Great dialogue scenes?

Question

Can anyone point me to a film/script with a great short dialogue scene? Intense drama or emotion is best; I'm looking for something to use to evaluate my acting on screen.

Appreciated!

Answer 1

I suppose it depends on how you define GREAT and SHORT, and how far back you want to relate to.

   For dialog there are dozens, hundreds perhaps, one GREAT one that comes to mind is very likely way before your time. Citizen Kane.

   In some very large measure, certainly evaluating might relate to your delivery, but with no offense, you are offering what someone else wrote, for the context of the scene.

In that sense you might relate to lines that Bogart said in Casablanca, or African Queen. You might consider that Tom Hanks has delivered some powerful dialog. Define DRAMA? Robin Williams, and Jim Carey have spoken lines very dramatically, even as known comedic actors.

In the most obvious sense, no matter your part, you have to BE THE character to make an impact. You have to be living that part, those lines, in the moment they pass your lips, and FEEL their meaning long after.

S. Wolf

Just my 2 "scents"

   It may be called ACTING, but to get my attention, you better make me believe.

Answer 2

Carol is right. That is a wonderful piece of dialogue.

For incredible drama, "Misery" by Stephen King is a masterpiece. There are only 4 major characters (there may only be 4 characters altogether)     - the scene where Cathy Bates has James Caan on the bed and is about to smash his ankles with a sledge hammer is very intense.

Nearly every scene in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" is packed with savage dialogue.

Answer 3

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

Answer 4

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Tangled Up in Blue by Brad Boesen

go check out the library for some books on dialogue scenes

Answer 5

schindlers list

Issak Stern(to schindler): Whoever saves one life saves the world entire....

if you watch the movie that line makes me cry ever time.

Answer 6

I've always liked Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene - especially the one with Olivia Hussey.