Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1995
Mighty Aphrodite: movie monologues to shadow
5 monologues from Mighty Aphrodite. 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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- B212 lines
Laius, proud father, speak.
The chorus retells OedipusMighty Aphrodite · 1995Fatherly pride slides, joke by joke, into a therapist's bill. - B220 lines
I'm very hungry, actually. Um, so then I ran away when I was 14.
From running away to the first jobMighty Aphrodite · 1995Short beats and cold jokes string trauma, drifting, and a career into one crooked, complete story. - B26 lines
You've got a fine right, you have, after the way you treated Mother, "after the way you treated us all!
The stage rantMighty Aphrodite · 1995The charges stack in a row until the last one lands as an accusation, not acting class. - B26 lines
I had a kid, Lenny, and I gave him up for adoption.
Linda's adoption confessionMighty Aphrodite · 1995She states it straight, then the pauses let the missing days show. - B29 lines
I'm in a field, right?
Linda's flying fantasyMighty Aphrodite · 1995She stacks pictures until the romance tips into comedy: field, plane, the whole world, then someone to change her life.