There's two monologues I love from Traffic:

(in the inner-city)
Robert Wakefield: I can't believe you brought my daughter to this place.
Seth Abrahams: Woah. Why don't you just back the fuck up, man. "To this place"? What is that shit? Ok, right now, all over this great nation of ours, 'hundred thousand white people from the suburbs are cruisin' around downtown asking every black person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?" *Think* about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities. I... God I guarantee you bring a hundred thousand black people into your neighborhood, into fuckin' Indian Hills, and they're asking every white person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?", within a *day* everyone would be selling. Your friends. Their kids. Here's why: it's an unbeatable market force man. It's a three-hundred percent markup value. You can go out on the street and make five-hundred dollars in two hours, come back and do whatever you want to do with the rest of your day and, I'm sorry, you're telling me that... you're telling me that white people would still be going to law school?

Youtube link (at 8:38):
http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=hhpTd-S2lso&feature=related

And:

Caroline Wakefield: On the good days, I feel like I get it, like it all makes sense. I can stay in the moment, I don't have to control everything in the future, and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. On the bad days I just want to grab the phone and start dialing numbers. I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms, like Margaret and Jim and Sarah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it through today.

Youtube clip (at 8:15):
http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=nuFmqpz7hNw&feature=related

link to Imbd: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/quotes



On the note of another recovering drug addict moments, this is another monologue that ends Things We Lost in the Fire:
Jerry Sunborne: Hi, my name is Jerry and I'm an addict. I've been clean for 89 days. My mind is clearer, and... I think it's getting better. Every day, a little bit. But I wanna talk about this dream I keep having. It always starts with me stealing silverware. Then I go sell it to this guy who I used to know who owned a catering service. Then with the money, I go to this place where I used to buy my drug of choice, and... he's not around. So I go to other spots, right, but for some reason, no one is around. All of Seattle is dry, and then I get that feeling... the dread... and I panic. And I start running, and it's raining, and it gets dark. And then I'm in my old apartment, and I'm thrashing right through it, looking for something I might have stashed away. And I think I'm having a seizure. And then I find a balloon hidden in my suitcase. So there I am... with a bag of junk in one hand, and the money for my next fix in the other... and I feel at total, utter peace. And I wake up. One day at a time. One day at a time. One day at a time. One day at a time. Thank you.

Imdp link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469623/quotes

Youtube Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=0aTpmdazk6M&v=8GhwdaDd_ps

No. Brainer.

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY

"Third prize is you're fired." "Coffee is for closers." "Always be closing." "Fuck you, that's my name." And so on ...

Network - "Mad as hell" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew

Mad as Hell
Howard Beale
Network
1976

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

Two monologues immediately come to mind:

1. Clint Eastwood's "Do I feel lucky" monologue from Dirty Harry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnMLGkj91Og

2. Alec Baldwin's "God complex" monologue from Malice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE

- Trevor

I just watched blade runner again recently. But I searched and saw you already had the Tears in the Rain daily dialogue (plus recent analysis).

Here's two excellent Jack Nicholson's from The Shining

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9E1_KFfMY&feature=related

"Have you ever had a SINGLE MOMENT'S THOUGHT about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the OVERLOOK Hotel until May the FIRST. Does it MATTER TO YOU AT ALL that the OWNERS have placed their COMPLETE CONFIDENCE and TRUST in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a CONTRACT, in which I have accepted that RESPONSIBILITY? Do you have the SLIGHTEST IDEA, what a MORAL AND ETHICAL PRINCIPLE IS, DO YOU? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? HAS IT?"

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLI7MLZYPBg

"Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. Understand?...I'm gonna make a new rule. Whenever I'm in here, and you hear me typing, whether you don't hear me typing, whatever the f--k you hear me doing in here, when I'm in here, that means that I am working. That means don't come in. Now do you think you can handle that?...Why don't you start right now and get the f--k out of here?"

How about a silent theme?

Scenes where words are met by silence. Or the whole scene is silent?

(Well, the last would not qualify as a daily dialog. . .)

Or scenes where one talking character is ignored?

"3:10 to Yuma" includes a few in these categories, like at the dinner table with Wade and Dan's family and out by the campfire the first night.

"Gladiator" is another one. Maximus is not a talky fellow, but yet says so much.

My two cents?

Robert Shaw's 'INDIANAPOLIS' monologue in Jaws! Oh, the beauty of it all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg



And the "I believe in America" monologue that opens 'The Godfather.'

Two best monologues EVER? Mmmm maybe.