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Topic: Will Silent Movies make a comeback?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 16, 2011 12:45 PM
I've always believed that a silent movie could actually make it today, with a score of course.
In fact, a wrote a full script for a silent movie. It's a murder thriller entitled, "Silenced" ...
As they used to put it, a "deaf and dumb" woman, who makes her living online, accidentally gets off her city bus at the wrong stop and witnesses a man killing a woman.
From this point on the woman is pursued by the man, who eventually catches her, but she escapes and thinks at first that she's killed him but is so soft hearted, that she goes back to see if he is dead. he isn't, and she nurses him back to health, only to find that he is deaf as well!
She falls in love with him over the second act of the picture, but the man is hiding something, (and I won't tell you what! haha! Thats just so that, though I've given enough of the plot to even start a good script, you won't have the hell of a surprise ending that my script has!) It's very "Hitch-Cockian"!
The neat thing is that for subtitles, we simply read what is typed on her screen or what she writes on her pad in public, and of course a good rousing score with four string quartets with grinding cellos going mad at parts! Yes, I even have most of the score written.
It was one of my dream films to make, on super 16 scope, (as I wanted it to have a realistic gritty feel), and I bet it would do quite well!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 18, 2011 12:48 PM
A great love for just how much more craft would have to go into a silent movie. Dialogue can actually be a "crutch" in a modern movie, so easily thrown about ...
... but to be able to convey everything through movement, expression and a great musical score, that is another whole level of production entirely. The film that is taking off rather well at the moment is "aping" a classical silent film (taking place in that time), which actually was a wise move, as people tend to associate silent films with that era ...
My script takes place today, which is another whole ballgame.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 19, 2011 12:46 PM
I like the thought of using silence in films.
There is a moment I've written into a script I wrote enetitled "The Bridge". It's a western that takes place during the civil war. In fact, at the beginning of the film, there would be a generous tip of the hat to Sergio Leone, as the whole idea springs from that wonderful sequence with the North and South fighting over a brige.
The plot ...
North and South are fighting for the bridge. As was often the case, two brothers are fighting on opposite sides, (though they don't know it at the moment). One general is regretting even being there and secretly wants to blow thew bridge, while the other general is maniacal and will take the bridge at all costs.
During all the fighting, (many bloody battles with various slow motiuon and such photography, no lack of graphic violence here)
the "good general" gets mortally wounded, and sends the brother out to dynamite the bridge, so he can hear it go up before he dies. This is to happen at night.
Meanwhile, the other brother decides the same damned thing after witnessing a horror of his own ...
With use of CGI and extreme slow motion, his best friend gets shot and as he twists upright before starting to fall, a cannonball splits him completely in two before before landing and blowing up a short distance behind his best friend.
The music?
The violence builds to a crescendo of ear shattering sound of screaming and cannons and gunfire. Suddenly, all is silent as we witness a a number of cuts back and forth, as the best friend is severed in two and still frame shots of the brother, wide eyed, his face covered in spattered blood, from different angles.
There is only a few seconds of complete silence, as then the same clamor of sound begins to fade back in.
Just the thought of this moment of silence and the impact has always fascinated me and I'd love to see it come to pass.
Oh, by the way, the captian under the maniacal general finally shoots the general and both sides end up, of course leaving the site, the bridge blown to smithereens.
Anyhow, another great script from a guy with great ideas who can't get them made.
Oh well, we can always settle for whatever mediorcre remake is foisted on us these days.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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