Good Will Hunting: movie monologues to shadow
21 monologues from Good Will Hunting. 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
- C17 lines
Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student.
Will's takedown speechGood Will Hunting · 1997He ticks off the student's reading in order, and the steady rhythm leaves no room to answer back. - B27 lines
whereby a defendant can claim self-defense against an agent of the government...
Will's courtroom defenceGood Will Hunting · 1997He recites law like poetry, and the grander it sounds, the more it shows he is playing a game. - B26 lines
I've been sitting here for ten minutes now lookin' over this rap sheet of yours.
The judge's warningGood Will Hunting · 1997He lays out the facts calmly so that the final sentence lands with full weight. - B25 lines
You know, if a patient doesn't feel safe enough to trust you, then he won't be honest with you.
Sean on trustGood Will Hunting · 1997He states the sound principle, then flips it into a dark joke within a breath. - B112 lines
Well, he lived in this tiny hut somewhere in India.
Lambeau on RamanujanGood Will Hunting · 1997The story builds from a hut to Cambridge, and the arc is meant to win Sean over. - B26 lines
The sky's fallin' on your head. The waves are crashin' over your little boat.
The storm and the harbourGood Will Hunting · 1997The storm metaphor tightens line by line until it lands squarely on the man listening. - C120 lines
You've never been out of Boston.
Sean's Sistine Chapel speechGood Will Hunting · 1997It builds a wall of lived experience against everything Will has only read. - C114 lines
I ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet...
Sean on love and lossGood Will Hunting · 1997It stacks poetry, hospitals and grief until the boy has nowhere to hide. - C122 lines
My wife used to fart when she was nervous.
Sean on his wife's quirksGood Will Hunting · 1997It slides from a crude joke into real grief and makes intimacy feel concrete. - B110 lines
You ever wonder what your life would be like if you, uh...
Sean on regretGood Will Hunting · 1997It separates pain from regret and refuses to trade love for comfort. - B24 lines
and how I always regretted not goin' over and talkin' to her.
What Sean does not regretGood Will Hunting · 1997It lists what he gave up and refuses to call any of it a loss. - B231 lines
I will go ahead. Thanks a lot. Guess I have the floor now.
Uncle Marty's drunk-driving storyGood Will Hunting · 1997It builds to an absurd twist, the wrong car, and lands it without a pause. - B29 lines
You ever hear of Gerald Lambeau?
Lambeau's gift speechGood Will Hunting · 1997He climbs from a nobody to Einstein to a ruined genius, tightening the argument line by line. - B28 lines
I mean, I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals and a box of wood.
The piano explanationGood Will Hunting · 1997He uses an ordinary piano to show a gift that he himself cannot put into words. - B27 lines
That I'm a fuckin' orphan? No, you don't wanna hear that. - I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Will's outburstGood Will Hunting · 1997He flings his childhood wounds at her one by one, using rage to guard what is left of his pride. - C16 lines
Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be.
Sean's closing wordsGood Will Hunting · 1997He widens Will's problem into everyone's, mixing empathy with a quiet challenge. - C15 lines
Most days I wish I never met you...
Lambeau's confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997He admits Will outshines him and then confesses the pain of watching it wasted. - C137 lines
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.?
The NSA takedownGood Will Hunting · 1997He starts with one code and escalates to war and oil, dismantling the whole machine with ridicule. - B29 lines
Let me tell you what I do know.
Chuckie's ten-second confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997It turns a tiny daily ritual into the clearest proof of how much he wants more for his friend. - B210 lines
Gerry, listen to me. Listen. Why is he hiding? Why doesn't he trust anybody?
Sean's defence of WillGood Will Hunting · 1997The questions build until the real diagnosis lands, and Sean refuses to let the pattern repeat. - B24 lines
My father was an alcoholic. Mean, fuckin' drunk.
Sean's childhood confessionGood Will Hunting · 1997The flat, matter-of-fact delivery makes the remembered violence hit harder than any complaint.