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Films with no buildings in

posted 11 years ago by si-ga-sahab
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The Scalphunters belongs in this category. No buildings of any sort appear anywhere in the film and all of the characters appear to be essentially homeless (the Indians probably have a village somewhere, I guess, but we never see it).

I'm sure that there are plenty but, off the top of my head, I can't think of any other movies that literally have no buildings in them at all. Caveman films tend to have caves, Tarzan films tend to have tree-houses or mud huts, and Robin Hood films have castles. Some science fiction films will take place entirely on spaceships so they might qualify.

[–] Kawada_Kira 11 years ago

That didn't occur to me but you're right, I think this is the only movie i've ever seen where there were literally no buildings in the whole film. Interesting.

I don't know if a movie with a spaceship would qualify. A spaceship is more of a vehicle than a building, but it's still something people would live in for a long period of time without exiting at all, and thus might count as a sort of building.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Goethe

[–] si-ga-sahab 11 years ago

Thanks for the kind reply. Yes, another way of saying more-or-less the same thing would be to say that the film has no doors in it. That covers the spaceships! The closest thing to a doorway scene in The Scalphunters is when Jim Howie pulls back the canvas wagon flap after he overhears Joseph Lee talking to himself. Interesting stuff.