Interstate 60: movie monologues to shadow
23 monologues from Interstate 60. 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
- B25 lines
As usual, it was all about him.
Neal's voice-overInterstate 60 · 2002Short flat lines build the quiet pressure of a father who decides everything. - B213 lines
Aah, experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red, and all spades are black.
Ray's lesson on perceptionInterstate 60 · 2002It moves from a card trick to highways and the brain, making abstraction concrete. - B25 lines
Son, let me give you some Daniel Olivier philosophy.
The father's philosophyInterstate 60 · 2002Four short sentences build a closed system of advice that leaves no room to argue. - B29 lines
Everything in life is like high school.
Kirby's high school theoryInterstate 60 · 2002The list maps work onto school item by item, building a bleak but convincing case. - B211 lines
The O.W stands for One Wish.
The wish granter explains himselfInterstate 60 · 2002He turns granting wishes into a deadpan business pitch, and it lands. - B25 lines
But that's why you accelerate and way of the big semi to come at us, which should be in about 25 seconds, I figure.
The afterlife argumentInterstate 60 · 2002He builds from a truck to the afterlife in one breath, trapping Neal in his logic. - B27 lines
I fuck with everybody.
The joker explains himselfInterstate 60 · 2002He slides from pranks to converging timelines without ever losing his grin. - B113 lines
The first time, wasn't that great.
Laura's quest speechInterstate 60 · 2002She builds a quest out of failed comparisons until the obsession sounds logical. - B15 lines
He's my baby.
Susan's fear for her sonInterstate 60 · 2002She moves from love to worst-case fear in five short lines, and never raises her voice. - B214 lines
This town had serious drug problem.
The official's drug policy speechInterstate 60 · 2002He narrates a social catastrophe in the tone of a business report, and that calm is the horror. - B210 lines
But look at them.
The official defends the townInterstate 60 · 2002He turns a question of human dignity into a mere difference of priorities. - B28 lines
Here's my proposition.
Cody's contract termsInterstate 60 · 2002He reads out a job offer like a contract, and every clause quietly marks who holds power. - B24 lines
I never got the rest of the 53 bucks, but, given the dynamics of Interstate 60, I wasn't concerned.
Neal's highway voice-overInterstate 60 · 2002The calm voice-over turns coincidence into a rule of the road and sets up what comes next. - B213 lines
Well, he was an historian.
Cody's frontier lectureInterstate 60 · 2002He expands one historian's idea into a theory of America, feeding in jokes as he goes. - B26 lines
Some people say, we have a frontier in the mind.
Cody debunks fake frontiersInterstate 60 · 2002He dismisses drink, drugs and computers in turn, and the sarcasm keeps building. - B27 lines
You see, I've got lung cancer.
Cody's cancer and dynamite warningInterstate 60 · 2002He stacks illness, dynamite and a threat so calmly that the calm itself is the menace. - B210 lines
Nor, for one, for cigarettes, I don't know where I'd be today.
Cody's confession about advertisingInterstate 60 · 2002He moves from cigarettes to lies to a fatal diagnosis, and the calm carries the whole change. - B25 lines
Oscar was an art collector, dealer.
Mrs. James on Oscar's copying trickInterstate 60 · 2002She describes swapping originals for copies as a craft, and the calm makes the reveal wilder. - B29 lines
Long is our city limits sign.
Valerie's saga of the city limits signInterstate 60 · 2002One road sign spawns lawsuit after lawsuit, and the plain delivery makes it believable. - B28 lines
Now this is dynamite.
Cody's courtroom showdownInterstate 60 · 2002He moves from announcing dynamite to ordering the judge, all in a level, almost bored voice. - B24 lines
See, I made a wish to meet the right guy.
Lynn's fairy-tale speechInterstate 60 · 2002She turns a chance meeting into a fairy-tale test, half teasing, half serious. - B18 lines
Yes or No questions.
Neal's roadside reasoningInterstate 60 · 2002He reasons his way through fear like a nervous student, tense and absurd at once. - B16 lines
8-ball, is the murder weapon in this box?
Interrogating the 8-ballInterstate 60 · 2002He hands his fate to a plastic toy, and the harder he tries the funnier and sadder it gets.