Movie Monologues That Changed My Entire Worldview
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00:00 More Relevant Than Ever
03:46 The Hopeless Dream of Being
05:17 The Power of the Monologue
06:41 Unavoidable Truth
10:26 In Search of Meaning
12:44 Masculinity vs. Modernity
14:48 Terrence Malick's Fight Club
17:56 The Timeless Struggle
20:13 Morality and Virtue
23:38 Upholding Awareness
27:18 A Cinema of Monologues
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The reason he said those things to will was because will is arrogant about his knowledge and doesn't understand the difference between learning and experiencing life.
Ben Johnson's "silver dollar" monologue in The Last Picture Show is the best I've ever, ever seen. Nothing comes close.
Synchronicity, I posted this on twitter today,
One of the biggest dangers of Social Media is the way it creates the Pretence of Existentialism.
The Affirmation that "one" is "In" the Moment, the "NOW" is recreated through a constant stream of Belief affirmations.
Being in the "Now" is forever "Just a Scroll away"
You appear to have missed perhaps the greatest monologue in English-language cinema, Harry Limes (Orson Welles) on the Ferris Wheel in THE THIRD MAN.
Roy batty, Aragorn(return of the king), eric killmonger (black panther), Baldwin(kingdom of heaven), joker(nolan's batman), Jules(pulp fiction) agent smith and cypher(matrix)
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean Luc Picard
I still cue that one up from time to time lol
Picard is a classic
One of my favorites
That is an epic one that i somehow completely forgotten… I say somehow as I spent most of my childhood evenings sitting at my fathers feet watching Star Trek the next generation (when he finished work that is what was going on tv end of)
This video ironically came on whilst I was in the shower getting ready for work. As i walked out of the shower was the part where the narrator was talking about being in front of a screen too much. First thing I saw was my kid sitting on the bed waiting for me to be ready and swap over (my mum will look after whilst I work)
And it hit me like a ton of bricks.
We (anyone over 25) already had too much screens. Now kids usually have an ipad or similar by age 2.
What chance have they? I’ve now called off work as the sun split the sky and the rain stopped. We are going out for a “trek”
We live near hills. It will be muddy, we will probably get wet, we aren’t fully prepared for an outdoor walk but I have everything I need for us to survive for a week already in my car.
We are going to build some memories and have some experiences this evening. Instead of staring at screens.
I hope someone else reads this and realises they too are procrastinating or not being as good a parent as they could be.
Thanks for the video. I will watch the rest when everyone is in bed later. When there’s nothing to be done ✌️🫡
So life is just to avoid being eaten by some space monster for the day. Classic Star Trek; progressive for the future but NEVER present.
"They're doomed, you know."
"Yes. But... a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."
you are unbearably naive
But what is grief, if not….. love, persevering…
@@manpreetlakhanpal9720 Ah yes...the unequivocal indicator of wisdom...severe, definitive, snap judgements made from limited information...
Could be a quote by almost any modern tool or machine manufacturer lol. Sure they look sleek but they cost an arm and a leg and fall apart just as the varanty expires.
@@manpreetlakhanpal9720 Well, I was born yesterday.
Nobody delivered monologues like Robin Williams. The man was a force of nature.
If you haven't already, I'd like to recommend his interviews with Charlie Rose that you can find on CZcams. You see the full spectrum of his character in these that backs the point you've made here. God rest his soul.
He was so sensible.... Sad and smiling at the same time
Hi, Père Bolé!
Much? ; )
It happens when your depressed
I really do miss Robin Williams movies, he always showed up on screen as a source of wisdom, strength, and kindness. I really do think the world needs these things more than ever, someone who even if it is an act, gets someone up and moving, seeing people for who they are, and giving them the courage to do so.
I honestly feel like the entire world hasn't had a moment to just be, a time where life is worth just flowing with and the world doesn't explode, there isn't controversy, there isn't a deadline, there isn't a person threatening your livelihood, or your person/property.
I really just wish there was a moment where things slowed down, and the relentless march of time didn't run by you.
Sam's monologue at the end of the Two Towers, Gandalf's speech to Pippin in Minas Tirith, Théoden's farewell to Eowyn, Gandalf's speech to Frodo in Moria. Basically the LOTR monologues are a gold mine for life change.
Cringe
@@Loquacious_Jackson What is cringe about someone being inspired by something?
@@Loquacious_Jackson Weak bait, troll.
@@Loquacious_Jacksonsoft
‘There is good in the world. And it’s worth fighting for.”
As Kurt Cobain said, "I miss the comfort in being sad" it's easy and comfortable to close yourself off and to become cynical, because that is predictable. Happiness and freedom is in and of itself unstable, but that's kinda the point. Everything good requires hard work. Because that's exactly what defines something to be good
That "good" and "happiness" that one might strive for isn't really in your control, though, however hard you try. The only reliable happiness isn't tied to external conditions, but rather cultivated within the self.
I haven't found the happiness that all these movie characters seem to have experienced in the world of people, but at least I can find some satisfaction in what is in my little sphere of personal life--and I am lucky enough to find purpose in my work. Thinking that happiness other than this is something that one can grasp for and reliably get will inevitably lead to disappointment. The rest is up to the fates.
Damn, that’s a good way to phrase it. That’s certainly been my experience.
@TetrahedreX that's very true. In my experience I have found that my body is a cage that holds my happiness captive. Buy I still allow my self to feel whatever happiness comes my way through the good things that happen. It still is very hard to do so everytime that's why sometimes I fall short.
Kurt Cobain is a musical legend. He actually cared about growing as a person.
What a very difficult life.
"Sit and drink pennyroyal tea, distill the life inside of me. " and later in the song " give me Leonard Cohen afterwards so i can sigh eternally " Cohen has alot cynical songs. And i feel this lined up with your reference
Watching the monologue Skaarsgard gave in Andor, is a recent example which reinforces your point about the importance of meaningful monologues.
Watching that monologue amidst the "mandate" of 2021 (and the loss of a career of 16 years) reduced me to wet ash.
Yo, Andor had 3 great monologues. Nemik, Skaarsgard and Maarva.
@@allocater2 Don't forget Kino's monologue. But yes, all four monologues are more universal than we realize, at least to me. In any other context, like my own, all four monologues hit me extremely hard when I heard them for a third or fourth time. Living with depression is obviously not easy... yet Nemik asks us to "try", Kino insist for us to "climb", and Maarva invites us to "fight". To fight an empire that is constantly oppressing and putting you down is not so diferent (analogically) to fighting depression. To wake up, to see, to open our eyes to a darkness, a sadness that's "not visiting anymore"... and Fight it together.
@@ricardocalderondelabarca6785
You know I really think you're right, and helped me realise why media like Andor resonates with me so well.
That show is dogshit lol
"I'll tell you something they don't teach you at the temple. The God's envy us. They envy us because we are mortal. Because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
Troya! This one moved me too! 🥹
Movie name?
Troy is an awesome movie.
I like that line From Troy and totally agree.
Totally bullshit line. It's exactly the opposite of what ancient Greeks used to believe.
“To be everywhere, is to be nowhere.” -Seneca the Younger
A quote to describe the ignorance of living in the digital age.
Lots of good stuff from Seneca. Others are:
"Being blow from hither to tither is the sign of an unbalanced mind"
"Our lives should be measured like gems, not by their weight, but their depth"
It echoes the design principle that specificity brings universality.
The Beatles recorded a song about just such a man.
A generation of people with knowledge a mile wide and a centimeter deep. Terrifying.
@@Vacerous Its easy to say all the good lines when you have 300 years of actual thinkers whose books don't get preserved like yours does to quote from and have the most succesful private tutor in the Roman Empire as your dad.
"All those moments will be lost in time.
Like, tears in rain".
Rest in Peace, Rutger Hauer
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
@@rickwrites2612 I always liked that line, I could see the ships burning in my mind as if I were Roy looking out from a drop-ship window, and that, the memory was mine.
Inspired by Black Vietnam vet experience... serving a nation that never served them back...
#FBAReparations
No. They won’t. Those Moments, they will endure and prevail thru the ages of eternity way after all gods have ceased to exist, like stories in the wind, never told nor deciphered.
"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."
-Secondhand Lions
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve seen this film and yet I consciously adore it for this speech specifically. Father’s and grandfather’s are supposed to dispense this wisdom to young men, and oh how we’ve failed to do so. When it comes down to it, believing that good will triumph may make the difference between bravery and cowardice in that singular moment of our life-where we have seconds to decide between bravery and cowardice-the consequences of which we may ever truly know.
I know my father failed to do so, maybe thats why i adore this movie so much@@user-kb4kd1tl4d
@@user-kb4kd1tl4d Totally agree! i didnt always have the happiest of childhoods looking back and maybe thats why i adore this movie
If anyone’s curious, Secondhand Lions is free on Tubi! It’s absolutely timeless, imo
@@user-kb4kd1tl4dThe greatest movie I ever watched as a kid
My favorite monologue comes from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, when he writes his daughter a letter, knowing he wouldn’t be around to tell her himself.
“For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
Benjamin Button
I carry this movie in my heart ever since I watched it when I was in mid school. Such a tranquil piece of art. ❤
This reminds me of the quote by George Eliot...."It's never too late to be who you might have been."
I write this letter for myself, it stick deep in my heart
What soured that film for me was the presentation of the character being struck by a car as being something random and tragic, when in reality the character was being foolish and stupid with zero situational awareness when out in public. Genetic disease is tragic. Behaving carelessly is not.
You're one of the best essayists on this platform
Him and Jacob Geller are the best at creating videos with true substance about fiction, others I'm sure do it great too which I've probably never heard of
But these two are my favorites for this type of content
I've always loved the little monologue in the Man of LaMancha.
"“I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle ... or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I have held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no gallant last words ... only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question, "Why?"
I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness - and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Cervantes was a slave for a while. It must have informed that monologue, and the book.
@@VesnaVK indeed
Outstanding
Brilliant 👏
Thank you! For years I've been trying to remember what this speech was from. The part about asking why has stuck with me for literal decades. For some reason I thought it might have been from Spartacus, but I was never sure.
Uncle Irohs monologue to Zuko when he finds appa is so perfect for me. It almost feels like he’s talking to us in that one
Power and perfection are overrated, I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.
Underrated. Uncle Iroh has one of best and deepest monologs in the entertainment industry.
He's got a lot of bangers
"you remind me of my nephew, always thinking you have to do everything on your own, without anyone's support. There's nothing wrong with letting people who love you, help you."
"It's time for you to start asking yourself the real questions. Who are you? And what do you want?"
Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Men of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!
This day we fight!
...for Frodo
Chills...the humility of this man simply admitting his fear and fighting for frodo...
Chills..
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!
My favorite is Collateral, when Vincent analyzes Max:
" "Someday, someday my dream will come?" One night you'll wake up and you'll discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you, and it never will. Suddenly you are old. It didn't happen, and it never will because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory, then zone out in your barcalounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln Town Car, and that girl... you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?"
One of the best movies ever made
One of my favorites:
"Are you righteous, kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was too. Do you imagine your sufferings will be less because you loved goodness? Truth?"
- The Thin Red Line
War dont ennoble men poisons soul turns men into dogs ....
All Malick’s movies have great poetry in them… But ‘The Thin Red Line’ is above them all…
“We were a family. How’d it break up and come apart, so that now we’re turned against each other? Each standing in the other’s light. How’d we lose that good that was given us? Let it slip away. Scattered it, careless. What’s keepin’ us from reaching out, touching the glory?”
Private Witt
@bmcanulla wrong it was actually private train doing that voiceover
Is it certain those words are by Malick, and not from the original James Jones novel?
“Pig” is such an unbelievable masterpiece.
I’m a former chef, and I watched that movie on a 4 hour greyhound bus ride after I had gotten a dui. It’s hit home so hard that I was so lost and it genuinely helped me get back on track.
"If you lose your faith in me, please keep your faith in people."
Is that from The Dark Knight?
The "OK" at the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an entire speech in itself. I cry every time.
The fault in our stars?
that "ok" changed my entire view on relationships both romantic and platonic
I think Charlie Kaufman knew that "OK" was earth shattering for a generation who grew up with unrealistic romance movies so he made it the final word before the credits.
"We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus." -Galdiator
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
@@Laurelin70tears in rain
the greatest line in gladiator was, “today i saw a slave stand taller than the emperor of rome”
You forgot to mention the line was spoken by Proximo, played by the late, great Oliver Reed.
was thinking of this line and then I saw your comment!
"Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That... that's just an awful feeling. I almost gave up hope. There were so many times I questioned myself. But I found you. So many sacrifices, just...to find...you. Now that we know who you are, I know who I am."
What movie are u quoting?
@@savioblanc Unbreakable (2000)
Your a child of God thats your purpose.
I love the scene in Adaptation between Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Cage where he delivers the monologue about being defined by what you love, not what loves you back.
Fantastic movie.
I love the monologue by Brian Cox in that film, as the screenwriting instructor, responding to Cage's question about whether unrealistic contrivances can ever really be avoided when writing, since being true to life risks boring the audience:
'Are you out of your mind?! Real life?! Boring?!!!...People find love! People lose love! Every day, someone somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy another person!' And he goes on from there.
My favourite monologue is also from my favourite film, the revelations of Sonmi 451 in Cloud Atlas.
"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." - David Mitchell
One of my favorite monologues is the Tears in Rain monologue by Roy Batty in Blade Runner. I've never heard anyone say what it actually means, though. For me it's much deeper than the overly simplistic and overplayed critique that Roy has gained a soul because he achieved self awareness of death, but more that he has achieved humanity because he has experienced wonder and from it compassion. The way Rutger Hauer delivers, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe," is the apex point of the movie.
Urban legend says that Rutger Hauer adlibbed that monologue, and, if that's true, that's miraculous.
@@fuferito I heard him confirm that in an interview.
@@deepashtray5605 So did I. I'm glad that Ridley Scott agreed with what Rutger Hauer could verbally contribute to Roy Batty's finale.
For me it shows the central theme of the movie about what it means to be human and how the replicants were more human than the humans, in particular Rick, because of their striving for life and search for meaning. Roy’s speech is him at the end of the line, sharing the wonders of life and experience and lamenting their departure. It’s a painfully heartfelt final monologue of a man who only wished for more life.
@@owenbishop6544 Good take on it.
Kingdom of Heaven, the DIRECTORS CUT, is a hauntingly layered movie. Every single frame of it is simply beautiful. I honestly feel the film is blessed.
Ben and Matt made something special and Williams nailed it.
Indeed. 💯
The family guy skit where Ben Affleck asks to have his name added to Matt Damon's script will forever be the head cannon for me lol.
I watched good will hunting when it came out and hadn't thought about it until I watched this. Didn't really impact me as a young woman, probably because I didn't feel like I knew shit about anything. I had nothing in common with either character. It's very different watching it now and for one realizing I wasn't a stupid kid, there was self-awareness in knowing that I didn't have a lot of life experience. But also realizing I know what it was like to look after my 12 yo son 24/7 for his last 3 weeks of life and refusing to grieve him before he died. I have had a lot of life experience because I listened to my great-grandmother and never protected myself from loss or rejection because anything worth having comes with risk.
I can relate a little better with William's character now at 43. Sometimes I feel as weary as he sounds. The first few months after my son died there were many days I couldn't get out of bed. I cried at the store buying milk when a guy looked at me and joked "who died?" And then laughed and cried like a complete nutjob realizing that I had become a nutter. The psychologist being judged and mocked by a kid would hold little weight.
@@runningfromabear8354 Hi. I'm just a random internet stranger, but i hope you're doing well now. My mother lost her husband and my father around 7 years sgo, and for more than 6 years times have been tough. Our house would be like a funeral home, there was barely any laughter. My mom would wake up in the middle of the night and start crying, snd we'd console and comfort her to get her back to sleep. Any time something wpuld trigger her to start sobbing uncontrollably, eithaer a song or when someone asks "how is your husband?". It was miserable honestly. But for the past year, though we still have some problems, things have been much better. We laugh much much more in the house, i actually like being with my family more, and i dont feel like the world is ending around me anymore. I really don't know what i was trying to say here, i don't even have the slightest clue on what you're going through. But i hope wherever you are, that i would give you a hug right now and wish you a great life
@@runningfromabear8354 I'm sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing your worldview, and I hope you find strength in grief. It's there. ♥
"What man is a man that doesn't make the world better" - there is a whole movie in that one line. You write some lines on this channel that truly cut me.
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is a phrase thats permanently altered my brainchemistry
it's the opposite to the Kingdom of Heaven thing though. Where intentions matter and not outcome.
correct, but it made me think of it, and i dont necessarily fully agree w the kingdom of heaven thing yknow
i think its more nuanced @@allocater2
excellent addition actually, thank you! @@naturesfinest2408
But the road to heaven is also paved with good intentions.
"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works"
I am 66. When I was 15, my friend took me to his uncle's farm in West Virginia. His uncle was a cave explorer, and he took us to a small cave nearby. One thing led to another, and the caver explorers, all responsible adults, took me on their expeditions, often lasting 12 hours or more. I learned many valuable life-long lessons: how to be prepared, the need for physical and emotional endurance, and the value of teamwork. These lesson stayed with me throughout my life. I agree that this is becoming rarer for youth today.
So you wrote a comment for the purpose of making an insidious critcism of young people today ?
Great for your wonderful experience, i am 10 years younger than you, but know that the challanges and obstacles that the young face today, is, in many instances, becasue of the inaction and self regard of your generation. Like you, probably, i was have a well paying job, home etc, but we have mortgaged the future of the current generation to achieve it and because we did not act.
... the only thing our generation wants to do now is contrast negatively the current youth against our own expereinces (idealic imaganed or otherwise)..
A friend and I were discussing how most of Gen X had access to a farm or woods or a lake via grandparents or an uncle. Many GenZ have nothing but sterile suburbs and parks riddled with spent needles. Awful.
The lessons you mentioned are part of why I became a teacher.
Learning them was such a painful process for me that I wanted to do my best to help others avoid all the pain, the hardships, that I had to endure to grow up (insofar as I have).
And trust me, older generations failed us too just as we are failing younger ones. But we can all fight that in our own ways.
Service to others, giving an authentic effort to make life better, to show other people how to be better, is the only thing that matters those larger failures bearable anyway.
It's not just team building, it's also knowing that an unpleasant death could happen any moment... a rock fall, a tight crawl, an equipment failure... it was a great experience that haunts me to this day.
17:45 - “the man who hesitates; who does nothing, He has no use for.” This conundrum is truly timeless for Western man especially and is reflected in our literature. Hamlet is arguably the quintessential “man who hesitates.”
so why do you specifically say "Western man"... is it the different for the Eastern man? and why so?
@@cavy369 Because the Eastern people are collectivists and the idea of individual action is seen as something to be suppressed. Western culture prizes the idea of the lone hero who takes a chance, shakes up the system, etc.
Eastern mythologies concern themselves with the group while Western mythologies are all about the exceptional individual.
I spent 1/3rd of my life living in the Eastern world in different countries and that underlying aspect of their culture was always very interesting to me. As a Westerner, of course I prefer our way of thinking, but I understand the collectivist ideas of the East.
@@Laneous14 correct. But since this was framed in a religious context, i would say it's more so because Eastern philosophies don't really believe in the idea of free will. So whether you "hesitate" or not, it makes no difference to them.
This dude could describe puppies playing in a sunny meadow and have me sobbing
Yes, very much so lol
It's the music haha
The thing about the monologue, there’s nowhere to hide. Either it’s real, or it’s fake. True or false. Good or bad. Beautiful or ugly.
My favorite movie line is, "deserves got nothing to do with it."
Me too. And it doesn't.
Movie monologues matter because the delivery of them adds to their impact a d emotional perfection of them. Al Pacino's monologues in The Devil's Advocate (1997) still hit me like a freighttrain to this day. Liam Neeson with his final speech in Schindler's List when he cries out: " One. More. Person." He wept for humanity there.
truth in movies, fiction in the news.... both monologues in The Devil's Advocate became my life as lawyers=liars have destroyed my family with their HATRED for the Truth and those who speak it
Not to deny your pain, but lawyers don't despise truth. They recognize that much of what we call truth is a matter of perspective. Our brains fill in details that do not exist. Good lawyers and bad fight over the truth and in so doing they fight for the truth. They are giving to truth the only chance it has in an arena where it matters. If they fail, well, all of us have failed.
@@JG-oi5gg obviously you’ve no clue regarding the ‘legal’ system or Truth for that matter as all things ‘legal’ are based on lies. There is no Truth in falsehood aka “the facts” which is why the liars=lawyers argue as they are the blind leading the blind 💯%! FYI no such person exists “a good lawyer”
"Im tired boss..."
Tired of people being ugly to eachother
I miss Robin Williams...... Rest in peace
"from this day, till the ending of the world, but we in it, shall be remembered. Wve few, we happy few, we band of brothers" To the wonder is a true masterpiece. That monologue is from Henry V
@@xunqianbaidu6917 Here's how I see it: life is a comedy, Henry V was written by a living, therefore Henry V is a comedy. As is everything else
@@tom-vj9lzone might say that life's but a walking shadow -- a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
@@VesnaVK "that when I waked, I cried to dream again" What you're saying is true though
And those other guys who weren't there, "shall think themselves accursed!"- _Shinbone Star_ publisher, Dutton Peabody's drunken soliloquy, while awaiting certain retaliation against the press, meaning himself, by Liberty Valence.
@@xunqianbaidu6917We love the literary and philosophical quality of those speeches, not the real life people who happen to be the inspiration for those speeches.
I'm so happy you included two of my favourites: the Good Will Hunting park bench scene and the father's speech in Call Me By Your Name. My third favourite speech of all time - actually my first place choice - is a short and devastating speech that begins "Time... time happens...to people...", spoken by Katharine Hepburn near the end of A Delicate Balance, the filmed play, written by Edward Albee.
I was so pleased to see he included the fathers one in Call Me By Your Name as well. I will never forget how I felt when I watched it, it brought me to tears.
What's wild (I had to check) is that Matt Damon, now, is older than Robin Williams was, then, when they made _Good Will Hunting._
It’s not wild, it’s completely normal. It’s just like a 5 year old kid that appears with a 31 year old person in a movie, eventually the child grows up and will be 31 and then eventually even older. Just like the Brady Bunch kids, they all grew and eventually will be older than their 📺 TV parents. It’s called the passing of time.
@@frankiehernandez3276 No need to analyse the comment in such a black and white manner. From my perspective, is that he is shocked at how long ago he would have seen Good Will Hunting, it left an imprint on him, and of course acknowleding the legend that is Robin Williams.
I always enjoyed the monologue by the priest in Along the Waterfront when O’Doyle is murdered by the mob at the docks. “We think the crucifixion is something that just happened a long time ago but it happens again and again.”
The absolute standout monologue in Good Will Hunting is the one delivered by Ben Affleck: _"You don't owe it to yourself. You owe it to me. 'Cause tomorrow, I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty."_ It's that moment with his best friend Chuckie that really drives home the meaning of all the things Sean had been teaching Will.
One monologue that shaped my life is the Glenn Close delivers in _Dangerous Liaisons_, where she explains to Valmont how she became a “Virtuoso of deceit”
Not only did the movie help me improve my English (my mother tongue being French), but it helped me work my memory muscle (I was studying for the Baccalauréat at the time)… and above all, it helped me put words to the heavy and restrictive pressure I felt from being an upper middle class young woman growing up in Paris in the late 80’s, where etiquette and image where everything, where women were still expected to marry well and be a stay at home Hostess with the Mostess as well as a Lady who Lunches… when what i wanted to be was a journalist, a deep analyst and social commentator to the political and ethical issues women were facing at the time - i was raw and rebellious in a society that only accepted tame and measured behaviour.
Another monolog that deserves notice for its intensity, from S1E10, Andor, Luthen Rael’s monologue:
"I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape."
I feel like I dodged a bullet by just being born a little earlier. I mostly grew up without the internet. I didn’t get a smart phone until my mid twenties.
We experienced the real world and real face to face relationships. I'm really worried for the future, not because I think Gen Z is dumb, but because the internet has basically handicapped their ability to get out into the real world and make mistakes and find love and have real adventures. And to be honest about it and not 'perform' for people on social media.
We are in the beginnings of a dystopia and just haven't realized it yet.
I still don't own one.^^
@@Laneous14 We're already well into one.
There was a period of my life where I was experiencing films. After I studied semiotics, I was experiencing myself experiencing films. I think this subject deserves to be explored in a future video, since meaning is so central to all your video essays. Thank you for your work, this is of exquisite quality.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
It's... a lot, but this from a man who is, legally speaking, nothing more than malfunctioning property and officially has no real capacity for thought, emotion or specifically empathy. After showing mercy to his persecutor, and in his final moments sharing some of the wonderous things he's seen in his short and presumably almost entirely miserable life.
It's a scene that really grows on you the more you think about it. It just... does so much in that movie. It's the official reveal for the fact that Roy's the hero of the story, it tells you that most of what the characters have told us about replicants is a lie, it reminds us that even the worse life can produce somebody capable of experiencing wonder and mercy.
It's a refutation of the many ways folks are exploited and/or degraded, and othered to make us feel better about doing it.
The Call me by your name monologue is amazing. It’s one I come back to over and over again, especially after something heartbreaking.
I was very busy when I stumbled over this. I was fighting through the great distraction of my daughter, who turned her volume up to 10 and working through a design problem. I stopped what I was doing and just listened. This hit me harder than I thought it would. Well done.
“We don’t get a lot of things to really care about” 7:52
I didn’t know if was for this movie but that quote has influenced me for years.
Man, this video was perfectly cut.. The seamless switching of movies and the monologues that feature within them to help accentuate and underline your own powerful monologue made this video very impactful and memorable in its own right.
Man, I was compelled just a couple days ago to revisit Col. Kurtz's lines about his dream/nightmare of the snail crawling across a razor blade without being hurt. I don't even know why, it just came into my head and I had to listen to it again. And Kirk's eulogy for Spock always brings a tear to my eyes. Movies are definitely not _just_ image, though as moving pictures that's a major component.
Guy Pierce's monologue in Memento always makes me think. It the saddest paragraph of words I have ever heard.
"How do I heal if I can't feel time...?"
Excellent essay. Thank you. Although not as severe or dramatic as your examples, "Megamind" offers a light-hearted take on the realization that true fulfillment does not come from external validation but personal growth. "Is this it? This is what I've been working towards for years? Taking over the city? Winning? But...why doesn't it feel satisfying? Maybe because being a villain is just who I thought I had to be. All this time, I defined myself by my opposition to Metro Man. But what if I could be more? There's gotta be more to life than just winning or losing. Maybe it's about creating something, using my intelligence for good. Maybe that's the real challenge."
Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer's android character at the end of Blade Runner. Before his battery runs out for that final time... Rutger Hauer himself wrote the most important part: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain. Time to die." I am 60. I first saw Blade Runner when i was, i dunno, maybe 15. That monologue not only still gives me chills, but it defines the meaning of the movie. A central debate: are androids human, or close enough to... the android reveals that he understand poetry, and that his memories are his alone, and when they are gone, so is he. He recognizes and mourns his own inevitable death, as humans have been doing since the beginning. With this revelation, the character becomes human
From The Great Beauty:
"This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It’s all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah… Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don’t deal with what lies beyond. Therefore… let this novel begin. After all… it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick."
another example of parent-child monologue that struck me when I first saw it - in "An Education". It's when the main character Jenny (Carey Mulligan) has her dreams and illusions shattered, she locks herself in her room, and her father (Alfred Molina) comes up to the closed door and delivers his monologue. I think it's one of Alfred Molina's best moments!
There are multiple monologues that resonate with me. But me being a Star Wars fan there are two monologues really get to me. First, the speech Yoda gives Luke when he failed to raised his X-Wing from the water. Also, Yoda again teaching Luke about failure in ‘The Last Jedi.’ Most recently, I was captivated by Luthen’s monologue in ‘Andor’ about his sacrifice for the Rebellion. Star Wars is a lot more than spaceships and lightsabers.
Treasure Planet has one that always stuck with me, at least in the back of my head, since I was a kid. I may not be adhearing to it correctly, but as a personality I hold to it tight.
"You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you'll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of! And... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day."
This whole essay reminds me of Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning." Absolutely poignant and beautifully expressed. Definitely something i will come back to often ❤
W/o even watching a single minute, I know this will be an incredible video. You have earned yourself the "Vorschusslorbeeren", as we call them in German, like almost no one else on CZcams. Thank you for your fantastic work, mate!
The problem I suppose is most people don't have enough money or time to travel comfortably.
I do want to travel and to see new things. But I also don't want to throw my financial security away. Traveling has always been a luxury in human history.
I also began to ask... do I really need to go and find out what the smell of the Sistine Chapel is truly like? I don't think I need to. The hassle of budgeting, planning, flying... headaches.
I suppose happiness takes many forms. I think I'm one who'd gladly swallow the blue pill and remain content in my room with my books and my laptop.
I believe our great purpose should be right here and right around us--family, neighborhood.
You are really all you need, everything else is simply... Luxury.
I always appreciate your thought provoking videos. God bless.
"The training is NOTHING. THE WILL IS EVERYTHING! The will to act" from Batman Begins is a life-changing one for me...
"You must become a terrible thought...a wraith..."
The main reason I remember Blade Runner is because of that heart breaking "Tears in the Rain" monologue.
It hits so hard when you feel like you are alone one in a world of meaningless relationships.
And funnily enough, I had never watched BR before and I only wacthed it due to the hype of 2049 that was about to be released.
To this day I will remember Blade Runner first and foremost for that final and unforgettable scene.
Really well put. Other's would use a 15 minute crap-shoot of a video to explain just one of these monologues, whereas you managed to put what you got from the writing extremely succinctly. Keep it up.
This comments section is full of beautiful writing delivered by legendary actors. Here is my contribution: " I don't like sand. It's course, rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere. Not like you. You're everything soft and smooth."
goosebumps and two thumbs up. way up.
just wanted to thank you for for this essay during a time that I find it difficult to make a positive change in the world while simultaneously not breaking my own rules... its something we all must face.
This video shook me out of my comfort zone and made me question my purpose, the reasoning behind my actions in life, and to observe the lens of which I observe the rest of the world. Thank you for making me think for a moment.
These monologues are one of the few places you can still see oratory. And words .. words spoken from the mind of a human, preformed to convey the logic and pathoes of an argument is one of the more impactful deliveries of ideas and meaning. It is a form of direct communication.
This comment deserves wayyyy more attention
I saw a lot of Ingmar Bergman's movies as a teenager. Along with reading Schopenhaur,
I think they must have inoculated me against melancholy introspection,
as I am now a happily superficial old man.
I have read a webcomic called Order of The Stick. And one of the pages a character talks about the power of goodness and how just like evil is a slippery slope, being good is one too. It is a monologue that is in a normal page of it. The page ends on a punchline gag about it. Yet it’s one of the most moving and mind changing things I’ve experienced.
Mmmm. I know that monologue well, but it's the precursor monologue in strip 957 that gets me: "People don't just change who they are inside in an instant. It doesn't work like that. It takes time, so you don't even know you're changing. Until one day, you're just a little bit different than you used to be and you can't even tell what the hell happened."
@@dipperjc The whole series is a banger.
Both actors who played Jor-el , Brando and Crowe...their individual dialogues encouraging Kal-el to fly to unknown heights. That has stayed with me as a boy and now as a man.
Sometimes I think the reason I isolate myself and create beautiful things is because I deeply empathize with god. That I love god and I want to be a living reflection of gratitude for god. Other times I think it’s because I love people even though no one seems to understand me and what I do for them. At some point the love flows from the mountain top and you lose track of any boundary at all between you, god, and other. 👁️
"...because I deeply empathize with God..." "...because I love people even though no one seems to understand me and what I do for them"
You know those are two ways of saying the same thing right? Loving God is one thing, and one can love God without having any direct experience of God's perspective. But you said empathize, which isn't the same as love. Love, merely requires the ability to imagine another experience. Empathy means to feel with. It means being able to look through another's eyes, to see the world as someone else sees it. There are many people who do not understand how God can love humanity, many people who think that belief in God is ridiculous for that reason. On the other hand, there are many people with profound love for humanity whether or not they believe in God. I think on a basic level, all artists create because they love people. If you do not love people, then you have no interest in whether they are happy. You have no motive for making something hoping others will enjoy it. Maybe you would create something because you need or want it, but you would not feel a need to share it.
@@sophiejones3554 I consider this reply evidence for exactly what you are saying. And therefore very much like what I feel god does in creating out of love too. ❤️🔥🙌👁️
This is becoming one of my favorite accounts to follow.
From the GENIUS of Bergman to an understanding of how GOOD Nic Cage is 💗💗💗
Good Will Hunting and Kingdom Of Heaven, two of my favorite movies. Your piece on Kingdom Of Heaven is fantastic.
Gosh I love what you do. Every time Wendover does plugs Nebula, I want to yell at the screen, LSOO is on it too
Speaking of words cutting deep… your videos are profound insights into life, philosophy and synchronicity for me. The psychedelic movies one was the first and this continues the trend. Many thanks for your work ❤️🙏
I find the comment from Denis Villeneuve rather intriguing. Its interesting how different people consume and remember media. I am in agreement that movies are memorable for strong image and sound but some of the most memorable moments for me are the monologues and lines, like those you cover in this video amongst others. This is not rebuttal to what he has said, just an observation. (Plus I might blur the lines between what is considered a speech and what is considered a monologue)
The words spoken on screen can provide such a powerful and emotional reaction as the sights and sounds.
Most people remember Agent Smith's monologue about the "Zoo" in the Matrix and how chillingly alien AI views humanity. Or, Quint's monologue about the fate of the crew of the Indianapolis (and the whole production story behind these this scene is interesting as well).
Words can haunt as much as the visualisation of Xenomorph lurking in the shadows in Alien or even the simple creak of a door in a scary movie can inspire dread.
Hell, it might be too short of a line to be considered a monologue but some of the most well known words in movie science fiction are "I am your father." That is a line that sticks with you.
As others have already pointed out LOTR is treasure trove of monologues. Oscar Schindler talking about "saving more" is another emotional hit. "Tears in the Rain." The list goes on...
Perhaps Denis' comment is taken out of context or there is more to his insights that can be summed up in two lines.
One of my favourite monologues, probably a speech, is the "If its our time to die" from the Matrix revolutions. Its not the best of films but its delivery, in my opinion, was powerfully delivered and just so damn memorable haha.
I love your stuff. Videos are always a delight to tune in and watch.
There is no contradiction. Audio-visual core being primary does not make it exclusive, and dialogue can enrich the work. Same goes for music. Its true essence is in its pure raw instrumental form, and songs (in meaningful language) are rather bastardized extension, but still, sometimes lyrics can significantly amplify or shape the emotions and impressions it invokes.
Man, I haven't finished listening but from 16:36 to 20:13 is so spot on, regardless of whether you believe in the transcendent or not.
Thanks for reminding me how much I loved "To The Wonder". Not a movie for everyone, but definitely one that touched me greatly.
Definitely going to have to watch it now, this is…. Exactly my favorite type of film and I never even heard of it!
"We are going to die. We are going to die here today."
"So much of life is a mystery my dear boy. We know so little of this world. But you and I have made a journey that other men cannot even imagine and this has given understanding to our hearts".
Lost City of Z. Beautiful movie.
Beautiful collection right there, but it's never eclipse "he was with my mother in amazonian rainforest when she died!"
The "Why don't you like me?" monologue from Fences from James/Denzel.
"Truth..., that's it, yes. It must be truth. Above all. When a man lies he murders some part of the world. You should know that."
Boorman’s Excalibur! “For it is the doom of men that they forget”
i usually watch essays on CZcams at 2x normal speed, thanks for creating content that makes me want to slow down.
What a timely essay for me- I’m in the middle of blowing up my life and all of these monologues are pushing me to do what I need to do, despite the fear I face (especially Nic Cage’s from PIG).
Any time I ever feel empty or want to experience an emotion I always come back. Thank you for taking the time to articulate yourself and create meaningful compilations. You are appreciated.
Each of your videos reminds me why I fell in love with cinema more than 30 years ago. Thanks.
I love you man and I mean it. Your videos have helped me so many times. You speak well and you speak true. You obviously contemplate and feel throughout the things that you speak about and you share them in the hopes that it will help others. Worry not you are heard and you have helped. May grace allow us to all continue doing same. Good will for all.
I want you to really know how much I appreciate this video, I’ve been in LA 6 years feeling very isolated and this gave me an opportunity to rid myself of that apathy that always tends to creep in. I hope I can help others the way this video helped me today.
That is why call me by your name is one of My favorite movie of all time. Gets me emotional every single time
Thank you for your beautiful insight in making this video. "Kingdom of Heaven" is also one of my favorite movie for the wisdom and presentation of responsibility of choice and courage of convictions, inspite of what surrounds and influences us.
Your thoughtful reflections on cinema and life are truly moving. I wish you would have 10x the views, but regardless of how many people watch these videos, remember you touch the viewers you do reach
A movie is a setup of characters and motivations driving and driven by a plot, all for us to experience the acting, the script, and finally the underlying ideas and philosophy through them.
The monologues are the culmination of and the whole purpose of many movies.
Maybe all good ones.
The performance of language I love this quote. The way you say things, the way you make things feel. It’s body language, it the words you chose. That’s what leaves an impact on a person ❤
The speech by Thomas Culpepper in A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger 1944) when he addresses the soldiers, who only came to his lecture because they were waiting for 'the pubs to open'. Culpepper speaks of valuing one's own culture and connection with our ancestors and our cultural history.
"...Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love.
I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape.
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future.
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!..."
Peak. Literally peak.
"Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night and the fear washes over me, 'cause what if this is it? What if this is right where I belong? I'm a failure. I'm not pretty or naturally pleasant, or friendly. I'm not smart, or funny, or confident. I'm exactly what Mama said I was: weak."
- Pearl
Where is this from?
@@christosgiamagakis2828 Pearl's monologue from 'Pearl'.
Your narrative gave me goosebumps, today, this is exactly something I needed to think about and couldn’t have been more perfect to find your video in this precise moment. Thank you.
Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know.
Live and die on this day.
Live and die on this day.
For some reason, I think I’ll have remembered this quote up until my last breath.