American Movie: movie monologues to shadow
18 monologues from American Movie. 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
- B213 lines
Well, we recorded The Creeps...
Mark's recording-room confessionAmerican Movie · 1999He starts high and ends honest, admitting he let his own film drift. - B25 lines
Bill, traditionally...
The money menAmerican Movie · 1999It sizes up two men by how they handle money, setting up the whole negotiation. - B29 lines
Coven, man. We got to get this sucker done though. Seriously.
A pep talk on setAmerican Movie · 1999It moves from a hungover complaint to a rallying order without losing its nerves. - B110 lines
Coven relates to Northwestern in this sense.
The money pitchAmerican Movie · 1999He turns two films into one ledger, and the sums get more desperate with each line. - B211 lines
I realized one thing, in a kind of Christian-coded ethical arena:
Mark's faith confessionAmerican Movie · 1999He argues himself in circles about faith and ambition, half confessing, half defending. - B15 lines
I was actually looking at the storyboard here.
the director on shot 37American Movie · 1999It drifts from a casual glance into an old obsession, half explanation and half self-encouragement. - B26 lines
There's something cinematic about it. It's like a stage or something.
the graveyard as a stageAmerican Movie · 1999It turns a graveyard into a level stage, moving from image to a quiet claim about equality. - B111 lines
One day I was partying in my basement...
Mike on the vodka nightsAmerican Movie · 1999It starts in loneliness, finds company in Mark, and lands on quiet joy. - B14 lines
Here's what I think of the lottery: I think when you play the lottery...
Mark's lottery theoryAmerican Movie · 1999He ranks the lottery above drugs with deadpan conviction. - B214 lines
I'll show you this song. I'll sing it for you.
The farewell songAmerican Movie · 1999A grief song keeps cracking jokes, and that mix is what makes it land. - B16 lines
For years, I've been trying to face up to who I am and shit like that.
Mark's confessionAmerican Movie · 1999It slides from a plain admission into a question everyone feels, so his private mess becomes shared. - B16 lines
I've really been unhappy probably at least for a good week...
writing his depression inAmerican Movie · 1999He turns a private low into raw material for a character, saying it without self-pity. - B15 lines
I think, obviously, there's gotta be some fear...
On letting days slipAmerican Movie · 1999He names the fear behind delay, then shows it as six lost years in one room. - B113 lines
Oh, man. They're always fighting all the time.
On his parents' marriageAmerican Movie · 1999He moves from old anger to forgiveness and back again, all inside one short speech. - B135 lines
And it's like the room was filled with this thick green and red web, you know?
Mike's green web storyAmerican Movie · 1999He tells a near-death overdose as one slow, fixed image without self-pity. - B26 lines
Every bitch-ass motherfucking factory worker will go down like that too.
Mark's drunken rantAmerican Movie · 1999Each insult lands harder until the whole room goes quiet. - B15 lines
In winter, when the earth decays, and the cars have decayed...
On rust and decayAmerican Movie · 1999He turns a junk lot into a meditation on decay and warmth, ending the scene on a quiet, hopeful note. - B14 lines
Three years in the making, you know.
Mike on finishingAmerican Movie · 1999It moves from three years of grind to a simple plan to sleep, quietly closing a long effort.