To say there was too
much dialogue in a film with what felt like only 100 words to begin with seems like a disservice.
Matt: There's not as
much dialogue in the film as I was expecting.
One thing that has always struck me is the fact there isn't
much dialogue in the film, which adds to the surreal, dream - like feel.
Not exact matches
With the
much - discussed Hollywood
film Won't Back Down making educational waves, Tough's book is not only timely but germane to the larger public
dialogue about improving teaching and learning
in all schools — public, private and independent.
It doesn't try to show some drastic change, but it does attempt to convince others that change can indeed happen, it also never puts blame on one person, because obviously with marriage it is a joint effort, there will be trials and on other occasions it simply won't work, but time and commitment can change that, rarely can a simple
film like this address so
much in such limited issues, but sharp, often improvisational
dialogue and strong performances create a very real and insightful piece that underplays everything for maximum effect, which works.
I love how
much is said
in this
film with almost no
dialogue.
The
film too often puts too
much trust
in dialogue, as Marie and Boris's predicament is sometimes perfectly conveyed by the actors» facial expressions and body language.
Not quite the clean, elegant creation that his earlier
films were, The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and
dialogue (frequent), but there is
much of value
in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.
In comparison to other films that receive this rating and demonstrate far greater use of profanity, sexual and crude dialogue and often comic violence, this film is much milder and in comparison is a soft PG - 13 or perhaps P
In comparison to other
films that receive this rating and demonstrate far greater use of profanity, sexual and crude
dialogue and often comic violence, this
film is
much milder and
in comparison is a soft PG - 13 or perhaps P
in comparison is a soft PG - 13 or perhaps PG.
Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible
dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating
in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how
much is different but how
much is universal as each
in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking
in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.
Similar to Drive, one of my favorite
films of Cannes 2012, the power of The Rover is
in its silence, and it uses that silence (and minimal
dialogue) very effectively to convey so
much, to speak loudly without being loud.
But upon further reflection, I'm not sure how
much of that reaction was due to the fact that I could still recite almost all of the
film in my head (
much of the
dialogue is the same), that I will always love its songs (except for the new ones, which added nothing), and that Condon knows his way around a lavish musical.
This is perfectly
in keeping with the style of the Broadway production, which features
much more of this style than the
film does, with Condon beefing up the dramatic
dialogue for purposes of an easier narrative and deeper characterizations.
(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five
in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes i
in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual
dialogue from the
films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant);
In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes i
In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run -
ins with violent gangs
in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes i
in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows
in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes i
in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how
much better Dead Mans Shoes is.
Thornton, whose character
in The Man Who Wasn't There was borderline mute, returns as a chatterbox this time around, spouting nearly as
much dialogue in his first onscreen minute as he did
in the entire previous
film.
Luckily, there isn't
much in dialogue, which I suppose is another element of the
film that needed improving.
I like how Cronenberg pays so
much attention to detail here, and there are always great characterisations and powerful
dialogue sequences
in his
films.
The English soundtrack includes
dialogue spoken
in French for
much of the French journalist segment of the
film.
Having actors the caliber of Mirren, Clarke and Snook (appearing
in her second Spierig production) also doesn't hurt, mostly so
much of the
film involves slower
dialogue - heavy moments.
Body language says as
much as
dialogue in the
film.
I won't spoil it, but the
dialogue that Edgar does have
in the
film becomes so
much more effective because there's so little of it.
There isn't
much to the mix: the occasional bit of unidentifiable pop music and
dialogue in which the
filming location has more of a presence than most.
Indeed, Waititi previously revealed that
much of the
dialogue in the
film was improvised, and Hemsworth explains
in the clip below that this scene was originally just one line — what we see
in the finished
film is all improvisation.
It's hard to believe that any
film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman
in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the
film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too
much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like
dialogue from a human mouth.
In The Darjeeling Limited, the overt range of expression is much more tightly controlled, the gestures far more restrained, the dialogue more understatedly direct or quietly evasive, and — crucially — the material world far more eloquent in its elements of style and design than in Cassavetes» fil
In The Darjeeling Limited, the overt range of expression is
much more tightly controlled, the gestures far more restrained, the
dialogue more understatedly direct or quietly evasive, and — crucially — the material world far more eloquent
in its elements of style and design than in Cassavetes» fil
in its elements of style and design than
in Cassavetes» fil
in Cassavetes»
film.
TALKING: As the
film works actively to cloud itself with mystery as
much as possible, Stoker indulges
in using winking
dialogue that are important to the audience's impressions of characters as
much as they are India's.
We knew the palette and the look couldn't overwhelm character and
dialogue, but
in terms of knowing when it was too
much, we looked at
films that bridged that divide well.
He talks about how this
film is a fairytale and how he loves the little girl he cast and how honest she is
in her complete inability to be anything other than herself (and, damnably, how
much he let her ad lib her
dialogue and thus alter his
film).
He doesn't» have a lot of
dialogue for a good majority of the
film (getting your tongue cut out and your femurs filed down into Walrus tusks will do that to you), but he conveys so
much through his emotions and body movement that it is impossible to become invested
in his arc.
In his commentary, Altman explains that he committed their unvarnished musical performances to
film, just like
much of the movie's improvised
dialogue.
Add
in Raquel Welch as one of the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, naturally), a lot of great
dialogue, and an authentic 1960s London vibe, and you've got a
film that ought to be touted
much more than it is.
Dialogue is sparse and the proceedings are simple, but Cujo emerges as one of cinema's most imposing villains
in a horror
film that's
much more interested
in audience fear than
in gore or any of the supernaturalness commonly found
in King's books.
Perhaps the most explicitly
in dialogue with
film history of all his works thus far, the
film will read as a
much - needed strike of lightning to wu xia for connoisseurs of the genre and a feature - length TV spot for others.
Alchemist's Cookbook: Setting a
film in the woods with a hermit does not lend itself to
much dialogue.
We learn via expository
dialogue that Mike's old boss and mentor Dallas (Matthew McConaughey) left the group (which I guess is code for, «McConaughey wanted too
much money»), and that Mike retired from stripping three years ago and poured his energy into his furniture business and proposed to what's - her - name
in the first
film and was rejected.
Restoring a few of these cut - scenes would put
much - needed flesh back on this skeletal
film, though it's worth noting that many of them still suffer from Haythe's insecure shoehorning of subtext into the
dialogue, as
in a moment where Frank tells a story to guests Shep and Millie they've obviously heard before, only to have April come right out and confirm it.
Memorable
Dialogue: Writer Yolanda Ramke (who co-directed the
film with Ben Howling) kept Cargo's script uncluttered, meaning there isn't
much in the way of laugh lines or even zingers.
Working with a smaller budget, it's basically a four - character
film which wouldn't suffer too
much from being staged
in a theatre — featuring unusually long
dialogue scenes
in diners, restaurants and motel rooms, with staccato rhythms and masculine posturing borrowed from David Mamet, another of Anderson's key, acknowledged influences.
For
much of the
film, the
dialogue was mixed low
in comparison to the score and sound effects and as a result, it was often tough to hear.
In fact,
dialogue is kept to a minumun throughout the
film's 94 - minute run time, which moves along at break - neck speed that however, doesn't grants us
much time to engage with any character.
Tati's style is already
in place, at least visually (fairly long takes chronicling the slow buildups op the sight gags) and
in terms of
dialogue (there isn't
much), but the
film doesn't play with sound as
much as his later Hulot
films do (especially Playtime).
Note: Though the
film's main character is 13 years old, parents should be aware that
much of the
film's score features hip - hop with extremely explicit language, language that is echoed at various passages
in the
dialogue.
The incidents and
dialogue in Cosmopolis come practically verbatim from Don DeLillo's slim 2003 novel about a young asset manager's surreal, Ulysses - like car ride across Manhattan — so
much so that the
film at times feels like an experiment, an exploration of how prose translates to
film.
Fallen Angels Though Fallen Angels certainly has a
dialogue in both narrative and production with Chungking Express, it's important to stress just how exaggerated, how forceful so
much of this
film feels
in comparison to even the glorious excesses of its predecessor.
Showgirls (1995) This
much - reviled
film got new life as a midnight movie
in 1996: Audience choreography and mimicry of the camp
dialogue ensued.
Nixon didn't begin the infamous recordings of all his Oval Office conversations until a few months later, so it's unclear how
much of the
dialogue in this
film was actually said.
As it happens, Meyers had a strong connection to His Girl Friday, as Dr. Jermyn explained — having found
much in the
film to emulate
in her own filmmaking, perhaps most importantly the emphasis placed on
dialogue.
It also affords Haynes another opportunity to reveal his mastery of intricate mise - en - scène:
Much of «Wonderstruck» plays like a silent
film, with Carter Burwell's lilting, surging score filling
in the occasional long pauses between audible
dialogue.
But,
in achieving his realism sans
much dialogue, McQueen also shows that he is,
in a sense, the anti-Cassavetes, for where Cassavetes achieved such realism with
dialogue,
in great
films like Faces and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, by letting characters speak as
in real life, McQueen allows characters to react and brood, as
in real life.
Much like Best Picture, this was a two horse race, and while Shaun the Sheep Movie was a lot of fun
in its Buster Keaton - y approach, with no discernible
dialogue in the whole
film, it didn't speak to me the way its betters did.