Deathtrap: movie monologues to shadow
31 monologues from Deathtrap. 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
- B16 lines
Audience clapping: SEYMOUR: Bruhl, you want to know who? I'll tell you who.
Seymour's rapid rantDeathtrap · 1982A roll call of critics, ending with his own wife, exposes how thin show-business loyalty is. - B18 lines
TV knob clicking: Well, theater lovers, there is bad news tonight.
The critic's verdictDeathtrap · 1982The verdict builds from bad sets to public shame, slow and lethal. - B210 lines
Myra, I have had four bombs in a row!
Sidney's breakdown speechDeathtrap · 1982The rant builds from four flops to a night of witches, then collapses into despair. - B24 lines
Stammering: Is it really that good? It couldn't be, could it?
Sidney's disbeliefDeathtrap · 1982His stammer hides envy and admiration at once, and hints at everything to come. - B26 lines
Have you thought about collaborating on the play on Deathtrap?
Myra's gentle pitchDeathtrap · 1982She turns collaboration into a favour, and soft persuasion proves more tempting than any threat. - B24 lines
What I should do is beat the fat bastard on the head...
Sidney's murder fantasyDeathtrap · 1982The mace, the hole and the stolen credit roll out as casually as a shopping list. - B27 lines
Darling, you're a writer. All writers go through periods like this.
Myra's sales pitchDeathtrap · 1982She builds a staircase of reasons, each step making the call seem inevitable. - B26 lines
I think that you're thinking that after last night...
Myra's million-dollar motiveDeathtrap · 1982A joke slides into hard numbers until murder sounds like simple arithmetic. - B28 lines
Yes, I have and I must say, in all sincerity...
Sidney's phone flatteryDeathtrap · 1982The praise keeps climbing, with a humblebrag tucked in, every word setting a trap. - B217 lines
As a matter of fact, I'm free this evening.
Sidney's train invitationDeathtrap · 1982From a lucky free evening to a brown Mercedes, the plan is seamless and quietly sinister. - B27 lines
Mr. Anderson, Sidney is simply bursting with creative ideas about your play.
Myra's push for a dealDeathtrap · 1982She piles promise on promise, leaving the young writer no graceful way to refuse. - C17 lines
But you see, the thing is ....
Clifford's polite refusalDeathtrap · 1982He wraps a firm refusal inside a doctor's metaphor so it never sounds like a no. - C14 lines
Myra here has just been rattling on for a moment.
Sidney shuts it downDeathtrap · 1982He excuses his wife first, then closes the whole matter in a single cool sentence. - B17 lines
I must apologize for Myra's suspicions, Clifford.
Sidney calms the roomDeathtrap · 1982He soothes the visitor with an apology, then slides the attention back onto the cuffs. - B28 lines
I forgot to mention that I should be getting a phone call any minute now.
Clifford's phone callDeathtrap · 1982The more carefully he explains the call, the more suspicious the whole arrangement looks. - B27 lines
YOU are...
Myra's disillusioned speechDeathtrap · 1982It moves from feeling estranged to fearing the police, withdrawing love step by step. - B25 lines
If they do come, I'll simply say that he did write to me...
Sidney's cover storyDeathtrap · 1982He rehearses a lie like a schedule, and the precise details make it chilling. - B25 lines
I am friend and client of Paul Wyman.
Helga introduces herselfDeathtrap · 1982Her broken grammar runs on and on, growing stranger and more stubborn with each line. - B25 lines
Thursday night, I calls the information, but the lady will not tell me number.
Helga's call to informationDeathtrap · 1982She turns a phone call into a story, and the stranger it gets, the more she seems to sense something. - B27 lines
Comes as friend to help you, to ....
Helga describes the attackerDeathtrap · 1982The details pile up while staying blurry, which is exactly how a half-seen prophecy feels. - B16 lines
Part of me tonight .... Sidney.
Myra's confessionDeathtrap · 1982The broken, halting sentences strip her shame and desire bare, and the listener cannot look away. - B24 lines
If only that goddamned lousy production had worked...
Sidney's regretDeathtrap · 1982He traces the killing back to a failed play, and the excuse gets colder with every line. - B24 lines
Just in the last few days, really. You know, it was pretty bad last week.
Porter on SidneyDeathtrap · 1982He lists the crying, the drinking and the recovery calmly, care mixed with a lawyer's watching eye. - C15 lines
This is the third item.
Porter on the estateDeathtrap · 1982He names a large fortune flatly, and the calm shows how used he is to money and calculation. - C14 lines
Would have exactly the same effect on an audience, wouldn't it?
The case to SidneyDeathtrap · 1982A chain of rhetorical questions reframes the killing as a hit show no one can disprove. - C19 lines
Just look around you! Jesus Christ. You don't have to read Hustler.
The celebrity-news speechDeathtrap · 1982A run of tabloid examples builds a cold case for scandal as currency. - B26 lines
Porter just gave me the figures of Myra's estate.
Sidney counts the estateDeathtrap · 1982Cold figures turn grief into arithmetic, and the arithmetic decides his next move. - B16 lines
I'll explain that later.
Sidney plots the murderDeathtrap · 1982He breaks the killing into fitness, weapon and outcome, turning murder into craft. - C111 lines
And I honestly cannot think...
Sidney's calm confessionDeathtrap · 1982It drifts from celebrity gossip to his own fortune and then to murder, calm all the way. - C117 lines
You stressed it in the seminar, first day.
Clifford explains the conDeathtrap · 1982It sounds like a writing lesson while quietly recapping how the whole con was built. - B24 lines
Victor lives just long enough to tell the truth about himself and Julian...
The play's closing beatsDeathtrap · 1982Truth, a suicide and a curtain fall in a few tight beats, like pages turning.