Has there ever been a mainstream movie without a musical score?

[terrya]

Ok...except for silent films, obviously...

Has there ever been a mainstream film without a musical score? It seems like even documentaries have a musical accompaniment nowadays.

And would such a film do well at the box office? It just seems that music is as integral part of films as dialogue, etc. It would seem sort of...disconerting to see a movie without music in the backround.

[mitchum]

1. As someone who is sick of wall-to-wall pop/rock chestnuts which act...

as lazy director emotional signifiers, I would welcome such a movie.
Look, it was really cool when Scorsese and Lucas did this 30 years ago, but now it's jusr reached a ridiculous point.

[XemaSab]

6. agreed

I don't need John Fucking Williams to tell me when the scene is scary, sappy, inspiring, etc.

[Horus45]

2. Cast Away

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I THINK

Woody Allen's Interiors had no musical score.

But it was a dreary movie overall, Woody Allen trying to be serious and pseudo-profound, with a cast of affluent and self-centered characters who were all kvetches.

[begin_within]

4. see my post "Trivia quiz: what movie has the longest screenplay?"

[Ivan Sputnik]

5. "The Birds"

had no musical score. It was a hit.

[terrya]

8. That's true...I'd completely forgotten about "The Birds"

You're right...and...it worked.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Network.

It famously had no musical score.

[terrya]

9. Yeah...

the only music "Network" had was the theme music for "The Howard Beale Show".

Well...thanks, all. :-)