Great speeches in films...
 

Some films contain great love speeches where one character (usually the man) declares undying love for another character (usually the woman). This is usually the bit in the film that I start crying.

When Harry met Sally - as he starts running towards the New Year's party I know he's going to give the 'I love it when...' speech and I start crying now before he's even run up the steps.

Four Weddings and Funeral - "in the immortal words of David Cassidy, I think I love you..." speech always guarantees a tear and as for the funeral poem, buckets!

Which others?

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Two spring to my mind - and I'm showing my age here.

Joe E Brown to Jack Lemmon in "Some Like it Hot", when Lemmon tells Brown he's really a man. - "Nobody's perfect".

Jimmy Stewart at the end of my all-time favourite film, "It's a Wonderful Life", when a bell rings (and an angel gets his wings) - "Attaboy, Clarence".

:)

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it wasnt the planes that killed the beast, it was beauty...

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frankly my dear ,i dont give a damm:cool:
famous words from gone with the wind.......

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Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship


Casablanca 1942

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"You want the truth? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!!"
absolutely brilliant! from A Few Good Men i think.

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Blanche: You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair.
Jane: But cha AAH, Blanche, ya AAH in that chair.

From Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, said by Joan Crawford to Bette Davis, and what Mummy says to me when I go to tea.:(

But cha AAH, Rindy, ya AAH in that chair.

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'Yer not really Jesus, yer just a fella'- Whistle Down the Wind.

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'Nobody puts baby in the corner'

Patrick Swayze to Jennifer Grey............my favourite film

DIRTY DANCING

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But these aren't speeches, these are just great dialogue!

What about the "I love you in spite of all these things" speech in Bridget Jones Diary. I want declarations of love that build to a crescendo to not only bring tears to your eyes but to use up a whole box of kleenex.

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the speeches in Love Actually are realy funny, especially the one where Colin Firth is proposing to that Portuguese bird in her language and keeps getting the words wrong

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Officer and a Gentleman when Richard Gere goes to the factory to get Debra Winger. No speech but that scene needs no words!!! :)

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Now that's more like it!

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Speeches are too long, we don't all have thespian tendencies. One liners are much more fun.:)


'You know what they are calling you around here?

A silly little slut!'

Dora Bryan to Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey.

The quote isn't aimed at you, just another favourite I do with the accompanying slap poor Rita was landed with.:)

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exactly with her in his arms,the famous one liner..THERE YOU GO PAULA ,THERE YOU GO......from linnette .
oh give me a tissue please..

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This is too intense for me so will just watch the fim and enjoy or not as the case may be. Prefer the special effects myself.

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ooooh ahhhhh yes yes thats it baby your the best oohh yes yes

debbi does dallas :D

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You are wrong. That was from one of the sequels, Debbie does Doncaster if I'm not mistaken.:p

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I can never remember whole speeches. Some of those one liners though do stick in your mind, even corny things like "Love means never having to say you're sorry." What a load of old codswallop. :D

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I'm like Willow I can never remember speeches either. I watch, enjoy and forget. Unlike my 7 year old who can recite dialogue from a number of recnt films. His favorite at the moment is 'smile and wave boys, just smile and wave. Madagascar. The other is from Goblet of fire where Professor McGonagal says 'Potter is a boy not a piece of meat'.

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i think this is the corniest speech i've ever heard in a movie...

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
[Crowd cheers]

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aww come on fellas surely this one's right up there !!
You smell that? Do you smell that?... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' ..."edit"....body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
apocalypse now 1979 lt col kilgore
i edited out a word dont want to offend any minorities!!
now if thats not a speech i dont know ...ok it might be an encyclopedia but great nevertheless

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well chav it certainly isnt a quote any gurls ever used on you mate :D
i was only loling by the way !!

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Oh Granny, i was going to write that. lol. Love them words.

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How about the acceptance speech by Pete Postlethwaite as the band-leader Danny in ' Brassed Off ' when the Grimley Colliery Band won the competion.