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Only movie I ever saw....

posted 15 years ago by sonofbeach-sheet
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that had no music in it all all. Guess the director wanted a feel of realism and what these people's lives were like. One of the best and most underrated Al Pacino movies I ever saw, for sure. I taped it off Cinemax in the early 1990's, because there was no way to get it on video then.

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[–] bastasch8647 14 years ago

Fail Safe, the original, not the TV show, did not have any music.

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[–] franzkabuki 14 years ago

Dog Day Afternoon doesn´t feature any music either (except during the opening montage). Nor does No Country For Old Men.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] Hal_Nine_Thousand 14 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" has no music either

[–] sugarteacream 13 years ago

didn't even notice really

[–] fortywood 13 years ago

There are actually quite a few movies without a soundtrack, the idea being that all emotions should emanate from the acting and the story. On the other hand, it would have been nice to include a song - just one tune - as a point of reference to the addicts' frame of mind. In the same way that "Everybody's Talkin'" blended perfectly with the characters in Midnight Cowboy (another great film of that era).