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Walkin was talking about being a lion, whilst having the sound, stance, stare and stature of a lion; he was the living embody of the story he was speaking.

What I found amazing is that the monologue was one whole take. No cuts. No editing. He remembered that whole monologue. Amazing!

@alexanderlyon

11 ай бұрын

Hi, Kara. It certainly seemed to be all one take. Either that or the editing was perfect.

There just aren’t enough superlatives for CW, such a talented actor !

@marionmeikle8874

Жыл бұрын

From Liverpool NW England !

when he says " its too late to be scared" is a killer reality check. Love it and your video.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Oh, yeah. Great line.

He has it best speaking voice

Robert Duvall's speech in Apocalypse Now was amazing. I remember very little else about the movie. I think Christopher's speech was the perfect limit. 3:18

Who else wants to hear an analysis of Jack Nicholson as U.S. Marine Colonel Nathan R. Jessup in "A Few Good Men." The "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" speech; any takers?

Stallone as Rocky talking to his son on the street is another amazing monologue.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! I did a reaction to that several weeks ago.

@dragonrider9051

Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderlyon Always be closing, it's a good but dated language speech.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

That one is on my list! ABC!

The best communicating is reflecting our personal experiences. Our brains are miraculous in their abilities to retain memories. Our brains teach us through memories about life. Walken did a movie clip. Our lives are one long movie clip, hopefully teaching us life lessons from every experience, good and bad. Patience.kindness. surviving the slings and arrows, like the lion. Life is a dangerous road, like the lion ran, to conquer against that which tries to destroy us. The high road, as you say, Alexander.

Christopher Walkins’ voice and cadence deliver the point home, along with the cadence the posture and firm gaze towards the recipient, he almost puts you on the scene by the way he is describing the initial scene, forget the visuals 😅. Thanks Professor Lyon!

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Well said. He brings so many strengths to enhance the words.

Been there, done that. I could never have described it in this magnificent manner. Glad I didn't. Everything CW does and you describe is perfect.

I think if someone else said it, it would still have a great effect. What I do and I see Walken did, was lower your tone to bring the listener closer to you. I do this with my children when everything is too loud and I want them to focus and listen.

The Length Of The Speech Was Perfect, Basically Christopher Walken HIT IT & QUIT IT! His Voice And Cadence Was ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY A 10 Out Of 10 ❤ His Look And Delivery Made The Speech VERY VERY IMPACTFUL

You have the best reaction videos. They're high quality and extremely interesting.

I like this monologue you've chosen partly because it's obscure and relatable. Some are suggesting you do famous movie monologues, but I think you found the perfect one here. Finding others like it will be a challenge, but they are out there.

@pll9000

5 ай бұрын

Glen Gary Glen Ross. "A, B, C. Always. Be. Closing."

Great speech! He exhumed a sense of darkness in his tone, more Scar than Mufassa. If it was longer, it would have lost the momentum, fizzled out.

If Walken recited a recipe for raisin oatmeal with that voice tone and the same physical intensity, it would be better than any 150 word speech I’ve given. Behold the power of pathos.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Ha! Great comment.

Poolhall junkies was created, produced and starred Mars Callahan.. It's a great movie in my library before it was even released.. Didn't do well in theaters due to politics, but it has become a popular underground fillm booming over the years.. If you play pool, you will especially enjoy it! Must see! Lots of other great lines you'll never forget!

Thank you! Excellent clip to present your points - short and sweet. I love Walken and watch his movies any chance I get. He has a very distinctive way of speaking, with planned pauses and a tone of voice that is pretty much unique. Both make for very effective speaking. You covered all of the important points about his speech and did not leave anything out - great job!. He delivers the story so effectively that made me watch it several times. I learned something new today.

His usage of pauses is riveting. And how he said 'jackals' and 'hyenas' with real bitterness and contempt really drove that anger home.

I LOVE this video and the focus on the Power of impactful storytelling. I have been doing a spiritual podcast for the last 2 years, and storytelling is a very natural part of it to me, because I want to make spiritual truths Relatable, Attainable, and Transformative. I will be stopping by your channel here regularly! Thanks!

This is great! Just enough to gain attention and make the other think. His tone of voice made it easy to listen and receive and eye contact is a must.

This is the best, love your review.

Love him

I haven't read any other comments so I don't know whether this has been mentioned but what I noticed was that, even though there are many verbs, they're not complex; they're simple words that we use every day. That, paired with Christopher Walkens' accent, makes the monologue sound very informal. I think it's a good way to engage people as it would make someone more personable & approachable Also, in this monologue there was no need for him to wax lyrical; he says enough & emotes it with his cadence & verb usage that it gets his point across.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Great points. Thanks for adding your thoughts, Alexis.

He is known, amongst other things, for his atypical cadence. He uses it here to full effect. He grows more intense as the story progresses. When he says "It's time to kill" he looks like he's ready to do just that.

Great scene. The change in cadence is striking and sobering. In group settings I’m noticing increasingly how laborious it is listening to a persons personal experience as a means of making a point (I know I’m guilty of this too) but this story is riveting. Implicitly the quality and simplicity of the story tell suggests the character has triumphed over his personal experiences.

Walker gave the similar talk in the movie true Romance

The length felt right. His voice 100% has a positive impact on it in that way that is unique only to Walken. His body language and facial expressions gave the performance a sinister undertone that made the words even more powerful.

Walken has that gift of cadence, similar to Gene Wilder. Both extraordinary actors!

Wow! Thank you for another great video. For me, CH personifies the Lion here - the less is more king of the jungle whose story he’s telling. It’s the multiple layers of this performance that makes it so powerful. That’s a truly GREAT storyteller. Thank you for sharing.

Done perfectly. He does another one in man on fire with Denzel Washington where he describes the "artist ".

Great clip. Walken's use of cadence, voice pitch, the space between words and vowels, creates a superb, riveting atmosphere. As he sets the scene, paints the picture of the main character, "mane, way out here", is reduced to an lion type power rumble. Scene 2, lifted pitch, almost playful nipping of tail, of toes. Transforms, with the arrival of the Jackals, the Hyenas, each spat out in distaste. Brilliant delivery. Thank you for giving your insight. Have you watched/reacted to the Emily Maitlis interview with Prince Andrew? It was done while Ms Maitlis was still with the BBC.

@alexanderlyon

10 ай бұрын

Yes, I've seen clips of that interview. I'm still undecided on reaction to it or not. It is ripe with little details, for sure.

One of my favorite movies! Poolhall Junkies!

Seems like it was written specifically for Walken, because he always delivers with his monologues. Some examples are the watch scene from Pulp Fiction, a scene from Nick of Time, where he starts by telling Johnny Depp “There was this guy….” Also one or two scenes from Catch Me If You Can.

Robert Shaw's USS Indianapolis speech in Jaws is my personal favorite. Shaw single-handedly commanded the film screen for five minutes.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I remember that one! Great suggestion.

@davidknight4874

Жыл бұрын

Damn sure did. Best ever-

Mars Callahan (the young guy) wrote a great screenplay & scene & Walken ran with it.... :)

The story is great, when use it as metaphor to to express parallels with what happened to certain powers every time in history, then story is great when it implies different aspects in life.

Love Mr. Walkin! He’s perfect for this monologue and nails it…I wouldn’t change a thing. Not that he asked.😊

i thought i was the king of repressing emotions, but walken engulfs me

@alexanderlyon

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a powerful moment. Me too.

@sudhish86_

8 ай бұрын

@@alexanderlyon , i get scared/hatefulness whenever i see someone able to be a chameleon. it usually implies a shrewd ambition...

Some of the dialogue in the movie Heat (DeNiro, Pacino, Kilmer)

Fewer words almost always have more impact... and Christopher Walken could read the phone book and I would be riveted, LOL.

It's the eyes 100%.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely piercing eyes.

Can you do a movie monologue on Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting? I love Robin Williams

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Good suggestion!

James Dean when asked if he ever played chicken in "Rebel..."

The shot at 0:30. I'm not very smart when it comes to this, so I know there's something important there, but I'm not sure yet what it is. It reminds me of scenes where someone's reflection talks to them, but the reflection is just representing one aspect of the person's character - usually evil or something LOL I think the speech could be improved. The shot of CW distracted me - off center with so much space on the right... I'm too dull to get it. And I wanted CW to explode when the lion exploded, not the nonchalant delivery. Similarly, I think the speech really could have been longer and even more effective. In other monologues like this I like the ones where the meandering mundane story sets up in a way where you can't really tell where it's going until WHAMMO. We know exactly how this one will end once the jackals and hyenas are introduced. The ending doesn't have to change, but I would have like to have had some unexpected BOOM drop of the hammer or a "that escalated quickly" moment. Someone said CW became the lion, and I don't agree with that at all. Also when that dude looked up with his dopey face I wanted CW to address him looking dopey in some way LOL

Please do - Communication Professor reacts to Communication Professor reacting.

@alexanderlyon

11 ай бұрын

Genius!

@nayb1398

11 ай бұрын

@@alexanderlyon 😉

stories, and story-power, share another descriptive term these days: Narrative. and, as you said, it is truly captivating. indeed the mastery of public Narratives have captured whole industries, whole social constructs. lets understand that narratives require a narrator, while truth requires the individual or teams of individuals, practicing science. scrutiny, discretion, skepticism, Science. Wanna-be Objectivity arrogantly presumes to be a storyteller, with subjectivity is its matrix. Allow yourself to be captivated by a story, but after the telling, remember you are not a captive of the story..

Never keep picking at a lion or a person who just wants to be left alone.

Long story short "Don't let them bully you son!"

Pulp Fiction, Christopher Walken telling the story of the gold watch.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Ha! I don't know about that one! I think we all know where that watch has been!

@fast-eddyflat-hed8336

Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderlyon Catch me if you can film, Walkens speech in the Rotary club of the two mice.

How would you understand context or the power of the speech if you haven’t watched the entire film my boy?

Network movie from the 70s where he's talking to the camera shouting he's as mad as hell and he's not gonna take it

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Ah, that sounds familiar.

Review tito Ortiz giving this speech, lol!

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Ha! I just looked that up. Ortiz gave it his best shot but it goes to show you how powerful Walken is in this moment. He brings the words to life and they land like a sledgehammer. But that is a hilarious interaction with Chael Sonnen. There's also a video of the two speeches side by side that asks "Who did it better?" I love the internet!

Do you think coffee would taste better if added water?

This was excellent, thank you for breaking this scene down! They way he says hyena's! yikes, !

What a speech! I think if it went longer it would lose impact. The concise nature left time for the message to sink in, and listener to be impacted in silence. My only criticism… (and this is not having watched the movie) it seemed the speech was at such a serious dramatic level, perhaps even too dramatic for a billiards game.

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Good insights. I haven't seen the movie either, but MAN, what a scene.

Cool beanz

If you want another good story from CW you should hear the one about the watch he hid for two years. 😂

@alexanderlyon

Жыл бұрын

Ha! I know that story! Might be a little "off-brand" for this channel but I know the one you're talking about.

@ninajo33

Жыл бұрын

😮🎉😂yes..cw always at his best!

its just a movie. use real life monologue that has a real life experience. not a scenario that's catered to fit the speech.

@alexanderlyon

9 ай бұрын

I do use mostly real-life speeches, conversations, and interviews. I have a total of 4 movie speech reaction out of over 300 videos on my channel.

He’s not human .

A Few Good Men ….between Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise

Pacino. Scent of a woman speech.

Can’t watch him, he’s evil😂

Great advice for 15-20 years ago, but as a storyteller myself who used to have a great talent to hold an audience, I have to say that people today have 15 second attention spans, and getting past the first part of your story is almost impossible. Christopher Walken wouldn't be able to finish this speech with today's audiences.

@ninajo33

Жыл бұрын

I hope you're wrong but if I was a betting person, which I better not be..you be probably right😢

Christopher Walken is one of the greatest actors of all time.