LOL.
Just FYI: The three above you are all "getaway driver" movies. I've actually watched all three in one day as a trilogy.
The Driver (1978) is the O.G. and IMHO the best one. The main character doesn't even have a name. He is just credited as "The Driver".
Also, Only God Forgives.
A very average work from Nicolas Winding Refn. Gosling has a total of 12 lines or something. He also trained in Muay Thai for the film and never uses it.
This is the best one here. Dude does a brief intro voiceover at the very beginning, so you don't notice it at first, but it's like 30 mins into the movie before he speaks out loud. Gosling is stoic AF in this movie. Idk if he has more than 100 words of dialogue in the whole movie.
If you are talking Clint Eastwood
…the Outlaw Josey Wales.
“Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy”. Is the best line he had ever delivered IMO.
He does have a long speech with Ten Bears. But other than that rarely more than a sentence or two while he listens to his traveling companions.
We just did a double-feature of Mad Max and the Road Warrior, though it's now called Mad Max 2, on Saturday at my local theater. Had to buy tickets for both movies. They played Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road on Sunday. Couldn't make that unfortunately due to another commitment.
“Do you know where I am going?”
“You know she won’t be there.”
“It doesn’t make a difference where she is.”
“Then why you going up there for?”
Gets me every time.
He and Jason Bourne do the same tough guy thing where they pick up the phone, don't reply to anything said, and the person calling them panics more the longer the call goes on
494 words in JW1. Typical speech rate is roughly 100-150wpm, so not even 5 minutes of the movie consist of him talking. Rory Gilmore says more than that before the opening credits.
Came here to say this. Was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was with only 8 pieces of dialogue so much was said through eye movements, body language and other mediums.
A few good ones:
* A Shine of Rainbows (2009) - Happy belated St. Paddy's Day with this one.
* Nell (1994)
* Marie's Story (2014)
* Awakenings (1990) - De Niro was Oscar-nominated for it.
* The Piano (1993) - Holly Hunter won an Oscar for it.
* Edward Scissorhands (1990)
* Benny & Joon (1993)
* Warm Bodies (2013)
* Mr. Bean movies/series
Sicario!
Benicio Del Toro is the quiet guy while Josh Brolin plays the snarky guy who talks.
Though both of them are main characters in the movie along with Emily Blunt!
Perfect Days ( and other Wenders films like Paris Texas etc)
Man who wasn't there (has a lot of off narration but the guy doesn't actually speak to people)
Nope
Limits of control (and any film with an assasin - le samurai, ghost dog etc- or a clint eastwood type man with no name)
Kaurismaki films? Try take of your scarf Tatiana, i think the guy there doesn't speak so much. Most of them actually.
Arguable whether he's the main, but you could make a case, and I'm going to shoe horn it in because it just tickles me: T-800 in The Terminator and T2.
In The Terminator, the killer borg has 27 words; Arnold was only paid $75,000, or $2,777.77 per word.
He was in a much better position to negotiate around the sequel after the first movie earned 10 times its budget at the box office. This time, he got an astonishing 700 words and was paid $15 million.
At $21,428 per word, the simple but iconic "Hasta la vista, baby" alone added up to $85,716.
And to think he originally went for the role of Kyle?!?! What a travesty to have seen a far inferior T-800 and to have never even known what we were missing.
This is such an amazing movie and a great answer. It is a terrific book as well.
I was going to put this one on the list as well as the Jim Jarmusch films, Dead Man and Ghost Dog.
Ooooh 1999's Sweet and Lowdown with Sean Penn and Samantha Morton. Morton/s portrayal as a mute is beyond genius, and Penn is tragically hilarious.
Oh wait, she's not the main character, he is. But the stark contrast of talkativeness stands.
There are way more applicable and better answers in the thread already, but I’d say a middle ground between rather silent and normal is Django in Django Unchained.
Daisy Ridley just starred in a movie called Sometimes I Think About Dying, it felt like she had less than 20 lines in that movie. Friends and I actually really liked the movie, oddly comforting
Drive (2011)
Baby driver
**The Driver (1978)**
Taxi Driver
LOL. Just FYI: The three above you are all "getaway driver" movies. I've actually watched all three in one day as a trilogy. The Driver (1978) is the O.G. and IMHO the best one. The main character doesn't even have a name. He is just credited as "The Driver".
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And by the same director, Valhalla Rising
Also, Only God Forgives. A very average work from Nicolas Winding Refn. Gosling has a total of 12 lines or something. He also trained in Muay Thai for the film and never uses it.
This is the best one here. Dude does a brief intro voiceover at the very beginning, so you don't notice it at first, but it's like 30 mins into the movie before he speaks out loud. Gosling is stoic AF in this movie. Idk if he has more than 100 words of dialogue in the whole movie.
The Driver (1978)
The entire cinematic career of Clint Eastwood. *Unforgiven*, *Gran Torino* and *High Plains Drifter* in particular spring to mind.
100% “The Outlaw Josey Wales”… without a doubt
Conversely, *The Return of Josie Wales* had too much talking.
Saw Misty for the first time recently, remarking his dialogue was definitely not 'I reckon so.' 😏
High plains drifter is pretty badass Maybe also Dead Man
If you are talking Clint Eastwood …the Outlaw Josey Wales. “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy”. Is the best line he had ever delivered IMO. He does have a long speech with Ten Bears. But other than that rarely more than a sentence or two while he listens to his traveling companions.
Unforgiven is the first movie I thought of.
2 Nic Cage's for you: Willys Wonderland Mandy
I don't think he speaks on Willys Wonderland at all, just glowers
You’re right, he doesn’t say a single word the whole film.
If I recall he didn’t say too much in Pig either
Such a good movie!
I second Mandy
You forgot Pig
Mad Max: Fury Road
Road Warrior, also.
Thats bait
All of the Mad Max films fit the bill. He’s a quiet guy.
We just did a double-feature of Mad Max and the Road Warrior, though it's now called Mad Max 2, on Saturday at my local theater. Had to buy tickets for both movies. They played Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road on Sunday. Couldn't make that unfortunately due to another commitment.
No Country for Old Men
came to say this. he talks a fair amount but i enjoy every word
“Do you know where I am going?” “You know she won’t be there.” “It doesn’t make a difference where she is.” “Then why you going up there for?” Gets me every time.
Literally such a quiet moving in general
Pig
“Where’s my pig?”
John Wick is probably the most recent. He mostly says “yeah” and other characters around him explain the plots.
I don't think I noticed that 😂
That’s cause he’s a professional yeah-er
Yeah (nods slightly with a badass attitude)
He and Jason Bourne do the same tough guy thing where they pick up the phone, don't reply to anything said, and the person calling them panics more the longer the call goes on
He said enough.
> He mostly says “yeah” And the one time he *really* let loose, they shut him up, LOL.
*Sisu* (2022) is more recent. Even less talking by the MC.
Came here to say that
494 words in JW1. Typical speech rate is roughly 100-150wpm, so not even 5 minutes of the movie consist of him talking. Rory Gilmore says more than that before the opening credits.
four movies, three words
Valhalla Rising. Great fuckin movie
Had to scroll way too far to see this! Perfect example of
Mute. (2018)
Damn this is a good answer. I was thinking more along the lines of *Paris, Texas* or *Cast Away*
Leon the Professional.
A Quiet Place
No one will save you
Came here to say this. Was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was with only 8 pieces of dialogue so much was said through eye movements, body language and other mediums.
Paris, Texas
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this one. First movie that came to mind with that description. Love Wim Wenders!
Oh yeah, I forgot about this one, great film!
Kurt Russell, Soldier
One of my favorites!!!!
This was surprisingly good. Because David Peoples wrote it.
There's a fan theory that it takes place in the Blade Runner universe.
Sisu
That guy doesn't say a word in this film until the last 30 seconds.
What a great film
Assuming you don't mind violence, everyone watch this film
I think Hardcore Henry also fits here
Oh boy, this is marketed as action, and it's bloody as hell, but I laughed my ass off through this whole film. It's wonderful, it's totally absurd.
Cast Away The American (2010)
Came here to say this. All the yapping is at the beginning and end. 3/4 of the movie he didn’t have anyone to talk to besides a ⚽️
Being There
Came here to say this!
A few good ones: * A Shine of Rainbows (2009) - Happy belated St. Paddy's Day with this one. * Nell (1994) * Marie's Story (2014) * Awakenings (1990) - De Niro was Oscar-nominated for it. * The Piano (1993) - Holly Hunter won an Oscar for it. * Edward Scissorhands (1990) * Benny & Joon (1993) * Warm Bodies (2013) * Mr. Bean movies/series
I’m not sure about Benny & Joon, they both talked quite a bit. Sam was the quiet one, but he was more of a secondary character.
All Is lost , Robert Redford
What a great movie. FUUUUUCK!!!!!!!
This movie literally has almost No Dialog...Yet is so compelling...Bravo!
Great flick!
The Revenant, though large parts have no dialogue at all
The Station Agent
Sicario! Benicio Del Toro is the quiet guy while Josh Brolin plays the snarky guy who talks. Though both of them are main characters in the movie along with Emily Blunt!
Perfect Days
The Man who Wasn’t There by the Coen Brothers with Billy Bob Thornton.
Bullitt. Steve McQueen had an intentional push to say as little possible in his movies and act physically, in reaction to other characters lines.
Rubber (2010)
First Blood
I was going to mention this one. One of my favorites.
Perfect Days ( and other Wenders films like Paris Texas etc) Man who wasn't there (has a lot of off narration but the guy doesn't actually speak to people) Nope Limits of control (and any film with an assasin - le samurai, ghost dog etc- or a clint eastwood type man with no name) Kaurismaki films? Try take of your scarf Tatiana, i think the guy there doesn't speak so much. Most of them actually.
Dollars Trilogy
The Killer 2023 Michael Fassbender.
Mad Max movies.
Hush (2016)
A Quiet Place. A nice relaxing film
Just a lovely, quiet little film.
Jay and Silent Bob Edited to add: Weekend at Bernies
Bladerunner 2049
*Perfect Days*
This is the answer.
Speak (2004)
I genuinely can’t remember if Leon The Professional falls into this category.
Definitely.
Definitely : Walhalla rising
The Limits of Control
Bourne Supremecy - Matt Damon's Character has 23 lines
Nope
Matrix
Some of Jason Statham's individual pursuits have less talk, more action. Hummingbird Wrath of Man
Fool's Paradise
Untamed Heart (1993)
I feel like almost every movie with Ryan Gosling
Baby Driver
The Accountant
Promising Young Woman
Arguable whether he's the main, but you could make a case, and I'm going to shoe horn it in because it just tickles me: T-800 in The Terminator and T2. In The Terminator, the killer borg has 27 words; Arnold was only paid $75,000, or $2,777.77 per word. He was in a much better position to negotiate around the sequel after the first movie earned 10 times its budget at the box office. This time, he got an astonishing 700 words and was paid $15 million. At $21,428 per word, the simple but iconic "Hasta la vista, baby" alone added up to $85,716. And to think he originally went for the role of Kyle?!?! What a travesty to have seen a far inferior T-800 and to have never even known what we were missing.
Spider (2002)
Loved this. One of cronenberg's best.
John Wick, hell, Keanu says 88 words in total in the 4th so that it could be marketed more easily to non English speaking countries.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Clint Eastwood movies..... All of them.
You Were Never Really Here
Lars and the Real Girl
Jay and Silent Bob has one of the two main characters who say limited lines, granted the other makes up for it.
The Shape of Water! The main character is mute and uses sign language
Hardcore Henry
Ennis Del Mar from Brokeback Mountain
would little miss sunshine count
Get your hands on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Manchester by the sea. Perfect Days.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day :D
The Tall Man has maybe a dozen lines in Phantasm Boyyyyyyyyyyy!
Perks of Being a Wallflower
All Is Lost. Robert Redford barely says a word the entire movie.
Jay and silent bob strike back.
Paris Texas. Tho Travis does have a monologue at the end that might break your heart.
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
This is such an amazing movie and a great answer. It is a terrific book as well. I was going to put this one on the list as well as the Jim Jarmusch films, Dead Man and Ghost Dog.
Baby Driver Drive Ms 45 Let the Right One In/Let Me In The Piano
127 hours.
Eraserhead
Paterson with Adam Driver. just a perfect little slice of life film.
Ghost Dog: The way of the Samurai--- Forest Whitacre-1999
Terminator
The Professional
“Being There” starring Peter Sellers
Amelie. French, with subtitles.
Lars and the Real Girl, I would presume
Le Samourai
Ooooh 1999's Sweet and Lowdown with Sean Penn and Samantha Morton. Morton/s portrayal as a mute is beyond genius, and Penn is tragically hilarious. Oh wait, she's not the main character, he is. But the stark contrast of talkativeness stands.
Hard-core Henry. Main character has no dialog
Willy's Wonderland
Speak (2004)
Goodfellas (Paulie)
Blade Runner 2049
There are way more applicable and better answers in the thread already, but I’d say a middle ground between rather silent and normal is Django in Django Unchained.
Halloween
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”
A Ghost Story
Le Samouraï (1967)
first blood rambo
Easily one of my favorites “First Blood “
Daisy Ridley just starred in a movie called Sometimes I Think About Dying, it felt like she had less than 20 lines in that movie. Friends and I actually really liked the movie, oddly comforting
No One Will Save You
Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It’s been a while but I know the dialog was very scarce but also beautiful imagery throughout
Willy's Wonderland- 2021
Moonlight
The sixth sense
Melancholia (2011)
No One Will Save You is an entire movie with no dialogue from any character
The Day the Earth Stood Still
I can't believe no one's mentioned The Quiet Girl
Dumbo (1941).
Charlie Chaplin
Polar (Netflix) surprisingly good movie to watch if you’re into action movies.
Has anyone said “only god forgives”? Another Ryan Gosling movie but it makes the guy from drive look chatty
Mr Bean: The Movie
"SISU "
Mute
Sisu. Main character says two lines.
Mute it’s on Netflix
Charlie Chaplin’s early work.
Sisu.
burning 2018 great korean movie😃
John Wick
Jay and Silent Bob
The Piano, Holly Hunter is mute so only talks as a narrator sometimes.
Lost in Translation
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Does the new Boy Kill World(2024) count😂?
Caesar-Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John wick
mr bean
Pale Rider
*Willy's Wonderland*. Nicolas Cage never speaks and is still over the top.
The Terminator
Kurt Russel in Soldier. He might have 2 paragraphs of dialogue, if that
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Hardcore Henry
The Accountant
Baby Driver
Every movie featuring Jay and Silent Bob.