Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1957
Paths of Glory: movie monologues to shadow
11 monologues from Paths of Glory. 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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- B28 lines
What is my ambition against that?
Mireau's soldier's creedPaths of Glory · 1957Two rhetorical questions put his career next to his men's lives and settle the scale. - B212 lines
I can't understand these armchair officers...
Mireau's creed on soldiersPaths of Glory · 1957It moves from mockery to a creed, each line harder than the last. - B211 lines
You're tired, Dax. You're very tired.
Mireau's pressure speechPaths of Glory · 1957It dresses a threat as care, wearing Dax down with concern for his men. - B210 lines
Philippe, have you ever tried to bring charges against an officer?
Roget's threat and offerPaths of Glory · 1957He stacks charges and rank, then dangles a rewritten report as the way out. - B218 lines
That proves that most of us are more afraid of getting hurt than of getting killed.
The soldiers' debate on fearPaths of Glory · 1957It moves from weapons to the nature of fear, turning banter into a rough philosophy. - B224 lines
Gentlemen of the court, there are times when I'm ashamed...
Dax's defense pleaPaths of Glory · 1957Dax turns shame into a weapon, lists every broken rule, then begs for mercy. - B211 lines
Gentlemen of the court...
The prosecutor's chargePaths of Glory · 1957The prosecutor stacks flag and honor until a failed attack sounds like national treason. - B15 lines
You see that cockroach?
The cockroach speechPaths of Glory · 1957A bug becomes a mirror for his own death, and the calm makes it worse. - B28 lines
Oh, there's nothing to it.
Dax's firing-squad briefingPaths of Glory · 1957He explains a killing like a recipe, and the calm is the cruelty. - C17 lines
Oh, by the way, sir, have you heard that General Mireau...
Dax reveals the artillery orderPaths of Glory · 1957He lays out the case step by step until the general traps himself. - C15 lines
Colonel Dax, you're a disappointment to me.
the idealist speechPaths of Glory · 1957It dismantles Dax's decency piece by piece, ending in pity that is really contempt.