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The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues (Paperback)

~ Marisa Smith (Editor), Amy Schewel (Editor)
Key Phrases: continuity script, New York, Monologue One, Monologue Two (more...)
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A long-awaited and much-needed collection of long and short monologues for alltypes, taken from great films.

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 2, 1986)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014009475X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140094756
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #777,004 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars It was ok but lacked variety, October 2, 1998
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars My thoughts, June 29, 2006
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it!, December 3, 2002
By D. Black "Paike" (NOVA, United States) - See all my reviews
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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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