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17 Sep

With No Time to Die Farewell Speech, Daniel Craig Makes Peace with James Bond

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Much will be written about the finale of the Daniel Craig era of the James Bond 007 franchise in the next few weeks, as No Time to Die prepares to hit theaters, but the actor was looking to the past during a brief farewell speech to the cast and crew. “A lot of people here worked on five pictures with me, and I know there’s a lot of things said about what I think about these films or all of those whatever. But I loved every single second of these movies, and especially this one, because I got up every…
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05 Mar

Why Training Day’s King Kong Speech Is One of the Best Movie Monologues Ever

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Training Day’s “King Kong” monologue stands tall among the great speeches of cinema. Denzel Washington elevates the iambic pentameter of Iago, the villain of William Shakespeare’s Othello, to syncopated street rhythms. It is on par with Marlon Brando’s reflections on the horrors of war as Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, it is the inverse of Gregory Peck’s monologues as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, and it ranks with Joe Pesci’s “Do you think I’m funny?” scene in Goodfellas or Groucho Marx’s breakdown in the middle of reconciliation in Duck Soup. But the single line of dialogue which hits…
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01 Mar

Chadwick Boseman’s Wife Gave The Golden Globes’ Most Powerful Speech

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Amidst Sunday night’s half-virtual/half-physical Golden Globes awards ceremony–which was riddled with technical glitches and overshadowed by controversy over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of Black representation in its cloistered ranks–one moment stood out as possibly the most powerful and clearly the most moving of the evening. That was when Taylor Simone Ledward, the widow of late actor Chadwick Boseman, accepted a posthumous award on her husband’s behalf when he won Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for his work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman was widely favored to win even with formidable competition from Anthony Hopkins (The…
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21 Jun

Jaws: Why the USS Indianapolis Speech is Steven Spielberg’s Favorite Scene

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Steven Spielberg always appears a little wary when the subject of Jaws comes up. While the blockbuster maestro frequently enjoys chatting about past triumphs, the mere mention of his career-making success seems to transport him back to those endless days floating in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard, waiting for a mechanical shark to work, actors to stop squabbling, and maybe some type of spiritual deliverance. “I was more courageous or I was more stupid,” the director once said about that time in his life. “And I think of both of those things existing underwater.” For that reason, when he’s asked…
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04 Jun

John Boyega’s Black Lives Matter Speech Is Required Viewing

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Actor and activist John Boyega, best known for his role as Finn in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, joined the Black Lives Matter protest in London’s Hyde Park on June 3, delivering a powerful speech that we should all listen to and think about at this moment. Surrounded by a crowd of hundreds, Boyega spoke about the pain he felt over the rampant police violence and racial injustice that has resulted in the death of not only George Floyd but many other Black people before and since. “I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every…
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