Hey guys, welcome to a new column here on YDKS Movies entitled Speech of the Week! For now on, every Monday I will post a new scene from a movie that features a speech of some sort being given. After all, there are a lot of famous scenes in film where characters give an influential speech of some sort. Then again, there are also a lot of scenes where characters give a speech and it just comes off cheesy and lame. In this section, you will see both kinds. That's right, people, I'm giving you the good and bad of film speeches all wrapped up in one great big package. I hope you all enjoy.
This week's Speech of the Week comes from Ed Wood's cheesy monster film Bride of the Monster. I figured that this would be appropriate considering I just did a review of the the Tim Burton film based on Wood's life, which not only covers this movie but this very speech. It is also very fitting because today is Bela Lugosi's birthday. This is the infamous, "Home? I have no home..." speech. If you believe the movie, this speech was written on the spot for Lugosi (of Dracula fame- by this point he was a washed up, morphine addict unfortunately) after a long night of filming in a dirty lake with a fake octopus. In other words, this speech was supposed to be his reward for all his hard work. The result is a very cliche and laughable speech but Lugosi gives it his all and somehow manages to make it slightly heartbreaking (especially if you know what's going on his private life at the same time).
Sure, the speech is really stupid but at least Lugosi gave it his all.
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