monologue review

My monologue was from the phone call scene of the movie Taxi Driver. In this scene the main character is calling a love interest in one last bid for her affection and fails. It is supposed to be a sad scene and the saddest scene in the movie. My goal was to recreate the sadness of this scene because I am not a very serious actor nor have I really explored that area of acting.
I do not think i captured that all that well. I come across as anxious more then sad and i keep making weird sounds with my mouth. My body language makes it seem as if i am aguring with a buisness partner or something rather then a ex lover. I keep bobing my head up and down and that really is not how people talk to eachother on the phone. I did like the fact that I stood up and began pacing, I felt it added fluidity to the scene and a good sense of the character being frustraited. The words I speak seem a bit fast and hurrying the conversation then trying to preserve it which was not what I wanted to come across.
I certainly need to be aware on how my body looks to the outside and how my words come across to the audience. I think i did well on the memerization asepct and the accent seemed alright.
On another note, I really do not think I learned much of anything from watching the other monologues. Maybe that is because I do not remember half of them. I did however like abligal's sentiments on will's monoluge "I liked how you channeled a new emotion into every paragraph of the scene." That is something new to learn, I thought that if you did that you would not be able to create tone but it worked well with what will did. Prehaps that has to do with the contenet of his monologue or because it was so longwinded. I do not know, what i do know is that people usually do add diffrent emotions into one conversation. I also learned that Ryan is truely the romeo of this school.
ttyl