Culture & Random 14 May 2007 10:29 pm
The world's greatest movie monologue
I think this is probably my most favorite movie monologue: V's personal introduction to Evey.
Voilà!
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V.
What's your favorite movie monologue?
on 15 May 2007 at 3:58 am 1.Durf said …
Not even close to the best . . . It struck me as a contrived adventure into thesaurus-land. One of my favorites is the "I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd" bit from Pulp Fiction.
on 16 May 2007 at 3:19 pm 2.Cailin Coilleach said …
I'm with Durf… On paper the monologue looks pretty cool, but now that I've seen it performed it comes across as rather pompous.
But then again, to each his own! I can definitely see what you get out of the monologue, as it does seem cleverly written.
on 27 Sep 2008 at 9:36 pm 3.laura said …
I kno this monologue by heart. It's so fun just to blurt it out but people who have no idea what your talking about think your insane
on 18 Nov 2008 at 9:10 pm 4.Random said …
First Durf, a Thesaurus is of only minor assistance in finding alliterative candidates.
Second, yes, he is pompous, and that in no way mars the impact or brilliance of the speech.
Third, I myself have often dared dive to the depths of alliterative demonstration, duly digging the dregs and the dynamism of dialectic discourse.
And I am telling you…this is one frickin' brilliant speach. Try to write one better.
Can't find the Shepherd pulp fiction quote…only hamburgers and bible mis-quotes. Quoting the bible would be impressive if it were, a) accurate and b) not just another part of a movie script, which you have to memorize anyway. Acting tough is done in many movies and is not impressive to me.
Last, here is a list of someone's top 10….I watched about 4 of them and was REALLY unimpressed. Some of them are barely interesting.
And his #1 about how "I hate people"…how original is that? What person never said that in their lives? How hard is that to write? Pure trash.
But for comparison, so all will appreciate 'V' that much more…here it is…
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/blog/dennis/10-awesome-movie-monologues
–Random