Long videos · Monologue shadowing · 2020
Uncle Frank: movie monologues to shadow
16 monologues from Uncle Frank. 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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- B26 lines
I might understand if Uncle Frank was selfish
Beth sees the snubUncle Frank · 2020She rules out the easy reasons first, then names the public belittling. Quiet, and it still cuts. - B24 lines
Oh, I love it.
New York opens the mapUncle Frank · 2020He starts with love of the city, then stretches Creekville until a fourteen-year-old can see past the porch. - B25 lines
Ah, come on, now.
You get to chooseUncle Frank · 2020He puts the default life on the table, then hands her the pen for a name. - B13 lines
I'm from Bismarck, North Dakota,
Bruce rewrites his hometownUncle Frank · 2020He lies first, then dresses it as self-invention, and Beth cuts the costume in half a line. - B16 lines
I'm gay.
Frank comes out drunkUncle Frank · 2020He names himself, names the ten years, then names the man who would not hear no. - B26 lines
I was reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence,
Meeting Wally on the subwayUncle Frank · 2020A thick book and a movie title become a pickup, then a life. - B25 lines
There was this one boy in high school who got killed in a car wreck.
The fake-grief classmatesUncle Frank · 2020He barely knew the dead boy, then names the kids who used the wreck for tears. - B16 lines
Oh, they're very nice. All right. [laughs]
Wally on his own peopleUncle Frank · 2020He grants they are nice, then admits the crazy, and parks the love on a mother with a sharp tongue. - B16 lines
I only asked him to be best man in my wedding
Daddy as best manUncle Frank · 2020Drunk-night talk turns the stern father back into a shaky man. - B19 lines
You know, I've been driving up here
The late apologyUncle Frank · 2020Years of breakfast first, then the I never called you. - B211 lines
Mac Bledsoe was the kind of man
The pastor's eulogyUncle Frank · 2020Stacked duties turn Mac into a finished saint for the whole room. - B29 lines
I don't want you seeing that Lassiter boy again.
The father's hell threatUncle Frank · 2020Ban, slur, then the lake of fire: each step harder than the last. - C19 lines
I, Francis MacKenzie Bledsoe, being of sound mind and body,
The will read in publicUncle Frank · 2020Boilerplate stacks until the bequest is disgust and shame. - B15 lines
You have me.
Wally claims him at the graveUncle Frank · 2020He starts with You have me and lands on till death like a vow. - B14 lines
But, so years ago, when you told me
Beth throws the old advice backUncle Frank · 2020She quotes him, then uses unless to show the sermon never covered him. - B14 lines
You know, when I was a little girl in Jacksonboro,
Jacksonboro, firstUncle Frank · 2020She starts in childhood and a slur. The welcome is already going sour before the story finishes.