The movie monologue serves multiple purposes. It may be for exposition, as in Back to the Future when Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) explains all that is needed for time travel: plutonium, 88 miles per hour, and the dashboard date/time setup. It could be foreshadowing, brilliantly lampooned in Wayne's World, where a security guard (Chris Farley) gives highly specific information about who's in the limo and what its route will be, prompting Wayne (Mike Myers) to turn to the camera and say, "For a security guard, he had an awful lot of information, don't you think?" A monologue may also drop a key plot point and/or twist (think Orphan, when Dr. Varava (Karel Roden) tells Kate (Vera Farmiga) that (SPOILER) Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) is actually a 33-year-old woman, not a 9-year-old orphan). There's more, of course, but what is true, regardless of its intent, is that the monologue gives the actor a space to make their character come alive, to make the character their own. These are just a few examples of actors that took the opportunity and ran with it.



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