One dude on stage

YaYa

So, monologues

I love em you love em we all love em

this is the thread to talk about/post some awesome monologues you've seen or performed

I fully expect Quetzi to come in with his crazy monologue

I saw a version of the Telltale Heart performed by one guy and it was batshit crazy

#pipe

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5Za2k5wA3sk

yourclothes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPCiJ18RllA

Cilla Black

Anything and everything by Henry Rollins

Qorzm

I did a ravishing performance of Juror #10's monologue at the end of 12 Angry Men

Monoxide

guess it's time to post this again

Fuck! You! That's my name!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

yourclothes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloyU83_2Yo

Monoxide

This one too

I wish Baldwin would get back into these serious arrogant roles, he was good at them

I am God.

Captain K

Monoxide wrote: »

guess it's time to post this again

Fuck! You! That's my name!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

this is probably my favorite scene in any film ever


I know it was originally written for the stage but he just nailed it here and I don't need to see any other versions of it

#pipe

You guys should watch the video I posted.

It's Edward Norton at his best

yourclothes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0X3T6-K22o

OremLK

Going with the theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Not exactly a monologue in it's truest form, but two very good performances worth tossing in here.

A few minutes ago it was like a Poolhall in this mother fucker...

Druhim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQCyAQBgXY&feature=related

Centipede Damascus

this isn't a very long monologue, but I love it anyway

from Secondhand Lions

bongi

YaYa wrote: »

I saw a version of the Telltale Heart performed by one guy and it was batshit crazy

So...like the book then?

OremLK

It was a short story and it is awesome. I've seen it performed too, it's pretty popular. Because it is awesome.

YaYa

bongi wrote: »

YaYa wrote: »

I saw a version of the Telltale Heart performed by one guy and it was batshit crazy

So...like the book then?

well yeah

but he'd adapted it for the stage

totally minimalist

just him, a huge staircase and a lot of lighting

it was incredible

DrIanMalcolm

I’m glad you’re unconscious. I thought maybe the sedative might have run out. The mask helps my conscience, but not as much when you’re squirming. I was going to do a little work today. See if I couldn’t figure some things out. Sadly, the meal I had earlier isn’t going to last long enough to keep a clear head. Looks like I’m going to have to carve off another piece. You don’t have a preference, do you? I figured I’d start in on one of your legs before I finished your arm. Y’know- the others would kill me if they knew I had you down here. They wouldn’t understand. You’d be gone and I’d always be hungry. Can’t think when I’m hungry. You understand, don’t you? Don’t worry- I always clean the tools after I use them. Never know when I’m going to come down here in a rush needing a bite to eat. And I don’t want you getting infected- with mine or any other disease or infection. I need you here- human- for as long as I can hold out. You understand, right? I don’t enjoy this- I think it’s sick. I do it for the good of us all. I like to think that if I didn’t keep you so drugged you’d volunteer for this. That said, I’m not going to let the drugs wear off so I can ask- so I guess I am a monster. You want to hear something really scary? Well, something that scares me, at least. I like the way flesh tastes. Really, I do. If I were to somehow find a cure for whatever’s going on with us- if things went back to the way they were…or as close as they could get… I think I’d still eat people. That terrifies me. Really. The scary part is that it’s the only thing about all this that terrifies me. And I just sawed off a friend’s foot so I can eat it.

Centipede Damascus

hey Malcolm what is that from

DrIanMalcolm

Marvel Zombies

Centipede Damascus

I need to read that, apparently

DrIanMalcolm

Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it's you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I... I know it's a long way and you're ready to go to work... all I'm saying is just wait, just... just wait and please just hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it's... I'm begging you Michael. I'm begging you. Try to make believe this is not just madness because this is not just madness. Two weeks ago I came out of the building ok, I'm running across 6th avenue there's a car waiting, I've got exactly 38 minutes to get to the airport and I'm dictating. There's this panicked associate sprinting along beside me, scribbling in a notepad, and suddenly she starts screaming, and I realize we're standing in the middle of the street, the light's changed, there's this wall of traffic, serious traffic speeding towards us, and I... I freeze, I can't move, and I'm suddenly consumed with the overwhelming sensation that I'm covered in some sort of film. It's in my hair, my face... it's like a glaze... a coating, and... at first I thought, oh my god, I know what this is, this is some sort of amniotic - embryonic - fluid. I'm drenched in afterbirth, I've breached the chrysalis, I've been reborn. But then the traffic, the stampede, the cars, the trucks, the horns, the screaming and I'm thinking no-no-no, reset, this is not rebirth, this is some kind of giddy illusion of renewal that happens in the final moment before death. And then I realize no-no-no, this is completely wrong because I look back at the building and I had the most stunning moment of clarity. I... I... I realized Michael, that I had emerged not from the doors of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm, but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the... the... the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other, larger, more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. The stench of it and the sting of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep cleansing breath and I put that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself as clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe I witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time, and Michael, the time is now.

YaYa

Wow

What's that from

Kuwa

michael clayton

Monoxide

Michael Clayton if I remember right

an excellent film by the way

Bucketman

Man I love courtroom scenes sooo much

Tucker

A Classic and one of the best

Not the most famous part of the movie but still amazing

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

DrIanMalcolm wrote: »

Marvel Zombies

What's the context?

DrIanMalcolm

Mars Elliot wrote: »

DrIanMalcolm wrote: »

Marvel Zombies

What's the context?

Hank Pym aka Yellowjacket is keeping the Black Panther, one of the last remaining people not infected with the zombie virus, alive to find a cure, and also to feast on. None of the other zombies know about it and if they did, he'd be killed for not sharing.

Centipede Damascus

this scene might as well be a monologue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY2tbeP_K1M

Bucketman

Not as good without the pictures but.... From The New Frontier Volume 1:

There is just one more thing to do. The monster approached and stood before me, its hot breath on my bare legs. It knew I was trapped, and seemed to relish in the moment...the scent of my blood. My head grew light as I forced myself up.

In the sky above me, a miracle. When I was born, I was named after a great mounted warrior of the clouds. And now here he was, a grand and silent witness to my death.

I decide its the last thing I want to see. I close my eyes...and I take flight.

Ask my family and they'll tell you I was a Navajo. Ask the Army Air Force and they'll say I was an American.

But if you ask my Brothers, they'll set you straight.

John Cloud was a Loser.

Poorochondriac

Anyone post the gold watch clip from Pulp Fiction?

Bucketman

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Anyone post the gold watch clip from Pulp Fiction?

I was just about to. But I'll leave the honors to you good Pooro.

Poorochondriac

Nah.

Instead, I will post this:

Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off, I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more, improve myself. What if I learned Russian or something? Or took up an instrument? I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that? Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's gonna change that.

OremLK

Please don't sully this thread with Tarantino

Poorochondriac

OremLK wrote: »

Please don't sully this thread with Tarantino

Oh, eat a dick.

His output ain't the most consistent in the world, but pretending like he's without merit is just being contrarian to the point of idiocy.

Centipede Damascus

Let's not forget the classics.

Poorochondriac

"The Beatles are totally overrated, man"

DrIanMalcolm

Man, I'd like to put my face in there. Right in there. Tartar sauce. My hips are cold. Tartar sauce. That's when you know its cold. I like eating pussy. Tartar sauce. A lot of guys don't. Well maybe they do. Maybe that's just black guys. Tartar sauce. What happened to the guy who was trying to fly around the world in a balloon? Did he make it? I should put some espionage or stolen plutonium in my novel. Tartar sauce. Spice it up. Neil Young. Fuck, its cold. Neil Young. Wh-why am I thinking about Neil Young. Neil Diamond. Neil... Theres not a lot of famous Neils. Is this Wednesday? I wish I had two dicks. I thought the whole family was going to learn Spanish together this year. That never really happened. I haven't had a Spanish omelette in a long time. Here we go.

Bucketman

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Let's not forget the classics.

I never saw that version of Hamlet.

I wonder what happens to that guy at the supermarket.

bongi

Poorochondriac wrote: »

OremLK wrote: »

Please don't sully this thread with Tarantino

Oh, eat a dick.

His output ain't the most consistent in the world, but pretending like he's without merit is just being contrarian to the point of idiocy.