(Interlude) Page 47
Scott D on Nov. 27, 2020
It's not often Golden F.'s art gets to shine without my writing and sound effects over it, so allow me to present her in one of her finest moments of expression and direction, unobstructed, for all of you to see.
Sometimes action can be portrayed strictly through visuals, allowing only incidental sound or music without dialogue. Genndy Tartakovsky is known for this with both Samurai Jack and Primal. Others that spring to mind are the iconic stand-off in the cementery from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), the climactic escape shuttle confrontation during Alien (1979), the ceasefire in Children of Men (2006), the dinner table scene from Jaws (1975), the famous one-shot fights from the works of Tony Jaa, and some very lengthy and artistically gorgeous sequences in Pixar's WALL-E (2008) and Up (2009). For non-film examples, doomed mobster Tom Cochrane bids a silent farewell to his beloved family in the Spider-Man anthology Tangled Web, and Masaaki Nakayama's horror manga Fuan no Tane is a collection of minimalist, striking horror shorts, Batman #431 features a breathtaking eight-page scene in which the Caped Crusader goes up against the League of Assassins, and Ricardo Delgado's Age of Reptiles tells absolutely everything through its vibrantly coloured and gruesomely visceral art.
Do you have a favourite scene from a film, show, or comic where nobody has to say a word?
Also, we received this lovely piece from MisterParadigm of Mallory Bash!
—Scott D.
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Andreas_Helixfinger at 8:45AM, Dec. 4, 2020
Pretty intense scene there. I guess one scene of animated film I really like is in Prince of Egypt when Moses gives Ramses his royal ring to him, resigning as prince as he has come to take his slaves away from him and leave, not rejoining him as a brother by his side. The chain reaction of expressions that Ramses makes taking in and considering the whole situation, not saying a single word as he does so, tells us everything that is going through his mind. It's one of the most poweful examples of show don't tell I've ever seen in animation.
IronHorseComics at 3:36PM, Nov. 27, 2020
Favorite scene where nobody says a word... hmmmm, that's a tough one. I really like that bit in Revenge of the Sith just before the council is about to arrest the emperor where Anakin is standing alone in the council room looking out at a building, and we see that Padme is looking at the temple from said building. That scene is so freaking powerful and gets all the emotions it needs to get across.