Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 2021
Belfast: movie monologues to shadow
8 monologues from Belfast. 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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- B24 lines
Belfast was in shock this morning as the impact of last night's rioting was all too clear.
morning news reportBelfast · 2021The reporter stacks facts, then lands one pointed question about a fractured peace. - B214 lines
Protestants, you will die!
The preacher's hellfire sermonBelfast · 2021It opens with a flat threat, piles on imagery, and closes with a question the listener cannot answer. - B210 lines
As we drove past a side street, three men on the corner dived for cover.
the reporter's dispatchBelfast · 2021He reports the night in the first person, so the chaos feels seen rather than quoted. - B27 lines
Every night, before I go to sleep,
Buddy's bedtime prayerBelfast · 2021The boy stacks up his wishes until the last line lands as pure want. - B112 lines
You and me, we've known each other since we were toddlers.
The mother's pleaBelfast · 2021She builds from shared childhood to the whole street, then turns it into a question he cannot answer. - B25 lines
And if they can't understand you, then they're not listening, and that's their problem.
Grandpa on accentsBelfast · 2021It turns a boy's shame into a proud trick, then lands on the only opinion that matters. - B27 lines
Oh, that puts me in mind of a great wee system we had in the old days for paying the rent.
The rent schemeBelfast · 2021He tells a story about a street robbing its own rent man as if it were civic duty. - B14 lines
For now we see through a glass,
the funeral readingBelfast · 2021The old words slow the scene and set death against a longer view of time.