Blog Assignment 1- No Questions Asked- Option 3

Push was a film that came out in 2009. It starred Chris Evans, Camlla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, Ming-Na, and Nate Mooney. The basic idea of the film is that there are people who have developed psychic abilities, that manifest themselves in different ways. Movers, pushers, shadows, sniffers, watchers, shifters, wipers, bleeders, and stitchers. These are all the abilities of people in the film. In response to this, governments have developed areas know as Divisions to combat them, or recruit them. They have been conducting experiments to boost psychics' powers, and try to keep tabs on as many psychics as possible. This film would be a very difficult film to switch to silent particularly because to understand the character intricacies, dialogue is a must. Early in the film it would be simple to switch it to silent. At the start of the film, Nick's (the main character) father is killed by division. Before he is killed his father tells him that one day a girl in need of help will give him a white flower. He has to help her. For this scene, you would just need a dialogue box for that portion and it could be simplified. The scene then jumps to present day (transitioned by another box indicating time shift. Nick is much older. He has holed him self up in Hong Kong, hiding from Division. It shows him as kind a laid back person who tries to stay out of other peoples problems. This is shown by a scene in which he is trying to manipulate dice with his moving ability, and later when gambling. It is shown that he owes money to a couple of people, including the person he is currently gambling with. This could be shown silently just by showing him losing at dice, and failing to manipulate them. From here is where the movie would become difficult to transition to silent. Division finds him but doesn't snatch him, they are looking for a girl that took something from them and thought he might know her. This would just have to be shown with dramatic hand motions indicating what they want from him. The Division agents leave, and Cassie Holmes arrives. She is a watcher, so she can see the future. Basically as the film progresses Nick and Cassie meet up with the girl division is looking for which turns out to be a former lover of Nick's. She has had her memory wiped, so they go about finding where she hid the item she stole, while dodging Division, and a gang who is also after what the girl stole. With the help of other characters they locate the case. This leads to a final confrontation between all three groups, in which as expected the good guys win through some trickery.
     The easiest way to transition this to silent. would be to eliminate some plot points so at points where characters explain their interaction, you wouldn't have to have dialogue box after dialogue box. Create the basic idea, and eliminate anything to complicated to be portrayed silently. Like later in the film when the plan is established to get the case while tricking the other groups. Provide a simple solution to getting the stolen item so the film can be moved along.
     Music would also play an important role in the film. The current soundtrack already does a good job of portraying the feeling at that point in the movie, so I believe that very few alterations would need to be made. Here is a listing of the soundtrack. Some of the songs include Consequence by Notwist, The Hop by Radio Citizen and Bajka, Rocket by Working for a Nuclear Free City, Glow by U.N.K.L.E. (ignore the visuals for the most part) among others.

     Push would be a very difficult movie to turn to silent, and the only way I could think to do it would be to cut some plot points so as to not complicate the movie as much. It would definitely be an undertaking though.