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A movie without dialogue

posted 20 years ago by gia21ca
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At least not in English or in any other existing language and without subtitles, I found that to be a fantastic concept, Quest for Fire was entirely unique and a real treat, I can't wait to get my copy of it on DVD.

[–] tegyeven 18 years ago

I also enjoyed this movie, even with no English or subtitles. I loved the part where Ika splits from Naoh and goes back to her tribe. Naoh, at first, continues back to his own tribe. Then stops and doubles back to the last place they slept together. That just broke my heart. You don't need language for that, you could see how he felt.

[–] dragon2000-1 18 years ago

Is because the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud is famous for do movies based in stories that don't need any dialouge
examples: Two Brothers (2004) and The Bear (1988)
Can say that is a master in the art of non-dialogue films :)

[–] Askur 18 years ago

Looks like it has been made a lot of movies without any language, even if most of them are short movies:

http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/None/

[–] Big G-2 18 years ago

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. with Raquel Welch only had that beginning narration to setup the story, otherwise everything else is with that caveman dialog.

[–] rval 18 years ago

Being a teenager when One Million Years B.C. was released, I believe it was more a vehicle for Raquel Welch's killer body. Even at that age, I realize that prehistoric life must have been a lot more brutal than portrayed in the film, but it was sure nice Raquel prancing around in an animal skin, especially to a youth with growing sexual curiosity.

Quest for Fire aims to be more authentic, where feminine attractiveness was more about female musk than shaved legs and plucked eyebrows.

I'm sure the filmmakers of One Million Years B.C. wrestled with where to draw the lines between authenticity and exploiting the Sixties filmgoers. This was the era referred to as the "sexual revolution," where scantily-clad babes and bouncy "Bond Girls" were the ticket for greater box-office success.

[–] Big G-2 18 years ago

In the commentary, director Jean-Jacques Annaud did mention ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. once and another Hammer movie PREHISTORIC WOMEN (mostly the latter though) and said he did not want to go to that direction, where basically the cave girls looked like beauty queens.

[–] imwithstupid_35 18 years ago

Hadaka no Shima also has no dialog, I hear it's amazing, but it's rare.

my ymdb site

http://www.ymdb.com/mehsuggeth/l35858_ukuk.html

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[–] Askur 18 years ago

The movie 9 (directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton) is also said to contain no dialogue.

[–] mike-547 14 years ago

9 is very dialogue driven

[–] galocza 18 years ago

watch this:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0162023/
if you can. no dialogues (no cavemen 8), GREAT movie.

[–] n3dwards58 17 years ago

And that is the real challenge for an actor!

[–] Xcalat3 17 years ago

it was certainly different, a movie without any dialogue

but it was very good indeed the fact that you have to keepm attention to realy know whats going on

I give it an 8 out of 10

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