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[peanutbutterlatte]

The ultimate one in my opinion, The Joker from The Killing Joke;

So... I see you received the free ticket I sent you. I'm glad. I did so want you to be here. You see... it doesn't matter if you catch me and send me back to the asylum. Gordon's been driven mad. I've proved my point! I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?! You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... only you won't admit it! You have to keep pretending that life makes sense, that there's some point to all this struggling! God, you make me want to puke. I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger? Something like that, I bet.

Something like that... something like that... happened to me, you know. I... I'm not sure exactly what it was.... Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice HA HA HA! But my point is... my point is... I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it!

Why can't you? I mean you're not unintelligent! You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to World War Three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles! HA HA HA HA! It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag. So... why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

 

[neorej]

It's all part of the plan by Heath Ledger

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Aizen´s speech in Bleach

All living creatures place their faith in someone more powerful than them and they cannot survive unless they blindly follow that person. The recipient of that faith then seeks out someone in an even higher position in order to escape from the pressure. That person then seeks out someone even more powerful that he must put his faith in. In this way all kings are born and in this way all Gods are born. Do not believe in me yet, Hirako Shinji for now I shall slowly teach you who the God is that you will put your faith in. Believing in me comes after that.

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Winter of our discontent. Similarity to Richard III was the best part of House of Cards.

 

[SystemBug]

Roy Batty - Blade Runner

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain. Time... to die...

 

[Empty]

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

harry lime from the third man.

not that it's accurate or meaningful, but welles totally sells you on it in the moment

 

[TheKaeptain]

How Clark acts in Smallville is irrelevant to what Bill is talking about in that scene. It's got everything to do with how Superman hides his identity. And like it or not, once the boy from Smallville becomes Superman, he's Superman. The Clark Kent persona is the front, the false identity once he comes into his heritage.

It's way to late to get into this but here is how I see it.

He is Clark Kent. That is who he is and those values that were instilled into him by Ma and Pa is the reason he chooses to do what is right. DC has shown this to be true time and time again. You can't separate the two. He isn't Batman. The reason I asked about the Smallville thing is because when he goes back home he isn't a buffoon or some geek. He's Clark.

Spoiler

Goofy ball Clark is the worst Clark and I hope Snyder stays away from that. He's the best when he is just a normal dude.

 

[SlowRevolution]

Not totally sure if this is a good fit for the thread but it's one of the first ones I thought of that wasn't already posted. From Frost/Nixon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9GPloXjA8

House of Cards has great ones too, couldn't find YouTube clips from the Netflix adaptation.

 

[jrush64]

Aizen´s speech in Bleach "All living creatures place their faith in someone more powerful than them and they cannot survive unless they blindly follow that person. The recipient of that faith then seeks out someone in an even higher position in order to escape from the pressure. That person then seeks out someone even more powerful that he must put his faith in. In this way all kings are born and in this way all Gods are born. Do not believe in me yet, Hirako Shinji for now I shall slowly teach you who the God is that you will put your faith in. Believing in me comes after that."

I was so thinking of this Aizen speech. Has has so many soul-crushing speeches and quotes in Bleach.

 

[dan2026]

It's way to late to get into this but here is how I see it.

He is Clark Kent. That is who he is and those values that were instilled into him by Ma and Pa is the reason he chooses to do what is right. DC has shown this to be true time and time again. You can't separate the two. He isn't Batman. The reason I asked about the Smallville thing is because when he goes back home he isn't a buffoon or some geek. He's Clark.

Exactly.

Superman and Batman are opposites of themselves.

Batman is the true identity and Bruce is the disguise.

Where as Clark is the true identity and Superman is the disguise.

I always like to think of it as Superman is just Clark Kent in a fancy outfit with a bit more drama.

 

[D.Lo]

Exactly.

Superman and Batman are opposites of themselves.

Batman is the true identity and Bruce is the disguise.

Where as Clark is the true identity and Superman is the disguise.

I always like to think of it as Superman is just Clark Kent in a fancy outfit with a bit more drama.

Was about to say the same thing. He is Clark, adopted son of Jonathan. In Superman he hides behind iconography. Superman loves humanity and wishes to lead people to good.

Bill is full of shit.

 

[dan2026]

Bill is full of shit.

The only thing Bill's monologue proves to me, is that Tarantino hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.

 

[TheYanger]

Roy Batty - Blade Runner

Good answer.

 

[MisterNegative]

My methods are a means to an end, no different than pruning weeds in order to let an orchid flourish. Those who stand in the way of my vision oppose me because they fear me, but more than that they fear what I represent. Change. Do you know why I despise Richards? And T'Challa? Because never one have they reined in their own self-righteous arrogance long enough to try and see what I see. Never once have they asked me: why? Do you want to know? Love. Measure my crimes against what mankind does to itself, and I am a saint. ... I have looked into the future, I have seen how one violent action after another spins the world toward a future where all that remains of Earth is a burned out cinder. Every time I have looked into the future, that is what I have seen. Every time but one. In one possible future mankind becomes united. Cures for all diseases are found. Global conflict ends. Hunger is abolished. Education is universal. And no one goes without. In that world, there are laws. To break even the slightest of these is to suffer immediate and terminal punishment. ... Ten thousand futures have I looked at. A hundred thousand. And in only one does mankind finally unite, and flourish...and survive. Only one. Doomworld.



Dr, Doom.

 

[Monocle]

The only thing Bill's monologue proves to me, is that Tarantino hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.

That's only true if you assume Bill's monologue conveys Tarantino's actual opinion about Clark Kent. I don't see any reason to doubt plausible alternatives. It could be that Tarantino came up with an interpretation that worked for his story and decided to use it for that reason alone, and not because he thought that was the only valid way to think about Clark Kent. Superman's character is open to many different readings. Maybe that monologue reveals more about Bill's perspective than Tarantino's.

 

[Zyphos]

O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Spoiler

"No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be not wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their others at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward Big Brother. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. By alway-do not forget this, Winston-always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever."

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Aaron from Titus (1999)