Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1999
American Beauty: movie monologues to shadow
7 monologues from American Beauty. 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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- B26 lines
Well, you want to know how things went at my job today?
Lester's office rantAmerican Beauty · 1999He builds a sharp corporate complaint sentence by sentence, then hears his own audience disappear. - B25 lines
I'm not a drunk. I don't fuck other women.
Lester's defenseAmerican Beauty · 1999He lists what he has not done, then turns that list into a claim on her money. - B24 lines
Lester, I refuse to live like this.
Carolyn's indictmentAmerican Beauty · 1999Four short lines move from refusal to the charge that he only liked her silence. - B26 lines
Now I know how you can afford all this equipment.
Lester's summer-job memoriesAmerican Beauty · 1999He turns a cheap summer job into the proudest thing he ever owned. - B15 lines
Whatever happened to that girl...
Where did that girl goAmerican Beauty · 1999Five short questions build a eulogy for the woman Carolyn used to be, aimed straight at her. - B212 lines
He totally freaked and decided to send me to military school.
Ricky's hospital confessionAmerican Beauty · 1999He lists abuse like a schedule, and the flat delivery is what makes the story unbearable. - B15 lines
You're right.
Ricky's mocking confessionAmerican Beauty · 1999He gives his father the monster he fears, and the calm delivery makes it unbearable.