Live Poll: Golden Monologues

@Jessica​ 

Oops, sorry. I corrected both.

@Peter_pbn​ 

Peter, I might have used that phrase wrongly. I meant something like to be totally immersed into. Maybe there is a better formulation. I'm trying to work out something better.

Perhaps "absorbing" or "engrossing".

@Peter_pbn​ 

Thank you, Peter. I corrected it to "engrossing". I think it sounds better than absorbing.

@Peter_pbn​ 

Thank you, Peter. I've put him on the list.

@ACT_1​ 

Tank you, ACT_1. I'll put Callahan on the list.

@dan_dassow​ 

I'm very touched by the work you've put into your suggestion and feel a little lousy to have forgot to mention that it shouldn't be voice-overs. I added it in the suggestion-part of the site here. I remember a few days ago, my wife wanted me to put the monologues of Red ('Shawshank Redemption') on the list and I said the same to her like I do now to you: No voice-overs. I think that will be the work for a next poll I'm planing. I'll set up a new Thread for it and will collect your idea to it. Sorry, but on the other hand thank you, Dan.

@Breumaster​ ,

FYI: The opening monologue is not a voice-over. The opening of Patton (1970) shows General George S. Patton Jr. standing in front of an American flag speaking the monologue. The monologue in the film is a shortened version of a speech that Patton actually gave on numerous occasions.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/quotes/qt0454707

Patton: Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. 

PATTON Introduction Speech Intro ( English )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE

Ok, I accept that after seeing the video. As you wrote "voice-over" isn't the main issue. I'll put Patton on the list. The movie is rated by 101k users with an average rating of 8.0, so it surely is to be considered as a golden monologue. I'm a little confused, because I saw the movie, but couldn't remember the speech. I should let check myself about dementia. But on the other hand I saw at least about 4800 movies, so what? Thank you, Dan. :D

@dan_dassow​ 

Thank you, Dan. I've put him on the list. Very good!

@Breumaster​ ,

Thank you.

@ACT_1​ 

Thank you, ACT_1. I've put The Witch of the West on the list.

@ACT_1​ 

I never saw it, but got a good feeling about Swayzee in the 1980s. So I've put him on the list.

@dan_dassow​ 

Thank you, Dan. Hamlet and Yorick are on the list. ;)

@ElMaruecan82​ 

Excellent - so please give me the best you can think of and I'll put it to the list.

@ElMaruecan82​ 

P.S.: It should also be memorable to a wide audience. An art house movie no one knows can have a excellent monologue, but I want them to be known by a wide audience. Something many people remember instantly. That's within the term "golden monologue". Something to remember together.

@Breumaster ,

ElMo is the King of Quotation polls, so he can probably provide you with much more than 35 choices. Once you have some more choices, you may be able to determine a criteria that works for an creating at least one poll.

For your consideration:

Jefferson Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/mediaviewer/rm3551644672/

An idealistic Jefferson Smith filibusters the US Senate

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/quotes/qt1347651

@dan_dassow​ 

Thank you, Dan. I'll put it on the list. And also thank you for pointing out that ElMo is a quotation specialist. I'd do some more monologue-poll-suggestions with his help. (Part 2,3,4... maybe?) The main idea is that many people know about those monologues, which make them golden, somehow. It's something about remembering, too. There is a wide audience's memory. People of nearly each age or country remember those monologues. It's not only about a specialist who knows them all, but a specialist expectedly also knows all cinematic monologues that a wide audience knows.

@ElMaruecan82​ 

ElMo, I think my idea is well explained, at least in between. If you would do the same idea, which monologues would you choose? Please remind, they should match with the memory of a wide audience. And may there be a second part, eventually? I think there are many very memorable and also golden monologues on the list. But I think you can open my eyes for a more fitting mix of monologues. One of the main issues why I've chosen that monologues is that they are divers. It's not only one stream of monologues of classics, but monologues which are remembered well by a wide mass of people of today. What are your suggestions?

Lol the reason I made a speciality of quotation polls is because speeches and monologues cover a way too wide a range to make it into one poll... except if I started a series of "Top 25 50 (then 100, then 150)-word movie speeches"

The closest I did to a monologue poll is this one and it might help you:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/MCKQSaumlNo/

Now again, you can easily get away with the difficulty by asking us our personal favorite monologue :)

Now, you can also make it a three-parter :

- opening monologue: one that occurs during the first act/ expositional part and sets the mood of the film (12 Angry Men, Patton, The Godfather...)

- a middle-part monologue: Sean confronting Will Hunting, Howard Beale's rant, the 'Greed' speech, Rocky's pep talk to his son, Quint's shark story...

- a climactic monologue: any vow of love like in Jerry Maguire, Rambo's meltdown, Forrest Gump "what is destiny?" speech at Jenny's grave...

lol you can even make it a four-parter with "ending monologue" but I don't recall many that aren't voice-over, maybe Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men"

@ElMaruecan82​ 

ElMo, I've put your suggestions on the list, except 12 angry men. I don't remember clearly, but wasn't it a voice-over at the beginning? If you give me an image and the description, I'd also put it on the list. Now the list exceeds 25 options. But maybe we'll do a second list, if there are very many compareable good monologues. Thank you anyway, very good examples.

@ElMaruecan82​ 

Thank you for your support, ElMo. I'll care about that, soon. I guess I'll take them all on the list. But I got little less time this week, because my job will take much time. But I'll do soon.

@Jessica​ 

Corrected and added ElMo's suggestions.

@Peter_pbn​ 

Thank you, Peter. Thank you, Buddies. :D