I love great movie speeches. Don’t you? Here are maybe my four top movie speeches of all time–as I remember them.
Though you may have to forgive me. The seventh graders down the hall started dissecting things this week. I may be a little foggy on exact wording for a few of these.
1. Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now (1979)
You smell that? Do you smell that? Squid, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of dead squid in the morning. You know, one time we dissected squid all day. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ squid body that wasn’t all cut up. The smell, you know that formaldehyde smell, the whole school. Smelled like… victory. Someday this school year’s gonna end…
2. Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men (1992)
You can’t handle the smell! Son, we live in a world that has smells, and those smells have to be guarded by science geeks holding trays of dead Invertebrates. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Mr Broeren? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for five paragraph essays, and you curse the parts of speech. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know - that squids death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
3. Marlon Brando, On The Waterfront (1954)
Remember that morning in science? You came down to my table and you said ‘kid, this ain’t your piglet. We’re going for the fat piggy’… You was my brother, Charlie. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit so I wouldn’t have to take them dull scalpel blades for the short-end money. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender -dissecter. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum. Which is what I am. Let’s face it.
4. Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry (1971)
I know what you’re thinking. Did he dissect six worms or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a bag of dead smelly worms, the most powerfully smelly bag of worms in the world, and would blow your head clean off if I opened it, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?
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16 responses so far ↓
1 avoiceofreason // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:28 pm
All of these are good Constructivist activities! Very funny.
Thanks
Chris
2 kenzielee // Feb 28, 2007 at 11:29 am
LoL Chris, I like the ‘Few Good Men’ speech. Very creative! So do you teach seventh grade, and what subject?
Hi Kenzie
Nah . . . I used to teach some 7th grade. Now I teach only 8th grade–Language Arts.
Chris
3 thepearlady // Feb 28, 2007 at 10:40 pm
ahh, it reminds me of the “good ole days”…I remember once when we (my partner and I) dissected a pregnant frog. We thought it was very cool (well, I did, anyhow).
Little frog eggs everywhere?
CW
4 Jake Wisse // Mar 1, 2007 at 5:47 pm
You missed my favorite! Kurt Russell in Tombstone:
“All the years I worked the Cowtowns, I was only ever mixed up in one disection. Just one. But a frog got killed. Wasn’t my fault, just doin’ my job. Don’t even know if it was my scalpel that dropped him, but… I don’t know, it’s sort of hard to explain. At first I just felt clammy inside, like they filled me with formaldehyde. When it finally sunk in what I’d done… Believe me, you don’t ever what to feel that way. Not ever! (pauses) Didn’t even make a dent, did I?
Hey Jake!
I always love when you show up.
Good one my man. Thanks for that.
Talk to you later.
Chris
5 mama kelly // Mar 1, 2007 at 9:32 pm
ROFL
from Field of Dreams:
Ray, people will come, Ray. They’ll come to the Biology Lab for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn to their lab partners, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive in front of their squids as innocent as children, longing for the past. “Of course, we won’t mind the smell,” they’ll say. “It’s only a bit of formaledyde after all.”
They’ll pick up the scalpels without even thinking about it; for it is strong stomachs they have and A’s they lack.
Beautiful! I love that movie and I love that speech! I’m sort of kicking myself for not thinking of this one. Great job! Hilarious!
For my money, that’s by far the best one so far. Awesome. Thanks for that. It made my day.
Chris
6 writer chick // Mar 1, 2007 at 9:44 pm
What about Gone With the Wind? From Scarlet to Rhett:
Oh Rhett, buy me a squid, a biggest gawdiest squid in all of Georgia and I’ll marry you. (batts false eyelashes)
Funny, Chris my boy.
WC
Thanks WC
7 Jedidididi, Alex, and Rhett // Mar 1, 2007 at 10:32 pm
We Love You Wondy!
8 markrmorris2 // Mar 4, 2007 at 5:31 am
Good stuff, a little silly but funny
9 sybilia // Mar 4, 2007 at 4:00 pm
excellent picks my dear, excellent indeed!
10 tobeme // Mar 5, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Very good! Could have throw in one from Casablanca to round it off.
11 murduh // Mar 13, 2007 at 7:26 am
hey chirs right?…well yea i just want to say that your mean to your student and you need to not yell at them so much and yea that katie chick i mean come on yell at her she so mean to the girlys there….i cant tell you who im hearing this from but from what i hear! your pretty mean and you want your student to be perfect!….yea right i mean there teen agers get over it! well i hope you learned something from this today and i will talk to you later!!,…….dont email me thats not my email i made it up! well but chris wondra…..p.s. everytime you yell the students should have an ice cream party!!…….bye bye mr. wondra!!……………………………..
12 super woman // Mar 13, 2007 at 7:29 am
mr.wondra this is one of our student….and yea who ever that murduh chick is she has a point!! wel i just want to say that but whatever bye
13 Kali Anderson // Mar 13, 2007 at 7:49 am
Well i am really mad at you yell at alicia too much i can hear you through the walls in first block!! dont yelll put her butt in the hall!! but yea uhh….i need to go so i will see you next block bye MR>Wondra!!!!
14 Timber // Mar 13, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Well yea your name is chris right, well i have one of your students in my After school progranm and they think that you are to mean to them, and so i think that you schould try to be nicer, and maybe even give them a longer due date on there treasure island binder, because the student that i have is the best that i have,and if she fails, well then she cannot be in our spring pagent, at SCF consert program,and she really needs to be there because she is singing the lead, and none of the other students know this peice,and i think that she would appreaceate it if you were at her concert,and it is at the dresser elementary school on thursday,and it starts at 5:00, so please be there, because i know that you as a teacher means a lot to my student.
15 thepearlady // Mar 15, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Indeed, Chris…they were everywhere…kind of like that new expensive fish pizza, except a lot more ‘caviar’.
16 sophy gragstale // Mar 16, 2007 at 10:15 am
did you delete my comment????????????????????????? plz say you didnt
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