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{{trope}}
Used correctly, such scenes can be as good as, or even better, than those with actual spoken dialogue.
[[Eye Take]], [[Aside Glance]] and [[Fascinating Eyebrow]] may be used as part of the
Has ''nothing'' to do with porn actresses talking to the cameraman after...well, you figure it out. Well, it ''might''. But probably not.
== [[Anime]] ==
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* Takeo from ''[[Mahou Tsukaitai]]'' had literal facial dialogue at times, with his thoughts being written out on his face.
== Animation ==▼
▲* Takeo from ''[[Mahou Tsukaitai]]'' had literal facial dialogue at times, with his thoughts being written out on his face.
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'': Gromit. Although it's a necessity in his case, since he's mute. [[Captain Obvious|'Cos he's a dog]].▼
* Dopey, from ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', does this throughout the entire film.▼
* ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' has an excellent example in one episode: Kino is in the land of the people who drank nanomachines that transmitted every thought and feeling, and each eventually had to live apart from everyone. After the man telling the story finishes, Kino's pep talk causes him to realise something; he silently thanks her, and her expression clearly says, 'you're welcome'. She explains all this to Hermes to ensure we got the point too.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Duma, the Angel of Silence, speaks entire volumes with nothing but expressions in ''[[The Sandman]]''. His gestures and actions also say (and accomplish!) volumes more than his partner, Remiel, despite ''his'' almost complete inability to shut the hell up.
* The "intra-couple communication stealth mode" (between [[
* ''[[Watchmen (
== [[Film]] ==
* During the opening robbery in ''[[
* Jake, the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] Sheriff's Deputy in ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' does this a lot. It was one of the things Jack Elam, the actor playing Jake, was best known for.
* [[Gene Kelly]] has a few memorable looks, including one moment during the dance scene of "You Were Meant For Me
* [[Akira Kurosawa]] was excellent at getting this out of [[Toshiro Mifune]].
* John Cusack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hQx9PW20E had a deep and profoundly spiritual conversation with a baby] using nothing but expressions in ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]''.
* ''[[As It Is In Heaven]]'', a Swedish film, where in one scene two main characters have such a non-verbal conversation.
* Some [[Silent
* In ''[[Animal House]]'', a lot of Bluto Blutarsky's "dialog" is this.
* ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' features one character, called "The Sphinx" by the other characters, making a ''phone call'' and using nothing but Facial Dialogue to do so.
* In ''[[The Brothers Bloom]]'', Bang-Bang has only two spoken lines of dialogue, comprised of only three entire words, and yet manages to be a complete [[Deadpan Snarker]] the entire film.
▲* Dopey, from ''[[Snow White and
* [[Emma Watson]] achieved a certain level of notoriety for her "eyebrow acting" in the [[Harry Potter (film)|''Harry Potter'' films]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Tortall Universe|Trickster's Queen]]'', Aly and Dove manage to hold an entire conversation this way:
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== [[Live
* Simon Tam did this a lot in ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''. It's probably genetic.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Christopher Judge as Teal'c was the master of unspoken dialogue.
** Parodied in a supposed "flashback" in the episode "200". While he and [[Invisibility|an invisible O'Neill]] are walking down a corridor (O'Neill's location is given away by the floating coffee mug he's drinking from), O'Neill makes a comment about being invisible which Teal'c responds to with his usual stare. Since he can't see O'Neill's response, Teal'c remarks after a moment, "I assume I am staring at you [[The Stoic|stoically]]."
* This is supposedly what got Peter Tork
* ''[[Merlin]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOrqOELpdIU Merlin's face] at 0:52
** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGURy23xyLg this scene] from the same episode. They have their entire conversation silently and almost leave it at that until Arthur decides to verbalize it
*** Merlin and Arthur do this a ''lot,'' even when they're speaking out loud. I swear, put any of their scenes on mute and you'll get the idea and it will still be almost jut as funny. Or [[Ho Yay|sexy.]] Or both, [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|depending on the scene.]]
* The "telepathic conversations" on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Although we hear what the characters are thinking, you can still get the gist of it just by the expressions alone.
** Occasionally subverted. In "Bachelor Party", Robin attempts to convey an important message to Lily with facial expressions, and Lily interprets it as a request for a tampon. In "Doppelgängers", everyone else is having a telepathic conversation about Ted's hairstyle, and Ted's voiceover says, "What are we talking about? Nachos?"
* According to the writers of ''[[Yes Minister]]'', during filming Paul Eddington would deviate from the script by replacing his lines with an expression- in later episodes they actually annotated the script with "[[Harpo Does Something Funny|Paul doesn't have to say this line if he doesn't want to]]" where they expected this to work.
* Used in ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]'' While narrating, he says that his parents would try not to fight around them, but they did have their fights through facial expressions.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* The scripts for ''[[Frontline]]'' frequently had lines in parentheses if they were intended to be implicit in facial expressions or body language.
* Mulder and Scully of ''[[The X-Files]]'' are infamous for this. Already masters at the [[Held Gaze]] and [[Longing Look]], most scenes have an imbedded layer of subtext within the facial expressions. It makes their relationship look very intimate and almost make an onlooker feel as though they've walked in on something they shouldn't have.
* ''[[
* The first episode of ''[[Bugs]]'' courtesy of voice-triggered bombs.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. "Hush."
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'': Gromit. Although it's a necessity in his case, since he's mute. [[Captain Obvious|'Cos he's a dog]].
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