Lolita: movie monologues to shadow
23 monologues from Lolita. 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
- B213 lines
You know, this house is roomy and cool. You see how cool it is.
The host's wild pitchLolita · 1962He escalates from offering rooms to offering executions, burying his fear in a torrent of sales talk. - B28 lines
Now, this would be your room.
The landlady's sales pitchLolita · 1962She climbs from a room to bloodline to culture, turning a rental pitch into a social-climbing speech. - B16 lines
...uh, don't tell Charlotte that I told you this, will you...
The neighbor's whisperLolita · 1962She disclaims gossip, then hands over the juiciest observation, which is how small talk really works. - B24 lines
Oh, uh. Charlotte, Mona's having a little get-together...
Pitching for his daughterLolita · 1962He circles through the band and the house before revealing the one favor he came to ask. - B24 lines
But, you know, I adored Harold.
The widow tests remarriageLolita · 1962She moves from grief to desire in four lines and still lets him answer the last one. - B25 lines
You see, I'm a strongly emotional woman.
A late-night confessionLolita · 1962It confesses loneliness, asks for touch, and closes on a line she repeats to convince herself. - B16 lines
She has always had some kind of gripe against me.
A mother's grievanceLolita · 1962She starts by blaming her daughter and ends defending her own youth, exposing what she really fears. - B18 lines
It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year Notice how he emphasizes this word.
A Poe lesson out loudLolita · 1962He performs the poem and dissects it at the same time, turning a lesson into an invitation. - B17 lines
Mona Farlow is leaving for summer camp tomorrow.
The summer camp verdictLolita · 1962She moves from the bare fact to a full justification, making separation sound like care. - B24 lines
I have loved you from the minute I saw you.
The confession in the letterLolita · 1962In three lines she moves from love to loneliness to possession, then stops cold. - B25 lines
...the fact of your remaining would only mean one thing: that you....
Her case for his stayingLolita · 1962She builds a conditional case that turns staying into a proposal he never agreed to. - C16 lines
The wedding was a quiet affair...
Humbert's asideLolita · 1962It fuses a quiet wedding and a dagger into one wry confession of vanity and guilt. - B24 lines
I wouldn't care if your maternal grandfather turned out to be a Turk.
Charlotte's warningLolita · 1962She shrugs off ancestry, then makes belief a matter of life and death in four quick lines. - B210 lines
Even in the most harmonious households, such as ours...
Humbert's rules speechLolita · 1962It builds from a happy household to duty and rules, dressing a private grudge as common sense. - B214 lines
Harold, look what happened.
Charlotte's confessionLolita · 1962She confesses, excuses and then vows to a dead man, sliding from grief into something absurd. - B28 lines
Those notes you found were fragments of a novel that I'm writing.
Humbert's fiction excuseLolita · 1962He hides behind how novelists work, and the longer the excuse runs the guiltier it sounds. - B220 lines
Mr. Swine...
The judo boastLolita · 1962He turns getting flipped onto the floor into a proud ritual, and the comedy builds with each detail. - B213 lines
I get the impression you want to leave but you don't like to leave...
The normal-guy speechLolita · 1962He piles up the word normal until politeness itself becomes a kind of pressure. - B16 lines
Whenever you want something I buy it for you automatically.
Humbert's list of favorsLolita · 1962He stacks up gifts and chores to turn control into fatherly love, and each item sounds more defensive than the last. - B215 lines
Well, Dr. Humbert, to you she is still the little girl what is cradled in the arms...
The psychologist's sermonLolita · 1962He slides from school business into nostalgia and self-importance, charming and slippery at once. - B14 lines
That's the most fatuous lie you could possibly think up.
Humbert's accusationLolita · 1962He dismisses her story, then answers his own questions, building a guess into a verdict. - B15 lines
All right, I believe you.
Humbert's apology and excuseLolita · 1962He claims to believe her and admits fault, then blames the place and everyone else in one breath. - B211 lines
I'd had a crush on him ever since the times...
Lolita's old confessionLolita · 1962The flat delivery lets each new detail land harder than any outburst would.