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Then, when The Blind Man realizes that the rumored “Spirit of the Forest” is, in fact, this wounded, wordless being seeking nothing more than company, his reaction is not terror but tenderness.

The Predator is an extreme example: a literal monster from the Freddy Krueger generation, virtually wordless and best known for inflicting R-rated violence and taking the skulls of victims as trophies.

The most striking departures are the handful of wordless sequences of Hujar and Rosenkrantz posing in the manner of a fashion shoot, scored to snippets of Mozart’s Requiem.

“As an actor, you really appreciate when a director is searching for the wordless expressions and the subtleties,” he says.

Its beat is a mix of drum machines, sequenced electronics and an acoustic kit, as tricky cymbal flourishes and field recordings of wordless voices echo somewhere in the background.