![]() It’s not funny, but I dare you not to laugh. The film that the cast referred to as Death of a Fuckin’ Salesman, that contains more ‘fuck’, ‘shit’, and ‘leads’ (over 270 times) than you have ever heard before, and that puts the salesman between a hard place and a rock, because no matter what he does, he will never be good enough. Watch one of Baldwin’s best performances in one of the greatest acting ensembles in film history. Every dialogue and monologue is how it was written by David Mamet. Usually, when we refer to something as too scripted, it has a negative connotation. His tone and performance is based on George C. The film itself has been used by real life salesmen for training purposes, and Baldwin’s line about ABC has become a Bible. Sharp, intense, insulting, degrading, and unintentionally funny, Blake’s monologue describes accurately how you might be seen and treated, should you decide to get that kind of job. Who is serious about sales? Do you know or do you think you know what the life of a real estate broker looks like? Do you know what you will be asked to do? Alec Baldwin lets you know. The night will prove to be long and hard for a group of real estate brokers who need to start making sales by morning or they lose their jobs. Having to deal with personal and professional problems, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to his home town to escape from Hollywood’s suffocating way of life. Without further ado, I bring to you Jean-Claude Van Damme in… JCVD (2008) So much so that this particular monologue was filmed secretly without any other crew or cast member-other than director Mabrouk El Mechri-knowing about it until post-production. As I have watched most of his films (some were impossible to watch, I’ll admit), this one is definitely the film in which he uses all of his accumulated acting skills to perform on camera. The actor in this film is portraying himself, and even though the film isn’t biographical, it sheds light on the actor’s life off-screen. This next movie went under the radar due to the protagonist’s name, and also because it’s in French, but I really felt compelled to write about it. Speaking of heroes and anti-heroes, I picked the most odd one, and I’ll start backwards. If you just want to watch the excerpt, here you go: There is so much detail in both the mise-en-scene and the dialogue that you will pick up something new every time you watch it. Hugo Weaving’s delivery throughout the film (even with his face hidden) is immaculate. After all, it’s not everyday you get the chance to encounter, in less than a minute, 48 words starting with the letter v (and 55 in total). I find the (anti)hero introduction scene to be one of the most impressive I have ever watched, and I can’t say with certainty how many times I have pressed rewind, to watch it over and over again. ![]() V for Vendetta is inundated with monologues, so that would be an article on its own. Some of you, or me, would call him hero, but let’s not get caught up in semantics. In a not-so-distant dystopian future, a masked vigilante named V will recruit a young and innocent woman, and proceed to plot and fight against Britain’s tyrannical regime.Īrguably, one of the most well written and most eloquently introduced anti-hero. Enjoy reading! The Films V for Vendetta (2005) ![]() I would recommend you watch all of these films, from the opening scene. Chances are, they will have either effect on you, depending on where you stand politically, socially, economically, religiously, or otherwise. Well, they are not necessarily persuasive. You may wonder why I’ve called these monologues dissuasive. ![]() On the other hand, if you have watched the films, they will hopefully make you hit play once more. Some of them include spoilers, so I would recommend you watch the films first to get the full impact. I hope these chosen ones entertain you, educate you, and, potentially, find an application in the way you see and experience life. In that spirit, as the title implies, you can find some of the most influential, dissuasive, and thought-provoking monologues I hand-picked. I believe that in the last few months, many of us got some time to contemplate, and re-evaluate life as we knew it. No matter how one looks at it, unless you own a successful online business or a toilet paper factory, the outcome is disheartening and unfavourable to say the least, for all of us. Ever since we celebrated the entry of the third decade of the 21 st century, our health, first of all, and then our practices, norms, customs, morals, values, beliefs, have all been put to the test. Society had always been in the cross-hairs, and its fragility, every so often, came through.
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