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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
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Subject: Re: Brother From Another Planet (SPOILER)
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 02:55:40 EST
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> Side note: can anyone think of any other movie in the "talkie" era where the
> main character never speaks?  (the only one I can think of is Mel Brooks'
> "Silent Movie", but that really doesn't count, as only one person says
> anything in that movie.  (for 10 brownie points, can anyone remember who speaks
> and what he/she says?))

Well, in "Modern Times" Charlie Chaplin never speaks, but some of the other
characters do -- although all the important dialog is done with titles the
way it was always done for Silent Movies.

By the way, John Sayles (director of Brother) is also the director of
"Clan Of the Cave Bear", in which none of the characters speak anything
meaningful.

As for "Silent Movie", the only character who says anything at all is
Marcell Marceau (sp?).  His only line (and the only spoken word in the movie)
is "NON!", to which the main character says (paraphrasing) "I don't know
what he said, I don't speak French"

		-ed falk, sun microsystems