I get to reenact a speech/scene

[Peacekid]

For my English class, we get to pick a speech, memorize it, and then recreate the speech itself - memorizing it word for word, I will embody the speaker and channel him to my peers and their parents.

We can choose any real life speech, or a famous speech from a movie PG-13 or lower (which means, no Pulp Fiction).

What speech is epic, about 2-4 minutes long, and easy to remember?

[Drugged]

Any speech by Hitler.

[Tsuchinoko]

The post above me is.

[Peacekid]

At 1/30/09 09:39 PM, thatoneguyfromDD wrote: Any speech by Hitler.

Gotta be in English.

[NekoMika]

The gettysburg address

have fun with it or you could be a pussy and go with speechs from these movies...

Dead Poet Society
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Click

[ChaDMcBaDD]

omg you HAVE to do the speech by will smith about imagination from 'six degrees of seperation'.

[Peacekid]

At 1/30/09 09:43 PM, ChaDMcBaDD wrote: omg you HAVE to do the speech by will smith about imagination from 'six degrees of seperation'

i was thinking epic as in on the scale of the speech in Henry V

but I dont want to do Henry V

something relative to everyone

[Timmy]

The speech from Independence Day is a guaranteed A - check it out.

Linky.

Seriously - Do it. And tape it so we can watch you reenact this awesome scene.

[Peacekid]

At 1/30/09 10:06 PM, Timmy wrote: The speech from Independence Day is a guaranteed A - check it out.

Linky.

Seriously - Do it. And tape it so we can watch you reenact this awesome scene.

It's sad cause our English teacher said that speech was too short - good nonetheless :\

[xports]

Learn Marc Antony's speech. I had to memorize it, and I learned it in a couple of hours.

[Peacekid]

At 1/30/09 10:12 PM, Eggys wrote: If you have a good dark voice, I'd go for something with a long, personal dialog or narration. If no then just read some girly poem.

Well the former is what I'm trying to aim for.

Anyone got a specific idea in mind?

[ChaDMcBaDD]

ok fine then. try and do this.

Gollum: (with an evil expression) We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
Smeagol: (sweetly) No! Not master.
Gollum: Yes, precious. First they will cheat you, hurt you, LIE.
Smeagol: Master's my friend!
Gollum: You don't have any friends, nobody likes you!
Smeagol: (covering his ears) I'm not listening, I'm not listening.
Gollum: You're a liar and a thief.
Smeagol: No!
Gollum: Mur-der-er.
Smeagol: Go away!
Gollum: Go away? (Gollum laughs manically as Smeagol begins crying)
Smeagol: I hate you, I hate you.
Gollum: Where would you be without me? Gollum! Gollum! I saved us! It was me! We survived because of me! (Smeagol stops crying)
Smeagol: (sitting up) Not anymore.
Gollum: What did you say?
Smeagol: Master looks after us now. We don't need you.
Gollum: What?
Smeagol: Leave now, and never come back!
Gollum: No!
Smeagol: LEAVE NOW AND NEVER COME BACK! (Gollum screams in frustration)
Smeagol: LEAVE NOW AND NEVER COME BACK! (Silence)
(Smeagol hesitates and looks around, then realizes that Gollum has left, and he begins to dance and jump around)
We told him to go away... and away he goes, precious! Gone, gone, gone! Smeagol is free!

[RacistBassist]

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 bygone 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! 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. *giggle slightly here* Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".

[Proottalfain]

The speech from the blond guy near the end of A Knight's tale.

[Peacekid]

At 2/1/09 12:34 AM, RacistBassist wrote: V FOR VENDETTA GOES HERE

The entire scene is awesome, just it needs to be 2+ minutes in length.

An idea of length:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAg AM

[RacistBassist]

At 2/1/09 12:35 AM, Peacekid wrote:

At 2/1/09 12:34 AM, RacistBassist wrote: V FOR VENDETTA GOES HERE

The entire scene is awesome, just it needs to be 2+ minutes in length.

DAMN.

I'm pretty sure if you talk to your teacher and show the complexity of the speech, she or he would let you do it.

An idea of length:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAg AM

All the best speeches are either longer then that, or shorter.

2 minutes is such a bad length.