Motivational speeches by Sean Aston's characters

January 13, 2005 8:55 AM

MovieFilter. In The Goonies, Rudy and Lord Of The Rings characters played by Sean Astin deliver impassioned inspirational speeches. In what other movies has he done this? Does Sean Astin give impassioned inspirational speeches in all of his films?
posted by Fuzzy Monster to grab bag (11 comments total)

In Encino Man, he was the recipient of one from Pauly Shore.

WEEZE THE JUICE
posted by cheaily at 9:08 AM on January 13, 2005

Since the story "Harrison Bergeron" involved a speech, perhaps the movie does as well, in which Astin is the lead. I've never seen it, but it might have something like that.

Maybe Toy Soldiers too, because its a prep-school version of Red Dawn.
posted by tweak at 9:14 AM on January 13, 2005

IIRC, he does do something like that in 50 First Dates.
posted by geekyguy at 9:56 AM on January 13, 2005

I don't know the answer, but this question reminds me of a show my old improv teacher did at Upright Citizen's Brigade, where he and his partner started with a tag-team of monologues. His partner did Kevin Pollack in a movie I can't recall, and he did Sean Astin's "this is our time" speech in The Goonies. Awesome.
posted by mkultra at 10:09 AM on January 13, 2005

The Harrison Bergeron movie is way different than the short story. But Samwise Sean does have one, if not two, badly-written speech scenes. It's been a couple years since I saw it, so the only thing I remember vividly is that it was bad.
posted by Plutor at 10:14 AM on January 13, 2005

RUUU-DY! RUUU-DY! RUUU-DY!
posted by billysumday at 10:28 AM on January 13, 2005

He had alot of that in the TV show Jeremiah, great show.
posted by ac at 12:57 PM on January 13, 2005

He delivers at least one impassioned speech to Frodo in LOTR.

I don't know the answer, but this question reminds me of a show my old improv teacher did at Upright Citizen's Brigade, where he and his partner started with a tag-team of monologues.

In highschool, I directed something like this, made up of Prospero and Puck's closing monologues. Worked surprisingly well, and pointed out the similarities between the two.
posted by me3dia at 1:24 PM on January 13, 2005

I can't believe I am about to admit that I have ever seen this film* but he delivers an impassioned speech of sorts in the horribly bad army-brats-pulling-pranks TV movie B.R.A.T. Patrol.

*I was 12 at the time and had a wicked pre-teen crush on Sean Astin. I even have an autographed picture of him somewhere.
posted by LeeJay at 5:11 PM on January 13, 2005

He sat in front of me in my Anthropology 101 class at Los Angeles Valley College in the early-1990s, but he didn't give any impassioned speeches.
posted by waxpancake at 5:26 PM on January 13, 2005 [1 favorite has favorites]

I dunno if you could call his performance on the LOTR cast commentaries impassioned, but he sure comes off as a dim, pompous ass who loves to hear himself talk. Maybe that's why he picks roles where he makes big speeches. (I quite liked him until I heard those DVDs).
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:07 PM on January 13, 2005