I'm a silent film fan who grew up with the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, so I've always been fascinated by cinema's ability to tell stories without words. But there's something particularly striking about modern action films that choose silence over exposition.When you strip away dialogue, it forces the audience to focus more on what the film is conveying onscreen and how all the elements of a production work in tandem to tell a story. In honor of the Sisu: Road to Revenge trailer's release, we decided to dive into examples of movies with very little spoken dialogue. These five action films are a kind of return to a simpler time, when all audiences had to go on were the tableaus on screen and the occasional title card. All Is Lost - YouTube www.youtube.com I was just thinking of this daring film (and its score from Alex Ebert) recently. It's one of the strongest examples of action filmmaking without words. Robert Redford stars as a man with no name on a boat at sea, when he finds that he's taking on water after colliding with a drifting cargo container. Very little is said in this film. Redford is entirely alone. I can imagine the draw of a challenging role like this, which Redford confirmed.He said at the New York Film Festival in 2013, "When I got the script from J.C., there was a lot of stuff I was impressed with and attracted to—no dialogue, bold—but it was detailed...
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