Be Here Now: movie monologues to shadow
33 monologues from Be Here Now. 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
- B25 lines
But the cancer is back.
Vashti's cancer updateBe Here Now · 2015It moves from the worst news to a fairy-tale ending without ever raising its voice. - B25 lines
Even if it takes years, we are capable, together, Andy and I, of making extraordinary things happen.
On an extraordinary lifeBe Here Now · 2015It builds the couple's belief into a whole philosophy of living without fear. - B25 lines
He just can't sit back and take the abuse.
Spartacus never stays downBe Here Now · 2015The short lines build like drumbeats until never stop lands as a promise. - B26 lines
What I want for us now is to be really clear about what we want from this journey and that is...
Andy's be-here-now resolveBe Here Now · 2015He asks for no miracle, only to face the journey together, and the calm makes it land. - B210 lines
To me, it's very simple.
The treatment planBe Here Now · 2015He turns a frightening relapse into three plain steps, and the calm is what steadies the room. - B27 lines
Andy is literally on hoof running from...
Vashti on Andy's searchBe Here Now · 2015She moves from his endless search to her own hidden wish for a quick fix, honest and unguarded. - B28 lines
Sometimes what you're getting is this unprocessed me, you know, like I might,
the dream confessionBe Here Now · 2015She moves from raw feeling to nightmare to the image of Jesse without a dad, closing in on her deepest fear. - B14 lines
and now I will tell about the sixth house, about your health.
the health readingBe Here Now · 2015It stacks chart details into a slow build, then lands on one grim verdict. - B225 lines
I already knew that the next year was going to be kind of tough with treatment and recovery.
Going with the flowBe Here Now · 2015A quiet river metaphor turns resignation into an active, practical choice. - B24 lines
No, I don't want that.
Vashti's plea for timeBe Here Now · 2015Four short sentences build from refusal to a single plea, quiet and devastating. - B17 lines
I feel so torn in so many different ways
Torn Between EveryoneBe Here Now · 2015One breath names her split duties, then lands on a simple hope that help is coming. - B14 lines
Andy was booked in to go in for chemo and he got there and they decided that what they were going to do is run a scan to make sure there were no surprises.
Good News From the ScanBe Here Now · 2015It moves from a routine appointment to an unexpected scan and ends on real relief. - B110 lines
I came out of the second lot of chemo.
Andy's treatment planBe Here Now · 2015He walks his family through each medical step without a note of self-pity. - B29 lines
They rang the next day and said, "They've offered you the lead role in this movie.
The unpaid leadBe Here Now · 2015The reversal lands fast: a great offer, no pay, then a wife's question that decides it. - B211 lines
From that, I got an American agent and manager and flew to America and a year later I had Spartacus.
Andy on career and illnessBe Here Now · 2015He runs from his biggest win to his deepest uncertainty in one breath. - B25 lines
This drug that we're going to give you now
Gibson's last optionBe Here Now · 2015He explains the drug, then closes the door on every other option. - B16 lines
I don't know what effect it's having on the children.
Talking to his kidsBe Here Now · 2015He turns the hardest subject into plain talk, protecting his children with calm words. - B28 lines
Hello, lovely folk.
Reading the update emailBe Here Now · 2015It moves from bright weather to chemo to a joke, making a heavy update feel light and warm. - B27 lines
And I guess I was the other side.
Andy on his northern childhoodBe Here Now · 2015A light self-jab builds into a proverb that sums up a whole upbringing. - B27 lines
When I met Andy, I'd met someone to walk beside and that feeling was overwhelming.
Vashti's closing wordsBe Here Now · 2015She threads meeting, balance and softening into two closing images. - B27 lines
Andy was really sleep deprived and exhausted and our oncologist basically just stormed in there like a bull in a China shop with a bunch of other registrars around him and read Andy the Riot Act on his chances being slim and it could be a choice if he wanted to just not go ahead.
Vashti recalls the diagnosisBe Here Now · 2015She stacks every detail into one breath until the verdict lands, then answers with resolve. - B29 lines
Yeah. I guess for the last few days, I've been facing my own mortality.
Andy on facing deathBe Here Now · 2015He turns fear into relief, working it out aloud in short, halting lines. - B26 lines
I think you should just feel it.
A wife's pleaBe Here Now · 2015She never tells him to be brave; she keeps handing the choice back to him. - B210 lines
I'm just trying to find some serenity, and some calm in it.
Fear, anger, and loveBe Here Now · 2015In one calm stretch he moves from exhaustion to love, summing up the film's whole creed. - B29 lines
Five minutes.
Guided breathingBe Here Now · 2015Short, warm instructions turn a frightening scan into a task he can count through. - B24 lines
My mum was coming initially because I was getting a stem cell transplant and that's not going to happen now.
why his mum goes homeBe Here Now · 2015He breaks bad news without drama, then sends everyone to rest as if that were the only kind ending. - B14 lines
is to get clearer, get a snapshot of where you guys think we're at and
Andy states his aimBe Here Now · 2015He lays out both options calmly, making the doctor answer on his terms. - B16 lines
You've got to get through it.
Vashti's pep talkBe Here Now · 2015Six short sentences that refuse to let the diagnosis have the last word. - B18 lines
I mean, that was the one thing I didn't want.
Andy names his worst fearBe Here Now · 2015He circles his worst fear and lands, quietly, on the number itself. - B28 lines
I just get a sense that something like cancer has a switch and...
The cancer switchBe Here Now · 2015He turns a terminal illness into a switch he might flip, cold logic hiding hope. - B24 lines
I want to continue this life with seeing my children grow up.
If I don't make itBe Here Now · 2015He accepts the worst ending first, then quietly entrusts his family to Vashti. - B112 lines
And in the morning, we took him to the hospice.
The butterfly goodbyeBe Here Now · 2015A dying man turns his body into a butterfly so his children can understand goodbye. - B112 lines
And I laid down next to him, and we just laid still
The last breath beside himBe Here Now · 2015She records the funny noise, the deep breaths and the stillness without looking away.