Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1979
Manhattan: movie monologues to shadow
12 monologues from Manhattan. 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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But in all the years that we've been married
Yale's confessionManhattan · 1979He moves from excuses to self-disgust, then insists this time is different. - B25 lines
And we're having a great time, but you're a kid and I never want you to forget that.
Isaac's gentle refusalManhattan · 1979He praises her, then calls her a kid, and the contradiction exposes his own fear. - B25 lines
I'll have to give up my apartment.
The cost of going brokeManhattan · 1979He lists what he must give up, and each item makes the panic funnier and sadder. - B25 lines
They mean nothing cos nothing worth knowing is understood with the mind.
Isaac on the brainManhattan · 1979He argues against thinking with such conviction that the speech becomes its own joke. - B24 lines
So, and that's it, and we have fun.
Isaac's farewell speechManhattan · 1979He frames the breakup as a gift, and the more graceful it sounds, the guiltier it reads. - B24 lines
Of course I will. What d'you think I'm gonna do? Hang myself?
Tracy's bravado breaksManhattan · 1979She builds herself up line by line and then tears the whole act down herself. - B24 lines
What am I doing in this relationship anyway? My phone never stops ringing.
Mary's late-night reckoningManhattan · 1979She moves from boast to self-doubt and ends the speech with a gesture, not a word. - C16 lines
Listen. "He was given to fits of rage,
The memoir's indictmentManhattan · 1979The list keeps tightening until his deepest fear is dismissed as pure vanity. - B24 lines
This guy's been married 12 years. What do you think will happen?
Isaac's prediction speechManhattan · 1979He dismantles the affair in four flat sentences, each one more certain than the last. - B25 lines
You're too easy on yourself. Don't you see?
Isaac's moral lectureManhattan · 1979Five sentences build from small self-deception to public betrayal without pausing for breath. - B25 lines
You know, someday we're gonna be like him.
Isaac's mortality riffManhattan · 1979He turns someone else's decay into a joke about his own reputation, and it lands because it is sincere. - B211 lines
OK... for me...
the list that makes life worth livingManhattan · 1979The list moves from comedy to art to a girl's face, and the smallest item hits hardest.