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Though some people have difficulty imagining movies without spoken dialogue, the first few decades of film did extremely well without it, to the point that many filmmakers dismissed talkies as a gimmicky passing fad or a perversion of real cinema. To be honest, they initially had a point considering that film sound recording techniques were very crude in the beginning, making for some really stiffly staged and dull films until the combined talents of artists and technicians solved the problems. Regardless, perhaps it isn't such a shock to learn that, long after the end of the silent film era, many filmmakers and writers still think that silence is, well, golden. Although, it should be noted that silent films were never actually silent; they were always accompanied with live music in theatres and this music scored every scene and emotional point of the film, often against the director's intentions for a patch of sound-free action (no dialogue or no music and effects). Josef von Sternberg, director of silent classics and a great deal of important sound films, noted that it was only with sound that he was able to put long stretches into his films without dialogue and music. The real reason directors and other technicians were hesitant to try sound, aside from an instinctive refusal to change their routine, is the fact that the arrival of sound led to film craftsmanship taking a step back. By the end of the silent era, films like Sunrise and The Crowd as well as comedies by Buster Keaton showed amazing technical facility in cutting, editing, and camera techniques, benefiting greatly from the lightweight cameras that prevailed at the end of the '20s. The arrival of sound and theater talent as well as the primitive recording equipment led many early films to be what Alfred Hitchcock once dismissed as "pictures of people talking" or filmed theatre with little in way of inventive camera techniques or creative lighting used to tell a story cinematically. Sound equipment also led to heavier cameras which made it harder, for some time, to achieve the Tracking Shot and other impressive technical feats. Though, many film-makers adapted quickly and worked hard to achieve solutions. Moreover, if the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is to be believed, shouldn't a whole series of pictures be able to speak for themselves? Nowadays, however, in the presence of so many audible (or legible) artworks, silence has become an innovation itself, often used to stimulate the viewer's imagination or add a vaguely brooding "cinematic" tone to the work. In television and films, running something "silent" usually means removing most or all of the dialogue, leaving just the music and/or sound effects; a few pieces remove even these. Some comics are likewise run completely silent with no dialogue, captions, or sound effects; in extreme cases, they may not even include any written words (e.g., if someone hands a character a note to read, we're not shown what it says). Others selectively cut the dialogue and/or captions while leaving sound effects present in order to have them tell the story. Sister Trope of Deliberately Monochrome. Frequently used in surrealist films, and is sometimes combined with filmmaking techniques from the silent era for Retraux effect. No-Dialogue Episode is a popular form of Formula-Breaking Episode. Sometimes leads to Filling the Silence in adaptations. When used for horror, it overlaps with Nothing Is Scarier. When used temporarily to add poignancy to a dramatic scene, it's a Moment of Silence. When the Background Music goes quiet to add emphasis or weight, see Sudden Soundtrack Stop. See also Mime and Music-Only Cartoon for animated works that feature little or no spoken dialogue. Contrast Dead Air, for situations where silence is absolutely not to be desired, and Speech-Centric Work. |
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The Bully's Bully tells its stories with no dialogue or text at all. Not even onomatopoeia. | |
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Watchmen has no visual sound effects and several long stretches without any dialogue either. | |
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Vater und Sohn works completely without dialog, the information is instead conveyed by gesture, facial expressions, and expressive body language. Occasionally, there is some writing, like letters, or on doorplates to denote the inhabitant. | |
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Aint Them Bodies Saints features a few sequences of silence or limited dialogue. | |
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The heist itself in Grand Slam is conducted in almost total silence. As a Shout-Out to Rififi, Gregg and Agostino crack the safe in total silence—they cannot speak because of the sound sensitive security system—and, because of the soundproof corridor, the only incidental sound is the faint noise of their tools. Weiss panicked run through the sewers has the background noise of the Carnival, but no dialogue because he is alone. Dialogue only returns when the action switches back Mary Ann's apartment. | |
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The Artist is a 2011 silent black and white drama about a romance of two actors respectively falling and rising in Hollywood's difficult transition to sound. Subverted in that the lead character realizes that he feels trapped in silence and earns his happy ending when his love shows him that he has the talent to succeed when he accepts the reality of sound films. | |
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Hawkeye: Most of Hawkeye Vol.1 #2 plays out not only without any dialogue but without any sound effects at all, due to the power of the assassin known as The Silencer to perfectly mute all sound. | |
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Away has no dialogue throughout the entire film, in keeping with its atmospheric nature and minimalist storyline. | |
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Jeff Smith's Bone comics will often go many pages without any spoken dialogue. | |
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Castle Crashers only has dialogue for shopkeepers, tutorial NPCs, and a couple of Broken Bridges. Apart from that, the game runs entirely on visual storytelling. | |
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The holiday cartoon The Snowman, based on a similarly dialogue-less picture book of the same name. | |
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Switched at Birth aired an episode called "Uprising" which is told entirely through American Sign Language and subtitles. (One of the main characters is deaf.) | |
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No One Will Save You is a sci-fi horror film that — rather unusually for a feature film of The New '20s, especially for its genres — depicts its story of a home invasion by aliens with almost zero dialogue, featuring only one spoken line near the very end. | |
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Quite a few classic cartoons (such as Tom and Jerry and The Pink Panther) features non-verbal characters, focusing on visual gags and slapstick humor. See the Mime and Music-Only Cartoon page. The original One Froggy Evening is another famous classic cartoon example. It's considered the Citizen Kane of animated shorts. | |
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The Little Island is a philosophical argument between three men without any dialogue. Interpretation is left up to the viewer. | |
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With the exception of the beginning and the ending, the episode "Fish Out of Water" episode of BoJack Horseman is completely silent due to most of the episode taking place underwater. | |
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a great example; the film runs ten minutes before anybody speaks. Also, in the final climactic three way duel, there is no dialogue at all for over five minutes, and the film relies entirely on the score, and closeups of the three main character's faces, each trying decide whether to move first. It is widely considered to be one of the most dramatic and tense moments in film history. | |
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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: Most of the spoken lines are in the opening sequence before the story goes Down the Rabbit Hole. After entering the Cirque world what little dialogue they have is mostly Speaking Simlish. | |
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Silent films hung around in China for several years after the first Chinese talking films were produced, due to the language barrier with English talking films and the language barrier between Mandarin and other Chinese languages. The Goddess, about a Shanghai prostitute, was released in 1934, four full years after the first Chinese sound film (Sing Song Girl Red Peony). | |
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No Country for Old Men has several long periods of silence, and no score until the credits. | |
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Most Pixar Shorts are without dialogue, with the exceptions of Boundin' and Lava (both of which are musical and feature characters speaking in song), and movie tie-ins. | |
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Snout, a mongrelfolk, is the protagonist of The Legacy of Dominic Deegan, and the story is told from his perspective. As he is deaf, there is no dialogue in the story, except for some Talking with Signs. | |
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The Kevin & Kell storyline "A Christmas for Coney", back when Coney was pre-verbal. | |
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Sleeping Beauty: The escape from Maleficent's castle and the final battle scene are mostly wordless, with the only lines coming from Maleficent and the fairies. | |
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In Inside Out, after Sadness saves Riley from running away and she returns home, not a word or sentence is exchanged in Headquarters, with only Riley and her parents doing the talking. | |
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Dinosaurs: The True Story: The short is done entirely without dialogue — there's sound in the form of the dinosaur characters chirruping, growling and squawking, but there's no intelligible speech and most of the noises aren't directed at other characters. | |
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Used to utterly hilarious effect in Nichijou, such as the scene where Yuko is trying to build a tower of cards without people knocking it over. | |
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In the Looney Tunes film "The Daffy Doc," the head surgeon asks for quiet in the operating theater. Among the signs Daffy holds up is "Silence Is Foo!" | |
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My Life as a Dog: After Ingemar learns that his beloved dog Sickan has been euthanized, there is a flashback of Ingemar back home with his dog, running into his mother's room and driving her nuts with his shenanigans. He dives under his mother's bed with Sickan and pretends not to hear his mom. This whole scene is played in slow motion without sound, underscoring Ingemar's overwhelming feeling of loss. | |
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Serial Experiments Lain is another series that makes pretty good use of this trope. While no episode uses it quite to the same extent as the first episode of Texhnolyze, which was also made by Yoshitoshi ABe, throughout its 13-episode run, there are at least several points where they go up to several minutes with little to no dialogue. This includes montages of Lain simply walking to school or around her house, and to increase the effect, the former are only accompanied by the sound of humming power lines. | |
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T E T R I S ' D: There is no dialogue or even sound effects, only just a remix of the Tetris theme for Background Music. | |
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Fe, aside from the main menu and a few in-game hints, completely lacks dialogue; the titular protagonist instead communicates with fellow forest creatures by "harmonizing" with their vocal patterns, similar to the aforementioned Journey. | |
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In the Master of None episode "New York, I Love You", the segment highlighting a deaf cashier and her social life has no audio at all. The people shown instead deliver their dialogue in either American Sign Language (conveniently subtitled for viewers who don't know much about it), written word, or a combination of lip movements and descriptive body language. | |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: The scene of Melody swimming in the ocean and finding her locket only has two short instances of dialogue, the fish saying "Hi, Melody" and the nearby Sebastian's grumbling. Justified as Melody cannot talk underwater, but gains the ability to when she turns into a mermaid. | |
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Spirou & Fantasio: The emotionally intense climax in La Vallée des bannis is entirely silent. | |
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In Naruto, the chapter that revealed that Tobi is Obito was almost entirely silent, with the only dialogue being a single line on the last page consisting of three words: "You are... Obito?". | |
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The Wii A Boy and His Blob has almost no dialogue or text at all. Aside from a few sound clips from the Boy, the story is told solely through animation, and the hint signs show pictures instead of words. The only non-system text in the game is in a small bonus unlockable storybook. | |
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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons uses Simlish and sparingly at that. | |
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Upstream Color has a number of stretches without dialogue. Much of the plot is implied rather than outright stated. | |
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The original Mr. Bean series is famous for its lack of dialogue. Not so with Bean or its Animated Adaptation. Mr Beans Holiday was much more in keeping with this style. Which style works best in movie form is up for debate. Mr. Bean was inspired partly by acclaimed French comic Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot films. |
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Vikings: the blood eagle execution scene serves as the climax of an episode and is played with soundtrack music only. | |
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The stories of Fifteen Minds are all completely wordless webcomics. There is no written language present in the comics, whether in the art or as dialogue, narration, or sounds, save for occasional out-of-universe "THE END" or title panels. This design choice deliberately leaves a lot of the stories' circumstances up to interpretation, and keeps the focus on the art and events. The artist doesn't generally say much at all about their comics, either. | |
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The LEGO Adaptation Game series (up to Lego Batman 2) uses no dialogue in cutscenes. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, while normally also using extensive voice acting, brings this back as a toggled feature called "Mumble Mode". | |
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Musophobia: There is not a single line of dialogue in the film as it instead uses the main character's expressions to express the terror they're going through during the nightmare they're having. | |
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Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon: To really hammer down the lonely atmosphere of the game, most of the game is spent silent, with no BGM and no one to talk to. Becuase the game is lauded for its emotional and beautiful music, the tearjerking effect when said soundtrack is actually used has much more impact. | |
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For Better or for Worse mimes its dialogue in some of the more comedic Sunday strips. The effect is oddly like a Charlie Chaplin movie in comic-strip form. | |
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This is the entire point of A Quiet Place. A family struggles to survive by communicating with the sign language because the creatures are attracted by the sounds. | |
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In the Season 5 finale of Rick and Morty, "Rickmurai Jack", Morty's trust in Rick shaken worse than ever before, and he demands answers repeatedly until Rick exasperatedly offers to let Morty see his memory scan that he stole back from Evil Morty earlier, which will reveal his "crybaby backstory". Morty immediately does so, and the ensuing flashback is a two-and-a-half-minute montage with no dialogue, only somber music. | |
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Freefall has the short "taking the emu to the park" arc that starts here. | |
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As seen above, Calvin and Hobbes is famous for this trope. In one case Bill Watterson ran several consecutive strips silent this way featuring Calvin growing bigger and bigger. In one of his anthologies, he later explained that he wanted to keep doing this for a month and "see how long readers would put up with it." He ultimately decided to stop after two weeks, ending the last strip with a little dialogue as a punchline. | |
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Guardian uses a silent page to convey the grief when Lulu, Wakka, and Yuna learn of Chappu's death. | |
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Shaun the Sheep has no dialogue whatsoever. | |
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Justified in War for the Planet of the Apes. Most of the time the apes speak with the sign language and most of the humans have lost the ability to speak and everything else because of the Simian Flu. | |
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The original Æon Flux shorts had no dialogue, only music and sound effects (one has a single spoken "Plop"). | |
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Cowboy Bebop has a lot of long stretches with little to no dialogue, preferring to let the visuals and soundtrack do the talking. A memorable sequence depicts a villain's origin using nothing but sparse electronic music, cold and sterile colors, and shots without much movement, making a remarkable (and terrifying) contrast to the rest of the show's colorful and jazzy style. | |
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The Illusionist (2010), made by the same people as The Triplets of Belleville has almost no dialogue as well. This stands to reason, given that the film was both a-homage-to and based-on-a-script-by Jacques Tati. (see above under "Film") | |
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Impressively featured in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Of particular note is the infamous scene in episode 24 that is nothing but one frame held for a minute and a half with Beethoven playing over it. | |
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Priscila's application video for Futuro Ex-Porta was praised by the judges for conveying sarcasm and humor despite her not saying a single word in it. | |
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Sesame Street: Elmo imagines the world without sound. And Bob told Elmo that how it's like to be deaf, No sound. | |
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In Kim Ki-Duk's 3-Iron (Bin-Jip), the two protagonists have only two lines of dialogue, spoken at the very end of the film. | |
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Mickey Mouse (2013) has a few episodes where not a single word was spoken, specifically "Yodelburg", "Tokyo Go" and "Pandamonium", and not counting episodes where the dialogue is spoken entirely in a foreign language. The biggest example would be "Springtime" which features no dialogue and no sound effects either, with music as the only source of audio akin to Fantasia. | |
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Happens during some of the more Dramatic (and Heartbreaking) moments of Asura's Wrath. | |
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The earlier strips of Nerf NOW!! were mostly silent, largely because the creator speaks English as a second language. | |
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Occasional rounds on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue are played in silence, with the possible exception of Colin Sell's piano, and Barry pointing out this makes great radio. | |
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Journey (2012). The one means of communication and interaction available is "singing" a near-melodic tone, and the only text is in the title, the pause screen, and the credits. | |
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Return of the Jedi: The speederbike chase scene has about one line of dialogue and, unusually for the series, no music; only the sound effects. | |
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In Riddick, good portion of the beginning is free of dialogue until the second half of the movie. | |
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My Cardboard Life uses this sometimes. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) The classic episode "The Invaders", written by Richard Matheson, has no dialogue save for the final scene. This builds up the Twist Ending, since the final scene has the minuscule "aliens" speaking English, while we never hear the protagonist speak at all—obscuring the fact that she's actually the alien, while the supposed aliens are human astronauts. The parts of "Once Upon a Time" set in 1890, as a way to differentiate them from the 1960 scenes. Particularly odd to a modern viewer seeing "Very very old film style" segueing to merely "old" to say nothing of how it painted the 4th wall. |
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CODA (2021): At the choir recital, there is a sequence during Ruby's solos that is played without sound, showing the perspectives of Ruby's family. The prolonged scene poignantly illustrates how Jackie, Frank, and Leo cannot hear how good Ruby is or the audience's enthusiastic reactions. | |
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Metompsychosis Union: While fleeing the docks there are three pages without any dialogue, though the sound effect of the blaring alarm is constant. | |
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: The scuba diving scene has only two lines total, with one coming from Stan and the other from Ericka. The scene where Drac flies after Ericka to the underwater shrine (with Mavis spying on them) is also mostly wordless. | |
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Godzilla in Hell has no human characters, and none of the Kaiju characters speak except for roars and growls. | |
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Vase de Noces, a Belgian arthouse film from 1975 informally known as The Pig Fucking Movie on account of its zoophilic subject-matter, contains no dialogue. | |
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In Turning Red, the scene where Mei is driven home from Tyler's party originally had dialogue written for it but it was decided it was better without it. | |
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In Rusty and Co., the end of the hospital encounter with Rob the Hammer has only three sound effects. | |
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The two Ghost in the Shell (1995) movies, also by Oshii, have very little dialog as well. Most fight scenes don't have any spoken lines at all and instead show in great detail what the characters are doing and seeing, leaving it to the audience to assume what they might be thinking. | |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: The chapters "Near Algodones," "Meal Ticket" and "All Gold Canyon" are quite limited in dialogue and have long stretches of silence. | |
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The episode "Justin's New Girlfriend" of Wizards of Waverly Place had a silent movie style segment. | |
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As polarizing as Spider-Man 3 was, one thing that even its detractors have nothing but praise for is the quiet, somber, and emotionally charged birth of Sandman. | |
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Yume Nikki is also dialogue-free. Needless to say, this is a contributing factor to the staggering amount of Wild Mass Guessing it's become infamous for. | |
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In The Dark Knight, when Harvey wakes up from the traumatic events of the previous day, we hear his panicked breathing for a moment, before all sound gets muted save for a soft musical tone slowly growing in intensity. He looks over to his bedside, sees the coin he previously gave to Rachel, reaches for it, and takes hold of it. The he flips it around and sees the burned other side. Rachel is dead. Harvey begins to sob, but after about half a second, he lets out a scream that the audience can't hear, and rips the protective gauze off of the burned side of his face. Two-Face has been born. Only after all of that does normal sound return as the scene changes. | |
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The first episode of Texhnolyze has approximately ten lines of dialogue, all in a couple of scenes coming near the end of the episode after 11 minutes of near silence. While the rest of the series is more talkative, it's not uncommon to have several minutes without spoken dialogue in many episodes. The main protagonist Ichise is an extremely quiet man who often lets others (including Ran, a girl only slightly less silent than him) talk in his stead. | |
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The Red Turtle is free of dialogue, which helps in setting its contemplative tone. | |
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In Cave Story, the usual victory fanfare after defeating a boss is nowhere to be heard after little Toroko is force-fed the game's Psycho Serum against her will and is turned into a mindless berserker Tragic Monster, leading to the player having to fight and kill her themselves to put her out of her misery. The silence indicates that this "victory" is not one to be celebrated. | |
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Frank by Jim Woodring; not a word spoken by any of the characters. His graphic novel Weathercraft has copyright information on the dust jacket. The physical book itself contains no words at all. | |
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Age of Reptiles contains not a single word. Given that it's set in the Mesozoic and the characters are all dinosaurs, the lack of speech is unsurprising, but there are no sound effects or narration, either. | |
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Another World is another game which uses dialogue-free cutscenes to tell its story. The only speech is occasional Speaking Simlish by the aliens. | |
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The Intrepid Girlbot has only ever had dialog in a one-shot strip involving Nikola Tesla◊. Lately, there have been a couple of snippets of speech, but only incidentally. | |
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Fellow MAD alum Antonio ProhÃas also did this just as a matter of style. While his most well-known series, Spy vs. Spy, is almost completely devoid of sound effects (save for explosions, gunshots, and the odd esoteric animal noise), looking back shows that all of his comics had a dialogue volume ranging from very little to none whatsoever. | |
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The Last Jedi has both sound and score cut out completely during a moment when Vice Admiral Holdo rams her cruiser into First Order Mile-Long Ship Supremacy at lightspeed, cleaving it in two and shredding the First Order's fleet. Though intended to underscore the drama, the silence actually unnerved some moviegoers, to the point that some theaters had to post a disclaimer about the moment being intentional. | |
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Downplayed in Avengers: Infinity War during the climax. After Thanos snaps his fingers, the following sequence takes place without any Background Music and subdued ambient sounds and dialogue, to drive home the impact. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): The episode "Ploys R' Us" features a whole dialogue-free montage of the girls using the Professor's sleepwalking to rob a toy store and give the toys to them overnight. | |
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Snow Bros has a rare Mega Drive version that features original cutscenes similar in style to those from Zero Wing, but with neither Engrish nor Japanese text. | |
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Princess Mononoke has a lot of scenes where either the music is the only sound, or there's no speech or score at all. And they work so well that even Disney, which usually fills the silence in its dubs, kept the scenes intact. | |
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The X-Files episode "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" is mostly without dialogue. The entire meal at the A.I. sushi restaurant has no talking at all. | |
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One episode of Batman Beyond has a silent segment when he's fighting Shriek. Batman enters a car factory to hide. Shriek responds by tuning out all noises in the area except Batman's footsteps, which he amplifies. The show makers did this because 1) they'd always wanted to do a silent scene and 2) when the noise filter shorts out and Shriek is rendered deaf by the sudden onslaught of amplified noise it's more obvious. | |
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The Triplets of Belleville, which was heavily influenced by silent comedies and classic cartoons, makes prominent usage of music, but is dialogue-free (except for a recorded TV interview of Charles de Gaulle). The lack of need for subtitles or dubbing may have contributed to the film's international popularity. | |
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The opening five minutes of Circus of Fear contains no dialogues: allowing The Heist to play out with only naturalistic sounds. | |
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Meek's Cutoff: There is very little dialogue in the film, and there are long stretches of silence as the pioneers travel by wagon train, with only the only sound being the buzzing of insects and squeaking of wagon wheels. | |
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Part of what makes the Harry Potter fanfic After the Abuse, Part One so bizarre is that there's no dialogue at all- the reader is just told everything that happens. This is not the right way to go when your story consists of an incoherent Random Events Plot. | |
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KLOMP! Animation cartoons, such as Bad Days, often keep spoken dialogue to a minimum. | |
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The Path has no speech at all; instead the tone of conversations is conveyed through character animation, music and color. The "tutorial" instructions are two lines long, and expected to be ignored. Textual descriptions of items encountered are also quite sparse. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The final fight between Azula and Zuko has no dialogue. When we cut from one scene to their ongoing fight in the Imperial City, all we see are huge gusts of blue and yellow/red fire being flung through a dark and deserted court. The sound of flames and the accompanying slow, sorrowful music (aptly titled "The Last Agni-Kai") make the scene all the more potent. Even the pre-fight dialogue is very concise, but really, it says everything necessary: | |
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The Hitler Rants video where Hitler is informed of nothing and says nothing. | |
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The opening sequence of The Walking Dead episode "Seed" has no dialogue, just ambient noises as unspeaking characters scrounge for supplies at a walker-infested house. It's very effective at conveying just how long they've been doing this, and how badly their scavenging existence has beaten them down. | |
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Fantasia, being a collection of short animated films set to classical music, had no need for dialogue. Ditto its follow-up Fantasia 2000. | |
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V for Vendetta has a four-page chapter, "Vincent." with no dialogue. | |
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The Harvey Beaks Christmas Episode "It's Christmas, You Dorks!" has no dialogue throughout the entire special, mimicking the feel of Fantasia; the only dialogue comes from Old Man Winter providing the Book Ends for the episode. | |
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This happens with The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. with Chapter 226 which is another New year's day themed chapter along with its adaptation from the final short of Season 2 Episode 20 until the end. | |
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Spirit of the North is told entirely without words, as the characters are foxes, spirits or spirit foxes. Even the tutorials for the controls are done through pictograms. | |
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H₂O: Just Add Water: The scene where Cleo finds out that Charlotte has become a mermaid takes place underwater, where the actresses can't talk. Cleo's horrified recoiling and Charlotte's smug smile are telling enough to show how they're feeling. | |
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The Chipmunk Adventure: Not a word was spoken during the scene of the Chipettes going scuba diving in Bermuda, with the exception of a shocked gasp from Brittney when she sees a shark. | |
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When the Alien Queen is revealed in Aliens, there is no speech or score. | |
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A 2013 Batman comic book was like this to portray the grief of Bruce Wayne over his son and then Robin Damian's death. | |
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In one Silver Age Daredevil comic featuring the brilliant artwork of Gene "The Dean of Light and Darkness" Colan, Stan Lee lampshaded this trope with a brief caption at the start praising the artist and stating that sometimes (as in this case) "superfluous words" were unnecessary, and therefore he was going to let the rest of the comic speak for itself. | |
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A Ghost Story features very limited dialogue. Other than the opening few scenes, some untranslated Spanish, and a single scene featuring a long speech, the bulk of the film is completely free of any speaking. | |
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Poppy Playtime: With the exception of recordings from the tapes, almost the entirety of chapter 1 is without dialogue until the player frees Poppy from her case. There are more lines spoken in chapter 2, with talking characters like Poppy and Mommy Long Legs being involved in the plot. Though the majority of chapter 2 is still silent. | |
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The "sound" work of director Tod Browning is punctuated by extended scenes of silence and visual expressionism. By the time he did Freaks he figured out how to do this without resorting to the minimalistically stylized dialogue he used in Dracula (1931). | |
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Jonesy (2018): No Dialogue or sound is present in the entire comic. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: At the end of the 2nd season finale "Starcrushed", just as Marco chases Star to her room, he's just speechless once he enters the room, and at the end, there is nothing but dead silence during the credits (as opposed to the standard end credits). There really are no words to describe what had just happened without killing the moment. | |
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John Wick: The first twenty or so minutes go by with rather minimal dialogue as John Wick goes through the motions following the death of his wife. The dialogue doesn't really begin to pick up until after Iosef Tarasov and his buddies kill John's new dog and steal his car. | |
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The final act of "Exodus, Pt. 3", the last episode of the first season of Lost, has no dialogue. Only the musical score is heard during a few flashbacks and the iconic final scene of Jack and Locke staring down the shaft after blowing the hatch open. Season 2's first episode, "Man of Science, Man of Faith", also has no dialogue in its cold open, which at first appears to be an unknown character's flashback, but is actually showing Desmond's morning routine inside the Hatch, ending with a shot looking back up the very same shaft at Jack and Locke, establishing that this is a continuation of the same scene. | |
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The Lion King only features two simple lines of dialogue in its final non-musical scene — the Arc Words "It is time" from Rafiki, and "Remember" from Mufasa. Originally Zazu would've greeted Simba as "your majesty", but the filmmakers agreed the scene worked best with minimal if any dialogue, and cut the line.note It was cut so late, however, that Zazu's mouth still visibly mouths the line in the final product. There was also no dialogue during Simba's presentation (aside from the "Circle of Life" number). Done again in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride during the final scene of the Pridelander/Outsider union. The only dialogue exchanged during this scene is from Timon and Pumbaa, with Mufasa's ghost giving one final line to Simba himself. Like before, there was no dialogue during Kiara's presentation in the beginning until the end of the "He Lives on You" number. |
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, set to the songs of the Daft Punk album Discovery, has no need for dialogue either (other than the song lyrics and a brief introduction by Leiji Matsumoto). Even the sound effects are minimal. | |
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The first episode of Carnivà le has a beautifully shot sequence, almost five minutes long, of Brother Justin rising from his chair, walking through town (either a single shot or a well edited sequence to give the impression of one) and having a vision in the snow. In all this time, the only dialogue is in the Background Music at the very start of the sequence. This continued in other episodes and is even used in the opening shots several times, most notably in the second episode where the only thing said in several minutes is a meaningful phrase. | |
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Utilized in the ReBoot season three episode "Game Over". When the system voice announces that the user has won and effectively killed Enzo, Andraia, and Frisket, no sound occurs for twenty seconds before Dot responds. | |
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The French short film The Red Balloon has practically no dialogue. | |
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Episode I of the Xenosaga trilogy was notable for taking place largely in cavernous, abandoned (except for the occasional monster) areas and having no dungeon or town Background Music, leading to several long segments of the game where the only noises are the character's own footsteps and whatever might be happening in the background around them. The second and third games fix this by having near-constant Background Music playing away in towns and dungeons. | |
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Tarzan: The first eight minutes of the movie are completely free of any dialogue, and the only vocalizations we get are the ape and leopard noises from Kala and Sabor, the baby Tarzan's coos and cries, and the "Two Worlds" number in the first scene. | |
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The opening of Once Upon a Time in the West has no dialogue as a trio of gunman wait for their target to arrive on a train. The final showdown is over nine minutes long, in which a total of 8 words are spoken. | |
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In the short His Wife Is a Hen, nothing is spoken beyond whispers and exclamations. In addition, the short as a whole is lacking in any sound beyond the noise of daily life and a record player. | |
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The opening sequence of Please Murder Me! of Craig Carlson walking along the street, buying the gun, catching a cab, loading the gun, entering his office, and putting the file and the gun in his office desk drawer is done with dialogue. It ends with Craig picking up the microphone and starting to dictate his recording to the district attorney. | |
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French caper film Rififi (1955) has a burglary scene that lasts 32 minutes without dialog or music. The Heist requires near-absolute silence in order to defeat the burglar alarm. | |
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Bambi is unsurprisingly light on dialogue, with only about 950 words being spoken in the entire film; much of the movie is completely silent with only music, animal sounds, and the occasional gunshots. A fan analyzed the film and discovered that (not counting the non-diagetic songs and non-speaking voice effects), the film only has around 11 minutes of dialogue total out of its 1:10 runtime. The midquel, however, has much more dialogue. | |
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Both speech and score cease during the final battle in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, only picking up again when a ship emerges and attacks making the fight far more dramatic. | |
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The silent films of F. W. Murnau are known for using title cards and written exposition very sparingly, letting the actions on screen tell the story visually. Nosferatu, Sunrise and The Last Laugh are notable examples. | |
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WALL•E is quite sparse dialogue-wise. About half an hour of movie passes before anyone says a line of dialogue outside of a recording. | |
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Liō is one of the only (and possibly the only) newspaper comics to do this consistently. Every once in a while, writing from a notebook or letter will show up in a panel, but actual speech is mimed. Presumably, words distract from the Nightmare Fuel. | |
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The ending of Franco Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet had very little in the way of dialogue compared to the original text's ending. | |
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Carl Dreyer's Vampyr is an almost silent early sound film. | |
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The manga version of One Piece emphasized Fisher Tiger returning Koala to her home in a flashback by having no dialogue with it; the characters' expressions do the talking for them. | |
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The Thief, a '50s Cold War Spy Drama starring Ray Milland, is dialogue-free. | |
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Big City Greens: "Quiet Please" becomes unsurprisingly light on dialogue throughout the middle of the episode, upon the Greens getting a warning from the librarian to not make one noise, even talking and whispering, otherwise they'll be banned. It is to the point Tilly suggests the Greens communicate through the use of American Sign Language whenever they need to deliver a message, with almost all of their dialogue coming from their thoughts. The part where Cricket tries to evade the librarian after screaming from stepping on a toy block is two and a half minutes of no dialogue, and if you count the part where they go up the stairs, it would be four to five minutes of no verbal speaking, not counting their thoughts. Even the part between when Tilly teaches sign language and when Bill and Cricket talk at the water fountain is about two to two and a half minutes of no talking, save for grunts, laughs, screams, and sighing. It all goes back to verbal communication when they leave the library in the end. | |
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Maggie and the Ferocious Beast: The episode "Morning in Nowhere Land" is the gang going about their morning routine with nothing but music. | |
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Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, of course. The only spoken word in the entire movie is said by mime Marcel Marceau. | |
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Only two segments in Robot Carnival featured any dialogue. And it even had a Shonen and Shoujo segment that managed to be completely coherent despite this. | |
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The Host (2006) had two scenes that were completely void of sound entirely; the moment where the monster first captures Hyun-seo, and the moment where the monster regurgitates a load of corpses and bones into the sewer. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Pipe Down!", Timmy wishes for quiet, there is no in-universe sound at all, but music accompanies every single moment of the "silence". Actually extremely well done. | |
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Discussed in the DVD commentary of How to Train Your Dragon. Some of the people involved in the film thought that the bonding sequence between Toothless and Hiccup would never work, because it was somewhere in the range of three minutes long and right in the middle of the movie. Luckily, the filmmakers insisted and even the skeptics changed their mind when the sequence was finished. The romantic flight scene with Astrid is also an aversion of Filling the Silence. Both moments are instead held up by wonderful animation and John Powell's hypnotizing score. | |
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Cries and Whispers has no dialogue or music for the first nine minutes, and the only sound heard is of Agnes writing on a piece of paper. | |
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What's Shakin' does this as the final page in every issue. Some panoramic panels in some pages do this as well. | |
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Yes, it's even been done in music: John Cage's "4'33''". Subverted, in that the idea behind the song is that the ambiance and occasional audience chatter, non-silenced cellphones going off, etc., is not only considered part of the music, it's the music itself.note For this reason, some performances of this piece will actually omit the usual "No Talking or Phones" Warning. This has roots in an experience in a soundproof chamber that Cage had: He expected silence inside of it, only to hear a "high sound", his nervous system, and a "low sound", his heartbeat. Cage then came to the realization that proper silence doesn't exist. | |
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou actually needs a very high silence-to-dialog ratio to achieve its mellow, contemplative tone. | |
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There are no spoken lines in the original edition of the first Metroid Prime game (besides a computer saying, "WARNING: SELF DESTRUCT ACTIVATED".) The beautiful environments of Talon IV show you the story of the fallen Chozo civilization, and there are plenty of written logs lying around in case you couldn't figure it out yourself. Samus is quiet, but you can tell she's thinking something. A narrator was added at the start of and end of the game in the European/Australian version onward, but other than that, the atmosphere remains the same. | |
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The Red Skelton Show typically wrapped up each episode with "The Silent Spot", in which Skelton would perform a pantomime skit. | |
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The Force Awakens: Rey's Establishing Character Moment has no dialogue at all until the very end, as we watch her scavenge from a wrecked Star Destroyer, sell the parts for food, and return home to eat dinner all alone, the same as she's been doing for her entire adult life. Without a word from Daisy Ridley, we learn her loneliness, independence, desperation to be part of something greater, and feeling of insignificance against a vast and dangerous universe, shown visually when she puts on a salvaged Rebel flight helmet and watches the stars while sitting in the shadow of the destroyed AT-AT in which she makes her home. | |
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The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal uses this to great effect. Chapters 14 and (the admittedly very short) 17 are entirely without dialogue. | |
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Peanuts has some memorable silent comics, such as Snoopy's first appearance and the fourth wall breaking piano note strips. | |
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The story of The Subspace Emissary mode of Super Smash Bros. Brawl is told entirely without dialog (disregarding Calling Your Attacks). The only time anyone speaks is when Snake breaks the fourth wall. Once. | |
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Hush is just under 90 minutes long and contains less than 15 minutes of dialogue, which makes sense considering the protagonist is deaf. In certain scenes the ambient noise will also slowly fade out to make it more obvious how the main character is perceiving the world. | |
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Moon has a number of long silences, though not as many as you'd think for a film about a man, alone, on the moon. | |
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2001: A Space Odyssey is 141 minutes long, but there's only forty of them where anyone says anything. | |
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Marvel Comics has also done a number of issues this way over the years, including an earlier G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) comic which inspired the "'Nuff Said" promotion. | |
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Done again in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride during the final scene of the Pridelander/Outsider union. The only dialogue exchanged during this scene is from Timon and Pumbaa, with Mufasa's ghost giving one final line to Simba himself. Like before, there was no dialogue during Kiara's presentation in the beginning until the end of the "He Lives on You" number. | |
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E. Elias Merhige's Begotten is completely silent. | |
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The Mind's Eye is full of this, with most of the sound being music, with sound effects occasionally peppered in. As the series goes on, this is slowly eroded. Exceptions to this trope are listed here. The first film had no lyrics or words at all, the closest thing being the voice sample "Oh My" in "Technodance". Beyond The Mind's Eye had slightly more words. It had a brief Opening Narration "You are now entering a world inside the essence of your imagination. Look within your dreams, they can take you beyond the mind's eye". The DVD Bonus Content has a vocal version of "Seeds of Life". "Too Far" has autotuned and chorded female voice singing "Too Far, take it easy, it's alright" exactly seven times. It also features a robotic voice saying "It is too late. You have gone too far" just before the bridge. "Nothing But Love" plays this straight, then near the end subverts this with a female voice say "I don't want your sculptures, I love you" The Gate takes it up one more notch, where some songs have full sets of lyrics. "Armageddon" had Latin lyrics plus two separate voices singing "Armgeddon". "N.E.O" has guest vocalist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's lines as Spoken Word in Music, with the only word actually sung being when she repeats "Neo". Thomas Dolby raps "look at it this way: a river of space, a ribbon of time. Like a burial, a river of space, a ribbon of time". "Valley of The Mind's Eye" starts off with Spoken Word lines in French and has lyrics sung in English. "Nuvogue" and "Quantum Mechanic" have fully English lyrics with not so much as one foreign word. Odyssey "One Dark World" and "Aspen Moon" have lyrics |
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The Fairy Tail manga has two chapters, "Lone Journey" and its sequel "Lone Journey II", which are both vignettes that 1.) focus on Gildarts during his journey across Earth-land, and 2.) are completely devoid of dialogue bubbles. The Movie also has a long stretch of silence where Natsu and his friends take a leisurely tour through a new city, and two others in the anime where the team travels to Warrod's house before and after completing a mission, focusing mostly on wide landscape shots. | |
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With the exception for the intro and the hunter scenes, there's no dialogue in Benji the Hunted. | |
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Documentary filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is possibly the contemporary king of this trope, considering that his -qatsi trilogy of films (beginning with 1983's Koyaanisqatsi) are all films with no dialogue in them and the only sound evident being the musical score. One of the -qatsi cinematographers, Ron Fricke, also made his own no-dialogue documentary in the same vein as Reggio's documentaries, 1992's Baraka. | |
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They Bleed Pixels has screams and Black Speech, but the only intelligible words are occasional bits of writing. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The "Reef Blower" short was completely wordless aside from the occasional sound effects, and SpongeBob does shout "You!" at one point, but it is shown as a caption. "Just One Bite" has Squidward dream where he falls in love with a giant krabby patty and has a married life with it, all without any dialogue. The infamous "A Pal for Gary" gives us the overnight fight between Gary and the beast-turned Puffy Fluffy, complete with no dialogue aside from meows, roars, and the oblivious SpongeBob's sleep-talking. |
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The end of the non-canon "Goonmanji 2" arc of El Goonish Shive involves characters going on a transformation rampage with no written dialogue. There is the occasional Pictorial Speech-Bubble, but even that is used very sparingly. | |
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Both of the 'escaping prisoner' sequences in Chrono Trigger feature minimal dialogue and no Background Music, unless you get into a fight or witness something plot-relevant going on. It's more effective the first time due to Crono being by himself in a dungeon that has almost no living prisoners left in it. | |
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One episode of Dans Une Galaxie Près De Chez Vous has this occur for a significant portion of one scene, as the ship must pass through a neutral zone that forbids Earthlings, without being detected. When the crewmembers must communicate with each other, they use cardboard signs (which is also done when Bob farts). The whole moment stands out all the more, when Serge abruptly changes his personality mode and acts like an opera singer at the worst possible time... | |
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The first 10 minutes of The Book of Eli are completely free of dialogue. | |
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Aether tells its entire story in music. Pleasant, soothing music. | |
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Most of the mini-games from Landfall Archives are devoid of dialogue, instead relying on music and atmosphere to convey the game's ambience. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: The Season 2 finale, "Twilight of the Apprentice", plays an ending montage in the last minute or two, being played over the theme of Ahsoka. Effective, because it shows the crew's reaction to Kanan's loss of vision, the chronological end of Ahsoka's story, as well as Vader limping away from the events of the finale and Maul flying off to parts unknown. Also, Ezra is now worthy enough to open a Sith holocron. | |
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Don't Look Back has a title screen and a few lines of instructional text, but no dialogue. | |
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In Up, the movie tracks Carl and Ellie's marriage with a long montage that goes through their youth, her infertility, her death, and his old age. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had a silent-film-style sketch with a man attempting to undress in public. | |
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Simon's Cat has a cat but it doesn't talk. Popular with cat lovers and owners. | |
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Gorogoa is completely devoid of any dialogue or speech. Even the text that appears in-game is completely asemic and only used to convey a sense of written communication rather than anything coherent. | |
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Dementia (1955): The film is told without any dialogue, and also no title cards, only the "MYSTERIOUS STABBING" newspaper headline and the words "Father" and "Mother" on the gravestones. The Daughter of Horror re-release somewhat undercut this by adding narration, but the narration is wholly unnecessary. | |
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The Caveman arc of Live A Live. Justified in the fact that language hasn't been invented yet. | |
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You Were Never Really Here: Many scenes play out with no dialogue, and there is little in the way of exposition, preferring to use visual storytelling. This has become writer/director Lynne Ramsay's Signature Style. | |
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Everyone in Limbo are rather silent, unless they happen to be animals. | |
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It's very rare for Derelict to have any dialog, as the protagonist is alone in a World Half Empty and usually ends up shooting her potential conversation partners. | |
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The Codename: Kids Next Door episode Operation: T.H.E. F.L.Y. is entirely silent, except for music. | |
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The Call of Cthulhu, based on the 1926 H. P. Lovecraft classic, which was intended to look it could've been made around the time that the original story was written. | |
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In AKIRA, the gigantic explosion at the end makes no noise, only having organ music playing over it (soft vocals in the American dub). | |
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Childhood Friend Yuri is a Pixiv one-shot about the unnamed protagonist reunited with the titular childhood friend, who came out as trans woman. Aside from usage of symbols, this story was told without dialogue at all. | |
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In Ant-Man, after Scott shrinks down into the Quantum Realm, we get an extended, very trippy sequence of him floating through a kaleidoscope-like dreamscape as he gets smaller and smaller and smaller. After that ends, there is a smash cut to him floating through that space, and it is absolutely dead silent. | |
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron: There are no talking animals in this film aside from a few narration parts from Matt Damon's character. The film had to have the animators pantomime conversations with the horses with their body language and the expression on their faces. The horses just neigh throughout the film. There also are not that many conversation scenes with the human characters. | |
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Issue #28 of The Powerpuff Girls had a story, "Princess For A Day," which save for the narrator and a two-word balloon from Princess Morbucks, was entirely sans dialogue. | |
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The "Rainy Day" episode of The Adventures of Mini-Goddess. Not one word spoken, but with that score, it doesn't need any. | |
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In Ori and the Blind Forest, the only dialogue is the Spirit Tree's narrations and Sein's advice, both of which are in subtitled Simlish. Downplayed in the sequel, where there are many more NPC's to converse with, though the audible speech is still Simlish. | |
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In Dollicious comics some of the best-regarded stories in the series are completely dialogue-less. They usually focus on characters who rarely use much vocal communication or don't talk at all, like Gnocchi (who is a toddler), Tagliatelle (who is very introverted), or Green Tea (who communicates in sign language). While still rich in hilarious moments, these stories tend to be more heartwarming and focus on characters bonding. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the concluding cinematic for the Azure Moon(Blue Lions) route only features a single word of dialogue- Dimitri calling Edelgard by her Affectionate Nickname of "El". | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Hush" is without dialogue for over 27 minutes straight, nearly two thirds of the episode. It's considered one of the creepier episodes there are and the silence only ups this factor. "The Body", while still having plenty of dialogue, has absolute no music used in it, giving a more somber tone to the episode. |
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Dragon's Wake: The game uses no text or dialogue to tell the story. Instead, the plot is conveyed through images shown during loading screens, paintings that the player can discover in the levels and the events of the game itself. | |
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Gon, fitting of a series staring a not-very-anthropomorphic dinosaur, has no dialogue. | |
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Vanish: There is no dialogue at all in the game. A few frightened gasps from the protagonists, and you can read some notes, but that's it. | |
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ABZÛ: The Spiritual Successor of the previously mentioned Journey (2012) — it was created by the same art director and scored by the same composer — follows the same rule. As you explore the ocean, the player is never given any written word or dialogue, the story is told through the scenery and the few images that the player finds. | |
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Many Myst-style games are like this. You get a short speech in the prologue or opening scene, the occasional bit of dialogue when you encounter another character ... and most of the game is just exploring and playing with objects. | |
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Tangled: The Kingdom Dance sequence has only two lines of dialogue (Rapunzel saying "Thank you," to the girls who braided her hair, and a girl placing flowers by a mosaic of the royal family, telling her baby sibling "It's for the lost princess.") and perfectly conveys Rapunzel's excitement and initial clumsiness, along with the growing closeness between her and Eugene without any other dialogue. The reunion toward the end also shows the anticipation, fear and ultimate joy that Rapunzel's parents feel in being reunited with their daughter again. |
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Outside of the reading of the original poem in-between segments, Winter Days is completely devoid of dialogue. | |
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Used in Garfield in: "Along Came a Splut"; despite the abundance of characters, there are exactly five lines of spoken dialogue in the story, three of those lines are spoken by Garfield, and only one of them is a full sentence and isn't a pop culture reference. | |
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Spirited Away has the famous train scene, which is three minutes of detailed animation and soft Background Music, to give the audience time to process what has happened and prepare for the ending. | |
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The ending of UglyDolls where Moxy is given to her new owner is completely silent, with not a word or sentence being spoken. | |
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Revenge of the Sith: After Anakin's fall, his more disturbing actions (leading the sack of the Jedi Temple, murdering the younglings, slaughtering the Separatist Council) are done without dialogue. Well without him saying anything anyway, several of his victims beg. | |
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Charmed (1998): "Long Live the Queen" ends with Piper and Paige silently comforting Phoebe as she cries over Cole's death. The scene was originally supposed to be a conversation between the sisters, but Alyssa Milano argued that Phoebe would be too devastated by what happened to speak to anyone. The writers agreed and cut the dialogue. | |
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Petit Eva has no dialogue whatsoever. | |
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The original DCAU Batman movie Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman had a short piece called "Chase Me" featuring Batman pursuing Catwoman through Gotham which was run silent this way except for some soft jazz as musical accompaniment. | |
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Catwoman: A short story focusing on Catwoman protecting her neighbourhood from the violence of a Gotham Mischief Night was largely free of dialogue, likely to express the bleakness of the situation. The last and only lines were Catwoman sombrely singing "Happy Birthday" to herself as the sun rose. | |
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Probably Marvel's earliest exploration of the technique was a Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD story by Jim Steranko. Steranko does a complicated battle scene without any dialog or sound effects. His editor at the time threatened to dock his pay for the issue since obviously he couldn't get paid for writing a sequence without words! | |
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The first act of the Frasier episode "Three Valentines" is done in almost complete silence. Niles has a few lines at the start of the scene, but the rest of the scene involves just a few barks from Eddie and a few mutterings from Niles as he prepares for a date. | |
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The surreal short film Cat Soup has no dialogue whatsoever. | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had the aftermath of Sirius' death completely silent save for the emotional music (which drowns out all other audio), which makes it all the more heartbreaking to watch as Harry lets out of cries of utter anguish while constrained by Lupin. One reason the music was included was that during this part, Daniel Radcliffe reportedly let out a scream so agonizing that the original audio wasn't included in the film. | |
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This trope is part of the appeal of Stop and Go. | |
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The Little Mermaid (1989): The scene where Ariel and Eric tour the kingdom has only four lines total coming from Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle. The scene where Ariel mopes on the dock thinking Eric is marrying someone else is also wordless, to compensate with her losing her voice to Ursula. The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: The scene of Melody swimming in the ocean and finding her locket only has two short instances of dialogue, the fish saying "Hi, Melody" and the nearby Sebastian's grumbling. Justified as Melody cannot talk underwater, but gains the ability to when she turns into a mermaid. |
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Fresh Guacamole has no dialogue at all, though considering the minimalist story, it's not like it's needed. | |
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Joshi Kausei or Jyoshikausei is your typical moe schoolgirl manga series. But with no dialogue! | |
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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom as a homage to silent films has absolutely no dialogue or narration. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982) has a deliberately sparse script to let the exquisite music and cinematography do the talking. A wise move, as most the principal cast were professional bodybuilders, athletes and models without much acting experience (note that James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, and Mako are given the bulk of the expository dialogue). | |
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Gravity Falls: Each episode plays a short clip over the credits to wrap things up or get in another quick gag before it's over. The episode "Not What He Seems" just shows two young boys who resemble Stan and Ford Pines quietly sitting on a swing set, with but the quiet beach breeze for company. Especially effective because of what immediately preceded it. | |
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