Speech of the Week #40: The Gary Busey Edition

Welcome everyone to a weekly column here on YDKS Movies entitled Speech of the Week! Every week, 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 is a little different than most speeches one will find here on YDKS. This week's speech doesn't actually come from a movie. Instead, it is an interview about a movie. The movie in question is Quigley, a 2003 low-budget Christian film about a rich a-hole (Gary Busey) who gets reincarnated as a white Pomeranian named Quigley in order to right all of his previous wrongs. If that plot synopsis doesn't sell you on the film, I don't know what will.

I didn't even realize this film existed until earlier tonight when my friend and former co-writer Zach Osborn told me about it. He's actually seen the movie and says it's just as awfully wonderful as you would imagine (in fact, he may be doing a guest writing spot here on YDKS to not only review the film but tell his pretty epic story about the role Quigley has played in his life). 

The interview below is of Gary Busey explaining the movie and how amazing it is. This is one of the most disturbing and hilarious interviews that I have ever seen. Let's just say there are times when Busey talks about how he received certain "information" from the other side during a near-death experience. He also talks about how God gave him cancer in his face all the while speaking with a pirate accent. 

It's just so bizarre that you have to watch it for yourself. Enjoy it below.