A long-awaited and much-needed collection of long and short monologues for alltypes, taken from great films.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
It was ok but lacked variety,
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This review is from: The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues (Mass Market Paperback)
The books monologues were aimed at people in there 30's and 40's. I was hoping they would be aimed at my age group which is the 20's and 30's. Maybe some day I will find something that suits me.
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues (Mass Market Paperback)
It is a pretty good book. I was looking for a contemporary monologue and I wish it had a little bit more selection of those.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth it!,
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This review is from: Actor's Book of Movie Monologues (School & Library Binding)
I'm the second half of a 2-person book club, and we selected this book because we wanted to read something different. After many "hits" in our readings, this one was a big miss.This is definitely a book geared toward actors as the title says. It's not for casual reading. But, even as a source of audition monologues, this book comes across as repetitive, vague, and one-dimensional. The selection of movies starts in the 1930 and goes through many famous and infamous movies, which is great - a wide range. But it failed to give a diversity of characters, especially female characters, many of whom were the typical down-on-her-luck lasses. And the problem with the male characters selected is the demographic...white WASPs. The emotional range doesn't get too far beyond the depressed and the depressing, which is useless to a character who's auditioning for a comedy and wants to show the producers and director that they are made for this part. Comedy was rare, the monologue selections redundant (except for the classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird"), and the plot descriptions were vague at best. Rarely were the authors able to give a sufficient set-up of the plot and characterization for the monologues. It helped if the reader had seen the movie and understood the character's motivation and the plot, but the author's seem frightened to give away endings, when that isn't the point of their work. Our book club gave this a rating of 3 out of 10, but here, that translates to a 1 star. Don't waste your money...rent a movie instead.
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New York, Monologue One, Monologue Two, Frank Capra, John Doe, Norma Rae, Carol Anne, Marine Corps, Notre Dame, Father Barry, Francis Ford Coppola, Little Earl, Tom Robinson, Doris Attinger, Ingmar Bergman Directed, Ingmar Bergman Time, Randy Sue, Sidney Lumet Time, Woody Allen Time, Dramatic Club, Fletcher Christian, Ginger Rogers, Joffe Production, John Huston Time, Kayo Dugan New!
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New York, Monologue One, Monologue Two, Frank Capra, John Doe, Norma Rae, Carol Anne, Marine Corps, Notre Dame, Father Barry, Francis Ford Coppola, Little Earl, Tom Robinson, Doris Attinger, Ingmar Bergman Directed, Ingmar Bergman Time, Randy Sue, Sidney Lumet Time, Woody Allen Time, Dramatic Club, Fletcher Christian, Ginger Rogers, Joffe Production, John Huston Time, Kayo Dugan New!
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- Annie Hall by Woody Allen on 4 pages
- Stardust memories by Woody Allen in Front Matter, page 169, and Back Matter
- Four Films: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories by Woody Allen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Universal Pictures by Rh Value Publishing in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- TWENTY BEST FILM PLAYS 2VLS (The Garland classics of film literature) by Gassner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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