Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 1959
Some Like It Hot: movie monologues to shadow
9 monologues from Some Like It Hot. 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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- B215 lines
I have this thing about saxophone players.
Sugar on sax playersSome Like It Hot · 1959Her voice softens line by line, turning a joke into a confession. - B211 lines
The next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you, they're spending it on other dames and betting on horses.
Sugar on sax playersSome Like It Hot · 1959The flat catalogue of betrayals makes her resignation funnier and sadder. - B210 lines
As a matter of fact, it's cost my family quite a bit of money.
Osgood on his marriagesSome Like It Hot · 1959Each line drops another absurd detail as if it were the most ordinary thing. - B26 lines
You girls seen a brown bag with a white stripe and my initials?
Osgood loses his thingsSome Like It Hot · 1959He piles loss on loss without losing his dignity, which is what makes it funny. - B29 lines
I only come ashore twice a day, when the tide goes out.
Junior on shells and oilSome Like It Hot · 1959He starts with the tide and ends with an oil empire, never raising his voice. - B213 lines
Tell her I'd like her to have a little supper with me on my yacht, after the show tonight.
Osgood's phone invitationSome Like It Hot · 1959He sweetens the invitation detail by detail until the politeness itself is the joke. - C116 lines
Well, it was my freshman year at Princeton.
Junior's sob storySome Like It Hot · 1959A ridiculous accident turns heartbreak comic and sad at once, tightening beat by beat. - C17 lines
I was still on the yacht, and the anchor broke loose.
Sugar's dream at seaSome Like It Hot · 1959She turns longing into a list of shipboard chores, and the sweetness makes the later betrayal worse. - C17 lines
It's been ten years since I elected myself president of this organization.
The boss's ten-year reportSome Like It Hot · 1959He reports murder as corporate business, and the deadpan tone makes the threat funnier and colder.