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.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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JZ - Nov 16, 2007 8:07:20 am PST #2312 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Dana - Nov 16, 2007 8:09:30 am PST #2313 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
sumi - Nov 16, 2007 8:43:19 am PST #2314 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
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.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2007 10:26:28 am PST #2315 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Gris - Nov 16, 2007 1:29:22 pm PST #2316 of 10000
Hey. New board.
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...
Cashmere - Nov 17, 2007 12:41:02 am PST #2317 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2007 12:50:01 am PST #2318 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 17, 2007 4:47:59 am PST #2319 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Cashmere - Nov 17, 2007 5:27:07 am PST #2320 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
SHOPPING! I haven't seen that one in years. Jonathan Pryce is in it too, I think.
Yup. He plays a cop.
Wouldn't have recognized any of them except Bean, and I can't remember him in it.
Jason Isaacs plays a small part as a fence, Sean Bean (in a a mullety hair cut) plays a bigger criminal and Sean Pertwee is Jude Law's antagonist, Tommy. He had much more chemistry with Sadie Frost when he was cutting her t-shirt with a straight razor.
I'm a huge Pertwee fan, though.
Kathy A - Nov 17, 2007 10:04:08 am PST #2321 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Isn't he Jon Pertwee (Doctor #3)'s son?
I just got caught up here, but another possible monologue suggestion is Quint's Indianapolis speech in Jaws.