V for Vendetta: movie monologues to shadow
30 monologues from V for Vendetta. 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
- B214 lines
We are told to remember the idea and not the man.
The narrator's openingV for Vendetta · 2006It sets an idea against a mortal man, then quietly turns into longing. - C113 lines
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...
V's alliterative introductionV for Vendetta · 2006A long cascade of V-words that is at once solemn and absurd, and impossible to forget. - B27 lines
Gentlemen, this is a test.
The chancellor's speechV for Vendetta · 2006It turns a security failure into a holy test, a textbook piece of authoritarian rhetoric. - C19 lines
I know why you did it.
V on fear and consentV for Vendetta · 2006It starts with sympathy and ends in judgment, recasting tyranny as a bargain. - C113 lines
Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey...
V's invitation to ParliamentV for Vendetta · 2006It closes on an old rhyme and turns a bombing into a promise for next year. - B214 lines
We're interrupting your regular program to bring you this terrifying report...
The official news reportV for Vendetta · 2006It drips with heroism and safety while contradicting everything the viewer just saw. - B29 lines
You have to understand, Evey, I didn't want this for either of us...
V explains himselfV for Vendetta · 2006The explanation grows denser until it lands on one concrete place, making the choice feel real. - B24 lines
The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it.
V on symbolsV for Vendetta · 2006Four short steps build from one building to the whole world without ever sounding abstract. - B24 lines
He's what every gutless, freedom-hating terrorist is:
Prothero's on-air tiradeV for Vendetta · 2006Label, insult and threat come in one breath, and the rising fury reads as pure performance. - B27 lines
This so-called V and his accomplice, Evey Hammond...
Prothero's closing moralV for Vendetta · 2006It narrates killing in polished news language and ends on a patriotic slogan, which is the horror. - B25 lines
Before you go further, let me remind you things were very chaotic back then.
The major's brush-offV for Vendetta · 2006Five sentences of polite obstruction that reveal more the harder they try to close the subject. - B123 lines
My father was a writer. You would have liked him.
Evey tells her storyV for Vendetta · 2006She builds from a father's creed to her parents' disappearance, landing on one unforgettable image. - B212 lines
Your Grace, we don't have much time and I have to tell you something.
Evey warns the bishopV for Vendetta · 2006She escalates from warning to self-exposure, gambling her life on being believed. - B212 lines
You see, we are both fugitives in our own way.
Gordon on wearing a maskV for Vendetta · 2006He moves from a wry joke to a confession of years spent hiding, and lands it quietly. - B29 lines
After what happened, after what they did...
Delia's confessionV for Vendetta · 2006She moves from suicidal guilt to Oppenheimer, mixing apology with a plea she cannot finish. - B28 lines
It's funny.
V on coincidence and rosesV for Vendetta · 2006Two roses turn chance into fate, and the last gift is delivered without a raised voice. - B216 lines
Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?
The national security warningV for Vendetta · 2006It climbs from a question to an order, stacking charges until silence sounds like law. - B27 lines
It started last night, around midnight.
The night of the explosionV for Vendetta · 2006Short sentences tighten the fear until the eyeless stare lands, and it chills. - B26 lines
The question I want to ask is about St. Mary's...
A hypothesis about St. Mary'sV for Vendetta · 2006A slow build of hypotheticals reopens a case everyone thought was closed. - B24 lines
Listen, we've got an extraordinary show for you tonight.
The host's opening welcomeV for Vendetta · 2006The welcome sounds warm while quietly setting a trap for the guest. - C19 lines
I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life...
Valerie's love storyV for Vendetta · 2006Small domestic details build the happiness that the war then destroys. - C116 lines
I shall die here.
A farewell from the cellV for Vendetta · 2006Death, dignity and love are laid out calmly, which makes the ending land. - B25 lines
I know you may never forgive me...
V's confessionV for Vendetta · 2006He binds his own suffering to her resistance, making the excuse feel honest. - B213 lines
Listen to me, Evey.
The speech that gives her back her strengthV for Vendetta · 2006Step by step he returns her to the moment she faced death, and the argument lands. - B25 lines
It's a basic principle of the universe...
The equal and opposing reactionV for Vendetta · 2006He frames revenge as physics, and the calm makes it land harder. - B243 lines
Our story begins, as these stories often do...
Rookwood's conspiracy storyV for Vendetta · 2006It tells a massacre like a fairy tale, which makes the horror land harder. - B25 lines
Come, now, Mr. Creedy, you knew this was coming.
V's pitch to CreedyV for Vendetta · 2006It sounds like friendly reasoning while quietly closing every door. - B216 lines
But when I was there, it was strange.
Finch's vision of the patternV for Vendetta · 2006It builds from a feeling to a prediction, and the calm delivery makes it colder. - B24 lines
There is a face beneath this mask...
The speech beneath the maskV for Vendetta · 2006It peels identity down past face and bone, refusing to be reduced to a body. - B25 lines
I have something for you, chancellor.
V's farewell giftV for Vendetta · 2006The politeness makes the killing colder, as if it were a gift to be handed over.