Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 2016
Blue Jay: movie monologues to shadow
12 monologues from Blue Jay. 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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- B15 lines
I do... I mostly do the dry wall stuff.
Jim on his tradeBlue Jay · 2016Fragments and self-mockery make a plain job sound honest and heavy. - B210 lines
Oh, god. I don't even know where to start.
Amanda on her marriageBlue Jay · 2016She starts unsure and ends swept up, and the one-week-on rhythm carries the whole speech. - B19 lines
I had lost my job, okay? I lost my job.
Jim's breakdownBlue Jay · 2016Each short sentence adds one more wound until he finally admits he is falling apart. - B19 lines
I was getting on the plane and there was this family
The airport boyBlue Jay · 2016She starts with a stranger's tantrum and slowly makes it about her own locked-up feelings. - B26 lines
I had a very strange mortality moment when I looked at them and I was like this eight hundred books here, and even if I...
The mortality mathBlue Jay · 2016She turns a shelf of unread books into a quiet measure of her remaining life. - B110 lines
The winds of change are fucking blowing tonight.
Reading the old letterBlue Jay · 2016Broken phrases carry the teenage voice all the way to its embarrassing end. - B18 lines
But in all seriousness hon...
Amanda's anniversary speechBlue Jay · 2016She moves from teasing to sincere praise, then springs the surprise. - B211 lines
I just always have felt understood by them.
Amanda on her greyhoundsBlue Jay · 2016Her voice slows as she turns a rescue into a story about being understood. - B113 lines
I've been taking anti-depressants...
Amanda's confessionBlue Jay · 2016Broken short lines build slowly until the hardest admission finally comes out. - B111 lines
I've loved...
Amanda's empty-nest speechBlue Jay · 2016Broken short lines turn her private dread into something the listener overhears. - B14 lines
In the back of this truck. At the lake.
Amanda's confessionBlue Jay · 2016From the lake to the plumber joke, she turns one memory into a whole youth. - B24 lines
That was my baby too.
Jim insistsBlue Jay · 2016The repeated short lines turn a claim into a plea she cannot ignore.