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1. Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 15:36:24 UTC Spherical Space Raven

   I feel like there aren't enough movies that take "show, don't tell" to its extreme by not having dialogue.

   In fact I can't remember seeing any at all.

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   • Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 15:36:24 UTC Spherical Space Raven

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     I would be so interested in seeing a movie where you follow a non-verbal protagonist that just.. _does things_. No talking, no exposition. Just let me watch this person (or any type of animal) experience something.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 15:48:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sudoreboot - The various Blender movies (shorts)
     - La Linea (shorts)
     - Pingu (episodes but also one feature-length I think?)
     - Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run
     - 9
     
     and yeah, not many more I can think of. But if you haven't seen 9 you really need to watch 9.
     
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_…
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 15:51:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sudoreboot These search results look pretty interesting and I will follow them up some other day; There's an imdb neutral list with no further comments, but also several articles from various magazines, with recommendations.
     
     duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+film…
   • Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:16:13 UTC Spherical Space Raven

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke oh yeah, Pingu! I loved that when I was little.

     Now that I think about it, Donald Duck used dialogue rather sparsely and when they do speak it's as much quacking as it is actual words.

     I'll check out the others, and 9 in particular. Thanks :)

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   • Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:18:07 UTC Spherical Space Raven

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke Definitely checking out A Quiet Place first :)

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   • Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:18:08 UTC Spherical Space Raven

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke they do indeed!

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:18:32 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sudoreboot Oh yeah, same. Forgot about that one. Thanks!
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:20:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Perfect quarantine movie for me, I don't think I could convince the rest of the family to see it.
     
     @sudoreboot
   • Spherical Space Raven (sudoreboot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 05:30:28 UTC Spherical Space Raven

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     • Sixten Thames

     @sith yeah it would be really cool to follow a truly alien being around and watch it do things while trying to figure out why it's doing it. As long as you can sort of follow _what_ it's doing.

     Greg Egan has wonderful ideas. I have a bunch of his books on my reading list!

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   • Sixten Thames (sith@mastodon.acc.sunet.se)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 05:30:34 UTC Sixten Thames

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     @sudoreboot I would like to see a movie where you follow a protagonist who has close to zero anthropomorphic features. Is that even possible? Maybe make a story about some kind of intelligent entity that tries to maximize entropy in its environment. Greg Egan might have written something like that.

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