The President’s Speech in Independence Day Was Just a Placeholder

Bill Pullman's President Whitmore delivers a stirring speech about the world banding together against aliens toward the end of the film Independence Day. On numerous websites, it has been listed as one of the best monologues in movie history. This patriotic and inspiring speech has received a lot of praise, yet despite that, it was not written with any intention of becoming a strong speech or piece.

Dean Devlin, a co-writer, penned the entire speech in five minutes without planning to use it at all in the movie. He claimed that he wanted to "vomit out something pretty fast" before fixing it afterwards. However, he and his co-writer forgot to replace the slack speech because they were under pressure to finish the movie quickly. As a result, what he considered to be trash ended up in the movie, and everyone appeared to enjoy it. Even the real White House has utilized it because it has become so legendary.