Best conversation in a movie?

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My choice would be this masterful 10-minute scene:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3hFvny6MGk

What's yours?

[malta blue]

1. this is my favorite monologue....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=coxoEhQmjzY

[VenusRising]

17. I just made my husband watch this and Monster in a Box.

Spalding is sadly missed. :cry:

:hi:

[gmoney]

47. Check out "Life Interrupted"

Seemed a bit overlooked, but it's basically an early draft of some new monologue material he was working on when he took that short ferry ride... I have the audiobook version. Sam Sheppard reads it, which is not a great choice IMHO just because the accent is so wrong. The most intriguing part is the second half of the program is the eulogies given at Spalding's funeral, including a beautiful song by a young woman singer (whose name eludes me at the moment). "Check it out, Sid."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4967319

[soleft]

2. Bob Rumson's Drool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LEQQoa-Lo

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Wow, I've never seen that movie, although I've heard of it

Definitely worth putting on my list.

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9. All of Bresson's films are worth seeing, despite the fact that

they are all in French (but the English subtitles are good) and most of them are either heartbreaking or depressing or both. One that isn't depressing is "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut" (a.k.a. A Man Escaped) from 1956, either that or "Diary of a Country Priest" is a good place to start with Bresson. He lived 98 years and only made 14 films.

[davsand]

4. Reggie says: You are so beyond fucked, you couldn't catch a bus back to fucked.

Suckers is the movie. BEST line EVER!!!!

[DS1]

5. Recently: Call it, friend-o

shortened clip http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSu8M4oxd88


:spray: You married into this?

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Hellz yes!

:bounce:

[Merrick]

12. I was just about to say that

I've got the scene memorized and can perform it on cue, BTW

[cemaphonic]

23. Yeah, that was great

I was really excited when I heard that the Coens were adapting that book, and they didn't disappoint.


Just one of the many awesome conversations in "The Big Sleep."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2BU8-7kQLI

[skygazer]

7. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

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10. Luxury. YouTube? Luxury. Why,

I had to watch that when I was in Kindergarten, hanging from the ceiling with a pool of pirahnas below me, just in case I laughed to hard and fell in.

[flvegan]

8. Help! Help! I'm being repressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76WQzVJ434

[skygazer]

11. Bloody peasant!

:rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Come see the violence that's inherent in the system!

Classic.

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14. I had forgotten how brilliant that is

Thanks

[MnFats]

40. "Old Woman!" "Man."

Look, there's some lovely filth over here...

[southpaw]

15. "...I just don't dig on swine, that's all."

I won't claim that it's 'the best'

just one of my all time favorites.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0zJSgHDnpw

[grasswire]

16. the Rome scene from "Night On Earth"

....a Jim Jarmusch film. Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli in this hilarious vignette.

I also think some of the dialog in "When Harry Met Sally" is particularly adept.

And "City Slickers" -- cleverly written.

But my favorite movie is "Victor Victoria" -- and there are too many sidesplitting or tender exchanges to mention.

[Kat45]

42. I absolutely LOVE that scene in "Night on Earth"

When I saw that, I was literally rolling over laughing with tears coming out of my eyes. Even though I was watching Benigni speaking in Italian and reading subtitles at the same time, he still had me cracking up. :thumbsup:

I first saw the movie in a hotel room in Montreal. I turned it on during the Paris scene and first thought I might be watching a French-Canadian movie, though I was puzzled that there were English subtitles. Then came the scene in Rome, with Italian being spoken. I was totally confused as to what I was watching. I loved the Benigni scene so much that I made sure I found out what I was watching. Turned out it was on again late night, so we watched it again then. I think I rented the film later on. No matter how many times I watch it, that scene has me laughing my butt off.

[Solon]

18. Best Monologue, Good Will Hunting...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=987_1191125682&o=1

[rug]

20. Don't forget the smackdown in the bar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s

[Shakespeare]

19. Jon Favreau's conversation with the woman's answering machine in Swingers.

An entire relationship, start to finish, in about three minutes.

[VenusRising]

21. American Beauty

Dinner scene - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfZQN9cMfo

I also like the scene where Caroline gets busted at the drive-thru when she's with the Real Estate King.

[BarenakedLady]

22. I like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B44wNQau8PM

I was looking for the Spencer Tracy monologue about love, but couldn't find it...but this'll do.

[MorningGlow]

24. Anything by Mamet n/t

[hellbound-liberal]

25. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal-When Harry met Sally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE

[Stuart G]

26. Humphrey Bogart, Loren Bacall...The Big Sleep...

Bogart is in this bar, and meets up with Bacall and starts talking about riding horses. It is the hottest 2 or 3 minutes I have seen between two people not having sex in any film..ever. It oozes heat. If you haven't seen it, rent it, and watch it. Some conversation.

[cemaphonic]

34. I posted from "The Big Sleep upthread.

The bit with Bogart and the girl in the bookstore. And I also love the conversation between him and the father at the beginning. Such a great movie.

Although hottest scene with clothes on ever is the conversation between Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in "The Lady Eve." The one you're talking about is certainly up there though.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. God I love that movie - even though I don't always know what's what

I still love that movie. I wish I could go inside it and live there in that world.

[Stuart G]

50. Well, you are not the only one

The Big Sleep is hard to follow..lots of people can't follow it.

But I gotta tell a story about it. In the late 70s there was what we used to call a "Revival House"
A movie house that played old films..(rarely done now cause of DVDs and tape.) Anyway this place had 3 films that nite, at Midnite, it was "Casablanca" .....at 2am, it "The Maltese Falcon" and at 4am it was ............"The Big Sleep"
..I got through the first two, but at 4am I left the theater and headed home. It was years later that I saw this film. But I couldn't watch it, cause it was too late. 4am in a movie theater.??? to watch.........."The Big Sleep"....

[Taverner]

27. Waking Life. The pinball scene.

Where they source PK Dick. It is why I have chosen Taverner as my monkier.

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38. Thanks, I'll check it out

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. some of the conversations between death and anthony hopkins

in "Meet Joe Black" a remake of "Death Takes A Holiday" are among my favorites. I also like what transpires in "Out of Africa".

[begin_within]

37. That reminds me... "Shadowlands" has some superb conversations between Anthony Hopkins

and Debra Winger.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

49. Yes, It did. Simply beautiful. Thanks for reminding me about that

wonderful film.

[Downtown Hound]

29. The Royale with Cheese scene from Pulp Fiction

You instantly know you're watching a different kind of movie from that intro, and whether you love the film or hate it, it sets the energy for what's to come beautifully.

[MnFats]

30. Seven Days in May....Burt Lancaster plots U.S. coup; Kirk Douglas must stop him.

lotta good ones here

just reread the quotes on IMDB and they are eerily connective to today;

(the U.S. has signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets; the military -- some of the military -- fear trickery and plot to overthrow the gov.t
(flick released in 1964)


General James Mattoon Scott: And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.
President Jordan Lyman: And that would be General James Mattoon Scott, would it? I don't know whether to laugh at that kind of megalomania, or simply cry.
General James Mattoon Scott: James Mattoon Scott, as you put it, hasn't the slightest interest in his own glorification. But he does have an abiding interest in the survival of this country.
President Jordan Lyman: Then, by God, run for office. You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country - why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect?


President Jordan Lyman: All right, Colonel. Let's sum it up, shall we? You're suggesting what?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey: I'm not sure, Mr. President: just some possibilities, what we call, uh "capabilities" in military intelligence...
President Jordan Lyman: You got something against the English language, Colonel?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey: No, sir.
President Jordan Lyman: Then speak it plainly, if you will.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey: I'm suggesting, Mr. President, there's a military plot to take over the government. This may occur some time this coming Sunday.
President Jordan Lyman: The next step should be to your liking, Chris. Esther, call the Pentagon. Tell General Scott I want to see him right away.
Esther Townsend: Yes, sir.


Christopher Todd: I think it's time we faced the enemy, Mr. President.
President Jordan Lyman: He's not the enemy. Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they're not the enemy. The enemy's an age - a nuclear age. It happens to have killed man's faith in his ability to influence what happens to him. And out of this comes a sickness, and out of sickness a frustration, a feeling of impotence, helplessness, weakness. And from this, this desperation, we look for a champion in red, white, and blue. Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it's a General Scott.


Senator Raymond Clark: Ah, don't get your nanny up; you knew there'd be some dislocations. You can't gear a country's economy for war for 20 years, then suddenly slam on the brakes and expect the whole transition to go like grease through a goose. Hmph. Doesn't work out like that. And think how the whole psychology of the thing's been screwed up from the outset. We've been hating the Russians for a quarter of a century. Suddenly we sign a treaty that says in two months they're to dismantle their bombs, we're to dismantle ours, and we all ride to a peaceful glory. This country will probably live as if peace were just as big a threat as war.
President Jordan Lyman: Dammit, Ray, we could've had our paradise. Yes, by God, we could've had full employment, whopping Gross National Product, nice cushy feeling that we've got a bomb for every one of theirs. But just as sure as God made the state of Georgia, there'd've come one day when they'd've blown us up, or we'd've blown them up. My doctor worries about my blood pressure. You know who that gentleman is down there with the black box. There are five of them... you know that one of them sits outside my bedroom at night? You know what he carries in that box: the codes. The codes by which I, Jordan Lyman, can give the orders sending us into a nuclear war. Instead of my blood pressure, Horace should worry about my sanity.
Senator Raymond Clark: All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you're one of them.
Senator Raymond Clark: You stay put right here... I'm going to phone the White House. Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with?


General James Mattoon Scott: I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naÔvetÈ, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. I have strong doubts, gentlemen.
Senator Frederick Prentice: Ah, it's as simple as this: the President trusts Russia, and the American people don't. The people don't believe the Russians're going to take those bombs apart on July 1st, and neither do I.


Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey: Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.

[Duer 157099]

31. My Dinner with Andre

the whole movie, pretty much

[begin_within]

32. Good answer...

That pretty much trumps all other answers, since the bulk of the movie is one long conversation.

[Duer 157099]

33. True. Mindwalk would be the runner-up n/t

[enigmatic]

44. That's a good film

Great cast, too...

[Danger Mouse]

35. Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) in 'Resevoir Dogs' on why he doesn't tip...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lwqtaKRS3IE

hell, the whole movie is full of awesome conversation...

[Initech]

39. Personally I love the Brad Pitt - Edward Norton anti-consumerism rant in Fight Club

Tyler: Murder, crime, poverty. These things dont concern me. What concerns me is television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine. Viagra. Olestra.

Jack: Martha Stewart?

Tyler: Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's off polishing the brass on the Titanic man, it's all going down! I mean don't get me wrong, it is a terrible tragedy.

Jack: Eh, it's just stuff.

Tyler: Well you did lose a lot of versatile solutions for modern living.

[enigmatic]

41. "We're All Bored"- My Dinner With Andre

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/02/were-all-bored-my-dinner-with-andre.html

[electricmonk]

43. North by Northwest

Pretty much any scene but the one in the forest is good.

Roger Thornhill: I don't like the games you play, Professor.
The Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill. Even when it's a cold war.
Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can't whip the VanDamm's of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them and probably never come back, perhaps you should lose a few cold wars.
The Professor: I'm afraid we're already doing that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URDsflyrA4

[MrScorpio]

45. Glengarry Glen Ross

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

[krispos42]

46. "Clerks", about independent contractors

on the Death Star.

Passionately innane! :-)


And could we please put a blurb about the youtube clip you're linking too? Just because, yanno, there's a time factor here and all...

[Catsbrains]

48. True Romance..the conversation Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walkin

[mitchum]

51. The first meeting of Bonnie and Clyde...

Travis' diner conversation with Betsy in "Taxi Driver"
Blanche and Mitch post date in "a Streetcar Named Desire"
Willard receiving his orders in "Apocalypse Now"
Dick Hickock confessing in "In Cold Blood"

[CBHagman]

52. Oh, there are so many good ones.

Where to start, where to start? There are all the great plays and screenplays of yesteryear -- To Have and Have Not, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca. The screenwriting twins Julius and Philip Epstein alone could provide a treasure trove of options.

And then there's the 1968 film of The Lion in Winter -- oh, so talky, and oh, so quotable.

But I'm going to go with an excerpt from a more recent screenplay performed by three wonderful British actresses, Elizabeth Spriggs, Kate Winslet, and Emma Thompson. Thompson just happens to be the screenwriter, but she had a little help: She adapted Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility for the screen, and what a job she did.

This YouTube clip covers the plot points pretty neatly, but I'll just tip off all of you, those familiar with the novel/film adaptation and those who aren't, that it's the scene where the almost self-destructively romantic Marianne (Winslet) chides her elder sister, Elinor (Thompson), for her reserve. Hang on till the end for Elinor's response -- one of the most quotable passages in any film I've seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yp1RTbWkw