Amazing Grace: movie monologues to shadow
14 monologues from Amazing Grace. 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
- B27 lines
Take them on. Blow their dirty, filthy ships out of the water.
Newton's parting chargeAmazing Grace · 2006He lists the ports and the filth, then cuts to a bare command, turning remorse into a charge. - B24 lines
Wilberforce, conditions in Jamaica are far more brutal than I could have imagined.
Clarkson's Jamaica reportAmazing Grace · 2006He lists the deaths as plain facts, then lands on sugar, so the horror sells itself. - C17 lines
It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa.
Wilberforce's opening speechAmazing Grace · 2006He moves from one memory to the whole chamber, then disarmingly grants his enemies humanity. - C16 lines
It seems my young friend opposite has a long-term strategy to destroy the very nation that spawned him.
The opposition's counterattackAmazing Grace · 2006Three accusations in a row turn abolition into national suicide, each one harder to answer. - C14 lines
I've spent 18 months being torn apart by you in the House, Mr Wilberforce.
Fox switches sidesAmazing Grace · 2006He turns eighteen months of rivalry into a joke, then seals the switch with a drink. - C18 lines
That smell is the smell of death.
The smell of deathAmazing Grace · 2006Two sets of repetition tighten the room until the last line becomes a creed. - C110 lines
All that winter, we spread out across the country gathering evidence for Parliament.
The winter of evidenceAmazing Grace · 2006A whole season of work becomes a few plain numbers, then closes on a deadline. - C15 lines
Winds blow ships from Africa to the Indies naturally, as if the route were blessed by God.
The defence of the tradeAmazing Grace · 2006He stacks up arguments from wind to fish, dressing profit as providence. - C16 lines
My honourable friend, the member for Liverpool, seeks evidence of people's concern.
Wilberforce answers with namesAmazing Grace · 2006Instead of arguing, he answers with names, letting the signatures do the talking. - C112 lines
First, let me be clear.
Pitt urges delayAmazing Grace · 2006He admits the wrong, then argues for delay, making caution sound like duty. - B26 lines
Africa, your sufferings have been a theme that has engaged and arrested my heart.
A vow spoken in painAmazing Grace · 2006He turns suffering into a divine commission, and the parallel lines carry pure will. - B25 lines
It's now five years since you first brought this bill to the House.
Pitt asks him to stayAmazing Grace · 2006He counts five years of effort, then admits no one can replace him. - B14 lines
This is my confession.
Handing over the accountAmazing Grace · 2006He reduces a life to a list of names, and the flat tone makes the weight heavier. - B19 lines
Although my memory is fading, I remember two things very clearly: I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great saviour.
The blind captain's reckoningAmazing Grace · 2006He moves from faith to the twenty thousand names and ends by putting himself lowest.