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4. Silence

A Scorsese film that he had been planning for over twenty-five years, when the final product hit the screen, Silence showed a very clear split between what audiences and the professional critics thought. It made a number of top ten lists, has comfortably over 80% approval rate but still managed to lose in excess of $20 million dollars at the box office.

Based on the 1966 novel of the same name, it tells the fictional story of European Jesuit priests and their struggles during Japan's suppression of Christianity as they search for one of their colleagues. The "Silence" of the title was a central theme of the original story and referred to God as being silent during these struggles. Scorsese delayed starting filming a number of times to shoot other projects and paid damages to the studio for this choice.

They encountered a number of issues during filming including struggling with weather and lighting conditions but the worst incident involved a loss of life.

Three crew members were injured when a ceiling collapsed backstage while filming in Taiwan. The reasons for this happening or what they were doing at the time are both unknown. One worker later died from these injuries.