Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1998
Buffalo '66: movie monologues to shadow
15 monologues from Buffalo '66. 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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- A213 lines
Did you hear what I said? Did you hear what I said?
his phone tiradeBuffalo '66 · 1998Repeated questions and returns build pressure until his own story falls apart. - A27 lines
Shut up, shut up...
the kidnapping threatsBuffalo '66 · 1998Short orders shift from coaxing to menace, tightening his control by the second. - A25 lines
I'm used to luxury cars. Have you ever heard of a luxury car?
his luxury-car speechBuffalo '66 · 1998He repeats luxury and shift themselves until the boast exposes his insecurity. - B114 lines
Before I went away, I made up a few lies.
his invented pastBuffalo '66 · 1998He invents his past in growing detail, revealing the man he wishes he were. - B17 lines
So basically, what I'm asking you to do is, I'm asking you to come there and make me look good.
the deal he offersBuffalo '66 · 1998It slides from looking good to a death threat and back to best friends. - A24 lines
Ginger ale is pop, Ma.
the glass of waterBuffalo '66 · 1998He keeps batting away the soda, and the repetition carries his quiet exasperation. - B14 lines
Here's a picture of me with Jack Kemp.
the photo-album rambleBuffalo '66 · 1998She turns each snapshot into a small boast, and the piling up says more about her than the photos. - B18 lines
I was working as a typist for the CIA,
the CIA how-we-met storyBuffalo '66 · 1998The details pile up until the lie plays like a little film, and the family buys every frame. - B14 lines
And it said, "Dear Wendy,
the love-note confessionBuffalo '66 · 1998Wendy reads the note line by line, sinking into it until the fake letter becomes her finest moment. - B15 lines
30 years, I haven't missed a game.
the grudge over one missed gameBuffalo '66 · 1998He counts thirty loyal years against the day his son was born, turning resentment into sports math. - B211 lines
...what happened was this bookie got so sick...
the bookie's veiled threatBuffalo '66 · 1998Revenge is told as a chain of causes, and the slower it goes, the closer the threat lands. - B19 lines
Listen to me. Wanna know what I heard in here?
the story of the paid missBuffalo '66 · 1998He moves from hearsay to certainty to curses, building the justification for his rage. - B16 lines
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
the revenge vowBuffalo '66 · 1998He folds his own death into the revenge, turning despair into a terrifying plan. - A29 lines
Now listen to me.
Billy's photo rulesBuffalo '66 · 1998The absurd demand is delivered like a ritual, which makes it both funny and sad. - B135 lines
I knew her since I was in kindergarten.
Billy's childhood crushBuffalo '66 · 1998The rambling memory exposes both his tenderness and his fixation.