The Apartment: movie monologues to shadow
11 monologues from The Apartment. 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
- B25 lines
...about a year ago, I was going to night school, studying advanced accounting.
Baxter explains the keyThe Apartment · 1960He turns one small favor into a chain reaction, making his guilt sound almost innocent. - B26 lines
For a while there, you try kidding yourself that you're going with an unmarried man.
Fran's slow realizationThe Apartment · 1960She walks through the small humiliations until the word ugly lands, and it hurts. - B110 lines
He used to tell his wife I was the branch manager from Seattle...
Miss Olsen spills the historyThe Apartment · 1960She lists the pattern with weary humor, and every name makes the affair smaller. - B24 lines
Let me see. There was Miss Olsen, and then there was Miss Rossi.
Fran counts the womenThe Apartment · 1960She recites his history like a list, and the calm delivery is the punishment. - B28 lines
I don't know what you did to that girl...
The doctor's parting warningThe Apartment · 1960It moves from blame to warning, and ends on the plainest piece of advice. - B112 lines
No, don't worry. I kept your name out of it, so there'll be no trouble...
Baxter's cover-up on the phoneThe Apartment · 1960He smooths over every problem for his boss, and the ease of the lie shows his position. - B15 lines
A girl like you, for the rest of your life you wanna cry in your noodle soup?
Mrs. Dreyfuss's advice on marriageThe Apartment · 1960Her rapid questions mix scolding with real tenderness, as if she were planning for her own child. - B27 lines
So I came to New York and moved in with my sister and her husband, a cab driver.
How Fran ended up in the elevatorThe Apartment · 1960Her flat account of school and a failed typing test lands on the elevator, where the whole affair begins. - B212 lines
And I was mad about her. But I knew it was hopeless and I decided to end it all.
Baxter's story of the kneeThe Apartment · 1960He turns a suicide attempt into comedy, and the deadpan delivery is what finally comforts her. - B25 lines
You know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe.
The Robinson Crusoe lineThe Apartment · 1960The desert-island image turns loneliness into a story and Fran into the footprint that ends it. - B29 lines
Mr. Sheldrake, I've got good news for you.
Baxter's declarationThe Apartment · 1960He closes every escape route for himself, then ends on a coined word that undercuts the grandeur.