Frank Bennett

Sarai 2022-03-23 09:03:27

After Lawrence of Arabia, another epic film that made me watch with relish. Netizens joked that Griffith was writing papers on film. Indeed, this is his summary and perception of human beings written by him, which is more intuitive. It is written for the post-World War I world.

A few days ago, I was...

Bonnie 2022-03-15 09:01:11

Narrative (timeline):
1. Large-frame multi-line narrative: mainly modern stories and Babylonian stories, followed by French stories, Jesus stories occasionally echoing themes and interspersed in parallel with thematic events such as jealousy, love, marriage, and battle for death; the first three...

Eliezer 2022-03-17 09:01:10

It's just a movie for learning, I can't appreciate it a bit. Parallel montages; "last minute rescues" created by alternate montages. Four separate stories, edited together based on emotional (or thematically) similarities... The narrative is messy, plus the often-occurring subtitles make it even more boring. Can't appreciate it? Most of the bean friends who gave high scores fell under the montage techniques or grand scenes of this movie.

Dangelo 2022-04-23 07:05:17

The Fall of Babylon, the French Revolution, the Story of Jesus, the Revolution of the Workers, Griffith used his superb editing skills and scheduling skills to subtly intersperse and narrate the four stories. His ambitions should have been unparalleled a hundred years ago, especially a magnificent episode of Babylon. The scene is also enough to illustrate the grandeur of the film.