For example, in the film Sense and Sensibility, Elinor finally unleashes her emotions, that, unbeknownst to her sister she has been keeping secret for quite some time. She has been tending to her sister's broken heart solely until this moment. This is a powerful example of perspective as one sister, who is completely self-absorbed with her own misery, cannot see the exact same pain in her own flesh and blood.
Sense & Sensibility
written by Emma Thompson, from novel by Jane Austen
Elinor: [trying hard to be controlled] Edward made his promise a long time ago, long before he met me. Though he may harbor some regrets, I believe he will be happy in the knowledge that he did his duty and kept his word. After all - after all that is bewitching in the idea of one's happiness depending entirely on one person, it is not always possible. We must accept. Edward will marry Lucy - and you and I will go home.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yp1RTbWkw (Click to see the scene!)
Marianne (Kate Winslet): Always resignation and acceptance! Always prudence and honor and duty! Elinor, where is your heart?
Elinor: [Finally explodes She turns upon Marianne almost savagely] What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced upon me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hopes. I have had to endure her exultation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have produced proof enough of a broken heart even for you!
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ReplyDeleteI love the infamous "Out Dammed Spot" from The Scottish Play, performed by Lady Macbeth. The Lady has gone mad after she and her husband murdered King Duncan, and her husband took the thrown. The Lady has lost control of herself, and proceeds to kill herself by the end of the show. This is act 5, scene 1.
ReplyDeleteLady Macbeth: Yet here's a spot!
Doctor: Hark! She speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
Doctor: Do you mark that?
Lady Macbeth: The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will these hands ne'er be clean?—No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You mar all with this starting.
Doctor: Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.
Gentlewoman: She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known.
Lady Macbeth: Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!
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Doctor: This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds.
Lady Macbeth: Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s grave.
Doctor: Even so?
Lady Macbeth: To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!
Now for those who do not speak Shakespeare, you may just think Lady Macbeth has an OCD about clothes washing. The actual meaning is that Lady Macbeth still see's a spot of blood on her hands, and it's King Duncan's blood. She aided her husband in killing King Duncan, and the blood she got on her hand is visually gone, but she thinks it's still there. Lady Macbeth helped murder the king because she wanted power, but all she got was the deaths of more people on her husbands account, and she was scarred for life by the murdering of King Duncan. She in this scene, sleep walking, has gone crazy, and as I mentioned, she commits suicide later in the show. Lady Macbeth still see's blood on her hands, and it is the guilt that drives her to sleep walking, mental instability, and eventually suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyuB7JnHGs
One of my most favorite monologues is the "Stuff" Monologue by Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada" She plays Miranda Preistly. I love this monologue because it is Streep just taking over the scene and diving right into her character (which is an editor of a high-class fashion magazine.) She just demolishes Hathaway with her intensity, which plays beautifully with her role overall in the movie. The way she portrays the character through the words is exquisite. But, I also have to give props to writer for making this monologue so readable.
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Miranda: This stuff? Oh, ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean. You’re also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn’t it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic “casual corner” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”
Here is the link to the video, the monologue starts at 1:26, but overall it's a great scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVptO7o4L8&feature=related
This scene takes my breathe away how Streep played this character so well. She took the role of Miranda Priestly to another level. She makes her cold and and pretentious, but with as much smarts as possible.
Alexandra, gorgeous, I also love that scene. Lady Macbeth (when played right) is understandable even to most uneducated Shakespeare watcher. She makes is seem like such a dark time in her life. She pulls the emotion right out of her and into really that poor spot. To me, this is one of the best climaxes in the whole show. She makes the whole audience forget about the play and just concentrate on her. The ability to do that is a gift, and Shakespeare gives it to every actor that is casted in that role.
This is a great monologue not only because it's written well but also because the performance is so strong. She is able to pull off a very sophisticated but also very cool nature without using any drastic influences on her voice. Instead it's almost deadpan but not really because you can hear layers of emotion beneath it. All in all it is a very good Monologue.
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One my favorite scenes from Romeo and Juliet is the fight scene between Tybalt and Mercutio. Mercutio is one of the few people who is able to freely move between the two houses. He is the joker of the the show and the main source of humor. This scene that I'm typing up is the aftermath of the fight.
ReplyDeleteMercutio: I am hurt. A plague o'both the houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing?
Benvolio: What, art thou hurt?
Mercutio: Ay, ay a scratch, a scratch, marry, 'tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
Romeo: Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, i warrent, for this world. A plague o'both your houses! What? A dog, a rat a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
Romeo: I thought all for the best.
Mercutio: Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague o'both your houses! They have made worm's meat of me. I have it and soundly too. Your houses!
I love this bit because Mercutio as a character doesn't change much up until this point. Even after he's hurt he continues to joke about the severity of the wound until the last minute. And then he curses both of the families because he was a fatality of their feud. I don't think that the impact of his words are always understood. He is basically saying "Look what you've done, I was not part of this family matter but i'm the one who'se dying. May your family die horribly."
Matt: I agree about how Streep pulled off the character. I think the casting in that movie was great all around. Miranda is a great character and Streep a very versatile actor. I can see why you love this movie.
I agree completely. All of a sudden Mercutio, transforms from a clown to a serious and wise, if dying man. This monolog made me think twice about everything Mercutio said up until this point. Looking back I could see past the jokes, and little bits of his wisdom started popping out at me.
DeleteSchindler “Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. It would have given me two more. At least one. It would have given me one. One more. One more person.”
ReplyDeleteThis monograph is being said when the war is over, the jews who work in the factory are free to go. Schindler and the workers gather around behind the factory, Schindler found that he saved a lot of lives, and found that he still got valuable belongings around him. He felt guilty, for not saving lives while he had the ability to do so. That is a scene that inspires you deeply of the meaning of life. I can't actually describe it cuz it is beyond words.
This is a movie that everyone should spend time to watch, it is so realistic, so touching, so deep. Too much talking lol, Ill just end it here.
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I completely agree with Eric regarding his analysis. I also agree that it is too hard to accurately describe in words what Schindler was saying.
DeleteHowever, I would like to add on that Schindler did a great job putting the Jews to work in his ammunition factories. He was credited for saving at least 1,000 lives. Even though he felt slightly guilty and that he could have done more, he doesn't realize that he had done more than many other people. He is an exceptional example of a hero.
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ReplyDeleteYou cant take it with you (movie)
ReplyDeleteGrandpa Martin Vanderhof: [offering grace] Quiet, please, quiet! Well, sir, here we are again. We've had quite a time of it lately, but it seems that the worst of it is over. Course, the fireworks all blew up, but we can't very well blame that on you. Anyway, everything's turned out fine, as it usually does. Alice is going to marry Tony; Mr. Kirby, who's turned out to be a very good egg, sold us back our house - he'll probably forget all about big deals for a while. Nobody on our block has to move; and, with the right handling, I think we can even thaw out Mrs. Kirby here. We've all got our health; as far as anything else is concerned, we still leave that up to you. Thank you. Bring it on, Reba!
This version of the monologue is actually from the movie and I would've preferred that it was from the play however I could not find it on the Internet. This show is one of my favorites. There's a lot of drama and humor and some great lines. After the whole story is played out it comes to this clean nice resolved ending. The character who speaking is my favorite and the one time I've seen it was performed by Tom Miller who's one of my favorite actors and a close friend and he did a wonderful job performing it. The model of purpose is to sum up the events of the play for the audience so that when they leave the theater they are reminded of all the different points of the play went over. It's like a small and creates their own little movie in their head so that they can relive some of the key part's. This sort of ending is very useful and makes for a clean show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sKMms61qY&feature=related
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The Notebook
ReplyDeleteIn this scene of the Notebook, Noah is telling Allie to leave her fiance. Noah is trying to convince Allie that she is doing what everyone else wants her to do and not what she wants to do. Noah lists all the things that are wrong with their relationship, but his argument is that he loves her anyway and is willing to work at their relationship so that they can be together.
I think that Noah's speech is effective because he is truthful and not just saying a bunch of lovey dovey stuff to try and whisk her away. Even though it doesn't work on Allie at that moment, she later comes back to him because she knows that everything he says is true and she really does love him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnIuBl3RL0
Young Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a ***** and I tell you when you are a pain in the ***. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-*** thing.
Young Allie: So what?
Young Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.
I agree with you. I think when she came back to Noah to see him she had started to remember how in love they truly were and that she has not had the same burning passion since they were together. He cuts through the romance and tells her straight up that yeah it is going to be hard but you cannot go through life with out making hard decisions. And he will be there to face it with her.
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ReplyDeleteForrest: You died on a Saturday morning, and I had you placed here, under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Mama always said dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. 'Bout to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth everyday. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And everynight we read a book- and he's so smart Jenny. You'd be so proud of him, I am. He, uh, wrote you a letter, but he says I can't read it, I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Mama's right or if its Lieutenant Dan, I don't know if we each have a destiny or if we're all floating around accidental, like on a breeze. But I think maybe its both, maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFvASiMTDz0&feature=related
This is a powerful speech. Forrest is showing how caring he is. He was not thought of as smart, but he knew more than people thought he did. The speech comes right at the end of the movie and is an effective way to wrap up the movie. By going through life and everything that he has been told and losing the people he loves has given him a clear understanding death is sad but beautiful. He is still connect to JEnny and always will be. He shows her this by burying her under the tree where they were safe as children. He knew she would be safe there.
One emotional seen to draw from Saving Private Ryan (1998) is when the platoon is settling down for the night. They share stories and accounts from their civilian life. Captain Miller, the man in charge, is asked about his civilian job and life. His answer shocks most of the men.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Miller: Mike, what's the pool on me up to right now? What's it up to? What is it, 300 dollars? Is that it? 300? I'm a schoolteacher. (pause) I teach English composition...in this little town called Addley, Pennsylvania. The last eleven years I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. (pause) Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think, well, ah now that figures...but over here, it's, uh, a big, a big mystery. So I guess I've changed some. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her... and how I'll ever be able to... tell her about days like today. Ahh, Ryan... I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The man means nothing to me, he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to Ramelle, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then...then that's my mission.
This dialogue shows that going back home to see his wife is what Captain Miller wants most. He wants out of the combat. Knowing he is being sent on a challenging mission for a kid he doesn't even know nor care about doesn't particularly interest him. Captain Miller stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944, where he saw men to his left and right collapse from shrapnel and 8mm Mauser bullets. Surviving that day is enough of a challenge and horror for any man, and Captain Miller wants to return home. He makes it very clear that he will do whatever it takes to be shipped back home. Back to his normal life of teaching and coaching.
“He said it as if he had been Charlemagne, and commanded armies: and indeed much as I admired his courage, I was always in danger of smiling at his vanity: in danger, I say for had I not kept my countenance, I would be afraid to think what a quarrel might have followed.”
ReplyDeleteThis is a short monolog spoken by David Balfour, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. David (protagonist) is describing his new friend, and the main supporting character Alan Breck of Clan Stuart. What I love about this monolog is how a Stevenson describes Alan’s character completely in one (rather long) sentence.
David is the main character, but Alan manages to nearly usurp him, through shear force of personality. Alan’s character is everything described above; brave, gentlemanly, clever, vicious, arrogant, vain and sometimes violent. He is, however fiercely loyal to his friends, though he treats them like “soldiers” in his metaphorical army.
Here, we see, David is clearly very impressed, even grateful, but already noticeably cowed by Alan. David finds Alan’s excessive vanity extremely amusing, but is not only worried about losing a friend by “smiling”, but is slightly frightened by what might unfold, if Alan were to suspect he were being laughed at. In a one-breath monolog, Stevenson is able both to introduce Alan, and to lay the grounds for his friendship With David.
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ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite movies, and I picked the monologue where Eliza Doolittle, played by Audrey Hepburn, explains to Prof. Higgins the relationship she wanted from him. She’s in love with him and she tries to tell him, almost warming the Professor's heart despite himself.
Liza: No I don't. That's not the sort of feeling I want from you. And don't you be too sure of yourself or of me. I could have been a bad girl if I'd liked. I've seen more of some things than you, for all your learning. Girls like me can drag gentlemen down to make love to them easy enough. And they wish each other dead the next minute. (much troubled) I want a little kindness. I know I'm a common ignorant girl, and you a book-learned gentleman; but I'm not dirt under your feet. What I done (correcting herself) what I did was not for the dresses and the taxis: I did it because we were pleasant together and I come--came--to care for you; not to want you to make love to me, and not forgetting the difference between us, but more friendly like.
The movie is downloaded onto my computer so unfortunately I can't put a link up, but it's such a wonderful movie, everyone should see it!
Robin Hood
ReplyDeleteThis is a great monologue from the classic story; The Adventures Of Robin Hood. In this rendition, Robin Hood is played by Errol Flynn. Here Robin Hood is attempting to rally his troops by enlightening them with a powerful motivating speech. Down with Prince John!
ROBIN: I’ve called you here as freeborn Englishmen, loyal to our king. While he reigned over us, we lived in peace. But since Prince John has seized the regency, Guy of Gisbourne and the rest of his traitors have murdered and pillaged. You’ve all suffered from their cruelty: the ear loppings, the beatings, the blindings with hot irons, the burning of our farms and homes, the mistreatment of our women. It’s time to put an end to this! Now, this forest is wide. It can shelter and clothe and feed a band of good, determined men, good swordsmen, good archers, good fighters. Men, if you’re willing to fight for our people, I want you! Are you with me? … That you, the freemen of this forest, swear to despoil the rich only to give to the poor, to shelter the old and the helpless, to protect all women rich or poor, Norman or Saxon. Swear to fight for a free England. To protect her loyally until the return of our King and sovereign Richard the Lion Heart. And swear to fight to the death against our oppressors
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This dialogue is classic if your into action movies. Not only is Robin Hood an icon by the time this speech is made, he also shows his true leadership by giving this speech. As the story goes, Robin is a very balanced and contempt character, who's charming and understanding. At this moment in the story, he shows his true leadership. Yes, all the men know he's strong and very talented in the world of self defense, but his ability to lead is framed in the way he is able to motivate his troops, and gain more followers. Robin's confidence and ego allows him to become the perfect hero in a dark time. It is the perfect balance of both intelligence and, well, testosterone.
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