Tomorrowland Monologue

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Description

My take on Hugh Laurie's monologue from Tomorrowland.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Let's imagine if you glimpse the future. You were frightened by what you saw. What would you do with that information? Would you go to the politicians, captains of industry? And how would you convince them? Data fax. Good luck. The only facts they want. Challenge of the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. But what if What if there was a way of seeping the milk man and putting the critical news to Brecht and everyone's head? The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it to scare people straight, because what reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything I've ever known or loved to save civilization. I would show its collapse. But how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolatey clear. They didnt fear their demised. They repackaged it. It could be enjoyed His video games as TV shows, books, movies, the entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile, your birth was crumbling all around you. You've got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation. Explain that one. Bees and butterflies start disappear. The glaciers melt, algae blooms all around you. The coal mine canaries air dropping dead. And you won't take the hint in every moment. There's a possibility of a better future. But you people won't believe it. And because you won't believe that you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality. So you dwell on this terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason. Because that future does not ask anything of you today. So, yes, we saw the iceberg and warned the Titanic. But you all just steered for it anyway. Full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sing. You gave up. That's not the monitor's fault. That's yours.