GoodFellas: movie monologues to shadow
21 monologues from GoodFellas. 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
- B110 lines
To me...
opening voice-overGoodFellas · 1990A child's calm delivery makes the neighborhood's code feel natural and seductive. - B14 lines
It says you haven't been there in months.
the father's rantGoodFellas · 1990Each short sentence lands harder, turning disappointment into open shame. - B24 lines
That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand.
the protection speechGoodFellas · 1990A plain analogy explains the whole racket with the calm confidence of an insider. - B25 lines
It was a glorious time.
the glory daysGoodFellas · 1990A few calm lines open up a whole era and make it feel golden. - B27 lines
For us, to live any other way was nuts.
the sucker speechGoodFellas · 1990It calmly declares honest workers dead, and the calm is what makes it chilling. - B29 lines
Let me understand this.
Tommy's mock cross-examinationGoodFellas · 1990Short questions and pauses turn a joke into a suffocating interrogation. - B27 lines
When deliveries are made at the front door...
Henry on milking the place dryGoodFellas · 1990It lays out theft, resale and arson as a tidy business process, calm and chilling. - B26 lines
One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was nothing like it.
Henry recalls the glory daysGoodFellas · 1990Six calm sentences paint the glamour he lived in, and quietly hide what he missed. - B25 lines
This guy who lives across the street from me that I've known all my life.
Karen recounts the assaultGoodFellas · 1990Short parallel sentences, one beat each, carry her shock and rising panic. - B25 lines
They had bad skin and wore too much makeup. They didn't look very good.
Sizing up the wivesGoodFellas · 1990Skin, makeup and clothes pile into a verdict on a whole way of living. - B14 lines
and that he and the guys made bucks hustling while other guys...
In defense of the menGoodFellas · 1990She grants them no schooling, then explains the shortcuts as plain survival. - B26 lines
Don't get too big on me. Just don't bust my balls.
Billy brings up the old daysGoodFellas · 1990He moves from don't tease me to the shine box, smiling while naming Tommy's deepest wound. - B28 lines
For most of the guys, killings were accepted.
The rules of the lifeGoodFellas · 1990Eight flat lines turn killing into policy, and the calm is what condemns it. - B24 lines
Next thing you know, he's gonna be coming in one of these fucking walkers.
Tommy mocks SpiderGoodFellas · 1990Four lines move from prophecy to dare, turning a joke into public humiliation. - B17 lines
But still I couldn't hurt him. How could I hurt him?
Karen's inner confessionGoodFellas · 1990In a few lines she moves from mercy to jealousy, showing love tangled with possession. - B15 lines
Nobody's helping me. I'm all alone.
Karen's prison outburstGoodFellas · 1990She builds from loneliness to humiliation, each detail tightening the pressure on Henry. - B213 lines
I pulled his hair out of his fucking head. I bit him. He's out cold.
Henry recounts the beatingGoodFellas · 1990Short stacked sentences make the violence sound breathless and almost routine. - B26 lines
It's the highest honor they can give you.
Henry on what being made meansGoodFellas · 1990The stacked sentences build from honor to license, pride rising with every line. - B26 lines
What does she do after she hangs up with me?
Henry relives the fatal callGoodFellas · 1990Anger builds line by line as one small mistake turns into a disaster. - B210 lines
Karen finally got her mother to put her house up for my bail and I was out.
Henry's plan after bailGoodFellas · 1990Every calm step of the plan is really another move to stay alive. - B26 lines
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you they're going to kill you.
how the mob killsGoodFellas · 1990The calm voice lists the rules of murder until the calm itself becomes terrifying.