Henry Hill: [narrating] For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwJdGfi1p8 From the moment Henry speaks these words, he's sealed his fate. This dialogue emphasizes his desire to live a life of drugs and violence, which ultimately leads to his depressing entrapment in the Witness Protection Program. Besides setting the tone for the film, this opening line directly expresses the want of our protagonist.

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxgqHqakXc This is one of my favourite first lines and monologues for that matter. It flows with the action shown on screen and and sets the tone of the movie loud and clear. Choose life. Not choose life. The words ring still after almost 20 years that this movie came out.

Bonasera: "I believe in America. America has made my fortune." "The Godfather" (1972) by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YhSKwfjdg Dialogue on dialogue: We don't see Bonasera deliver the first line as Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis keep the mortician in darkness. It was a strong line to deliver in the era of the Vietnam war and Nixon's re-election bid. The sentiment seems to be shadowed by nostalgia. And when we see him, delivering the line, "America made my fortune," we see why the English was accented: he's an immigrant and he's found his way here. But, as we're to find out, he's still an outsider, like the man who's asking for help. A man who has become a man of influence through organized crime. This is only a story that could be made and mythologized in the U.S.A.

Movie - Blood Simple (1984) Written by Joel and Ethan Coen Youtube - https://youtu.be/nLykrziXGyg Private Detective Visser: [narrating] The world is full o' complainers. An' the fact is, nothin' comes with a guarantee. Now I don't care if you're the pope of Rome, President of the United States or Man of the Year; somethin' can all go wrong. Now go on ahead, y'know, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help, 'n watch him fly. Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else... that's the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, an' down here... you're on your own. Comment - The Coen Bothers have a flair for opening their films; setting the mood and anticipation. This was their first and they hooked me from the opening and I've been hooked ever since on all their films.

The Breakfast Club Written & Directed by John Hughes URL: http://youtu.be/r-KArgdek5o EXT. SHERMER HIGH SCHOOL - DAY During Brian's monologue, we see various views of things inside the school including Bender's locker. BRIAN (V.O.): Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois. 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon. We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong... What we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athelete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed... Dialogue On Dialogue: From the opening dull, ominous shot of the high school John Hughes sets the tone for a voice-over that is slack yet rebellious. I'm sure high school kids got chills back in the day from this.