Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 2017
The Dawn Wall: movie monologues to shadow
10 monologues from The Dawn Wall. 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
I think my way of dealing with it was you just get back on that horse and go climb again.
coping after KyrgyzstanThe Dawn Wall · 2017Five plain sentences move from numbness to resolve, ending on the one moment that proved him. - B211 lines
Those six days of captivity in Kyrgyzstan
what captivity taught himThe Dawn Wall · 2017He walks the six days from fear to a surge of energy, then lands on a hard-won belief. - B25 lines
I think there was a natural growing apart, desires we had outside of climbing.
explaining the cracksThe Dawn Wall · 2017He moves from natural drift to failed glue, admitting the end almost gently. - B25 lines
So I was sitting up there through this storm.
weeping in the portaledgeThe Dawn Wall · 2017From storm to weeping to chasing something unreal, five lines build loneliness to a peak. - B26 lines
My name is Tom Evans. I've been for many years photographing climbers on El Cap.
the photographer's vigilThe Dawn Wall · 2017The photographer introduces himself, then builds quiet awe into a declaration of witness. - B29 lines
He was thoughtful and considerate, but from the beginning,
A girlfriend's accountThe Dawn Wall · 2017She narrates her own slow sidelining without anger, then ends on an unanswered question. - B24 lines
The bottom section of the route follows a vague series of cracks and corners in the rock.
The traverse explainedThe Dawn Wall · 2017Four calm sentences build the terrain, the dead end and the open problem, then stop at a question. - B26 lines
Living on the Wall just wears you down.
The toll of wall lifeThe Dawn Wall · 2017Short stacked sentences list the hardships and slowly sink the listener into fatigue. - B24 lines
It was a battle, and I didn't win.
The night's verdictThe Dawn Wall · 2017Four clipped sentences tighten from a lost fight to a personal verdict. - B17 lines
This is a good moment right here.
camping one more dayThe Dawn Wall · 2017On the verge of the summit they choose to stay, turning satisfaction into quiet reluctance to leave.