Live Poll: Golden Monologues

Please move this to "Idea". Typo: unforgettable

Easy to read Names and monologues https://www.imdb.com/list/ls560089663/copy .

What do you mean by "bounding"?

FYC: Howard Beale's rant https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/mediaviewer/rm841095937 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U

? ? Dirty Harry (1971)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/reference/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/ratings 153,121 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 7.7 / 10 When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city,tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahanis assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. Clint Eastwood ... Harry Callahan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/quotes Harry Callahan: Uh uh. I know what you're thinking."Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off,you've gotta ask yourself one question:"Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xjr2hnOHiM 8,215,993 views5,430 Comments .

@Breumaster , For your consideration: General George S. Patton Jr. from Patton (1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/mediaviewer/rm1550096384/ Both his opening and closing monologues: 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.  Note: The monologue is much longer than these two sentences. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/quotes/qt0454727 [last lines] Patton: [voiceover] For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting. See also: https://taskandpurpose.com/history/6-remarkable-excerpts-from-pattons-famously-vulgar-3rd-army-speech/

@Breumaster , For your consideration: Lt. Barney Greenwald from The Caine Mutiny (1954) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/mediaviewer/rm1607054080/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/quotes/qt1098819 Speech criticizing the Cain crew for acting against Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg: Lt. Barney Greenwald: You know something? When I was studying law, and Mr. Keefer here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. Oh, no, we knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? QUEEG did! And a lot of other guys - tough, sharp guys, who didn't crack up like Queeg.

? ? The Wizard of Oz (1939)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/reference/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ratings 388,318 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.1 / 10 Young Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farmto the magical Land of Oz, Judy Garland           ...  Dorothy GaleMargaret Hamilton ...  The Wicked Witch of the West https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes [Dorothy watches the Wicked Witch melt]The Wicked Witch of the West: [her final lines]  You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting!Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh! Photo Gallery  Margaret Hamiltonhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/mediaindex?refine=nm0002121 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/mediaviewer/rm3547956224/     I'm melting! melting! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/mediaviewer/rm830112768/ - - -    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopdD9Cu-So 7,921,290 views .

? ? Road House (1989)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/reference/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/ratings 70,898 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 6.6 / 10 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/tvschedule A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar. Patrick Swayze ... Dalton https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/quotes Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules.One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.    If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker,I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice.If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice.If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you,and you'll both be nice.I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/mediaindex?refine=nm0000664 Photo Gallery > Patrick Swayze : 85 photos https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/mediaviewer/rm2863184640/ - - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJsljIDKkk 1,025,713 views .

@Breumaster , For your consideration: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark from Hamlet (1948) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/mediaviewer/rm3693954304/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/quotes/qt0259983 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

I honestly think it is impossible to narrow it down to 25.  There have been so many iconic speeches and monologues in cinema's history: military motivational  speeches, emotional meltdowns, political speeches, diatribes,  intimate confessions, farewells and eulogies, sports pep-talk, courtroom openings and summations, angry rants, adapted from plays monologues, vows of love and in each case, confrontations etc. etc. You can get 5 classic examples in each case... How about adding a parameter: from IMDb Top 250, in a Best Picture winner film, in an Oscar-winning performance... right now, I find it impossible to suggest one speech without having 20 popping in my mind instantly.

Well, anyway if I could suggest one, it would be Sean confronting Will Hunting in the park: "you think I can understand you because I read Oliver Twist?"

Please correct #16: addressed #19:  little #21: squirted #24: monologue #25: Mr. Smith's

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