'Rat on your pop and Keyser Soze will get ya.' And no one ever really believes.” He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in. He kills their parents and their parents' friends. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground, and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He tells them he would rather see his family dead than live another day after this.
Then he showed these men of will what will really was. They tell him they want his territory, all his business. The Hungarians knew Soze was tough, not to be trifled with, so they let him know they meant business. He comes home to find his wife raped and children screaming. They find his wife and kids in the house and decide to wait for Soze. They come to his home in the afternoon, looking for his business. He was small-time then, just running dope, they say. After a while, they come into power and then they come after Soze. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn't. They realized that to be in power, you didn't need guns or money or even numbers. There was a gang of Hungarians that wanted their own mob. One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from his days in Turkey. “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. The scenes online can be borderline NSFW, so here’s a link to the speech from. “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” quote was used to set up the ironic effect at the end of the movie. But the piece that sets up the ending is a classic suspense speech by Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) in relating to Kujan just how Soze built his legendary ruthless reputation. The closing scene with the mix of voices going through Agent Kujan’s head as he pieces together the case of Keyser Soze is easily the most unforgettable part of this mystery film. I’m going to throw it right back at her.” They're stuck with each other and they've got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. She put in her claim.
And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They may think it's twice as safe because there are two of them. Whether it's love or hate, it doesn't matter. Sometime, somewhere, they've got to meet. Pretty soon, we'll know who that somebody else is.
Now we know the Dietrichson dame is in it and the somebody else. When two people are involved, it's usually sooner. Murder is never perfect, always comes apart sooner or later. It's beginning to come apart at the seams already. In the movie, he says: “There it is, Walter. He describes to Neff how difficult it is for a murder to come off clean, especially when more than one person is involved with the crime. In one case, he rattles off suicide statistics with a rapid-fire delivery coming straight from his memory.īut his second monologue is more telling.
MURDER MONOLOGUES MOVIE
Insurance salesman Walter Neff, played by Fred MacMurray, is unable to resist the allure of Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) despite Neff’s belief that she is going to kill her husband for insurance money.Įven though the plot centers on the MacMurray and Stanwyck characters, the two classic mystery and suspense speeches in this movie belong to Neff’s colleague, Barton Keyes, portrayed by Edward G. Vote Now: Who Is Your Favorite Actor of All Time? The following are six of the greatest classic mystery and suspense speeches. Whether it’s the guilty party or those trying to unravel the mystery, suspense and mystery films have given movie-goers many memorable monologues. Still, sometimes these characters take the risk and give lengthy monologues, revealing whom they really are. After all, they don’t want to risk getting caught and incriminating themselves if they’ve done wrong. In many mystery and suspense movies, the antagonists keep quiet.