One of Walken’s very best monologues, right up there with Pulp Fiction, comes from The Comfort of Strangers, a discomfiting 1991 psychological thriller directed by Paul Schrader and written by the playwright Harold Pinter (from a novel by Ian McEwen). Walken plays Robert, a creepy Italian sophisticate dressed in white Armani who lives in Venice with his Canadian wife Caroline (Helen Mirren).
