Dean1700 4 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I was just thinking about the speech John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) gives in the movie Amistad and there are several key moments where I thought the script really excelled.What other great court room speeches are there? Jim Garrison's summation in JFK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 388 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Can think of some good stuff from Anatomy of a Murder and 12 Angry Men (if that counts). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 32 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 To Kill a Mockingbird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tharpdevenport 4 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 To Kill a Mockingbird.Not bad, but really nothing beats Sly's soliloquise here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eitam 326 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Right now, on the top of my head: Adama's speech in Battlestar Galactica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,064 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Lee Adama, BSG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 "To Kill A Mockingbird" is about as good as it gets. JFK is great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,514 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Justice for All. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff 0 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 One of my favorite courtroom scenes (from a comedic perspective) is from What's Up Doc: I couldn't find a video of my favorite part, but here's the dialogue:Mr. Larrabee: They broke into my home.Judge Maxwell: That's breaking and entering.Mr. Larrabee: And they brought her with them forcibly.Judge Maxwell: That's kidnapping.Eunice: They tried to molest me.Judge Maxwell: That's... unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Mr Smith Goes to Washington is the mother of all courtroom speeches (if this one takes place in the Capitol, it originated the whole "now-Mr-Authority-listen-to-my-layman's-rethinking-of-the-situation-let's-go-back-to-the-basics" angle that has fed the courtroom genre). It has very rarely been surpassed -- I can only think of the aforementioned Mockinbird and JFK -- but even when it is simply rehashed (Amistad) it's still strong.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-lFCsYOPsThe speech gimmick has produced some memorable of populist soul-searching and I am quite fond of them -- but it's been parodied so, so many times that barely any serious drama has been able to get away with them since the 1980s. (Amistad got away with it because it was the most interesting part of a very dull movie, which is an interesting technique to solve the problem.)Now we get superb court dramas (I have always been extremely fond of The Rainmaker or, to a lesser extent, the courtroom sequences in Changeling) without speeches but with much less realistic suspense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 13 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1QI4P0YqtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,442 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 These are great. Few Good Men is probably my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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