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* ''AChorusLine'' all but does away with scenery.

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* Scenery in ''AChorusLine'' all but does away with scenery.
is reduced to a cameo role. Except for one brief shining moment in the finale, it takes place on a bare stage, or a bare stage reflected by mirrors.
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* ''AChorusLine'' all but does away with scenery.
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* TheOtherWiki cites the design of ''{{Quake}} III Arena'' to be minimalistic (compared to [[UnrealTournament its competitor, at least]]).

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* TheOtherWiki cites the design of ''{{Quake}} III Arena'' ''QuakeIIIArena'' to be minimalistic (compared to [[UnrealTournament its competitor, at least]]).
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Other minimalist programming languages


* Brainfuck programming language which uses only 8 commands to create a program.

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* Brainfuck programming language which uses only 8 commands with no operands to create a program.
** Also available are OISC (1 command, 3 operands) and Thue (1 command, 2 operands).

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* EntertainmentForTheBraindead's album ''Roadkill'' used a banjo as the sole instrument (well, she also used a tambourine on exactly one song). This doesn't qualify as ThreeChordsAndTheTruth, however, because, through a variety of playing styles (she picked it as normal, she played it with a violin bow, and she even played percussion on it) and plenty of tracking, she got an entire band's worth of sound out of that single instrument.
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* ChuckPalahniuk specifically identified this as his style in an essay about another American minimalist writer, Amy Hempel.
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* Lowercase subgenre takes it to the extreme. Bernhard Günter, for an example, has some works where the "music" may be barely heard and sounds are similar of your average background sounds.

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* Lowercase subgenre takes it to the extreme. Bernhard Günter, ''Bernhard Günter'', for an example, has some works where the "music" may be barely heard and sounds are similar of your average background sounds.sounds coming out of sensitive headphones.
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* Brainfuck programming language which uses only 8 commands to create a program.
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** I dunno, there is a bit of planning seen. There are scenes set before the shootout.
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* ''{{Dogville}}'', in order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht ideas about epic theater) the entire village of Dogville drawn with chalk in the floor in a soundstage. The sequel ''Manderlay'' was filmed in a similar style, though with slightly more scenery.

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* ''{{Dogville}}'', in order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht BertoltBrecht ideas about epic theater) the entire village of Dogville drawn with chalk in the floor in a soundstage. The sequel ''Manderlay'' was filmed in a similar style, though with slightly more scenery.
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* ''{{Narcissu}}'' is a VisualNovel example. It's comparatively short, features only two main characters (who are seldom seen), and the graphics almost entirely consist of background art, with no sprites or fancy effects. Oh, and all the graphics are letterboxed to the middle third of the screen.
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*** [[TroperDemographics Most readers here]] would probably be exposed to Adams through playing ''CivilizationIV'', where the unsettling, often amelodic tones make a great match with the uncertainties of the modern era.
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** And then there's ''Breath''. Throw some trash on stage, turn the lights up, wait twenty seconds, turn the lights down. (To his credit, he wrote this one at least partially as a joke. He withdrew it when the producer who originally commissioned it decided to throw some naked people on stage along with the trash to give it the illusion of meaning something.)

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** And then there's ''Breath''. Throw some trash on stage, turn the lights up, wait twenty seconds, turn the lights down. (To his credit, he wrote this one at least partially as a joke. He withdrew it when the producer who originally commissioned it decided to throw some naked people on stage along with the trash to give it the [[FauxSymbolism illusion of meaning something.)]])
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* ''MyDinnerWithAndre'' became notorious for being almost entirely two men having a conversation in a restaurant.

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* ''MyDinnerWithAndre'' ''My Dinner With Andre'' became notorious for being almost entirely two men having a conversation in a restaurant.
** Andy Kaufman's parody, ''My Breakfast With Blassie'', featuring an hour-long breakfast conversation between Kaufman and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddy Blassie, mirrored the minimalist style of ''Andre''.

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* ''EverymanHYBRID'' is what the cast of ''MarbleHornets'' pointed to when asked if they were fans of any of their imitators, describing it as doing everything, even the minimalism, exactly right. They arguably have more content, but it's often much less dense; [[NoFourthWall sometimes fans find in-game clues;]] one was a piece of paper with a single line of typed text.
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* TVTropes' LaconicWiki uses this style, making normally verbose pages easier to understand
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* ''MyDinnerWithAndre'' became notorious for being almost entirely two men having a conversation in a restaurant.
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Even though the central gimmick is that things disappear, it\'s not a minimalist film at all


* ''Nothing'', as you might expect from the title. Two guys who have been best friends for life find that the entire world apart from their house has disappeared. The entire movie, apart from the first six minutes, is the two guys talking or playing. Though the visual effects are far from minimalistic.

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* ''Nothing'', as you might expect from the title. Two guys who have been best friends for life find that the entire world apart from their house has disappeared. The entire movie, apart from the first six minutes, is the two guys talking or playing. Though the visual effects are far from minimalistic.
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* You have to burn the rope. Google it.

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* You have to burn the rope. Google it.
''YouHaveToBurnTheRope'' plays it or laughs.

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* In contrast to the winding, deep storylines of conventional RPGs, the original ''[[DragonQuestI Dragon Quest]]'' is very shallow. No party members, no shocking plot twists, and a hero's journey that doesn't rise above SaveThePrincess (which is actually optional) and [[ExcusePlot save the kingdom.]]

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* In contrast to the winding, deep storylines of conventional RPGs, [=RPGs=], the original ''[[DragonQuestI Dragon Quest]]'' is very shallow. No party members, no shocking plot twists, and a hero's journey that doesn't rise above SaveThePrincess (which is actually optional) and [[ExcusePlot save the kingdom.]]



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* You have to burn the rope. Google it.

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* Alvin Lucier's 1961 composition "Elegy For Albert Anastasia" is mostly made up of inaudible low frequencies, with the few audible sounds being extremely quiet or fleeting. [[ViewersAreGeniuses The concept: The Mafioso of the title was murdered because he "did not hear" certain important information; neither does the listener.]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible You may resume tilting your heads now.]]

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* ''{{Unbreakable}}'' is an unusually minimalistic superhero film in that it features no CGI, no action scenes, no costume, a limited color palette, long periods of silence, and only 5 real characters--one of whom only appears in 2 scenes near the end of the film.

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* ''{{Unbreakable}}'' is an unusually minimalistic superhero film in that it features no CGI, no action scenes, no costume, a limited color palette, long periods of silence, and only 5 real characters--one of whom only appears in 2 scenes near the end of the film.
** There is one action scene, albeit rather subdued for superhero genre.
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** Beckett pretty much described this as the entire point of his work -- reducing language to its absolute bare necessities. (He lived most of his life in France, and wrote much of his work in French first because it forced him to be careful with his words.)
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* ''[[http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=54378 A true story from the life of a lonely cell]]'' is trying to tell a story about relationships by using only 3 squares and 256 bytes.
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* ''[[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50234 shifticida]]'' is an attempt to make a game by using only 32 bytes of disk space.
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*''Oasis'' does that to ''{{Civilization}}''-type games.
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*The ''{{Myst}}'' games exemplify minimalism in the adventure game genre. The protagonist is never defined, there's no inventory collection (aside from occasional journals or pages), there are no enemies or bosses to encounter, and the game expects you to learn everything. [[LateToTheParty And]] [[SolveTheSoupCans we]] [[AlphabetSoupCans mean]] '''''[[GuideDangIt everything.]]'''''
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*In contrast to the winding, deep storylines of conventional RPGs, the original ''[[DragonQuestI Dragon Quest]]'' is very shallow. No party members, no shocking plot twists, and a hero's journey that doesn't rise above SaveThePrincess (which is actually optional) and [[ExcusePlot save the kingdom.]]
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**And the only reason ''Rope'' was filmed in that many shots was because film cameras of the time could only hold 10 minutes of film. If not for the limitations of tech, Hitchcock would have filmed in one continuous take.

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**And the only reason ''Rope'' was filmed in that many shots was because film cameras of the time could only hold 10 minutes of film. If not for the limitations of tech, Hitchcock would have filmed in [[TheOner one continuous take.take]].

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