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For monologues, look for some of Eric Bogosian or John Leguizamo's taped one-man stuf. I used it with my 8th grade acting students and they LOVED it.
Oh, or Philip Baker Hall's great one-man Nixon in SECRET HONOR (Bogosian's final speech in TALK RADIO is pretty great too).
Spaulding Gray had some great monologues, though I'm now blanking as to their kid-appropriateness.
For totally middle and high school friendly monologue, you could look at Jenna Elfman's brief cameo in Can't Hardly Wait -- sadly, it's not on YouTube, but it's a near-perfect 2-minute comic-wistful piece that establishes character, tells a story and needs no context, and CHW is the kind of movie that's probably sitting sadly on the shelf or languishing in the discount bin at your local video place right this minute.
John Cusack's "I don't want to buy anything, sell anything, or process anything" speech in Say Anything? That's probably not long enough to be a monologue. But I'll take any opportunity to bring up Lloyd Dobler.
Final Casting news for HP&THBP:
WIth filming currently underway for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie, news comes this morning of the complete cast list for the movie. Ralph Fiennes's nine-year-old nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, will be playing the role of young Tom Riddle at age 11, while 16-year-old Frank Dillane is playing the teenage Riddle.
I caught my mother telling the dog: "Betsy. You. Must Chill." the other day. I guess the influence thing is not so one-way anymore.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys! i bookmarked the first one, and I'll do some Youtube searches later.
I have seen Can't Hardly Wait many times, and that's a definite cute one. Yay angel! I think I may even have an ahemmed version of that burned to a DVD-R somewhere, leftover from my college days...
Earlier this evening, I had a killer headache, so I dosed myself with Excedrin and slept. Now, I'm awake watching a film with a very young Jude Law & Sadie Frost as nihilistic thieves who smash cars into shopping malls to steal stuff.
It's got Jason Isaacs, Sean Bean and Sean Pertwee.
Ooh. I liked that one.
I just finished Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Milla Jovovich has a strange power over me. I'm not supposed to like her because she was a bitch to a brother of a friend, but I can't not watch her move. The other chick in the movie, though, was awful. No grace whatsoever, no litheness or power.
Now, I'm awake watching a film with a very young Jude Law & Sadie Frost as nihilistic thieves who smash cars into shopping malls to steal stuff.
SHOPPING! I haven't seen that one in years. Jonathan Pryce is in it too, I think.
It's got Jason Isaacs, Sean Bean and Sean Pertwee.
Wouldn't have recognized any of them except Bean, and I can't remember him in it.