BioShock – Confronting Andrew Ryan
It’s one of the moments that defined the first BioShock: the haunting pre-mortem soliloquy of Andrew Ryan.
Here was a man who so despised Altruism – he believed every man was “entitled to the sweat of his own brow” – that he rejected the social hierarchies of sea-level civilization to construct his own metropolis, Rapture, leagues-deep in the middle of the Atlantic. He convinced society’s finest minds – doctors, scientists, entrepreneurial geniuses – to join him, and together they forged a thriving cultural mecca. At least, that’s how it began.
This Utopian ambition is introduced to us in an opening monologue that’s spectacular on its own – but even more powerful is our first/final live encounter with Ryan, after his dream has crumbled into pieces. It is at this moment when we witness his life’s cruel irony: a man of such Altruism animus, initiating his own death when it will only save others – Jack; Dr. Tenenbaum; the Little Sisters, if they’re alive – hollow objects of welfare, now, with his real love, the fruit of his labor, spoiling into decay.
But the speech isn’t memorable for its deadly swings of fate (if of golf clubs). In the end, we look back on Andrew Ryan’s death the way we do his life. In the end, he chose; a man, not a slave.
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Kirrahes speech wasn’t tht great.
Current Gen…I’m not really sure.
Last Gen though, one of the best would be Christopher Stone’s Speech at the TV Station in Freedom Fighters. Everything about it is just perfect, even more so seeing as at first, he was so silent, but after all these events, he rises up and tells his fellow soldiers everything.
I’m so happy to see Andrew Ryan’s speech on here
Personally, I liked Reznov’s speeches in World at War, and Johnson’s speeches in the Halo Trilogy.
I loved that Big Boss speech, but man, it sure did go on a long time. Foxdie used to act a lot quicker, lol.
Kirrahe’s speech in this clip is not in sync with the score, and his inflection is different from the PC version. I’m wondering if the XBox 360 version had a different track then? The PC version seems more “epic.”