You don't have to do Shakespeare, there are plenty of plays that weren't written by him. And of course, you can do a movie scene, if there's one you think you can do in an individual style, go for it. Just be conscious of the trap of doing an impression.dwightsteel said:
Monologues. Help!
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The Shakespeare line wasn't directed towards you. I noticed a couple of people made the suggestion, and a lot of high school drama classes really try and hammer into young drama students the works of the Bard.Herbanator said:
On the movie note, I think having a reference of what someone else did is a nice way to see what you like, and where you would deviate. Even back when I was doing plays, I liked trying to find other peoples variations on the character I was playing. It gave me ideas on what the character looks like on stage, and an idea of where I would deviate. I do agree it's really easy to fall into someone else's interpretation of a character. But call it an element of challenge to a truly aspiring young actor.
If I was you, personally I'd Recite Johnny Cash's "Man In Black". It works perfectly as a speech and is just abot the right lenght, but you can always add dramatic pauses for effect.
Link to the lyrics
http://www.metrolyrics.com/man-in-black-lyrics-johnny-cash.html
Link to the lyrics
http://www.metrolyrics.com/man-in-black-lyrics-johnny-cash.html
Quints monologue in Jaws about his experience in the Indianapolis incident. Remember to sound very cold while saying it.
I'd recommend looking at some plays by Ibsen, most notably Peer Gynt. There's an excellent monologue in there where the title character explains why he refuses to do anything constructive with his life.
Kurtz' monologue about horror from Apocalypse Now
I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Agreed. Iago is a brilliant character, simply because he's pure evil, and he's well aware that he's pure evil. He has several great soliloquys; any of those would be great.justnotcricket said:
I'd also like to recommend Roy Batty's final speech from Blade Runner, but I'm not really sure it's long enough.
It's going to be hard for you to find a 3 minute long speach from a film in recent years (most believe that if a scene with heavy dialouge is longer than 3 pages, it's just to damn long). What I would suggest to you is any Kevin Smith film, as his characters go on and on and on with dialouge (mostly I suggest Chasing Amy, Clerks, and the final monolouge from the Flying Car short(that is on youtube if you want it)).
Just do. It in the.
Style. Of William. Shatner and you can. Make. It.
At least three. Times as.
Long as it would.
Be. Normally.
(KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!)
Style. Of William. Shatner and you can. Make. It.
At least three. Times as.
Long as it would.
Be. Normally.
(KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!)
only Sam Jackson can pull that off!The infamous SCAMola said:
ive heard others try and it just sounds like a bad SNL skit.
good idea tho
Everyone does Shakespere, he's overdone and so boring, and frankly, we lionze the guy. People say he's the best ever, but we've had a couple hundred years of human history since he was writing to improve, and personally speaking, I think we have (And I say that as an English major in College). If you could find one of Jigsaw's speeches from one of the Saw movies that was long enough, I bet that would be really fun to do! And it'd certainly be a change from the normal monologue. He's generally got a reasnobly long speech at the end of every movie (with that cool background music), I bet one of them would be long enough. The earlier Apocalypse Now suggestion would be pretty cool too.
DUDE!
BEST IDEA EVER!
do wesley's part from the Princess Bride where he's leading Buttercup thru the fire swamp telling about what happened to him!
BEST IDEA EVER!
do wesley's part from the Princess Bride where he's leading Buttercup thru the fire swamp telling about what happened to him!
You win.Grimm91 said:
Anyway, I already mentioned the Jerry Maguire speech on the previous page. However, I feel that I need to add some more. I'm interested in Drama, I do Maths at university but acting is a passion of mine anyway so I occasionally go on Wikiquote and practise monologues to myself (odd, I know, but if it helps me get a role better than 'Patron' in the new play that I was in this week, then it's all good, right?). Anyway, here goes:
My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah.
[first lines] Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
Basic Principles - no woman wakes up saying "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today!" Now, she might say "This is a really bad time for me," or something like "I just need some space," or my personal favorite "I'm really into my career right now." You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? 'Cause she's lying to you, that's why. You understand me? Lying! It's not a bad time for her. She doesn't need any space. And she may be into her career, but what she's really saying is "Uh, get away from me now," or possibly "Try harder, stupid," but which one is it? 60% of all human communication is nonverbal body language; 30% is your tone, so that means 90% of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth. Of course she's going to lie to you! She's a nice person! She doesn't want to hurt your feelings! What else she going to say? She doesn't even know you... yet. Luckily, the fact is that just like the rest of us, even a beautiful woman doesn't know what she wants until she sees it, and that's where I come in. My job is to open her eyes. Basic Principles - no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet; he just needs the right broom.
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud ? God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
Apart from the last one, you'll see that I'm a bit of a romantic...
I actually think I just came up with a very good one, you could do Shylock's monologue from The Merchant of Venice.
You know, the whole "Hath not a Jew eyes..." speech.
You know, the whole "Hath not a Jew eyes..." speech.