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Pretty sure that awful Sandra Bullock movie Gravity was quiet as well. Except that they made the awful choice to have Sandra Bullock screaming, moaning, and mak

• 0_____0 3y ago
  So, you'll notice that humans had that sort of flattened affect you're looking for in Kubrick's 2001, but he placed it in contrast to HAL, which for most of the film is the only character who communicates with an emotive affect. You need some emotion, some performance. Kubrick got that and managed to achieve this in 2001 by combining the emotional austerity of spaceflight with an artificial intelligence who, in an inversion of expectation, is the emotive one. Then he exploited this for the climax, the loss of HAL's personality, being. Lacking a HAL like element, especially in a film that has one actress, you can't make the humans dull, you need some emotional experience to attach to. In the context of Gravity, that means dramatic calls and the sounds of her human presence. People don't go to the cinema to listen to an ATC feed.
  • wlesieutre 3y ago
    > People don’t go to the cinema to listen to an ATC feed If you haven’t watched Apollo 11 I highly recommend it
    • 0_____0 3y ago
      The 2019 doc? I’ll put it on my list. Now that it’s winter I’m putting a lot of hours in on the trainer bike and I can use the recs. I gotta point out though that Apollo 11 (2019) boxed 15M and Gravity (2013) boxed 723M USD, which sort of illustrates my point.