There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?