an enthusiastic and poignant monologue
can become the most memorable moment in
a film even if it’s being delivered by
the bad guy
well the mindful you either do it right
or you get eliminated
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie villain monologues we know
everything then what better disguise man
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the best monologues given by
characters that are considered the
antagonist either actually as such we’re
not including anti-heroes on this list
the path of the righteous man is beset
on all sides by the inequities of the
selfish and the tyranny number 10 Ralph
Silva Skyfall
Ralph Silva is one of the more memorable
villains of the Bond franchise at least
here there are no old ladies giving
orders and no little gadgets a former
spy for mi6 Silva uses his smarts to
seek revenge on em and causes
significant destruction on his path to
doing so but this is the scene where
both James Bond and the audience first
meet Silva as he slowly walks towards
the camera
Silva tells a gruesome anecdote about
rats just eating each other until only
two left
the monologue brilliantly delivered by
Javier Bardem serves as a metaphor for
bond and Silva as Silva blames em for
turning the two agents against one
another it would seem that bond has
finally met his match but no they don’t
need two coconuts anymore no they only
threat number 9 Colonel Nathan R Jessup
a few good men Jack Nicholson is at his
very best in the scene you can’t handle
the truth
Nicholson’s Colonel jessep is on the
witness stand during a court-martial
trial following the death of marine
private William Santiago while you may
not agree with jessup’s actions or
philosophy you can’t deny the confidence
and conviction he has in his beliefs
Jessup passionately defends his role on
the so-called wall and the job he does
ensuring the existence of freedom I have
a greater risk
on civility than you can possibly fathom
it’s this monologue that makes this film
a classic and one of the best courtroom
dramas of all time Ricky on your head
and present your dead skull number eight
detective Alonzo Harris training day
Denzel Washington won an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his role as Detective
Alonzo Harris in this film and this
monologue shows why a selfish man and a
corrupt cop Harris is used to getting
what he wants until young patrol officer
J Coit stands up to him you don’t
deserve this Alonzo attempts to get the
crowd to kill Jake for him but they’ve
grown tired of his arrogance and refused
to do it
prompting this epic meltdown all right
I’m putting cases on all you bitches
Washington is on another level in the
scene delivering the perfect mix of
overbearing arrogance combined with
crippling fear see you can shoot me but
you can’t kill me
number seven John Doe seven one of the
things that makes Evan a truly
terrifying film is the fact that we
don’t find out the identity or the
motives of the killer until near the end
you’re looking for me once we do however
we wish we hadn’t nothing wrong with a
man taking pleasure in his work in this
brilliant but chilling monologue John
Doe played by Kevin Spacey reveals why
he killed all those people this is a man
who dedicated his life to making money
by lying with every breath that he could
muster at the core of this speech is our
ignorant and our willingness to look the
other way when someone does something
terribly wrong
while we don’t condone his actions by
any means it’s a bit disturbing to think
that he may actually have a point in a
world this shitty could you even try to
say these were innocent people and keep
a straight face number six
Colonel Walter Eckert’s Apocalypse Now
perhaps no speech captures the horrors
of war better than this one horror has a
face and you must make a friend of
horror the scene is filmed brilliantly
as we only see Curtis shaved head poking
out from the shadows this puts the
emphasis on his words and what he says
is truly terrifying delivered perfectly
by Marlon Brando Kurt’s recounts a
horrific experience he had after
inoculating children with polio which
eventually sent him down the path
towards insanity he realizes that the
perfect soldier is one who can kill
without feeling any remorse
while we are repulsed by Kurtz’s actions
throughout the film
Brando’s performance puts us right in
his head and I said my god the genius of
Ed the genius number five
Colonel Hans Landa and glorious bastards
in classic Quentin Tarantino style the
opening scene of and glorious bastards
slowly but surely moved from dialog to
terrible violence this scene also
introduces the main villain of the film
however Colonel Hans Landa Landon is
entirely aware that lappa deed is hiding
Jews under his floorboards but he toys
with him first delivering an epic
monologue explaining the reasoning
behind the Germans hatred for the Jews
if a rat were to scamper through you
front door right now would you treated
with hostility with a lack of music
throughout most of the scene we’re made
to feel the uncomfortable silence you’re
sheltering enemies of the state Dino
Christoph Waltz won an Academy Award for
his performance and with a monologue
like this it’s not hard to see why
[Music]
number four Roy batty Bladerunner I’ve
seen although this monologue is short
it’s one of the most iconic speeches in
cinematic history batty references
events that the audience never got to
see and that’s the point with his
impending death these memories will be
lost forever
although batty is the main villain of
the film his main purpose is to survive
something any person can relate to and
he fears that once he’s died he will be
forgotten even more impressive is the
fact that Rutger Hauer improvised the
monologue on the spot as it wasn’t in
the original script bike tears
number three
Calvin J candy Django Unchained in this
intense Tarantino dinner scene Calvin
Candie played to perfection by Leonardo
DiCaprio has discovered that dr. Schultz
and Django have come to take broom-hilda
Django’s wife before revealing this
information however he gives a lesson in
phrenology the study of skulls who’s
your little friend everyone listened
with bated breath as candy speaks calmly
but with a hint of threat behind his
words what makes this monologue even
more impressive and more disturbing is
that DiCaprio actually cuts his hand
when he slams his fist on the table and
manages to use it to make the scene more
dramatic than it already is you care to
join me in the parlor we will be serving
quite take number two dr. Hannibal
Lecter The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal
might be the one behind bars in the
scene but it’s pretty clear who has all
the power
senses things I once tried to test me I
ate his liver with some fava beans and a
nice Chianti dr. Lecter is vastly
intelligent and intuitive and both
traits are on full display in this scene
as he immediately sizes up Clarice
Starling character and background the
nutrition’s can use names of bones but
you not more than one generation from
poor whitey she manages to get a retort
in demanding he applied the same
detailed analysis on himself but she’s
not ready for the response through
Anthony Hopkins phenomenal delivery a
dangerous killer and one of the
creepiest characters of all time comes
to life we’ll hear that noise in our
nightmares forever
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions the
same old indigestion on it he’s the only
thing that helps these tablets for the
last can’t get them anywhere in Europe
and we are free we have a ship and a
means to go where we will we have
escaped permanent exile on Ceti alpha v
and i neutralize John no easy task I
product ly 2 billion dollars into
tachyon research to block John’s vision
of the future
number one the Joker The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has
several impressive monologues like Bane
speech about giving the power back to
the people we give it to you people at
the end of the day however how could it
not be the Joker you remind me of my
father
seasoned in this scene Rachel Dawes
tries to stand up to the madman as he
terrorizes guests at a fundraiser only
to get an explanation about the terrible
scars on the Joker’s face
you look nervous is it the scars Heath
Ledger’s dynamite performance only
enhances the tension that the characters
on screen and the audience feel why so
serious indeed why so serious
[Music]
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these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
can become the most memorable moment in
a film even if it’s being delivered by
the bad guy
well the mindful you either do it right
or you get eliminated
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie villain monologues we know
everything then what better disguise man
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the best monologues given by
characters that are considered the
antagonist either actually as such we’re
not including anti-heroes on this list
the path of the righteous man is beset
on all sides by the inequities of the
selfish and the tyranny number 10 Ralph
Silva Skyfall
Ralph Silva is one of the more memorable
villains of the Bond franchise at least
here there are no old ladies giving
orders and no little gadgets a former
spy for mi6 Silva uses his smarts to
seek revenge on em and causes
significant destruction on his path to
doing so but this is the scene where
both James Bond and the audience first
meet Silva as he slowly walks towards
the camera
Silva tells a gruesome anecdote about
rats just eating each other until only
two left
the monologue brilliantly delivered by
Javier Bardem serves as a metaphor for
bond and Silva as Silva blames em for
turning the two agents against one
another it would seem that bond has
finally met his match but no they don’t
need two coconuts anymore no they only
threat number 9 Colonel Nathan R Jessup
a few good men Jack Nicholson is at his
very best in the scene you can’t handle
the truth
Nicholson’s Colonel jessep is on the
witness stand during a court-martial
trial following the death of marine
private William Santiago while you may
not agree with jessup’s actions or
philosophy you can’t deny the confidence
and conviction he has in his beliefs
Jessup passionately defends his role on
the so-called wall and the job he does
ensuring the existence of freedom I have
a greater risk
on civility than you can possibly fathom
it’s this monologue that makes this film
a classic and one of the best courtroom
dramas of all time Ricky on your head
and present your dead skull number eight
detective Alonzo Harris training day
Denzel Washington won an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his role as Detective
Alonzo Harris in this film and this
monologue shows why a selfish man and a
corrupt cop Harris is used to getting
what he wants until young patrol officer
J Coit stands up to him you don’t
deserve this Alonzo attempts to get the
crowd to kill Jake for him but they’ve
grown tired of his arrogance and refused
to do it
prompting this epic meltdown all right
I’m putting cases on all you bitches
Washington is on another level in the
scene delivering the perfect mix of
overbearing arrogance combined with
crippling fear see you can shoot me but
you can’t kill me
number seven John Doe seven one of the
things that makes Evan a truly
terrifying film is the fact that we
don’t find out the identity or the
motives of the killer until near the end
you’re looking for me once we do however
we wish we hadn’t nothing wrong with a
man taking pleasure in his work in this
brilliant but chilling monologue John
Doe played by Kevin Spacey reveals why
he killed all those people this is a man
who dedicated his life to making money
by lying with every breath that he could
muster at the core of this speech is our
ignorant and our willingness to look the
other way when someone does something
terribly wrong
while we don’t condone his actions by
any means it’s a bit disturbing to think
that he may actually have a point in a
world this shitty could you even try to
say these were innocent people and keep
a straight face number six
Colonel Walter Eckert’s Apocalypse Now
perhaps no speech captures the horrors
of war better than this one horror has a
face and you must make a friend of
horror the scene is filmed brilliantly
as we only see Curtis shaved head poking
out from the shadows this puts the
emphasis on his words and what he says
is truly terrifying delivered perfectly
by Marlon Brando Kurt’s recounts a
horrific experience he had after
inoculating children with polio which
eventually sent him down the path
towards insanity he realizes that the
perfect soldier is one who can kill
without feeling any remorse
while we are repulsed by Kurtz’s actions
throughout the film
Brando’s performance puts us right in
his head and I said my god the genius of
Ed the genius number five
Colonel Hans Landa and glorious bastards
in classic Quentin Tarantino style the
opening scene of and glorious bastards
slowly but surely moved from dialog to
terrible violence this scene also
introduces the main villain of the film
however Colonel Hans Landa Landon is
entirely aware that lappa deed is hiding
Jews under his floorboards but he toys
with him first delivering an epic
monologue explaining the reasoning
behind the Germans hatred for the Jews
if a rat were to scamper through you
front door right now would you treated
with hostility with a lack of music
throughout most of the scene we’re made
to feel the uncomfortable silence you’re
sheltering enemies of the state Dino
Christoph Waltz won an Academy Award for
his performance and with a monologue
like this it’s not hard to see why
[Music]
number four Roy batty Bladerunner I’ve
seen although this monologue is short
it’s one of the most iconic speeches in
cinematic history batty references
events that the audience never got to
see and that’s the point with his
impending death these memories will be
lost forever
although batty is the main villain of
the film his main purpose is to survive
something any person can relate to and
he fears that once he’s died he will be
forgotten even more impressive is the
fact that Rutger Hauer improvised the
monologue on the spot as it wasn’t in
the original script bike tears
number three
Calvin J candy Django Unchained in this
intense Tarantino dinner scene Calvin
Candie played to perfection by Leonardo
DiCaprio has discovered that dr. Schultz
and Django have come to take broom-hilda
Django’s wife before revealing this
information however he gives a lesson in
phrenology the study of skulls who’s
your little friend everyone listened
with bated breath as candy speaks calmly
but with a hint of threat behind his
words what makes this monologue even
more impressive and more disturbing is
that DiCaprio actually cuts his hand
when he slams his fist on the table and
manages to use it to make the scene more
dramatic than it already is you care to
join me in the parlor we will be serving
quite take number two dr. Hannibal
Lecter The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal
might be the one behind bars in the
scene but it’s pretty clear who has all
the power
senses things I once tried to test me I
ate his liver with some fava beans and a
nice Chianti dr. Lecter is vastly
intelligent and intuitive and both
traits are on full display in this scene
as he immediately sizes up Clarice
Starling character and background the
nutrition’s can use names of bones but
you not more than one generation from
poor whitey she manages to get a retort
in demanding he applied the same
detailed analysis on himself but she’s
not ready for the response through
Anthony Hopkins phenomenal delivery a
dangerous killer and one of the
creepiest characters of all time comes
to life we’ll hear that noise in our
nightmares forever
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions the
same old indigestion on it he’s the only
thing that helps these tablets for the
last can’t get them anywhere in Europe
and we are free we have a ship and a
means to go where we will we have
escaped permanent exile on Ceti alpha v
and i neutralize John no easy task I
product ly 2 billion dollars into
tachyon research to block John’s vision
of the future
number one the Joker The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has
several impressive monologues like Bane
speech about giving the power back to
the people we give it to you people at
the end of the day however how could it
not be the Joker you remind me of my
father
seasoned in this scene Rachel Dawes
tries to stand up to the madman as he
terrorizes guests at a fundraiser only
to get an explanation about the terrible
scars on the Joker’s face
you look nervous is it the scars Heath
Ledger’s dynamite performance only
enhances the tension that the characters
on screen and the audience feel why so
serious indeed why so serious
[Music]
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these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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