2 Best 12 Monkeys Monologues – Opening Monologue

12 Monkeys (Jeffrey Goines)

Category: Movie Role: Jeffrey Goines From: 12 Monkeys

Right, right, right. Okay, okay. It’s all in good fun, all in good fun. Here’s some games here, and there’s, Get out! Get out! He was in my chair. Games, Games. Here’s some games. Games that want to get out, ha. See? More games. Games, they vegetize you. See? Bah! If you play the games you’re voluntarily taking a tranquilizer. I guess they gave you some chemical restraints, huh? Drugs! What’d they give you? Thorazine? Haldol? How much, how much?? Learn your drugs, know your dosages, it’s elementary. … Telephone call? That’s communication with the outside world. Doctors discretion. Uh-uh. Nah. Hey, if all these nuts could make just make phone calls, it would spread insanity oozing through telephone cables. Oozing to the ears of all these poor, sane people. Infecting them. Wackos everywhere, a plague of madness. In fact, very few Jim, Jim, very few of us here are actually mentally ill. I’m not saying you’re not mentally ill, for all I know you’re crazy as a loon. But that’s not why you’re here. That’s not why you’re here, that’s not why you’re here!! You’re here because of the system. There’s the television. It’s all right there. All right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials. We’re not productive anymore. We don’t make things anymore. It’s all automated. What are we for then? We’re consumers. Yeah. Okay, okay, buy a lot of stuff, you’re a good citizen. But if you don’t buy a lot of stuff, if you don’t, what are you then I ask you? What? Mentally ill! Fact, Jim, fact. If you don’t buy things: toilet paper, new cars, computerized blenders, electric operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built in radar devices, voice activated computers! … Right. That’s right. You’re a very attractive woman. Ha! So, uh, you want to watch a television show, you go to the charge nurse, you tell her the day, the time, the show you want to see. But you have to tell her before the show comes on. There was this guy, and he was always requesting shows that had already played. Yes! No! You have to tell her before. He couldn’t quite grasp the idea that the charge nurse couldn’t make it be yesterday, you can’t turn back time, thank you Einstein. Now he, he was nuts! He was a fruit cake Jim!

12 Monkeys (Jeffrey)

Category: Movie Role: Jeffrey From: 12 Monkeys

JEFFREY: WHO CARES WHAT PSYCHIATRISTS WRITE ON WALLS? (moves to Fale, jabs him with a finger) You think I told her about the Army of the 12 Monkeys? Impossible! Know why, you pathetically ineffectual and pusillanimous “pretend-friend-to-animals”?! I”ll tell you why: because when I had anything to do with her six years ago, there was no such thing – I hadn”t even thought of it yet!JEFFREY abruptly switches from rage to good humor, adopting a supercilious smile and a patronizing tone.Here”s my theory on that. While I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, x-rayed, studied thoroughly. Then, everything about me was entered into a computer where they created a model of my mind.They all stare, mesmerized, at the strutting JEFFREY. Is he serious? Is he crazy? Doesn”t matter – he”s charismatic.Then, using the computer model, they generated every thought I could possibly have in the next, say ten years, which they then filtered through a probability matrix to determine everything I was going to do in that period. So you see, she knew I was going to lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I”m ever going to do before I know it myself. How about that? Now I have to get going – do my part. You guys check all this stuff out and load up the van. Make sure you have everything. I”m outta here.RelatedShareTweetPin

JEFFREY abruptly switches from rage to good humor, adopting a supercilious smile and a patronizing tone.Here”s my theory on that. While I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, x-rayed, studied thoroughly. Then, everything about me was entered into a computer where they created a model of my mind.They all stare, mesmerized, at the strutting JEFFREY. Is he serious? Is he crazy? Doesn”t matter – he”s charismatic.Then, using the computer model, they generated every thought I could possibly have in the next, say ten years, which they then filtered through a probability matrix to determine everything I was going to do in that period. So you see, she knew I was going to lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I”m ever going to do before I know it myself. How about that? Now I have to get going – do my part. You guys check all this stuff out and load up the van. Make sure you have everything. I”m outta here.RelatedShareTweetPin

Here”s my theory on that. While I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, x-rayed, studied thoroughly. Then, everything about me was entered into a computer where they created a model of my mind.They all stare, mesmerized, at the strutting JEFFREY. Is he serious? Is he crazy? Doesn”t matter – he”s charismatic.Then, using the computer model, they generated every thought I could possibly have in the next, say ten years, which they then filtered through a probability matrix to determine everything I was going to do in that period. So you see, she knew I was going to lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I”m ever going to do before I know it myself. How about that? Now I have to get going – do my part. You guys check all this stuff out and load up the van. Make sure you have everything. I”m outta here.RelatedShareTweetPin

They all stare, mesmerized, at the strutting JEFFREY. Is he serious? Is he crazy? Doesn”t matter – he”s charismatic.Then, using the computer model, they generated every thought I could possibly have in the next, say ten years, which they then filtered through a probability matrix to determine everything I was going to do in that period. So you see, she knew I was going to lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I”m ever going to do before I know it myself. How about that? Now I have to get going – do my part. You guys check all this stuff out and load up the van. Make sure you have everything. I”m outta here.RelatedShareTweetPin

Then, using the computer model, they generated every thought I could possibly have in the next, say ten years, which they then filtered through a probability matrix to determine everything I was going to do in that period. So you see, she knew I was going to lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I”m ever going to do before I know it myself. How about that? Now I have to get going – do my part. You guys check all this stuff out and load up the van. Make sure you have everything. I”m outta here.RelatedShareTweetPin