Author: Michael Waters / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Silence means survival in the new John Krasinski-directed horror film A Quiet Place.
Krasinski also stars alongside Emily Blunt in the thriller that takes place after a group of nimble creatures have taken over Earth, killing the vast majority of the human population and placing the few survivors on lockdown.
Though they are blind, the creatures have extraordinary hearing, and they hunt wherever they detect sound.To stay alive, the Abbots (Krasinski, Blunt) embrace near-absolute silence. They ditch shoes, silverware, and speaking at normal volumes, communicating with each other and their two children mainly through sign language — both to protect themselves and because their daughter, Regan, is deaf. (Deaf actress Millicent Simmonds was also seen in Todd Hayne’s Wonderstruck). In all, the film has little more than 90 lines of dialogue.
Casual viewers might assume the silence made for an easy production process for the film’s sound editors, Erik Aadahl (Transformers: The Last Knight) and Ethan Van Der Ryn (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), but as they explain to The Hollywood Reporter, the opposite is true.
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