Idris Elba Monologues

All of you that have never been listened to before and have seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you!

What is this thing doing in here?... Who is responsible for bringing this thing? Strika, is it you that is bringing this thing?... Strika, untie him. So all of you grown men, it is Strika, the small boy, that is finding this prisoner. Where is 2 I-C?

A boy? A boy is nothing. A Boy is harmless?

Does a boy have two eyes to see?

A boy has hands to strangle and fingers to pull fingers. Why you saying a boy is nothing? huh? A boy is very, very dangerous. You understand me? Very dangerous, you understand?

Strika, are you hungry? Are you wanting to be eating this thing?

Let me see your hands... Oh, you have hands like a baby. What are you doing here?... You should be telling me. If you are telling me, I will be helping you. You see, Strika is hungry. He will eat you. Huh? What are you doing here?

Uh-huh. Well, Agu that is what I be calling you then, eh? Leave this one under my charge. I will be training him to be a Warrior. So you can be fighting the army that is killing your father. Is that what you want ?

I will always protect you because you are my son. And a son always protects his father.

So, you... You are the big man now, huh? Where will you be going? Huh? Will you surrender to the other NDF camp? No. they will eat you. And what of ECOMOD? Huh? That might be better, but what next? Jail? War crimes? Huh? You think you can just go and do what you want in peace? You will go back to your village and your family will not associate themselves with you. Huh? You will be nothing. You and your uneducated, poor mind, you'll be NOTHING. Nobody will care for you. Huh? Look at you. And you will wake up and you will rise and see the sun rise and see the sun set, and you can just wait all day ALL DAY with thousands of men just like you, waiting for somebody to give you a job. Huh? that's what you want to go and do? You are stupid! You have Nothing! No future! I am your future.

And know that I will be calling for you one day. Go and drink gunpowder tea and playing draughts. No, no, no. You remember me. You remember your Commandant. You're gonna say, Yeah.

Remember, I will call for you again... and you'll come. Remember.

There is no learning how to be leading. Some people are born to be leaders, others are born to be followers, and other are just waiting to be dying.

Young men! Wealth? We will not wait to inherit any wealth, huh? We will not wait for them to come and give it to us. We are going to take it. We're going to take it from them. Seize it! All of you that have never been listened to before and seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you. That is your defence. That is your familys blood. Victory! Victory!