Favorite Voice-Over Narrations

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Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption or Edward Norton in Fight Club
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My vote for best voice of a narrator is obviously Morgan Freeman in Shawshank, with my favorite piece of narration being the scene on the roof with the beer.

However, I still stand by Fassbinder's narration in Berlin Alexanderplatz because only a small percentage is directly concerned with what's actually on screen. Most of it is metaphorical but makes total sense in the context of the characters and the era of the Weimar Republic.
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Mathew Modine in a few movies, Vision Quest is my favorite though.

"All I ever settled for was that we're born to live and then to die and we've got to do it alone, each in his own way. And I guess that's why we've got to love those people who deserve it like there's no tomorrow; because when you get right down to it, there isn't."
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Joe Pesci & Robert DeNiro- Casino
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Lord of the rings- Galadriel by Cate Blanchett




"I still to this day don't know what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are better left unsaid. I like to think that they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it."
Making my heart ache,true.The absence of understanding the lyrics makes it even more beautiful.
And on top of that,Italian songs are truly magical,
SOGNO,by Andrea Bocelli,almost gives me the same feeling as watching the souls being set free,even for the briefest moment.
Incredible film.



I am half agony, half hope.
Donnie Wahlberg, as Carwood Lipton, in Band of Brothers.

Alec Baldwin in The Royal Tenenbaums.
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GoodFellas

But also Barry Lyndon, Sunset Blvd., Dogville, Manderlay, Badlands, Little Big Man, The Killing, Amélie, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebecca, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, The Big Lebowski, The Thin Red Line, The Age of Innocence, Jules & Jim, Casino, Bull Durham, Last Year at Marienbad, The Royal Tenenbaums, Apocalypse Now, The Hudsucker Proxy, Tom Jones, Days of Heaven, Raising Arizona, Million Dollar Baby and on and on and on.
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Apocolypse Now
Shawshank
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Taxi Driver
Rasing Arizona

Wow. Unless I missed it, no one said Gump?

Lt. Dan was always getting these funny feelings, and he'd say, Get down, Shut up.

"Get down!! Shut up!!"
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My vote for best voice of a narrator is obviously Morgan Freeman in Shawshank, with my favorite piece of narration being the scene on the roof with the beer.
..."we were the Lords of all Creation."

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I am burdened with glorious purpose
My favorites (all have been mentioned but not quoted):

Kevin Spacey in American Beauty:

"I guess I could be pretty pissed
about what happened to me...
but it's hard to stay mad, when
there's so much beauty in the
world. Sometimes I feel like I'm
seeing it all at once, and it's too
much, my heart fills up like a
balloon that's about to burst...:
And then I remember to relax, and
stop trying to hold on to it, and
then it flows through me like rain
and I can't feel anything but
gratitude for every single moment
of my stupid little life...
You have no idea what I'm talking
about, I'm sure... but don't
worry...you will one day.

And then there is Blanchett in Lord of the Rings:

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. "One Ring to rule them all." One by one, the Free Lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor and on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth. Victory was near. But the power of the Ring could not be undone.

And finally, Ewan MacGregor in Transpotting:

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

Of course, all three are rather depressing.






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I enjoyed Nicholas Cage's voice over for Lord Of War, can't really pinpoint a reason why but I loved it.

Also enjoyed the introduction voice overs in Snatch.
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I enjoyed Nicholas Cage's voice over for Lord Of War, can't really pinpoint a reason why but I loved it.

Yes!!! Brilliant and have recently seen for first time

I especially liked opening sequence which detailed the life of a bullet ... very thought provoking.



My vote for best voice of a narrator is obviously Morgan Freeman in Shawshank, with my favorite piece of narration being the scene on the roof with the beer.

However, I still stand by Fassbinder's narration in Berlin Alexanderplatz because only a small percentage is directly concerned with what's actually on screen. Most of it is metaphorical but makes total sense in the context of the characters and the era of the Weimar Republic.
My new favorite voice-over is whoever wrote and delivered the narration for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which I just saw this week. Very well done and contained a good many facts about the people and that period.