{"id":5484,"date":"2006-10-20T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2010-07-15T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:23:22","slug":"yap-yap-yap-yap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5484","title":{"rendered":"Movie Monologues"},"content":{"rendered":"

A really fun compilation of great movie monologues. <\/a> The writing is my favorite part of it – even though I haven’t seen a lot of those movies, and would probably choose different monologues to make up my own list. But I just love some of the phrasing – especially when I am familiar with the monologue.<\/p>\n

For example, Chunk’s big monologue in The Goonies<\/i> is on the list. I just … come on. It’s perfect. Like – what? But listen to how she writes about it, I actually got a LUMP in my throat and I’m reading about CHUNK from THE GOONIES.<\/p>\n

Past the endearing real-kidness about him, he’s not actually a great actor. But he is SO a real kid, so the neighbor that we all had or the boy in the playground yelling that he would get his older brother to beat you up, that you believe ever second of every word in this scene. The beauty of the speech is that a child actor couldn’t have done it. Haley Joel Osmont talking about making a bucket of fake puke just doesn’t ring true, you don’t believe he’d do that. But you believe Chunk because he IS the boy on the playground. And that’s why we all still love him so much. Because even after 20 years, Chunk is still the most true guy we know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what I’m talkin’ about. There’s magic in language used like that.<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s an excerpt for my sisters – who both loved Chris Farley and Tommy Boy<\/i> so much (“Fat man in a little co-oat…”) that it is legendary to me. Chris Farley’s speech in Tommy Boy<\/i> made it on the list (when he sets the desk on fire??) – anyway, listen to how Justin writes about it – to me, it is a perfect description of that whole Chris Farley thing:<\/p>\n

[Chris Farley] reminded me of a modern-day Lenny for a generation far too disallusioned by an 8th grade literature cirriculum to even understand my reference, rife with the proclivity for inadvertantly mangling everything he’d come to love and hold dear. Take this scene for instance, in which he determines that the best way to court a potental customer would be by lighting the guy’s desk on fire. Even though the idea is monumentally stupid, he’s so committed in believing it to be the best course of action that instead of looking like some sort of fucked up arsonist we all laugh and say “awwww,” as if he were a baby getting more spaghetti on him than in him!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, the fact that someone chose Cristina Ricci’s hilarious speech excoriating the entire “Thanksgiving story” being told at her summer camp (in Addam’s Family Values<\/i>) and she basically tells the TRUTHFUL story to a listening crowd of horrified clean-cut parents – and the camp then ends up in FLAMES … I just love that that speech is on the list.<\/p>\n

I’ll come up with a list of my own – it’s really fun to think of my favorites – Field of Dreams<\/i> (James Earl Jones) would most certainly be on mine … and probably the Pride of the Yankees<\/i> speech too – but I’ll think up some more.<\/p>\n

Here’s the whole thing. Read!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A really fun compilation of great movie monologues. The writing is my favorite part of it – even though I haven’t seen a lot of those movies, and would probably choose different monologues to make up my own list. But … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21317,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/21317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}