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Many works of fiction try to be as epic as possible. A new work will try to top the ones that came before it, and the sequels try to top their predecessors. Minimalism goes for the exact opposite. Minimalism is when a piece of fiction lowers the scale of the events depicted within it, not simply due to time and budget restraints, but rather for creative reasons. The reasons for a minimalistic approach to a work can vary greatly. For example, the author of the work may be trying to do a "back to basics" approach to a sequel, as the previous entry in the franchise had gotten too "over the top". Perhaps if the movie spends less time on grand action scenes involving hundreds of extras, the film can spend more time with dialogue, improving character development. Perhaps if the TV show only has one villain instead of many, more time can be spent developing that character in order to make him seem more intimidating. Maybe if the book only uses short, non-descriptive sentences instead of paragraphs of exposition, the book will read at a more dramatic pace. It's possible that if the film has one Special Effects scene instead of a hundred, more time and money will go into that one scene, improving the quality of the effect. Perhaps a horror movie believes that if they hide the monster off screen instead of showing it in its full glory, it will leave the details of the creature to the audience's imagination, making it scarier. There is no real singular reason as to why, it's just a creative choice. Minimalism is essentially the exact opposite of the Bigger Is Better trope. Here, smaller is better. The Other Wiki has an article about this. Compare Beige Prose, Minimalist Cast, Bottle Episode, Stick-Figure Comic, Nothing Is Scarier, Minimalistic Cover Art, Simple, yet Opulent, Story Breadcrumbs. Flash Fiction is a Sub-Trope. See also Minimalist Run (video-games). |
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Predators is a big fan of Show, Don't Tell; the film makes heavy use of concise dialogue, action, and environmental storytelling to convey backstory and characterization. We’re never really given a subjective source of information, with most of the exposition simply being the characters speculating about their situation. You don’t even learn most of the cast’s names. | |
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Unbreakable is an unusually minimalistic superhero film in that it features no CGI, no action scenes, no costume, a limited color palette, long periods of silence, and only 5 real characters—one of whom only appears in 2 scenes near the end of the film. | |
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At the beginning of Our Town, the narrator points to a few irrelevant bits of scenery on the otherwise bare stage, saying, "There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery." | |
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Roll for Shoes is designed to be the bare minimum needed in order to do a campaign. There are only six main rules, and rolls are designed to be simple and easy to understand. The player only starts with one stat, "do anything" and gets additional stats if they roll all sixes for a specific action. | |
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Google search. A logo, a search box, a couple of buttons and a few links. | |
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Hitchcock's Rope is an 81 minute film that takes place entirely in real time and was filmed in only 8 shots edited to appear as one continuous shot; mind you, most films consist of several hundred shots. Eight shots is virtually unheard of. | |
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Bleach: Infamous enough to have reached meme proportions, Tite Kubo tends to dispense with background scenery in his panels. He's stated in interviews that his emphasis lies with the characters themselves and, by discarding background scenery, all the attention is focused on the characters and all the action, emotion, and detail comes directly from, and are focused on, the characters. It works: he's considered one of the best weekly shounen artists in the game despite the jokes about his lack of backgrounds. | |
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Ideal: A dark comedy about a British drug dealer and his parade of dimwitted, bizarre, and occasionally violent customers. The series is almost 100% set in the protagonist's flat (if the showrunners are feeling frisky, they might show the landing or the next flat over, but the camera never leaves the building). Many of the scenes are him talking one-on-one with another character, who will leave to make room for the next. | |
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The first film of the Paranormal Activity series is this. There are five human characters, one of whom is shown through a video, while the other two only make cameo appearances, so we are left to the remaining two characters for the entirety of the film. The setting is a suburban house, but even with the limited set the film never tries to top itself, mostly confining the scares to just rocking the bedroom door back and forth or switching off/on the lights. The entity who haunts the house is strictly He Who Must Not Be Seen. These are all because the film was shot with seven days and No Budget ($15,000, even less than what The Blair Witch Project received eight years earlier!). Later films had bigger budgets and larger casts; although they still made money, they aren't as lauded as the first. | |
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In rymdkapsel, all graphics are abstract polygons, and you build the space station out of Tetris blocks. | |
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has four characters, one setting and is in Real Time. Albee's first play, Zoo Story had only two characters, one setting (a park bench) and was in Real Time. | |
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Most readers here would probably be exposed to composer John Adams through playing Civilization IV, where the unsettling, often amelodic tones make a great match with the uncertainties of the modern era. Adams is arguably the least minimalist minimalist (he owes a good bit to Stravinsky), but he does broadly fit the pattern. | |
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Mars Matrix does this for Shoot 'Em Up control schemes. Instead of a variety of buttons with different functions, you get one button that does different things depending on how you press it (tapping after a delay, tapping continously, holding down, etc.)note The Dreamcast port lets you set a more traditional multi-button control scheme. | |
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beatmania's "EX score" system does this with Rhythm Game scoring systems. Instead of Pinball Scoring coupled with complicated multipliers and bonuses that are not officially documented for players, scoring simply boils down to: 2 points for a P-Great, 1 point for a Great, and 0 points for everything else. For the most dense charts in the game, an EX score of 3,000-4,000 points means you did pretty well for yourself. EX Score is such an effective measure of the player's performance that many other rhythm games adopt some variation of it, with the key element being that score is based strictly on timing notes. The Oni modes in DanceDanceRevolution games, and eventually shown on the results screen of later games, have a similar EX-Score system. Although the grades are still compared to the actual score, event modes for later games replace this with the EX-Score for tournament purposes. 3 points for Marvelous and O.K.s for hold notes, 2 for Perfects, 1 for Greats, 0 for anything else. |
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The three games in Fumito Ueda's Team ICO Series trilogy of games takes place in a Shared Universe and possess intuitive Action-Adventure gameplay design. They're not a series in the sense of other franchises, and is more of a universe that three stand-alone games take place in. Each of these games has a very minimalist feel to them due to being stripped down to their core gameplay elements, with no complicated background lore, few real distractions, and almost no sidequests. and the only real connections are the appearances of horns on certain characters, which mark them as sharing strange blood: ICO: A boy with horns is imprisoned in an ancient castle. There he meets a magical girl who is also imprisoned there. The two attempt to escape from the castle and the girl's evil mother and shadows. Shadow of the Colossus: A young man goes on a journey with his trusty horse to revive a girl. He makes a deal with some god-entity and must slay a series of giants called Colossi to do so. The Last Guardian: A boy goes on a journey with a (colossus-like) horned gryphon and together they mature and become friends, escaping an abandoned ruin-complex and armies of living armor. |
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Ikaruga does it for the Bullet Hell genre. You have no powerups, all enemies, bullets, and the player are either black or white, and in contrast to intricate scoring systems found in many bullet hell games, scoring in Ikaruga boils down to just shooting three enemies of the same color for chains. | |
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Shane Carruth's microbudget film Upstream Color leaves a lot of the plot implied or mysterious, and there are long periods without dialogue. | |
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The Last Guardian: A boy goes on a journey with a (colossus-like) horned gryphon and together they mature and become friends, escaping an abandoned ruin-complex and armies of living armor. | |
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12 Angry Men. 12 people sitting in a room and arguing. | |
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The Fantasticks has a two-piece band, a cast of eight, and very simple costumes and scenery. This helps save on production costs. | |
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The Breakfast Club is mostly confined to a group of students talking about themselves during detention. | |
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a very simple camera style, and an overall atmosphere of minimalism pervades the film. The idea is to resonate with the subject: master sushi chef Jiro Ono's philosophy is one of simplicity. The film uses a Philip Glass soundtrack to emphasize the point. | |
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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim zig-zags this trope. During the adventure segments of the game, the graphics are rendered in Vanillaware's signature illustrated style. For the battle segments, conversely, the graphics are rendered in a minimalist style reminiscent of early computers, with units on the field represented with simple pixelated graphics overlaids on top of a 3D map. The finer points of the combat segments, from the appearance of enemy units to the workings of Sentinel weaponry, are mostly confined to in-game lore. | |
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Manifold Garden has no narrative, uses a handful of elements and mechanics, and sports a sparse, muted color palette for the architecture, which is composed entirely of rectangular shapes. | |
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Divekick is a parody of Fighting Games and the Diving Kick tactic. The only controls? A button for diving and a button for kicking. It also originally had two characters, but the roster has since expanded. | |
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Fleep takes the Ontological Mystery genre and boils it down to its bare essentials: One man, trapped in a room (in this case, a phone booth), trying to figure out how he got there and how to escape. | |
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Zigzagged in Split/Second (2010). The game itself is a loud, bombastic affair, where if only one building gets destroyed, it's a quiet race. However, the HUD lacks anything that isn't absolutely necessary. There's a power bar, a position counter, a lap counter, and nothing else, all placed right behind your rear bumper and as unobtrusively as possible. | |
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Texhnolyze. Similar to Shinkai's works, the anime features very little dialogue, none for the first 11 minutes of the series, and Ichise, the main character, rarely speaks unless spoken to by someone he respects. | |
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In the episode "The Pink Painter Show" of Pink Panther and Pals, all of Pink Panther's paintings are just entire canvases painted the same shade of pink. People in-universe love these paintings so much that Pink Panther gets his own gallery exhibition. | |
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Sarah Vaughan's After Hours was recorded with only Vaughan on vocals plus a guitarist and bassist, a very minimal arrangement for a jazz album. | |
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The Goes Wrong Show: Dennis’ self written and directed play, entitled “Toothpaste: 1.69�, consists solely of a man enquiring as to the price of toothpaste. Though it does work out better than the cast’s other efforts, Chris thinks it’s too long. | |
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Marat/Sade: The play contains elements of this. For instance, The Herald doubles as the door to Marat's living quarters and the guillotine is conveyed through sounds, instead of being a featured prop. However, the theatrical production's sets and direction are regarded as being highly intense and sensuous more than minimalist. | |
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The design of The Best Page in the Universe is minimalistic in that its pages consist of minimal colour (large grey text on a black background), and is mostly text oriented, for the most part lacking images, advertisements, animations, and other fancy design gimmicks. The site author, Maddox, claims the purpose of this is in part to minimise bandwidth consumption, but is mostly as protest against "all the slick-looking, contentless web sites out there" and to make the website easier on the eyes as "Staring at a white background while you read is like staring at a light bulb". | |
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The soundtrack of Captain Berlin Savior of the World consists of only one song composed by Peter Syntethic, used in various situations. The credits were also written on pieces of paper. | |
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Die Hard: Unlike the sequels which feature scenes of John McClane mowing down dozens of mooks at a time with his battles being waged across entire cities, the original Die Hard only had a total of 12 bad guys, and all the action was just confined to one building. As a result though, the first Die Hard easily has the most gripping action scenes of the series, with the fight scenes needing to be drawn out longer and more action packed due to the shortage of disposable mooks. | |
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Shadow of the Colossus: A young man goes on a journey with his trusty horse to revive a girl. He makes a deal with some god-entity and must slay a series of giants called Colossi to do so. | |
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Rashomon has the big huge gate set, but aside from that, it's pretty minimalistic. Eight actors, one horse, one baby, a set that consists of a wall with gravel in front of it, and a bunch of location shooting in a forest that really could be anywhere. A big production compared to some, but put it up against Ran or Seven Samurai, and it's amazing how little there is to the production. | |
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Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol can be performed with four actors, who all swap roles, or one person doing all of it. There's also very little costuming and sets to let the narration, lighting, and actors tell the story. | |
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Alien³: How do you try to top Aliens, a film which featured hundreds of Aliens, Space Marines, huge gun battles, and a Space Operatic setting? The answer is you don't. Instead, you deliberately scale it back so there is only one Alien, no guns, and the whole film is just confined to a dank prison with a few lowly inmates running around armed with only a few knives and fire axes between them, in order to spend more time focusing on the human drama and the terror caused by the Alien. | |
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The 2010 Spanish film Buried, which has Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq, who gets buried alive. The whole movie takes place inside the coffin, with Reynolds' character being the only person we actually see in the flesh (all other performances are either voiceovers or on his cell phone.) Still, the film never repeats a shot. | |
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No Straight Roads has an in-universe version with Eve's ad. While the other NSR artists have loud ads with fancy presentations and dialogue, Eve's consists of a slow close-up of her posing in front of a white void background, then her name appears. Not a single word is said. | |
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Cop Car has a simple plot, a small cast, rural locations, and no exposition whatsoever. Virtually everything is shown rather than told. | |
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Shigurui: The anime adaptation is done this way. The color palette is almost black and white, except for the bright-red blood and gore. It has little in the way of music or background noises, and also sparse dialogue, with each line carrying tremendous weight. | |
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Reservoir Dogs is a gangster jewelry heist film with one strange twist: it doesn't actually show the heist! In fact, the movie doesn't show much of anything. With the vast majority of the film set in an empty warehouse that is serving as the gangsters hideout, we don't get to see the elaborate planing of the job or the shootouts that ensued, instead we get to see is the crooks sitting around discussing the aftermath. | |
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No Exit was shot on two sets, with a majority of the plot happening in just one of them, with only seven characters and seven extras. | |
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Gus van Sant's Elephant (2003) is a tale about two students going on a killing rampage in their school. The film features a lot of pristine stillness, extremely long static shots (which continue rolling even after everyone has left sight), and no score. | |
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Kingdom only uses three buttons, two of which are moving left and right, and has no text (including numbers) outside of the tutorial and win/loss screens, but still manages to tell an epic tale of a monarch building a civilization from nothing. | |
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Dogville, in order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht ideas about epic theater) the entire village of Dogville drawn with chalk in the floor in a soundstage. The sequel Manderlay was filmed in a similar style, though with slightly more scenery. | |
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Generic Fishing Game is a game with only four fishes and the Spacebar button as its only controls. People like playing it because of its surprises. | |
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The Assistant: On its surface, the film simply follows an office assistant on her unremarkable workday activities. The story is conveyed through subtle cues and innuendos without any exposition or dramatic "movie moments." The minimalist style was a hit with critics but bombed with audiences. | |
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Antichamber has no narrative, complex textures, or a large number of game mechanics. Just a few simple tools and many puzzles involving Alien Geometries. There is only ambient sound and no soundtrack, and it uses primary colors in simple fashion. | |
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ICO: A boy with horns is imprisoned in an ancient castle. There he meets a magical girl who is also imprisoned there. The two attempt to escape from the castle and the girl's evil mother and shadows. | |
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The Oni modes in DanceDanceRevolution games, and eventually shown on the results screen of later games, have a similar EX-Score system. Although the grades are still compared to the actual score, event modes for later games replace this with the EX-Score for tournament purposes. 3 points for Marvelous and O.K.s for hold notes, 2 for Perfects, 1 for Greats, 0 for anything else. | |
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Kino's Journey. The art designs are very simplistic and the music is subtle and low-key. The show has no overarching story other than Kino travels from place to place and learns about the strange cultures of the lands. Most episodes concern themselves solely with the philosophical ramifications of the culture and pay very little attention to any kind of plot progression or character development. | |
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Cube is confined to a series of identical, empty square rooms, with a limited cast. | |
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TV Tropes' Laconic Wiki uses this style, making normally verbose pages easier to understand. | |
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Angel's Egg has only two characters, neither of which have names, and less than a page of dialogue, most of which is contained in a single scene. The anime focuses more on the girl's devotion to her egg than anything else. | |
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Gerry has only two actors, with the entire plot being "two guys get lost in the desert." | |
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Locke is set entirely in a car as a man drives from Birmingham to London and makes phone calls. | |
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Signs: Your typical Alien Invasion movie will focus on world-wide destruction and chaos, the military's futile attempt to defeat the Alien war machines, a rag-tag group of scientists trying to find the Aliens weakness, and our unbreakable hero who will end up saving the world. Signs on the other hand tries to get as far away from that as possible. Yes there is a world-wide chaotic invasion, but we don't see it. What we see is just a lowly farmer attempt to secure his property and protect his family during this time of crisis, while he leaves it to the rest of the world to do the actual fighting. No war scenes, no city destroying scenes, no heroism; just a guy on his farm with his family, scared shitless of the Aliens. (Too bad the aliens' Special Effects Failure and Weaksauce Weakness diminished the scare.) | |
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Skinamarink is a stab at making a horror film that's even more stripped-down than the likes of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Owing to the lo-fi, microbudget aesthetic of Analog Horror, the cast is extremely limited and most of the time are barely visible, the setting is limited to a single household, there's very little active visuals and camera movement, the storytelling is raw and heavily ambiguous, and even the actual scares aren't nearly as graphic as the implied subject matter suggests, instead developing disturbing implications and increasingly tense and unavoidable dread. | |
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Open Water: When you think shark attack movies, what springs to mind? The huge blockbusters like Jaws and Deep Blue Sea? How about a movie where the entirety of the feature is just two people floating around in a vast empty ocean? Now that's minimalism. | |
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Liz and the Blue Bird presents its setting as desaturated and quiet, almost to the point of dread. The dialogue is sparse and few characters have speaking roles, the soundtrack consists of atonal sounds and droning noises, and the plot takes place entirely within one location — the high school that the characters attend. It uses these techniques to underscore the anxiety and loneliness experienced by Mizore, the main protagonist, and juxtaposes this setting with a fantasy world set within an in-universe storybook, done with bright watercolors and grand orchestral music. | |
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Of the UPA films, the one that probably best exempifies this approach is their adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart. Animation is kept to a bare minimum (a flitting moth, some creeping shadows), letting the moody backgrounds, camera effects and narration do most of the heavy lifting. | |
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Indie game Thomas Was Alone is built around this. The characters are sentient AI programs represented by coloured rectangles, and their personalities are shown solely through the gameplay and the game's beautiful narration. | |
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Mini Metro could as well be titled "Minimalist Metro". The game's graphics are very simplistic, with colored lines representing metro lines, identically colored squares for the carriages, and a blue monochrome river. Nothing more. The results look delightfully like a Real Life subway map. | |
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In The Disappearance of Alice Creed, you meet the entire cast - a grand total of three people - in the first ten minutes or so, and the movie has maybe three or four different sets. | |
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Low by David Bowie brought over a lot of minimalist elements in the songwriting, particularly on the album's A-side, in which each song ranges from three and a half minutes to just 1:42, consisting solely of one or two repeated phrases with mild variations. The minimalist direction of Low would also influence the sound of Bowie's next two albums, though not to the same extent as with Low. | |
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Shouan Days.: Aside from having a nominal one character, the dynamite girl, throughout the story, the entire manga's atmosphere is very minimalistic in nature. In true Slice of Life fashion, the manga has no central conflict, but it rather focuses on the main character's ventures into the world she has been introduced to, moments after becoming a human girl originating from a dynamite. | |
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The Blair Witch Project: No music, no lighting, filmed on camcorders and starring only three people (not counting interviewees). Despite being such a bare bones film, it's scary and was a huge success financially. | |
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Dodge's player and enemies are simple shapes such as squares or circles, and the game's palettes have three colors at most. | |
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A scenario for Blades of Exile called Kill Ogre, win prize. It's exactly what it sounds like. You appear in a tiny corridor right next to an ogre. You can kill the ogre to win a prize. Or just run away. The End. | |
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Kairo's as minimalist as you can get when it comes to Puzzle Platformers. No onscreen characters, and almost every room is a single color. | |
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Limbo is incredibly minimalistic, and all the more haunting because of it. No dialogue, no chapter names, no character names, no color, yet it's emotionally compelling and enthralling while it lasts. | |
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Scenery in A Chorus Line is reduced to a cameo role. Except for one brief shining moment in the finale, it takes place on a bare stage, or a bare stage reflected by mirrors. | |
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The Myst games exemplify minimalism in the adventure game genre. The protagonist is never defined, there's no inventory collection (aside from occasional journals or pages), there are no enemies or bosses to encounter, and the game expects you to learn everything. And we mean everything. | |
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Tony Bennett and Bill Evans did two albums (The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, Together Again) with just Evans' piano accompanying Bennett's vocals. | |
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Marble Hornets is much like The Blair Witch Project - there's no music, it's all shot on cheap camcorders, and has few special effects. There's often little to no dialogue (some entries don't even have sound), with nearly all of the exposition done in white text on black at the start and end of the videos. | |
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Narcissu is a Visual Novel example. It's comparatively short, features only two main characters (who are seldom seen), and the graphics almost entirely consist of background art, with no sprites or fancy effects. Oh, and all the graphics are letterboxed to the middle third of the screen. | |
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Babylon 5 is a Space Opera show with a grand Myth Arc built up over several seasons, with many scenes of epic space battles and drama, and then we come to the season 4 episode "Intersections in Real Time"; Sheridan is in prison, the only other person there for the majority of the episode the the man interrogating him, it's comprised almost entirely of dialogue, and all takes place in a featureless black room. | |
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My Dinner with Andre became notorious for being almost entirely two men having a conversation in a restaurant. Andy Kaufman's parody, My Breakfast with Blassie, featuring an hour-long breakfast conversation between Kaufman and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddy Blassie, mirrored the minimalist style of Andre. | |
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Everyman HYBRID is what the cast of Marble Hornets pointed to when asked if they were fans of any of their imitators, describing it as doing everything, even the minimalism, exactly right. They arguably have more content, but it's often much less dense; sometimes fans find in-game clues; one was a piece of paper with a single line of typed text. | |
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Wormtooth Nation was filmed on a shoestring college student budget, and all the sets are warehouses located in the city the writer lives in. The actors are all local drama students. Despite the flaws, it's extremely good for a web series. | |
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