{"id":22460,"date":"2019-08-18T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22460"},"modified":"2019-08-18T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:24:43","slug":"the-10-best-movie-monologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22460","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Movie Monologues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coming Soon posted their choices for The 10 Best Movie Monologues<\/a> and it got me thinking.\u00a0 Movie monologues are rare, but when we happen to get a good one, they’re memorable and fun.\u00a0 Sometimes they’re what we remember most from the movie.<\/p>\n

I looked at Coming Soon’s list and picked my top three movie monologues, listed my rationale for choosing each and added one that they left out and my rationale for including it.<\/p>\n

Blade Runner<\/em> (1982) That ending monologue. Ridley Scott\u2019s Blade Runner<\/em> is a lot of great things, but this final showdown-turned-speech might be one of the best parts.\u00a0 (I couldn’t agree more.\u00a0 Hauer’s monologue made the movie for me.\u00a0 I’ve thought a lot about Blade Runner<\/em> over the years and it always comes down to how that scene was the soul of the movie. – Craig)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em> (1992) A gripping drama with an all-star cast, Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em> is a monologue showcase for the ages. No wonder so many aspiring actors take a page from this David Mamet script.\u00a0 (I remember watching GGR<\/em> for the first time and the scene with Alec Baldwin’s monologue had me smiling from ear to ear.\u00a0 That scene set everything in motion. – Craig)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pulp Fiction<\/em> (1994) Samuel L. Jackson still appears in plenty of films well into the 2010s, but he was just getting started back in the early 90s. His iconic monologue in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Pulp Fiction<\/em> helped solidify his status as a true movie star. (The monologue that made Samuel L. Jackson a star.\u00a0 “Say ‘What’ again!”\u00a0 – Craig)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was tempted to find a spot for Robert Shaw from Jaws<\/em> and Gregory Peck from To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, but ultimately felt that the other monologues slightly edged them out.\u00a0 I would not have been surprised to find entries for Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men,<\/em> Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men<\/em>, or Clint Eastwood from Dirty Harry<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Stallone’s monologue from Rocky Balboa<\/em> should have made the list.\u00a0 It became an inspirational quote \/ meme for so many folks and it came from Stallone.\u00a0 Nuff Said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming Soon posted their choices for The 10 Best Movie Monologues and it got me thinking.\u00a0 Movie monologues are rare,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22462,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions\/22462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}