Considering how insanely good the beginning of WALL-E was, I mean,
You know exactly what WALL-E is doing and how he reacts to it, without any type of language at all.
Pixar should make a complete movie with justt the reactions and emotions of characters.
It doesn’t matter to me,
But I just think it makes animation the best it could be if they can express an entire movie based on movements and reactions.
You know what I mean?
You mean a movie without any speech at all? I’m not sure, I mean, there was a reason why Pixar didn’t do that with WALL-E and I can understand why- it’s a very difficult thing to pull off and with WALL-E, as the storyline became more complex dialogue became needed. I guess something like Newt could be wihout dialogue, but yeah, even the amazing people at Pixar would struggle to keep the audiences’ attention for an hour and a half in my opinion.
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Personally, I love dialogue in movies. Now I have seen some really well-done movies without dialogue, but I would perfer talking in a movie. Pixar did a great job with WALL-E and a lot of the shorts being dialogue-free though.
There were some people that hated the silent part of WALL-E. I think some people might of thought it redeemed itself later, but to make a whole silent movie would probably be considered redundant because of WALL-E, and shut some of the the audience out too.
Yeaaah, everyone already complained about the lack of diolouge in WALL-E. An entire film with no talking? I can’t really see that working out.
Admittedly, even though I love the film to death, the first time I saw WALL-E I was even kinda bored at the beginning.
Aww, I loved the first third of Wall•e. The post-apocalyptic vistas, the stunning animation and the lonely robot all struck a chord with me.
I think it would be interesting if Pixar did a silent film in the style of, well, silent films. Such as Charlie Chaplin etc. that could work well.
In terms of a speech-free movie that you have to watch from start-to-finish, go and watch some of the early Chaplin films to see how it can be done.
My personal favourite is “Modern Times” which is (strictly speaking) “dialogue free”. Modern Times is easily found on DVD.
(OK, so there are occasional spoken phrases, but there is no “two way conversation” - aka “dia”-logue - anywhere in the film).
Also, many of the most classic moments in cinema are either dialogue free (the rolling rock scene from Indiana Jones) or could get by without dialogue no problem (the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars).
Rac_rules You said “everyone already complained about the lack of dialogue in WALL-E”.
Hmmm… I have to disagree. Just about every review of WALL-E I’ve ever seen absolutely raved about the opening (largely silent) 45 minutes, using words like “triumph”, “stunning”, “masterpiece”, etc.
IMHO I think Pixar would try something less… adventurous before silent movies. I think Wall-E did a good enough job to whet that kind of catagory.