If you spend any time with me, then you will quickly learn that I love movie dialogue. I memorize it, I quote it, and I’m sure I’m more than a little annoying as a result. But I don’t care, because while some of us might go to the movies to see mind-blowing special effects, and others to see their favorite stars, for me it’s all about the words — which I guess shouldn’t come as a surprise considering my line of work. Unfortunately in our fancy-schmancy Event Movie world, filmmakers sometimes forget how important the dialogue can be, and when it comes to letting your actor shine, there is nothing that can showcase their skill and talent like a well written monologue or speech.
So you might be wondering how I got on this tangent in the first place. Well, I recently stumbled across the website American Rhetoric, and before you knew it I had spent an hour reading some of my absolute favorite monologues and speeches from the movies. Usually when people talk about classic movie speeches, it tends to be the kind of speech that will accompany an epic like Patton, Malcolm X, or even Braveheart. But, ‘prestige’ films aren’t the only source of great movie speeches. So I started to think about my most loved movie speeches, and like any movie fan with a need for hierarchies, I decided to put together a list.
After the jump: my top five (in no particular order), and your nominations for favorite movie speeches…
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