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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Extras/other people in the background are acceptable to meet the criteria but ideally with no human/entity on the screen at all that isn't played by the same actor.

Movies like 'Men', 'Moon' or 'The Nutty Professor' don't meet this criteria for example, due to the exceptions of characters played by other actors.

And it has to be somewhat mainstream and not a low budget student film or something.

Edit: I also meant that they play multiple characters...

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[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago
[-] SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You're right technically... but i should have said "fictional story" and "plays multiple characters"

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I'd say he's got a few different characters - "white woman's Instagram" is pretty clearly meant to be heard from not his own perspective.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ones that come to mind all have other actors in the beginning or end, or voices from other actors. Locke, Buried, 127 Hours, Cast Away, Gravity...

IMDB tells me All is Lost lists only Robert Redford, but I haven't seen it to be sure.

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia says All is Lost has only 1 character, but I did find a SPOILER scene that shows Redford by someone else’s arm for only a couple of seconds. I’d figure this is the only scene with anyone else onscreen.

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[-] otherbarry@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I was going to mention All Is Lost, it's just one actor the entire movie. And hardly any dialogue, maybe he says a few words during the movie? I really don't remember him saying much of anything at all, mostly just grunts/grumbles when things go wrong. Great movie.

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Buried, Ryan Reynolds is the only one on screen (not playing multiple characters, just one), though there are voiced characters from other actors on the phone.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I always forget about that movie, but it's really good.

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn’t count anything that isn’t at least arguably as long as a movie. Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out and the SpongeBob episode “Gary Takes a Bath” otherwise would count as well. There’s probably an otherwise qualifiable clone-focused episode of The Clone Wars, too.

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[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

„All is Lost“ with Robert Redford

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Being john malcovich?

Not quite... but there were a lot of john's...

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Malkovich, Malkovich? MALKOVICH!

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

What was such a weird movie.

[-] kambusha@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago

Locke (Tom Hardy)?

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Any classic Looney Tunes movie.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) has to get an honorable mention, in which Alec Guinness plays eight significant characters.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's a movie called "Love" that's about a guy who gets stuck on a space station by himself after nuclear war breaks out. It used to be on Netflix but I've not been able to find it again after I watched it ten years ago.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The Telephone w/Whoopie Goldberg.

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