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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Paraphrased entirely from the climax to Conrad's The Heart of Darkness. Not that it really matters, Brando is still stellar in that role. That monologue just wasn't written by Francis Ford Coppola, but he did a damn fine job adapting it for the screen. "The horror, the horror" is actually a direct quote from the book.
The point I'm trying to make is monologues rarely get traced back to their paper antecedents, even though they require just as much effort in their craftsmanship.
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but most cinematic monologues are rarely traced back to a previous source and that is what the OP was trying to get across. Quoting verbatim or riffing on previous dialogue is not what a monologue is.
The beauty of the best movie monologues is that they are often unscripted and improvised or otherwise wholly original otherwise there would just be a bunch of actors quoting Shakespeare etc
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