Best/Favorite Voice-Overs

[edonline]

voice over -- [n] the voice on an unseen commentator in a film of television program
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What are some your favorite scene featuring a voice over?

A few that come immediately to mind...

Joe Gillis' (William Holden) introduction to Sunset Boulevard

Verbal Kint's (Kevin Spacey) "Kaiser Soze" speech in The Usual Suspects

Dede Truitt's (Christina Ricci) "opposite of sex" scene in the movie of the same name

[Scarface98.9]

The constant VO's in Fight Club

The constant Vo's in Adaptation

The one at the very end of Psycho

[zeppelin]

-Martin Sheen's (actually his brother whom I am forgetting the name of at the moment) throughout Apocalypse Now
-Robert De Niro's throughout Taxi Driver
-Ray Liotta's throughout Goodfellas
-Fred MacMurray's throughout Double Indemnity
-Malcolm McDowell's throughout A Clockwork Orange (probably my all-time fave voice-over)

[Tom Samborski]

Richard Dreyfuss, Stand by Me
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver & Casino
Ray Liotta, Goodfellas

[Antonio]

Kevin Spacey in AMERICAN BEAUTY and Kim Stanley in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

[sarah1980]

Robert Mitchum-Tombstone

Malcolm McDowell-A Clockwork Orange

Sean Connery- The start and end of Highlander

Linda Hamation- The start and end of T2

The girl who played Sarah in The Crow

[chinton]

Kevin Spacey's ending monologue in American Beauty. Still gives me chills jus thinking about it. So beautiful.




Fight Club was a film filled almost to the halfway mark with voice-overs but it works so well

[Ren Hoek]

Sissy Spacek in Badlands

I love some of the voice-overs in the movies you guys mentioned, but none of them comes even close to the haunting beauty of Spacek's vocal performance in Malick's masterpiece.

[Sugar_Kane]

A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
American Beauty
Goodfellas

[Trinity]

Joan Fontaine's voice-over at the beggining of "Rebecca" is my my all time favorite.

Other great ones:
Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!
William Holden in Sunset Boulevard
George Sanders, Bette Davis & Celeste Holm in All About Eve

[ilovemovies]

Fallen uses voice over in a very clever way.
Daredevil
The Thin Red Line
Wonder Boys
Memento
Under Suspicion
Otherwise many of my favorites have already been mentioned. Especially Adaptation. I LOVE the voice over in Adaptation.

[Jasonite]

The first movies that came to mind were Spacey's in American Beauty, Pearce's in Memento, and Cage's in Adaptation.


J

[Frank the Tank]

The only one's I can think of are Nick Stahl's in T3 and AMH in the Breakfast Club.

[Hannibal21]

All of you guys have already mentioned all the great ones....

1. William Holden in SUNSET BOULEVARD
2. Kim Stanley in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
3. Celeste Holm, Bette Davis, and George Sanders in ALL ABOUT EVE
4. Malcolm McDowell in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
5. Kevin Spacey in AMERICAN BEAUTY

[Scarface98.9]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
Fallen uses voice over in a very clever way.
Daredevil

If I may ask, how were the voiceovers in Daredevil very clever? It was basic stuff explaining the plot, nothing much more

[The 8 Ball]

Nick Cage, Adaptation

Meryl Streep, Adaptation

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fallen Angels

Michelle Reis, Fallen Angels

Leslie Cheung, Ashes of Time

[Sigur509]

Originally posted by Jasonite
The first movies that came to mind were Spacey's in American Beauty, Pearce's in Memento, and Cage's in Adaptation.


J

The 3 best.

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by Scarface98.9
If I may ask, how were the voiceovers in Daredevil very clever? It was basic stuff explaining the plot, nothing much more

I said Fallen uses voice over in a very clever way.

Daredevil isn't clever but I just love it.