Days of Heaven Monologues

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.

This farmer, he had a big spread, and a lot of money. Whoever was sitting in a chair when he'd come around, why they'd stand up and give it to him.

Wasn't no harm in him. You'd give him a flower, he'd keep it forever.

Sometimes I'd feel very old, like my whole life is over, like I'm not around no more.

I've been thinking what to do wit' my future. I could be a mud doctor. Checkin' out the eart'. Underneat'.

This girl, she didn't know where she was goin' - or what she was gonna do. She didn't have no money on her. Maybe she'd meet up with a character. I was hopin' things would work out for her. She was a good friend of mine.

The sun looks ghostly when there's a mist on a river and everything's quiet. I never knowed it before. And you could see people on the shore, but they was far off and you couldn't see what they were doing. They were probably… calling for help or something, or they were trying to bury somebody or something.

All three of us been goin' places - lookin' for things, searching for things, goin' on adventures. They told everybody they were brother and sister. My brother didn't want nobody to know. You know how people are. You tell them somethin', they start talkin'.

Just when things were about to blow, this flyin' circus come in. After six months on this wheat patch, I needed a breath of fresh air. They were screamin' and yellin' and boppin' each other. He - the big one pushed the little one and said, "Come on. I start it, you start." The little one just started in. If they couldn't think of a good one to come back with, they'd start fightin'. The little one said, "No, I didn't do this." The big one said, "Yes, you did do this." You couldn't sort it out... . The devil's just sitting there laughing. He's glad when people does bad. Then he sends them to the snake house. He's just sits there and laughs and watch while you're sitting there all tied up with snakes and eating your eyes out. They go down your throat and eat all your systems out.

Me and my brother. It just used to be me and my brother. We used to do things together. We used to have fun. We used to go in the streets. There was people suffering of pain and hunger. Some people with tongues hanging out of their mouth.

Some sights that I saw was really spooky that it gave me goose pimples. I felt like cold hands touching the back of my neck and it could be the dead coming for me or something. I remember this guy, his name was Black Jack. He died. He only had one leg, and he died. And I think that was Black Jack making those noises

He knew he was gonna die. He knew there was nothin' that could be done.

If you've been bad, God don't even hear you. He don't even hear you talkin'.

You're only on this Earth once. And I - to my opinion, as long as you're around, you should have it nice.

I met this guy named Ding Dong. He told me the whole earth is goin' up in flames. Flames will come out of here and there and they'll just rise up. The mountains are gonna go up in big flames. The water's gonna rise in flames. There's gonna be creatures runnin' every which way - some of them burned, half their wings burnin'. People are gonna be screamin' and hollerin' for help. See, the people that have been good, they're gonna go to heaven and escape all that fire.

This farmer, he didn't know when he first saw her... or what it was about her that caught his eye. Maybe it was the way the wind blew through her hair.

He was headed for the boneyard any minute; but, he wasn't really goin' around squawkin' about it, like some people. In one way, I felt sorry for him, 'cause he had nobody to stand out for him, be by his side, hold his hand when he needs attention or somethin'. That's touchin'.

He was tired of livin' like the rest of them - nosin' around like a pig in a gutter. He wasn't in the mood no more. He figured there must be somethin' wrong with 'em - the way they always got no luck - and they oughta get it straightened out. He figured some people need more than they got, other people got more than they need. Just a matter of gettin' us all together.

I got to like this farm. Do anything I want. Roll in the fields, talk to the wheat patches. When I was sleepin', they'd talk to me. They'd go in my dreams.

I mean, we were just, all of a sudden - livin' like kings. Just nothin' to do all day but crack jokes, lay around. -We didn't have to work. I'm tellin' you, the rich got it figured out.

We seen trees that the leaves are shakin' - and it looks like shadows of guys comin' at you and stuff. We heard owls squawkin' away, hootin' away. We didn't know where we were goin', what we were gonna do.