Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

  • Director: D.W. Griffith
  • Writer: Thomas Burke,D.W. Griffith
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 20, 1919
  • Sound mix: Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl
  • "Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl" is a romance film directed by D·W Griffith and starring Lilian Gish and Richard Baselmes.
    The film tells the story of a London girl who suffered from domestic violence and a Chinese man.

    Details

    • Release date October 20, 1919
    • Filming locations Fine Arts Studios - 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies D.W. Griffith Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $88,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Terry 2022-01-20 08:01:21

      The innocent love we have lost

      In addition to the exaggerated performance at that time, the precious innocence that has been lost in the play is revealed. Although the storyline is indeed very simple now, it still does not affect being deeply moved by that innocence. At the end of the film, he The girl hugged her to her room and covered her cheongsam. The girl was holding the doll he gave to her death. Now it seems that the innocent part of the bridge is still moved. The first half of the film looks anxious and the rhythm...

    • By Idella 2022-01-20 08:01:21

      Kindness and sadness

      For this black and white silent film nearly a hundred years ago, Roger Ebert’s words seem to describe our feelings very well: "You have to cooperate with it when you watch this movie-even active sympathy for it. Heart."

      For us with impetuous minds, watching such a traditional three-act silent film is definitely a challenge. DW Griffith's uniform drama is reflected in "Fallen Flowers" Incisively and vividly. Compared with the racism that caused major criticism in "The Birth of a...

    • By Jordane 2022-01-20 08:01:21

      Small comment

      The third work of Griffith. The rigorous dramatic structure, coupled with the sloppy rhythm of romantic films in the silent era, does not seem so refreshing to fast-paced audiences.
          What's better is the close-up shot in the movie, which emphasizes the status of the character at this moment and the importance of the language of the shot. When the Chinese came to the bedside of the heroine, he gave a hideous close-up shot. The literary language of this place: his animality is...

    • By Amparo 2022-01-20 08:01:21

      Griffith's melodrama

      I don't know if it is for tragedy or what, the image of the hero and the heroine are very weak, walking squatted, the body state of the wind blowing immediately. Lilian Gish plays a poor and beautiful girl who has been abused by her father for a long time. Despite the exaggeration of her performance, I still feel pity, which is inseparable from her rich experience in stage performance. However, the male protagonist not only looks at the body is very unhealthy (full "smoke ghost"), but also...

    • By Reyna 2022-01-20 08:01:21

      "Remnant Tears": Griffith's Discrimination and Lilian Gish's Beauty

      Speaking of David Griffith, there are two movies that cannot be bypassed, one is "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915, and the other is "Party Facing Differences" in 1916. There is a saying that the movie begins with Griffith and ends with Abbas, which shows the status of Griffith.

      What I want to recommend here today is a Griffith love movie-"Remnant Tears", without the dazzling movie language, but from the content point of view, this movie should also be respected.

      For...

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    • By Camryn 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      Why are Chinese people...

    • By Skylar 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      Eyes full of chink~ But the overall image is still very sincere, kind and beautiful~ But I am really afraid to see a Fu Manchu in half of...

    • By Michele 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      In the context of the era, the film is a bit awesome. Interracial love and moral redemption are important interpretations, but if it weren't for the subject of the film class, who would dig deep into the metaphor of the film [pick nose]. I'm not familiar with Lilian, but her acting skills are excellent, and the actor who plays Chinese is too...

    • By Madisyn 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      Looking for a crooked Chinese person to play a Chinese person, his eyes are like thick pussy lips, and the whole play is squinting hard, watching two cunts open and close. Really...

    • By Lois 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      Fill in too many elements for curiosity. The picture is really...

    Movie plot

    In the silent film era, actress Lucy was often punched and kicked by her alcoholic father, Baro. She went to the dock every day to pick up tin foil thrown away by pedestrians and barely survive. On the same street, there is a Chinese young man, Chen Han (played by Richard Bazelmes). Because he was moved by Lucy's pitiful expression, he couldn't help but follow her behind. As a result, the two met and became friends. Later, Lucy...
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    Publisher

    UNITED ARTISTS United Artists [The United States of America] ..... (1919) ( The United States of America ) (theatrical)
    Universum Film AG (UFA) [The Federal Republic of Germany, Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland] ..... (1923) ( The Federal Republic of Germany, Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ) (theatrical)
    Alpha Video Distributors Inc. [The United States of America] ..... (2005) (The United States of America)...)
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    Evaluation action

    In this film, Griffith abandoned his previous style of pursuing large-scale production and large scenes, washed all the lead and presents a plain appearance, and created a pure and beautiful taste with a simple and sad story. The rise of the Republic of Germany, Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland "indoor drama" played an important role. The Chinese who traveled to the West became the protagonist of the story, and talked about the alien...
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    Movie quotes

    • Narrator: The Yellow Man holds a great dream to take the glorious message of peace to the barbarous Anglo-Saxons, sons of turmoil and strife.

    • Narrator: Limehouse knows him only as a Chink storekeeper. The Yellow Man's youthful dreams come to wreck against the sordid realities of life. Broken bits of his life in his new home. Chinese, Malays, Lascars, where the Orient squats at the portals of the West. In this scarlet house of sin, does he ever hear the temple bells?

    • Lucy Burrows: Don't whip me - don't! Please, Daddy! - Don't!