Spielberg: movie monologues to shadow
11 monologues from Spielberg. 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
- B210 lines
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.
the home he wantedSpielberg · 2017He fills in the magazine family first, then lets the cracks show. - C15 lines
Spielberg: And one day, my dad just broke down, and I never had seen my dad cry before.
The kitchen outburstSpielberg · 2017The memory speeds from shock to a scream until the room throws him out. - C19 lines
Spielberg: It was literally the worst period of my entire life.
Fifteen years of silenceSpielberg · 2017He names the worst years, claims the distance, then hears his father in his own work. - B26 lines
Peter Coyote: When Steven works with children, he brings a kind of "let's play" feeling.
On working with childrenSpielberg · 2017The description climbs from a game, to a clean signal, to the moment his eyes open. - C15 lines
All my life I had to fight.
A fight in her houseSpielberg · 2017The list of men closes in until the fight is inside her own house. - C17 lines
Spielberg: I got in trouble with several critics who didn't like that I shied away from the love story between Shug and Celie.
Admitting he stopped shortSpielberg · 2017He starts with the critics, names the skipped scene, and ends on timid, not technique. - C17 lines
Spielberg: My very first memory-- I was in a stroller.
The red light memorySpielberg · 2017The picture arrives before its name, so we walk toward the light with the child. - C113 lines
Spielberg: I certainly experienced being excluded and being picked on and discriminated against.
Denying a name aloudSpielberg · 2017Each question from the friends closes a door while the grandfather keeps shouting behind them. - C15 lines
Say all we done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos.
A defense of messy democracySpielberg · 2017Three rising claims turn a noisy people into a union still worth aspiring toward. - C14 lines
I can't listen to this anymore.
The amendment as cureSpielberg · 2017He stops the quarrel, then makes slavery the illness and the amendment the only cure. - C17 lines
Spielberg: I made the choice because I wanted people to say "Munich" is the context for problems that exist in today's world and basically are threatening to all of us.
Peace the hard waySpielberg · 2017He shuts the hiding place, then offers peace only as costly work done inside yourself.