DW Griffith invested his entire savings to shoot Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, which took a year and a half to shoot
. He built the set near Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where the four-story Babylonian city walls were just like the real thing, with two ancient chariots pulled by four horses galloping side by side. The palace inside the city wall is 1,600 meters deep, and the surrounding minarets are 70 meters high. The cast convened in the film is extremely large. The Persian army used 16,000 extras for just one expedition. In order to ensure the transportation, logistics and dispatch of this huge team, the staff even erected telephone lines and makeshift railways in the studio.
Although "Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages" is a black and white silent film, DW Griffith still uses different filter colors to distinguish the four stories, such as "Mother and Dharma" using amber, "The Fall of Babylon" uses Gray-cyan. And DW Griffith also created many shooting techniques, such as balloon photography, boom photography and so on.
At the same time, DW Griffith used an unprecedented editing method in "Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages". The four stories were divided into small pieces, which were rearranged and alternated, during which only a scene of a mother rocking a cradle was used as the scene. transition. The background music of the film is also composed of classical orchestral music
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