Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: movie monologues to shadow
15 monologues from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. 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
- B218 lines
Well, boys, I reckon this is it.
Kong's pre-flight pep talkDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964Kong turns nuclear annihilation into a locker-room speech, and the mismatch is the joke. - B210 lines
Mandrake, do you recall what clemenceau once said about war?
Ripper's monologue on warDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964It glides from a statesman's quote into paranoid fantasy, dead serious the whole way. - C17 lines
It appears that the order called for the planes...
Turgidson's briefingDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He reads the map like a weather report, and the calm makes the countdown worse. - C113 lines
Perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan r, sir.
Turgidson explains Plan RDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He turns a rogue order into proper procedure, and the bureaucracy becomes the nightmare. - B212 lines
To confirm the fact that he had issued the go code, and he said, "yes, gentlemen,
Ripper's recorded rantDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964Ripper's calm certainty turns a war order into a prayer, and that is what makes it chilling. - B27 lines
Now, Five, If, on the other hand, We were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack...
Turgidson's first-strike pitchDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964His tidy numbering and confident numbers make a nuclear war sound like a bargain, and that is terrifying. - B15 lines
To attack your country-- Well, let me finish, Dimitri.
The President's pleaDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He keeps defending himself before he is accused, and the panic makes the scene funny. - C17 lines
There were those of us who fought against it.
The ambassador explainsDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He explains a doomsday machine as a reluctant necessity, and the calm makes it absurd. - C16 lines
Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy...
defining deterrenceDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964It builds a clean definition of deterrence step by step, and the calm delivery makes it chilling. - C17 lines
When you merely wish to bury bombs, There's no limit to the size.
how the machine worksDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964Catastrophe is explained like a product manual, which is exactly what makes it frightening. - B28 lines
Well, I, uh-- I-I first became aware of it, Mandrake, During the physical act of love. Huh.
Ripper explains his theoryDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He lays out a mad theory in calm, measured lines, and the calmness is what unsettles. - B28 lines
It's difficult to think of under these conditions, but, Well, what happened was, They got me on the old,
Ripper's war storyDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He recounts torture calmly, then ends on the enemy's cameras, which is both absurd and unnerving. - B29 lines
You know, Mandrake, I happen to believe in a life after this one...
asking for the codeDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He moves from faith in an afterlife to asking for the code, dressing pressure as trust. - B24 lines
gentlemen, gentlemen!
Turgidson calls for a prayerDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964After the panic he smoothly turns to prayer, and the contrast is the joke. - C18 lines
Dimitri, look, if this report is true...
Muffley soothes DimitriDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964He keeps explaining, reassuring and bargaining, all in one breath.