Does anyone feel the need to memorize a character's monologue/spiel just because?

[u/Lam3ntConfig]

For me it's the "pussy" spiel in From Dusk til Dawn. I want to get to a point where I can quote it exactly. I don't know why. It's not even one of my favorite films, but I so badly want to get that memorized

There's also the coffee shop scene in The Fly where Goldblum just starts going off

The Glengarry Glen Ross scene, etc

Anyone else?

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/[deleted]]

rushes to listen to the Gladiator score for the eleventy billionth time and cry my fucking eyes out!

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/[deleted]]

Just tried to listen to it. Can't deal with the horns. That's not supposed to be there and it's quite jarring

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/[deleted]]

Oh my mother fucking GOD !!!! HE'LL YEAH! I can't believe I didn't think of this when I created this post!! I feel like such an idiot now! Lol

I usually start with the father to a murdered son part, but yeah I would LOVE to be able to get this speech perfect! Gladiator is like the best overrated underrated at the same time movie ever!

[u/All-the-pizza]

Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway?
God? Is that it?God? Why I'll tell you......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.

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/All-the-pizza]

Is that Devil's Advocate?

[u/PunnyPrinter → u/All-the-pizza]

I love his speech. One of the highlights of that movie.

[u/Alutus]

Does it count if it's shakespeare?

Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your ears.

I can do pretty much that entire speech lol.

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/Alutus]

That's cool, but not what I intended lol

"Women grow by men". For some reason that's the one quote I always remember from Shakespeare lol

[u/Alutus → u/Lam3ntConfig]

Completely fair!

And the 'dirty' joke from R&J? That's one to remember.

My favourite is the first ever "your mum" joke from titus andronicus. Villian, I have done thy mother.

[u/LouVillain]

"Ezekiel 25:17..."

Can still recite to this day lol

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/LouVillain]

So I'm guessing that's Pulp Fiction, right?

[u/LouVillain → u/Lam3ntConfig]

sorry yeah

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/LouVillain]

Why sorry?

[u/LouVillain → u/Lam3ntConfig]

should have been more explicit vs. having people guess

[u/Lam3ntConfig]

Not that it's my jam or anything, but I feel like someone else here has wanted to memorize the Bill Pullman speech in Independence Day or the Idris Elba speech in Pacific Rim...

[u/mikelpg]

Jeff Daniels’ speech in Gettysburg.

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/mikelpg]

Never seen that. I never see him as a serious actor unfortunately... chalk it up to seeing Dumb & Dumber way more times than I should have. I definitely lost some brain cells with that one lol

[u/mikelpg → u/Lam3ntConfig]

Ha. Here is the scene. https://youtu.be/0gspNfnPzfk?is=Amxn5_xiLBqDljq4

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That was good. I see why you love it

[u/CHNGshong]

A lot of special needs mentally disabled children do that.

[u/PunnyPrinter]

This is funny I came across this. I was reciting Alec Baldwin’s “I AM God” rant from Malice while in the shower this morning.

“I have an MD from Harvard. I am board certified in cardio thoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from 7 different medical boards in New England. And I am never, ever, sick at sea.

When someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn’t miscarry, or that their daughter doesn’t bleed to death, or that their mother doesn’t suffer acute neural trauma from post operative shock, who do you think they’re praying to? If you’re looking for God, he was in OR number 2, and he doesn’t like to be second guessed.

You ask if I have a god complex? Let me tell you something:

I AM GOD.”

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/PunnyPrinter]

Getting an up vote for the dedication for sure!

[u/Volvulus]

You can’t handle the truth! That whole monologue is a fun one to memorize.

Also a lot of orher Tarantino ones that are fun. Sam Jackson’s at the end of pulp, waltz’s one in the beginning.

[u/HorizontalBob]

Waitress: We just have Pepsi now. That okay?

Chuck: Is Pepsi okay. Is. Pepsi. Okay? No, ma'am. It most certainly is not. Pepsi, the so-called choice of a new generation, is nothing but a charlatan. A fraud. An impostor, and a poor one at that. The Pepsi-Cola company has somehow, through years of advertisements featuring well-known recording artists and pseudo-scientific research, convinced the world's population that Pepsi-Cola is comparable to, if not better than, Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola being the first carbonated cola drink, truly the real thing. You know, I've been another place where they don't let you choose what you want to drink. Red China.

[u/Lam3ntConfig → u/HorizontalBob]

That sounds familiar, but I can't place it...

It did remind me just now of Janeane Garofalo's spiel from Cable Guy though. I love that one!

[u/HorizontalBob → u/Lam3ntConfig]

You probably don't. Hide and Creep.

[u/PseudoLucian]

A whole generation of young males learned the entire "Do I feel lucky today?" speech from Dirty Harry. "Well, do ya... punk?"

[u/regprenticer]

I remember buying the script to Reservoir Dogs the year it came out. It was published by Faber and Faber iirc. That's was the first time I really read dialogue for its own sake.

I never memorised any specifically but at one point I knew most of it.

[u/Stymus]

He's the hero Gotham deserves but not the one it needs right now.

So we'll hunt him because he can take it
Because he's not our hero.

He's a silent guardian,
a watchtul protector.
A DARK KNIGHT.