Question:
What is the Best Movie Speech Ever?
TroubledOne
2007-02-06 19:14:06 UTC
I want to recite a speech for my school. I previously did the "Mad as Hell" speech in Network. For those that know it, when I said "... get out of your chairs... 'I'm mad as hell...'", EVERYBODY STOOD UP AND SCREAMED!
It was very thrilling. I am looking for a speech that would create such an impact, but i am fine with whatever anyone is willing to give.
Eleven answers:
mesquitemachine
2007-02-06 19:23:35 UTC
Al Pacino is the KING of the movie speeches!



Check out his speech at the end of Scent of a Woman, or The Devil's Advocate, or And Justice for All, or Scarface



Scent of a Woman:

Out of order, I show you out of order. You don't know what out of order is, Mr. Trask. I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too f*ckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are... executin' his soul! And why? Because he's not a Baird man. Baird men. You hurt this boy, you're gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, F*CK YOU TOO!



The Devil's Advocate:

Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, f*ckin' a$$ off! He's a tight-a$$! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!



And Justice for All:



Arthur Kirkland (Pacino): That man is guilty! that man, there, that man is a slime! he is a *slime*! If he's supposed to go free, then something really wrong is goin' on here!

Judge Rayford: Mr. Kirkland you are out of order!



Arthur Kirkland: You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order! That man, that sick, crazy, depraved man, raped and beat that woman there, and he'd like to do it again! It's just a show! It's a show! It's "Let's Make A Deal"! "Let's Make A Deal"! Hey Frank, you wanna "Make A Deal"? I got an insane judge who likes to beat the sh*t out of women! Whaddya wanna gimme Frank, 3 weeks probation?

Frank Bowers: DAMMIT!

Arthur Kirkland: [to Judge Fleming] You, you sonofabitch, you! You're supposed to STAND for somethin'! You're supposed to protect people! But instead you rape and murder them!

[dragged out of court by bailiffs]

Arthur Kirkland: You killed McCullough! You killed him! Hold it! Hold it! I just completed my opening statement!



Scarface (my personal favorite):

What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of f*ckin' a$$holes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f*ckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
thisisjohnnygalt
2007-02-10 10:57:13 UTC
The end speech from American Beauty was pretty great, but you would have to deliver it slowly and whatever you do, don't rush it. You should know that though, already. Unless you haven't seen the movie:



I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.
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2016-05-24 05:41:05 UTC
To Kill a Mocking bird is always good, though curiously I do like bad films as they have terrifically bad lines, terrible acting but hilarious lines. Return of the Killer Tomatoes - Matt Stevens: That's the bravest thing I've ever seen a vegetable do. (Still it was brave of George Clooney to have that hairstyle too) Manos Hands of Fate - Torgo: But master, you have six wives. Why can't I have one for myself? The Master: You are not one of us. Therefore you can not have one of them Tromeo & Juliet - Lemmy: Two households, different as dried plums and pears In fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene. Benny Que: We're supposed to be normal people living normal lives. Working nine to five, going to church on Sundays: normal. Maiming, murdering, crippling park animals: abnormal. Last film I have seen - Flame and Citron Favorite film with Gregory Peck - The Boys from Brazil / To Kill a Mocking Bird
Me
2007-02-06 19:57:21 UTC
The most captivating speech I've ever seen in a movie was Matthew McCaunaghey's closing statement in A Time to Kill. Not sure if it will work for your speech, but its a great speech!
LORD Z
2007-02-07 00:29:31 UTC
Appocalypse Now



Dennis Hopper: Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...



Marlon Brando: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
2007-02-06 22:47:45 UTC
This probably won't do for what you want, but this is my absolute favourite - it is a speech between Robin Williams and Matt Damon's characters in Good Will Hunting; (sorry its long!!)



I was thinking about what you said to

me the other day, about my painting.

I stayed up half the night thinking

about it and then something occured

to me and I fell into a deep peaceful

sleep and haven't thought about you

since. You know what occurred to me?



WILL

No.



SEAN

You're just a boy. You don't have the

faintest idea what you're talking about.



WILL

Why thank you.



SEAN

You've never been out of Boston.



WILL

No.



SEAN

So if I asked you about art you could

give me the skinny on every art book

ever written...Michelangelo?

You know a lot about him I bet. Life's

work, criticisms, political aspirations.

But you couldn't tell me what it smells

like in the Sistine Chapel. You've

never stood there and looked up at

that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked

you about women I'm sure you could

give me a syllabus of your personal

favorites, and maybe you've been laid

a few times too. But you couldn't

tell me how it feels to wake up next

to a woman and be truly happy. If I

asked you about war you could refer me

to a bevy of fictional and non-fictional

material, but you've never been in

one. You've never held your best

friend's head in your lap and watched

him draw his last breath, looking to

you for help. And if I asked you about

love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never

looked at a woman and been truly

vulnerable. Known that someone could

kill you with a look. That someone

could rescue you from grief.

That God had put an angel on Earth

just for you. And you wouldn't know

how it felt to be her angel. To have

the love be there for her forever.

Through anything, through cancer. You

wouldn't know about sleeping sitting

up in a hospital room for two months

holding her hand and not leaving because

the doctors could see in your eyes

that the term "visiting hours" didn't

apply to you. And you wouldn't know

about real loss, because that only

occurs when you lose something you

love more than yourself, and you've

never dared to love anything that much.

I look at you and I don't see an

intelligent confident man, I don't see

a peer, and I don't see my equal. I

see a boy. Nobody could possibly

understand you, right Will? Yet you

presume to know so much about me because

of a painting you saw. You must know

everything about me. You're an orphan,

right?



Will nods quietly.



SEAN (cont'd)

Do you think I would presume to know

the first thing about who you are

because I read "Oliver Twist?" And I

don't buy the argument that you don't

want to be here, because I think you

like all the attention you're getting.

Personally, I don't care. There's

nothing you can tell me that I can't

read somewhere else. Unless we talk

about your life. But you won't do

that. Maybe you're afraid of what

you might say
Paul S
2007-02-06 19:22:58 UTC
I think the funniest/cheesiest/Bill Pullman-est speech in existence is "We Will Not Go Quietly into the Night" from Independence Day.
Norcalmom
2007-02-06 19:52:11 UTC
Jack Nicholson's in A Few Good Men

or Patrick Swayze's at the end of Dirty Dancing, (best line ever..."Nobody puts baby in the corner"!)
celebduath
2007-02-06 19:25:09 UTC
I like the opening speech in American Beauty.
2007-02-06 19:32:53 UTC
Patton's opening speech

http://www.historyinfilm.com/patton/speech.htm
freemichaelcampaign
2007-02-06 19:23:30 UTC
Try the winners in this list:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3362603.stm


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