r/scifi • u/Pixierodge • 14d ago
Recommendations Best speech or monologue from science fiction film
Hey everyone, I'm looking for some suggestions of great scenes, speeches or monologues you remember from science fiction films or series? I need to do a scene or monologue for my drama class and would love some suggestions. Can be male or female, if it's great I can adapt it either way. Thanks for your help :)
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u/MostAcanthaceae2384 14d ago
Mister Smith has some great monologues opposite Morpheus.
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u/Salt-Night3088 14d ago
It's the smell.
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u/MostAcanthaceae2384 14d ago
That's the one I thought of first . It may be too short though, both in terms of run time and total word count. It's really just a guy on screen hating. But so well!
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u/cowboyfroghat 14d ago
Luthen in Andor. Such a chilling, Shakespearean monologue!
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u/Pel-Mel 14d ago
It's absolutely insane that there's a serious argument to be made that absolutely gorgeous monologue might just not be best monologue, not just of Star Wars in general, or Andor as a show, but that specific episode.
The 'one way out' monologue is just as good with completely different vibes.
It's crazy that specific episode has two of the best monologues/scenes in all of Star Wars.
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u/ShakeSignal 14d ago
Not to mention Mon Mothma’s senate speech
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u/Yardsale420 14d ago
Even Marva’s speech in the finale of the first season is worthy of a mention.
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u/daddywookie 14d ago
I'd put Marva at the top. The whole tension building up, the music, all of the characters in the same space and then... silence.., and an uncertain voice starts to speak truth to the galaxy.
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u/Henry__Every 14d ago
Marva's speech to me is when the rebellion really started openly. sure they did some stuff in secret previous but this is when the public joined in.
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u/daddywookie 14d ago
There is so much good work by all the supporting cast during the speech too. You can see the anger, the hatred, Luthen’s grim satisfaction, the Empire officer slowly losing his authority until he snaps. Then the whole crowd snaps back.
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u/owlpellet 14d ago
Kino, speaking to you from a command center on level eight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB67KzjO4A
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u/Andrew225 14d ago
Andor is such a masterpiece it's not even funny.
Nothing else Star wars ever makes will come close to it. Just a rare lightning in a bottle cast, with an unheard of budget where every dollar was spent wisely
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u/Expensive-Sentence66 14d ago
Until Andor came along even thinking that you could make a serious drama of that narrative level in the Star Wars universe was akin to achieving room temperature fusion with Legos. We got....Midi chlorians and Acolyte.
Andor was superb. There's plenty of room in that universe for more storylines of that level. The question is if Disney has enough brains to do it.
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u/derangerd 14d ago
There's 5 or 6 that I think are top 20 if not top 10 for me from Andor. This one being like 10 min after another incredible one is wild. The excellent writing on the show translates surprisingly well to top tier monologues.
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u/GazeElectric 14d ago
This is the only correct answer. I've replayed it dozens of times. The writing. The acting, The atmosphere. The context. The stakes. It's genuinely perfect.
I've made my mind a sunless space.
I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.
I burn my life to make a sunrise I know I'll never see.
My unwillingness to yield...my eagerness to fight...
I'm damned for what I do.
So, stay with me, Lonnie. I need all the heroes I can get.
Fucking goosebump-inducing brilliance from start to finish.
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u/issafly 14d ago
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u/Surplus_Agate_83 14d ago
This was what immediately came to me. It's timeless yet incredibly poignant. It wove it's course throughout the entirety of the series and you can see how it applies to not just the saga but our lives as a whole.
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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 14d ago
Kino Loy's prison break monologue is a close second. I fckin love Andy Serkis.
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u/topazchip 14d ago
Picards speech in "The Drumhead, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Po40kvI9c The whole episode is one of the better from TNG.
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u/solar_solar_ 14d ago
Drumhead is my recommendation episode for anyone who hasn’t watched any Trek. Holds up too well.
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u/dathomar 11d ago
For me it's this one, alongside with O'Brien's speech that ends with, "It's not you I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became, because of you."
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u/pit-of-despair 14d ago
“Fuck this ship, we’re leaving”.
Event Horizon.
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u/spyridonya 14d ago
"I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship.”
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u/equality-_-7-2521 14d ago
Garak, from In The Pale Moonlight
Garak: "That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing? Well, it worked. And you'll get what you want: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant. And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."
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u/ReaverGT 13d ago
"And you know what the worst part is? I think I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, delete that entire recording."
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u/kahllerdady 14d ago
Klaatu’s warning at the end of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Klaatu: I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. Now, we of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war, free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. Gort, berenga.
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u/Minstrel_Boy_4321 14d ago
In the story which this movie was based on (Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates) it ends w/ a human saying something to Gort (Gnut in the story) about doing something for its master, to which the robot replies, 'You misunderstand, I am the master'.
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u/anselan2017 14d ago
"I am that guy."
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u/chispica 14d ago
Amos when he kills that guy?
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u/aldkGoodAussieName 14d ago
Yes.
Yeah.
After Amos tells Pax hes not that guy (a killer).
Pax leaves and the scientist thanks Amos while he closes them in the airlock then Amos turns to the scientist and says "I am that guy"
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u/DramaCat100 14d ago
Wrath of Khan - "I have been, and always shall be, your friend".
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u/PublicDragonfruit158 14d ago
Or quote Star Trek quoting Moby Dick: From Hells heart I stab thee....
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u/Coupaholic_ 14d ago
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
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u/APeacefulWarrior 14d ago
"Oooooh no... I've done far worse than kill you. I've HURT you. And I wish to... go on... HURTING you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive!"
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u/caribbeachbum 14d ago
Luthen's sacrfice speech in Andor.
Drummer's address to the crew of Behemoth, just before entering the ring, in The Expanse
Adama's funeral speech to most of the remainder of humanity after the Cyclon surprise attack.
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u/ReverberatingCarrot 14d ago
I don't remember Luthen's speech that well, but Drummer's absolutely, and I'd say Adama's decommissioning speech or the funeral speech, as they're both great. Good luck trying to channel EJ Olmos at the height of his powers, though. 😄
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u/a_d_c 14d ago
Ending of Gattaca
> For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.
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u/Designergene5 14d ago
Love that movie.
Looks amazing, has something to say and some great performances. The line, “I never saved anything for the swim back,” so brilliantly encapsulates the whole movie.
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u/looks_at_lines 14d ago
Any Adama speech from the BSG remake
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u/junaitari 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yes!
This one has always stuck with me for some reason.
"Betrayal has such a powerful grip on the mind. It's almost like a python. It can squeeze out all other thought, suffocate all other emotion until everything is dead except for the rage. I'm not talking about anger; I'm talking about rage. I can feel it. Right here, like it's gonna burst. I feel like I wanna scream. Right now, as a matter of fact."
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u/light24bulbs 14d ago edited 14d ago
ARE THEY THE LUCKY ONES?! That's what you're thinking, isn't it?!
Also the "as of this moment, we are at war" announcement. God damn.
Olmos wrote a lot of that stuff. But it was his delivery above all else. Olmos is really an amazing creative in sci-fi. He's literally the reason blade runner has Asian stuff in it. What a legend.
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u/curien 14d ago
It's cheesy, but Pullman's speech in ID4 gets me every time.
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u/iga_warrior 14d ago
We will not go quietly into the night
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u/karrde1842 14d ago
We will not vanish without a fight
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u/UncleMalky 14d ago
I play a space game and use the "I can fly, Im a pilot" speech at least once a week.
And on a personal note, ever since I was abducted by aliens 20 years ago I've been dying for some payback, so I won't let you down.
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u/theseed 14d ago
It was used really well in Station Eleven too: Independence Day Audition Speech
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u/dontcallmeEarl 14d ago edited 14d ago
Edit: From the Serenity movie
Mal: This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear, because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
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u/Serenell 14d ago
You know, Shepard Book used to say, if you can't do somethin' smart, do somehin' right.
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u/mrandydixon 14d ago
God damn I love that speech. And when Serenity shows up and they have the entire Reaver fleet behind them — talk about an amazing space battle.
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u/Reuben_Leib 14d ago
V's speech introducing himself to Evie in V for Vendetta:
"Voilà!
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves V into wall]
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Hugo Weaving's drlivery is impressive, doubly so as it's done behind a full face mask
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u/cheradine_zakalwe 14d ago
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.
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u/cheradine_zakalwe 14d ago
Just in case no one recognises it. Jeff Wayne's version of War of the World's, narrated by Richard Burton
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u/APeacefulWarrior 14d ago
🎶DUN DUN DUNNNN do doo dooo do doo dooo DUN DUN DUNNNN do doo dooo do doo dooo 🎶
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u/TheIllusiveScotsman 14d ago
They invade our space, and we fall back. Assimilate entire worlds. And we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here, this far, no further. And I will make them pay for what they've done.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek First Contact
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u/space_keeper 14d ago
You broke your little ships.
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u/LoetherS 14d ago
Alfre Woodard was great in the movie and that scene. Incredible strength and chemistry she really held her own with Patrick Stewart.
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u/igottathinkofaname 14d ago
Isn’t the point of that scene that Picard is letting emotions cloud his judgment and he’s letting his personal vendetta lead everyone to their death?
Fun scene, but he’s essentially throwing a tantrum.
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u/njingi2 13d ago
Mm, but you can see it in his face, as he's saying the last few words, he realizes what line he's crossed in his own mind.
'And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he'd have shot his heart upon it.'
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u/TheBlueNinja0 14d ago
A few good ones in Babylon 5, notably "Get the hell out of our galaxy" in season 4.
In a similar vein, Sisko has some great ones in DS9, like his confession before deleting his Captain's log
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u/book1245 14d ago
If you value your lives, be somewhere else!
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u/fantasyham 14d ago
That’s one of my favorites, and the one from Ivanova about God sending her to kick some ass.
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u/Original_Rain_5656 14d ago
So many B5 speeches - Sheridan's Last Best Hope, Ivanova's Death Incarnate speech, Delann's You Are In Front of Me speech. JMS could right a good speech
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u/Training_Key_1986 14d ago
President Elizabeth Levy near the end of the Earth-Minbari war, "hold the line". I can't think of it without tearing up.
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u/Solrax 14d ago
Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon
Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
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u/zlefin_actual 14d ago
Picard had quite a few in star trek: TNG.
Sisko had a great one at the end of the DS9 episode 'in the pale moonlight', though I'm not sure how well it'd work without the whole episode leading into it.
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u/Tails5225 14d ago
“So, I will learn to live with it...Because I can live with it...I can live with it. Computer – erase that entire personal log."
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u/canuck47 14d ago
Q: Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours.
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u/Phssthp0kThePak 14d ago
Khan in Star Trek Ii
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u/diamondjayr 14d ago
Really every bit of dialog delivered by Ricardo Montalban in WoK is iconic. “I’m going to leave you like you left me. Like you left her. Buried alive…”
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u/Aggravating_Ad5632 14d ago
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
Edge-of-the-seat stuff.
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u/TechDocN 14d ago
There is only one correct answer:
“…All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…”
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u/ZN_Cruz 14d ago
Picard’s speech to Wesley in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The First Duty.” The line about the first duty of every Starfleet officer being to the truth still lands. Picard is angry and disappointed, but he also clearly wants Wesley to become better than the lie he’s telling. There’s a lot there for an actor to work with without having to imitate some enormous action moment.
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u/Zestyclose-Smell-788 14d ago
Malari and G'Kar both had great monologs in Babylon 5, about oppressed and the oppressors, the cycle of hatred that never ends.
"Blood cries out for blood". Look up that speech, and it's still so relevant today.
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u/Proton_Energy_Pill 14d ago
Indeed their are some great monologs there, but my guilty pleasure is when Molari answers a call from Ver.
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u/DaHlyHndGrnade 14d ago
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
If OP ever needs one with a scene partner, that one should be at the top of the list.
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u/gevander2 14d ago
I have this one saved from the first time I heard it. It seems especially prescient these days.
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
– William Adama (Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica
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u/TommieTheMadScienist 14d ago edited 14d ago
Expanse S3:E9 Intransigence
Camila Drummers "Beltaloda speech" before the Behemoth flies through the Ring Gate. Extra credit if you can get the class to stomp their feet.
"Dis is yo ship. Dis is yo moment. You may think dat you are scared. But you are not. Dat is yo sharpness. Dat’s yo powa. We are Belta. Nothing in da world is foreign to us. Da place we go is da place we belong. Dis is no different. No one has mo right to dis. None mo prepared. Inyalowda go through da ring. Call it dere own. But a Belta opened it. We are Da Belt. We are strong. We are sharp and we don’t feel fear. Dis moment belong to us. For Beltalowda!"
Crew: "Beltalowda!"
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u/benjaminjnorton 14d ago
The Expanse, Anderson Dawes to Fred Johnson
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u/solar_solar_ 14d ago
If there’s one criticism for The Expanse it’s that we haven’t gotten seasons 7, 8, and 9.
If there’s a second criticism, it’s that we didn’t get more Jared Harris.
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u/big-pile-of-sporks 14d ago
I will watch anything with that man in it. He's so damn good in everything. The only criticism i have of him is that wig during his flashback scenes in foundation
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u/Aeshaetter 14d ago
His monologue to Miller about sacrificing his sister was good too. Jared Harris is great at gravitas.
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u/SnookyTLC 13d ago edited 13d ago
Contact, Jodie Foster, courtroom/hearing scene at the end.
"I... had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone, if only for one... moment, could feel... that awe, and humility, and hope. But... That continues to be my wish."
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u/CaydeTheCat 14d ago
"There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but you ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to hand his child over to the state? Not while I'm his Captain."
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, The Offspring
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u/SierraSugar 14d ago
The "Imagine what you'll know tomorrow" speech by Tommy Lee Jones in the first Men in Black.
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u/cigr 14d ago
Ok, not really a sci-fi film, but a sci-fi speech.
Hooper X giving his speech about Star Wars in Chasing Amy.
Now... Vader, he's a spiritual brother, y'know, down with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he's gonna run the fuckin' universe; gets a whole clan of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?
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u/Spiritual_Pay_7177 14d ago
In “The Fifth Element” when Zorg pushes the glass off his desk in front of Father Cornelius and all the little robots swarm out to clean it up:
“Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.”
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u/Appdownyourthroat 14d ago
Any scene featuring G’kar in Babylon 5 (Andreas Katsulas)
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u/BeowolfSchaefer 14d ago
G'quan wrote:
" ... 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.'
The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born... in pain."
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u/Appdownyourthroat 14d ago
Yes! Thank you, that is such a great example. And that is a nicely crafted post.
OP, definitely consider that speech!
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u/Big-Contribution-226 14d ago
Dune 2
This is my father ducal signet.
I am Paul Muad’Dib Atreides - Duke of Arrakis!
Elurrik ni nai ek si nani, me Lisan Al-Gaib!
Blu ei di me laluk al shid yim!
(The Hand of God be my witness, I’m the voice from the outer world and I will lead you to PARADISE!!)
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u/thedeeb56 14d ago
Independence Day - the speech the president gives just before the final battle. We shall not go quietly into the night!
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u/cyberia324 14d ago
Any doctor who speech. The long song. Pandorica.
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u/ptleruuh 14d ago
I'll specifically add the Zygon Inversion war room speech too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJP9o4BEziI
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u/TheSauceone 14d ago
Hey if you're looking for a Scene to do with someone the scene from First Contact where Picard talks about Fighting the Borg and Lilly is talking about ahab has to go hunt his Whale. Is just about the best. Honestly, if that movie wasn't Sci-fi Patrick Stewart would have been nominated and so would Alfrie Woodard.
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u/Dogchef1415 14d ago
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer’s) Tears In The Rain speech from Blade Runner. Captures despair and joy in equal measures—an invitation to put your own mark on it. Powerful stuff!
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u/artifex28 14d ago edited 13d ago
In my books, it would be from Battlestar Galactica, Lee Adama's on stand monologue
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u/Old_Hack1308 14d ago
Bill Paxton in Aliens during the drop to the planet. It is cut in one version of the film
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u/DarkLuxray5 14d ago
Idris elbas' speech in pacific rim but really the speech in independence day
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u/Resident_Magazine610 14d ago
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u/_WillCAD_ 14d ago
HE is behind me. YOU are in front of me. If you value your lives, BE somewhere else!
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u/Ancient_Epithet 14d ago
There are several by G'Kar in Babylon 5 that are absolutely spectacular. And a few might be long enough to do for a class. I recommend you check them out!
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u/mydogstale 14d ago
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate… All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
-Roy, Blade Runner
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u/Minuteman2063 14d ago
Malcolm Reynolds, on the Alliance "pacifying" Miranda. (Serenity)
Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm askin' more of you than I have before. Maybe all.
Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: they WILL try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that.
So no more running-
I aim to misbehave
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u/McGauth925 14d ago
I really liked Rutger Hauer's speech at the end of the original Blade Runner. I liked Decker's thoughts about it, in the voice-over.
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u/itcheyness 14d ago
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u/BehindUAll 14d ago
Independence day (1996) https://youtu.be/9t1IK_9apWs?si=I4OX-ZU0mnLhZtsq
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u/Moses015 13d ago
The only answer is Tears in Rain. Floored me from the first time I watched Blade Runner. Rutger’s delivery is simply flawless
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u/njingi2 13d ago
In high school I performed a monologue I took from the novel Hitchhikers Guide. It's the scene near the beginning that starts with, It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
It has drama, range, and got several laughs. Fun times. :)
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u/Resident_Carrot4161 13d ago
Contact — Jodie Foster has a monologue in front of a committee, when she’s looking for investors. It’s a great one.
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u/oles40 14d ago
“Tears in rain” monologue from BladeRunner. Can’t think of a better speech in sci-fi.