Daily Dialogue theme for the week

You can help me out in two ways. First, someone posted a suggestion that we do scenes with no dialogue as a weekly theme. I’d like to run with that next week, but I can’t find that comment. So could someone steer me to the comment as I’d like to give that poster credit.

Second we need suggestions. Really strong moments where the visuals tell the story. Here is a terrific example from a wonderful little movie called Big Night starring Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub (written by Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci):

A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business.

This is the final scene in the movie, the morning after the ‘big night’ in question which turned resulted in a culinary success, a familial challenge, and a business disaster. Brilliant food. Lots of conflict. A failed gamble. And now it’s morning for the brothers and one restaurant worker. They’re hungry, so they have to eat, but underneath the action (cooking) are the memories of all that transpired the night before — and the looming shadow of an uncertain future:

So what other notable scenes can you think of that have no dialogue, where the visuals tell the story. Bear in mind since we’re relying on no dialogue for this theme, I’ll need to be able to embed the video.

And whoever suggested the theme, please let me know who you are. Thanks.

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