A movie without dialogue
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Quest for Fire
gia21ca — 21 years ago(June 24, 2004 05:09 PM)
At least not in English or in any other existing language and without subtitles, I found that to be a fantastic concept,
Quest for Fire
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tegyeven — 20 years ago(January 27, 2006 08:39 PM)
I also enjoyed this movie, even with no English or subtitles. I loved the part where Ika splits from Naoh and goes back to her tribe. Naoh, at first, continues back to his own tribe. Then stops and doubles back to the last place they slept together. That just broke my heart. You don't need language for that, you could see how he felt.
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dragon2000-1 — 20 years ago(February 12, 2006 04:29 PM)
Is because the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud is famous for do movies based in stories that don't need any dialouge
examples: Two Brothers (2004) and The Bear (1988)
Can say that is a master in the art of non-dialogue films
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Askur — 20 years ago(February 23, 2006 02:21 PM)
Looks like it has been made a lot of movies without any language, even if most of them are short movies:
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rval — 20 years ago(April 04, 2006 03:47 AM)
Being a teenager when One Million Years B.C. was released, I believe it was more a vehicle for Raquel Welch's killer body. Even at that age, I realize that prehistoric life must have been a lot more brutal than portrayed in the film, but it was sure nice Raquel prancing around in an animal skin, especially to a youth with growing sexual curiosity.
Quest for Fire aims to be more authentic, where feminine attractiveness was more about female musk than shaved legs and plucked eyebrows.
I'm sure the filmmakers of One Million Years B.C. wrestled with where to draw the lines between authenticity and exploiting the Sixties filmgoers. This was the era referred to as the "sexual revolution," where scantily-clad babes and bouncy "Bond Girls" were the ticket for greater box-office success. -
Big G-2 — 20 years ago(April 04, 2006 08:59 AM)
In the commentary, director Jean-Jacques Annaud did mention ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. once and another Hammer movie PREHISTORIC WOMEN (mostly the latter though) and said he did not want to go to that direction, where basically the cave girls looked like beauty queens.
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imwithstupid_35 — 19 years ago(August 03, 2006 06:39 PM)
Hadaka no Shima also has no dialog, I hear it's amazing, but it's rare.
my ymdb site
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galocza — 19 years ago(September 24, 2006 02:52 PM)
watch this:
http://imdb.com/board/10162023/
if you can. no dialogues (no cavemen 8), GREAT movie. -
Xcalat3 — 19 years ago(December 04, 2006 02:56 AM)
it was certainly different, a movie without any dialogue
but it was very good indeed the fact that you have to keepm attention to realy know whats going on
I give it an 8 out of 10
I Worship The Goddess Amber Tamblyn -
Saenos — 19 years ago(March 01, 2007 10:06 AM)
I read in this thread that they were no dialogs in this movie. This is untrue. Everything that you hear as rough grunting was actually written by no else than Anthony Burgess, the writer of A Clockwork Orange.
Anthony Burgess is a linguist and actually manage to re create and write a dialog for the actors to use. If you pay attention, you can hear the name "Naoh" being used before the three men are sent on their quest. The language spoken by the tribe of the woman is based on old Inuit language, if I remember well.
Making a comparison with the movie "the Bear" could only be limited to that it has been directed by the same artist."Quest for fire" has, without a doubt, a form of dialog but is not spoken by anybody at this time of history -
CaptainSnort — 18 years ago(July 22, 2007 06:53 PM)
Saenos is absolutely right, there is dialogue. The word for fire sounds something like 'artro'. (Also my droogs, Anthony Burgess wrote a teenage/slang/'language' for his novel A Clockwork Orange.)
Dialogue was also contained in the gestures and body language of the humans as developed by british zoologist/ethologist Desmond Morris. -
Saenos — 17 years ago(October 16, 2008 04:47 PM)
Actually, you do not need speech to talk. Mutes can talk to each other by use of hands signs. Bees communicate with each other by dancing: http://www.livescience.com/animals/050527_bee_dance.html