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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 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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 8 months ago

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

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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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[–] palitu@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Being john malcovich?

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

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Malkovich, Malkovich? MALKOVICH!

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

What was such a weird movie.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago

„All is Lost“ with Robert Redford

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 6 points 8 months ago

Locke (Tom Hardy)?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Any classic Looney Tunes movie.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months 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 8 months 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.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't Tom Hanks the only actor in Castaway? Unless you count the volleyball.

[–] rootsandcalluses@lemmy.ml 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not for the entire movie. There are scenes before and after his time on the island with other people.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is the same reason why Moon wouldn't work. Sam Rockwell is playing the main characters, but you have a significant voice acting role and several very minor characters.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That movie is tainted by Kevin Spacey playing the VA for the robot.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 8 months ago

There are a lot of good movies tainted by his presence.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

The Telephone w/Whoopie Goldberg.