I'm taking the one everyone will pick:
"Brians Song"
Another good one is the President's speech in "Independence Day"
And just because it involves a football team named the Giants, I'm going with "Little Giants" for the heck of it.
They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only twenty dollars per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.
And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
Pacino as Lt Colonel Frank Slade, tearing into Mr Trask, Harry, Jimmy, Trent, George Willis Jr, and the whole Baird school at the end of Scent of a Woman
Denzel, Morgan Freeman and the others from the 54th Massachusetts praying together the night before their attack on Fort Wagner in Glory
You can't list Pacino without Any Given Sunday, but Scent of a Woman got him the Oscar. Gibson in Braveheart.
You have Brando and Heston each doing Marc Antony's speech at the funeral of Caesar. Obviously Shakespeare's words but Brando is almost flawless while Chuck brings the fire and brimstone here.
But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
Ned Beatty in Network, explaining how television, business, and....
The summer camp one where he says the rich kids will always get the girls.
That just edges out Bill Murray rousing the troops to drill in "Stripes".
Bill... that was "Meatballs" Here's the quote...
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"And even if we win, if we win, HAH. Even if we win. Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money. It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER."
looks at Mozart’s sheet music and realizes the brilliance, which only highlights his own mediocrity. Brilliant , brilliant moment . One of the best scenes in movie history IMO.
But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
Breaker Morant. Courtroom scen in which military attorney Major Thomas defends the actions of the defendants who are on trial for executing prisoners during the Boer War.
“The barbarities of war are seldom carried out by abnormal men. The tragedy of war, is that these horrors are carried out by normal men, in abnormal circumstances. Circumstances in which the ebb and flow of every day life have departed and have been been replaced by a constant round of fear and anger, blood and death.”
And there are many other very powerful scenes built on dialogue.
It’s an obscure movie, but one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.
The summer camp one where he says the rich kids will always get the girls.
That just edges out Bill Murray rousing the troops to drill in "Stripes".
Bill... that was "Meatballs" Here's the quote...
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"And even if we win, if we win, HAH. Even if we win. Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money. It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER."
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
#1 for me, not just because it was a great speech, but because it is 100% exactly what Herb Brooks said to his team before the game vs the Soviets.
Some courtroom scenes more than speeches that I thought were emotion evoking.
1. The scene with Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance in the John Grisham novel adaptation for A Time to Kill.
2. The Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise scene in A Few Good Men
3. Mona Lisa Vito at the end of My Cousin Vinny.
That scene from A Time to Kill really works seeing it on film. It read well, but the visual of Samuel L. Jackson's reaction to "...now imagine she's white"
which is often quoted for teaching Life’s Lessons. But overall it has to be “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won a war by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country” ...
Now you flatter me by giving me this award. But I say to you here and now, Brian Piccolo is the man of courage who should receive the George S. Halas Award.
It's mine tonight -- and Brian Piccolo's tomorrow.
summarizing his return from Nam and what he went through back home. You'd have to have a heart of steel reinforced concrete to not get choked up. I never thought of Stallone as a superb actor, but that was one tough scene to pull off and he did it in spades
When Jose Ferrar unloads on the officers of the Caine after winning an acquittal for Van Johnson.
Here's to you, Mr. Keefer. The real author of the Caine Mutiny. If you wanna do anything about it, I'll be outside. I'm a lot drunker than you are, so it'll be a fair fight.
Two of the most memorable from The Best Years of Our Lives:
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only twenty dollars per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.
And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
Some courtroom scenes more than speeches that I thought were emotion evoking.
1. The scene with Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance in the John Grisham novel adaptation for A Time to Kill.
2. The Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise scene in A Few Good Men
3. Mona Lisa Vito at the end of My Cousin Vinny.
Adrian and Rocky on the beach in Rocky 3
Pacino as Lt Colonel Frank Slade, tearing into Mr Trask, Harry, Jimmy, Trent, George Willis Jr, and the whole Baird school at the end of Scent of a Woman
Denzel, Morgan Freeman and the others from the 54th Massachusetts praying together the night before their attack on Fort Wagner in Glory
Blue Chips Press Conference - ( New Window )
Beat me to it!
You have Brando and Heston each doing Marc Antony's speech at the funeral of Caesar. Obviously Shakespeare's words but Brando is almost flawless while Chuck brings the fire and brimstone here.
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The summer camp one where he says the rich kids will always get the girls.
That just edges out Bill Murray rousing the troops to drill in "Stripes".
“You are meddling with the primal forces of nature Mr. Beal, and I won’t have it!!”
Brilliant acting by Beatty and powerful dialogue.
The summer camp one where he says the rich kids will always get the girls.
That just edges out Bill Murray rousing the troops to drill in "Stripes".
Bill... that was "Meatballs" Here's the quote...
Great one.
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But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
classic...
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But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
classic...
lmao an all time classic!
“The barbarities of war are seldom carried out by abnormal men. The tragedy of war, is that these horrors are carried out by normal men, in abnormal circumstances. Circumstances in which the ebb and flow of every day life have departed and have been been replaced by a constant round of fear and anger, blood and death.”
And there are many other very powerful scenes built on dialogue.
It’s an obscure movie, but one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.
Link - ( New Window )
In Moby Dick, Captain Ahab rallying his crew to kill the great white whale.
Friday Night Lights...halftime speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b7bgtu2O4E
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That's such a great scene. He actually screws up a few times which makes it more authentic. The SNL Christmas parody of it is great too.
Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore. - ( New Window )
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Fuck! blanked on it.
The summer camp one where he says the rich kids will always get the girls.
That just edges out Bill Murray rousing the troops to drill in "Stripes".
Bill... that was "Meatballs" Here's the quote...
Quote:
"And even if we win, if we win, HAH. Even if we win. Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money. It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER."
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
Some courtroom scenes more than speeches that I thought were emotion evoking.
1. The scene with Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance in the John Grisham novel adaptation for A Time to Kill.
2. The Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise scene in A Few Good Men
3. Mona Lisa Vito at the end of My Cousin Vinny.
It's a classic.
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From Election...Who cares about this stupid election
Dripping with emotion.
It's mine tonight -- and Brian Piccolo's tomorrow.
I love Brian Piccolo.
And I'd like all of you to love him too.
Here's to you, Mr. Keefer. The real author of the Caine Mutiny. If you wanna do anything about it, I'll be outside. I'm a lot drunker than you are, so it'll be a fair fight.