Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1992
Husbands and Wives: movie monologues to shadow
10 monologues from Husbands and Wives. 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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- B211 lines
It's me. You're living with her, aren't you? You've moved in together.
The cohabitation callHusbands and Wives · 1992Each line tightens the charge that Jack planned this. The swearing keeps time. - B26 lines
Hello. Me again. I know who she is.
Naming GailHusbands and Wives · 1992Looks, school, the office chase: she builds a rap sheet out of details she already knew. - C119 lines
I was, uh, living with this fabulous, interesting woman named Harriet Harmon.
Harriet, rememberedHusbands and Wives · 1992Great love to the ward, with the sex details piling until the story will not sit still. - C110 lines
See, I've always had, um, this penchant for what I call kamikaze women, because they...
The kamikaze theoryHusbands and Wives · 1992He coins the label, then sells every failed love as an aesthetic choice. - B29 lines
She's terrific. She's warm, and she's nice.
Jack’s defenseHusbands and Wives · 1992Warmth, breath, then ashtrays: he inventories a marriage like a room he could not sit in. - C14 lines
Well, that's all anticipatory anxiety.
Sally's hymn to being singleHusbands and Wives · 1992She sells the split as one clean yank: the resentments come out with the tooth. - C18 lines
Oh, yes, I do. It's the second law of thermodynamics.
The marriage-rot confessionHusbands and Wives · 1992She coats a curse in thermodynamics, then twists the story until she walks in on Jack. - B229 lines
Um, and this... my father's business partner...
Rain's confessionHusbands and Wives · 1992Three forbidden affairs in one breath, until it sounds like a plot and Gabe just sits there. - C112 lines
Uh, w-w-we both couldn't sleep one night, remember?
Gabe brings back the snow nightHusbands and Wives · 1992He stacks tender details until the romance sounds like a last plea. - B24 lines
Happy birthday. I've been carrying this around all night.
The gift he over-explainsHusbands and Wives · 1992The more he swears it is not a pass, the more the music box sounds like one.