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A forty-five degree standoff
Adalberto 2021-12-20 08:01:15
Unexpectedly, in the silent film era, the director would choose court battle scenes to show the glory of Joan of Arc. Compared with Luc Besson, you can know how difficult such a challenge is. Originally, a lot of dialogue scenes were needed, which could only be replaced by subtitles. The face of the character became the largest area on the screen. At the beginning, I was a little impatient, because Joan not only always looked up at a gorgeous forty-five degree angle (and The opposite is the forty-five-degree angle of the British priest looking down), and his neck is tilted, just like Botticelli's Venus. Is it a stroke? But when I watched it, I felt slowly calming down. The heroine in French history was not shrouded in golden light like my country’s propaganda film, nor did she raise her hands or clenched fists to shout slogans, and she didn’t talk about paying party dues. She cried, She was terrified, she succumbed... But she finally chose glory!
Extended Reading
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Jess 2022-04-24 07:01:14
A very superficial understanding is that a religious vindicator made a religious film with a close-up of the character's face as the main lens language. . . Guys who have no faith say they don't eat this set at all. . . But I wonder if this was an experimental film at the time. . .
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Sandy 2022-04-23 07:02:31
The world is the same but the sacred and profound image is gone
The Passion of Joan of Arc quotes
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Jeanne d'Arc: I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
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Jeanne d'Arc: To save France - it's why I was born.