Okay movie lovers, I was watching Annihilation the other day and loved the fact that 10+ minutes elapse at the climax without any dialogue at all.
I thought of some other good examples of similar uses of silence and purely visual storytelling like Ex Machina, 2001, Alien, The Third Man, Another Earth, Black Swan, Last of the Mohicans, Sicario, No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, The Village. I’d even consider the Broadway Melody from Singin in the Rain. Atonement’s beach tracking shot is in contention as well, but there is singing there, so...
So what can you all come up with to add to the list...
There are rules though... no montages. They have to be full scenes that play out with no dialogue. Also, it can’t be from a silent film or be a key part of the plot (A Quiet Place, The Tribe, etc.)
I like it when directors trust their audiences enough not to jam unnecessary lines into the film. Characters don’t have to talk to themselves. There doesn’t have to be voice over. Just let a gripping scene play out wordlessly.
Submitted September 26, 2018 at 11:19AM by wpmason https://ift.tt/2OfzBze