You Can't Take It with You: movie monologues to shadow
14 monologues from You Can't Take It with You. 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
Well, gentlemen, there'll be no interference from the powers that be.
Kirby's monopoly pitchYou Can't Take It with You · 1938In a few lines Kirby unveils the scale, the leverage and the nerve of the whole scheme. - B26 lines
John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams.
Grandpa's Americanism speechYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He builds through names and parallels, then lands the contrast with a single brutal line. - B24 lines
I knew two people that did that once. They went out of the building.
Tony's absurd cautionary taleYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He turns a simple date into a fatal fable, and the deadpan delivery is the joke. - B212 lines
Listen, when I was courting your grandmother, it took me two years to propose.
Grandpa's courting storyYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He turns his own fainting fits into comedy, then lands a quietly sincere last line. - B24 lines
It's hers. It's never left here. She hasn't either.
Why he never moved outYou Can't Take It with You · 1938A scent and a room carry decades of loyalty, and the calm delivery makes it land. - B25 lines
Now, suppose I do pay you this money.
Grandpa's tax argumentYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He reduces a grand argument to a simple shopper's question, and the collector cannot answer it. - B26 lines
You'll pay every cent just like anybody else.
The collector's warningYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He piles warning on warning, and the harder he pushes the funnier he looks to the room. - B26 lines
Well, sir. Here we are again.
Grandpa's odd graceYou Can't Take It with You · 1938He reports a family's ordinary life like a progress note to heaven, and the solemn tone is the joke. - C19 lines
Well, this guy and I had this idea.
The Engine in Green GrassYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It starts as a silly college idea and swells into a dream of powering the world from sunlight. - B29 lines
You're poorer than any of these people that you call scum.
Grandpa's verdict on KirbyYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It builds from poorer to failure to a single tear, taking Kirby's whole life apart in one breath. - B24 lines
Grandpa, I won't stand for it.
Alice's courtroom outburstYou Can't Take It with You · 1938Four rising lines turn her patience into a quiet, devastating counterattack. - B117 lines
And I was so miserable and confused I had to do something.
Alice's letter homeYou Can't Take It with You · 1938Read aloud to the family, it moves from surrender to longing without raising its voice. - B222 lines
You know something.
Ramsey's warningYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It builds from his own ruin to Kirby's fate and breaks off mid-sentence. - B17 lines
I don't want any part of this, Dad.
Tony's farewell speechYou Can't Take It with You · 1938It falls from refusal to confession and finally says what years of silence held.