{"id":2780,"date":"2012-01-12T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:02:18","slug":"moments-of-silence-in-modern-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/moments-of-silence-in-modern-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments of Silence in Modern Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Artist\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2787\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Columnist Jason Bailey at <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/\">Flavorwire<\/a> has put together a list of 10 notable sequences in sound films that choose moments to go silent. On the heels of award nominations for &#8220;The Artist,&#8221; telling a silent story of the end to the silent era, the article notes that &#8220;countless sound directors have used silent storytelling techniques to great effect, eschewing dialogue (and sometimes even sound effects) to work through their narrative beats via purely visual means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Number 4 on their list was &#8220;Le Samoura\u00c3\u00af&#8221; (1967), along with &#8220;There Will Be Blood&#8221; at number 10. <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/248174\/10-great-silent-sequences-in-sound-movies\">See their article for all.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any other favorites in feature film? How about short, broadcast, or online content?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Jason Bailey at Flavorwire has put together a list of 10 notable sequences in sound films that choose moments to go silent. On the heels of award nominations for &#8220;The Artist,&#8221; telling a silent story of the end to the silent era, the article notes that &#8220;countless sound directors have used silent storytelling techniques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}