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Old 11-21-2005, 07:39 AM
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Default Great movie scenes/ speaches

I'll nominate this one from fight club.


INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

Jack and Tyler each stir a boiling pot.

TYLER
As the fat renders, the tallow floats
to the surface. Remember the crap
they taught you in Boy Scouts.

JACK
Hard to imagine you in Boy Scouts.

TYLER
This clear layer in glycerin. We'll
mix it back in when we make the soap.

Tyler sticks a spoon into a pot, lifts up a scoop of the
glycerin layer. Then, he crabs a can, opens it.

TYLER
Lye -- the crucial ingredient.
(adding lye to mix)
Ancient peoples found their clothes
got cleaner if they washed them at a
certain spot in the river. Why?
Because, human sacrifices were once
made on the hills above this river.
Year after year, bodies burnt. Rain
feel. Water seeped through the wood
ashes to become lye. The lye
combined with the melted fat of the
bodies, till a thick white soapy
discharge crept into the river.

Tyler licks his lips until they're gleaming wet. He takes
Jack's hands and KISSES the back of it.

TYLER
The first soap was made from the
ashes of heroes. Like the first
monkeys shot into space.

The saliva shines in the shape of the kiss. Tyler pours a
bit of the flaked lye onto Jack's hand.

TYLER
Without sacrifice, without death, we
would have nothing.

Jack's whole body JERKS. Tyler holds tight to Jack's hand
and arm. Tears well in Jack's eyes; his face tightens.

TYLER
This is a chemical burn. It will
hurt more than you've ever been
burned and you will have a scar.

Jack looks -- the burn is swollen, glossy, in the shape of
Tyler's kiss. Jack's face spasms.

JACK (V.O.)
Tyler's kiss was a bonfire on the
back of my hand.

TYLER
Look at your hand.

JACK (V.O.)
Guided meditation worked for cancer,
it could work for this.

SHOT OF A GREEN MAPLE LEAF, GLISTENING WITH DEW. RESUME:

Tyler looks at Jack's glazed and detached eyes.

TYLER
Come back to the pain. Don't shut
this out.

Jack, snapping back, tries to jerk his hand away. Tyler
keeps hold of it and their arms KNOCK UTENSILS off the table.

JACK (V.O.)
I tried not to think of the words
"searing" or "flesh." I imagined my
pain as a ball of healing white light.

SHOT OF A FOREST, IN GENTLE SPRING RAINFALL. RESUME:

Tyler JERKS Jack's hand, getting Jack's attention...

TYLER
Stop it. This is your pain -- your
burning hand. It's right here. Look
at it.

JACK (V.O.)
I was going to my cave to find my
power animal.

SHOT OF THE INSIDE OF JACK'S FROZEN ICE CAVE. RESUME:

Tyler JERKS Jack's hand again. Jack re-focuses on Tyler...

TYLER
Don't deal with this the way those
dead people do. Deal with it the way
a living person does.

SHOT OF INSIDE THE ICE CAVE - ON MARLA, LYING NAKED UNDER A
FUR COAT, TURNING HER HEAD TO LOOK TOWARDS US. RESUME:

Jack tries to pull his hand free. Tyler won't let go.
Jack's eyes glaze over again. Jack speaks, whiny from pain:

JACK
I... I think I understand. I think
I get it...

TYLER
No, what you're feeling is premature
enlightenment.

SHOT OF A GREEN FOREST WITHOUT RAIN. RESUME:

Tyler SLAPS Jack's face, regaining his attention...

TYLER
This is the greatest moment of your
life and you're off somewhere,
missing it.

JACK
No, I'm not...

SHOT OF TREES ENGULFED BY A FOREST FIRE. RESUME:

TYLER
Shut up. Our fathers were our models
for God. And, if our fathers bailed,
what does that tell us about God?

JACK
I don't know...

SHOT OF EMBERS POURING FROM THE HELLISH FOREST FIRE. RESUME:

Tyler SLAPS Jack's face again...

TYLER
Listen to me. You have to consider
the possibility that God doesn't like
you, he never wanted you. In all
probability, He hates you. This is
not the worst thing that can happen...

JACK
It isn't... ?

TYLER
We don't need him...

JACK
We don't... ?

SHOT OF INSIDE ICE CAVE - NAKED MARLA PULLS JACK DOWN ON TOP
OF HER - JACK KISSES HER - CIGARETTE SMOKE COMES FROM HER
MOUTH - JACK COUGHS. RESUME:

Jack is a wide-eyed zombie...

JACK
... Marla ... ?

TYLER
[censored] damnation. [censored] redemption. We
are God's unwanted children, with no
special place and no special
attention, and so be it.

Jack looks at Tyler -- they lock eyes. Jack does his best
to stifle his spasms of pain, his body a quivering, coiled
knot. He bolts toward the sink, but Tyler holds on.

TYLER
You can go to the sink and run water
over your hand. Look at me. Or you
can use vinegar to neutralize the
burn, but first you have to give up.
First, you have to know that someday,
you are going to die. Until you know
that, you will be useless.

Jack spasms with a shiver of pain...

JACK
You ... you don't know what this
feels like, Tyler.

Tyler shows Jack a LYE-BURNED KISS SCAR on his own hand.
Tears begin to drip from Jack's eyes. Tyler grabs a bottle
of VINEGAR -- pours it over Jack's wound.

Jack closes his eyes, holds his hand... slumps to the floor.

TYLER
Congratulations. You're a step
closer to hitting bottom.
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Old 11-21-2005, 07:43 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/Movi...imsontide.html

some good ones here.
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Old 11-21-2005, 07:44 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

Blade runner speech: I've seen things

and the Olivier speech St Crispins from Henry V


and the Sicilian thing from True Romance (as a great scene, rather than speech).

PS. The top 2 are mp3s, so take care at work.
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:05 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

Sam Jackson's speech to Ringo in the diner in Pulp Fiction is also one of those great speeches. Much of it in close-up. Movie magic.

I'm sure someone will bring up Patton.

And the monologues beginning and ending Trainspotting.
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:07 AM
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These speeches are awesome.

How do I go about writing a speech this motivating/moving?

Are there certain things that they all hold in common?

What is the anatomy of one of these speeches?

lets write some good ones to motivate oot.


blake
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:11 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

Here's a previous collaborative attempt at a line, rather than a speech

I've been...
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:18 AM
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Nice one, ill try it on a girl next weekend and post a trip report. Actually i'll do it on more than one, cause i doubt its gonna fly very often.

blake
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:19 AM
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[ QUOTE ]
Nice one, ill try it on a girl next weekend and post a trip report. Actually i'll do it on more than one, cause i doubt its gonna fly very often.

blake

[/ QUOTE ]

strike that, i need to go to wal-mart today, so i'll do it there.


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Old 11-21-2005, 08:22 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

They seem to involve very high stakes -- life and death and taking great and scary chances.
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Old 11-21-2005, 08:24 AM
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Default Re: Great movie scenes/ speaches

Just try and get a good memory of her face as you do it. It'll never work in a million years unless you do it in full blade runner mode and the girl is very, very cool, but you gotta describe the face as it happens! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


Edit: Are you gonna learn it by heart? LOLOL!
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