Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1995
Sense and Sensibility: movie monologues to shadow
13 monologues from Sense and Sensibility. 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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- B25 lines
All I want... All I have ever wanted... is the quiet of a private life...
Edward on what he wantsSense and Sensibility · 1995The plainer he makes his dream, the more clearly it clashes with his mother's plans. - C15 lines
Is love a fancy or a feeling?
Marianne on loveSense and Sensibility · 1995She makes love immortal truth, and the recitation reveals her whole temperament. - B26 lines
He has no wife and children, for he had a tragic history.
The colonel's pastSense and Sensibility · 1995Told in flat passives and bare dates, it lets the cruelty speak without any pleading. - B24 lines
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Marianne recites a sonnetSense and Sensibility · 1995The two voices take the sonnet turn by turn, and the shared rhythm is the real courtship. - B25 lines
I knew a lady very like your sister...
the colonel's warningSense and Sensibility · 1995He pleads through another woman's ruin, and the calm telling is what makes it land. - B26 lines
Were I rich enough, I would pull down Combe Magna...
Willoughby's cottage vowSense and Sensibility · 1995He would tear down his own house to copy hers; the extravagance is exactly what charms her. - B26 lines
Edward and I have been secretly engaged...
Lucy's confessionSense and Sensibility · 1995She starts with a bombshell and ends with flattery, wrapping the blow in sisterly warmth. - B24 lines
Oh. I'm of rather a jealous nature.
Lucy on jealousySense and Sensibility · 1995She calls herself jealous, then boasts that Edward never worried her once, all in a sweet voice. - B29 lines
My dear madam, I'm at a loss...
Willoughby's cold letterSense and Sensibility · 1995Its flawless courtesy is the cruelest part, and the reader hears every refusal. - B223 lines
When I quitted Barton last...
Brandon's confessionSense and Sensibility · 1995He admits failure without excuse, letting one long look back do all the emotional work. - B212 lines
I would not have burdened you, Miss Dashwood...
Brandon's confessionSense and Sensibility · 1995The broken, halting sentences let the listener feel anger held under a calm voice. - C18 lines
For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me...
Elinor's outburstSense and Sensibility · 1995Her voice stays level as she lays out months of silence, which makes the confession cut deeper. - B28 lines
I seen Mrs. Ferrars myself: Miss Lucy Steele as was.
Thomas's reportSense and Sensibility · 1995Eight sentences pile detail on detail until a quiet marriage becomes a village drama.