‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer

Re:‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer by yoz-y on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:58AM (#21192998)

Although I agree that visuals are the most important part of the movie, I don't think that there is any necessity to try to eliminate the importance of sound.

However, I think movies are indeed the best piece where "show, don't tell" works. There are some easy examples, like instead of writing the place and time on screen, introduce a short scene with some memorable monument, a newspaper, a dialogue causally mentioning the place. Make the scene time obvious.

Rather than reflecting some internal dialogue explaining the protagonist's mood, use music and facial expressions.

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Re:‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer by leftyted on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:23AM (#21193268)

> Although I agree that visuals are the most important part of the movie, I don't think that there is any necessity to try to eliminate the importance of sound.

I think most great movies are (perhaps surprisingly) very watchable without sound. That might have been a better way to phrase my original comment.

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