

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.)

 

[John Dirk]

A short yet powerful favorite of mine.

 

[telzall]

OK, here is another. In this one Tracy is on fire with his delivery. It really lifts this speech to another level. He even makes a couple of mistakes in the speech, I think, but they use this take because it is so awesome. Again, this speech is timely.

Fanaticism and ignorance IS forever busy and needs feeding. I've always thought this grammatical error quite telling.

 

[telzall]

And, of course, there's this. Skip to the 2:30 point:

 

[Walter Kittel]

I am hesitant to post this due to the liberal use of N-Bombs, but it is one of the more memorable moments in True Romance...



- Walter.

 

[John Dirk]

I am hesitant to post this due to the liberal use of N-Bombs, but it is one of the more memorable moments in True Romance...



- Walter.

If you hadn't, I might have at some point. QT knows how to be true to the material when he writes. It's never the word as much as the intent.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

A powerful scene for sure but it might stretch the definition of" speech" a bit.

It does a little yes, but mostly he is giving a speech with a couple small interruptions. When I say great movie speeches I don't mean the character has to stand up and give a speech to a group of people, I just mean the actor delivers an extended piece of dialogue.

It's a moment in the film where the actor and dialogue are doing all the heavy lifting.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Fanaticism and ignorance IS forever busy and needs feeding. I've always thought this grammatical error quite telling.

Yes, that is one of the mistakes I believe he makes in that speech. It still works, the other mistake comes earlier in the speech and he just again says what I think is the wrong word. That is a great line though and I have used it a lot.