Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 2002
About Schmidt: movie monologues to shadow
12 monologues from About Schmidt. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
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- B120 lines
Anyway, I know something about retirement.
Ray's retirement toastAbout Schmidt · 2002Ray tears down every gift and pension before handing Warren a worth that money cannot buy. - B240 lines
My name is Warren R. Schmidt and I am your new foster father.
Warren's first letter to NduguAbout Schmidt · 2002The form letter drifts into confession, until the writer is really talking to himself. - B17 lines
Lately, every night, I find myself asking the same question: "Who is this old woman who lives in my house?
Warren's list of grievancesAbout Schmidt · 2002The list piles small irritations into a portrait of a marriage gone flat. - B225 lines
Dear Ndugu.
A letter to NduguAbout Schmidt · 2002He measures his own remaining years like a risk table, and the calm is what hurts. - B17 lines
I pull the Adventurer over whenever I feel like stretching my legs...
Roadside monologueAbout Schmidt · 2002The travelogue suddenly lands on Helen, turning a souvenir list into grief. - B19 lines
This is a couple we met in Kansas when we were in Kansas.
Family photo tourAbout Schmidt · 2002A photo tour that maps her whole social world, offered to a man who has no pictures to return. - B26 lines
Well, you put a pretty good face on things...
Vicki's observationAbout Schmidt · 2002It climbs from compliment to verdict, showing how softness can corner a person. - B25 lines
Can I tell you something? - I'm listening.
Warren's confessionAbout Schmidt · 2002One comparison and one number undo forty-two years in a single breath. - B24 lines
The only way that Helen is lucky, and I do mean the only way...
Wedding complaintAbout Schmidt · 2002The list piles up like a bill, and her one mercy is that Helen missed it. - B26 lines
When I had my hysterectomy...
Roberta's boastAbout Schmidt · 2002It bends every detail back into praise for the boy she raised. - B219 lines
I could tell there was something different in his voice and...
the best man's toastAbout Schmidt · 2002He traces the marriage back to one phone call and lets a changed voice carry the whole toast. - B250 lines
Ah, I didn't, ahem, get much sleep last night...
the father's toastAbout Schmidt · 2002He moves from a crossroads to his late wife, then thanks each relative by name before one quiet close.