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Intertitle: Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city whose people have given us many of our highest ideals, and from the carpenter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the Man of Men, the greatest enemy of intolerance.
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Intertitle: Another period of the past. A.D. 1572-Paris, a hotbed of intolerance, in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her son Charles IX, King of France. Charles IX receiving his brother, Monsieur La France, Duc d'Anjou. The heir to the throne, the effeminate Monsieur La France. Pets and toys his pastimes.
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish (Lillian Gish, October 14, 1893-February 27, 1993), born in Springfield, USA, was an actor in the silent film era .
Lillian Gish's birthday is a little earlier than the birth of the movie. He is the first sweetheart in the United States and is known as the "first lady on the screen." His acting career spanned three quarters of a century, and he is a witness to the history of American cinema. Died on February 27, 1993. In 1999, she was named the 17th " The greatest actress in a hundred years " by AFI .
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Representative works include " The Birth of A Nation ", " Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ", "Heart of the World", " As Baleias de Agosto ", " Duel In The Sun " and so on.
Early Experience
Lillian Gish was born in Springfield , USA on October 14, 1893. His father was a family-conscious alcoholic and his mother was a stage actor. Takes her and sister Dorothy Gish away, acting for a living. Lillian Gish has a wealth of experience on stage since he was a child.
Performing Experience
In 1912, Lillian Gish met DW Griffith and was appreciated by him and became his most important actor. At that time, most of the actors came from theaters and their acting skills were exaggerated. In order to prevent this kind of crude performance, Griffith arranged for a group of actors to rehearse continuously and train more solid acting performances. Working with Lilian and Dorothy is Mary Pickford , the future "American Sweetheart", the founder of UNITED ARTISTS .
Following Griffith, Lillian Gish photographed masterpieces including " The Birth of A Nation ", " Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ", "Saving the Country", "Wind" and so on. At the same time, she has also filmed many films adapted from literary works, such as Giacomo Puccini 's opera "Life in Bohemia" and "The Scarlet Letter".
Lillian Gish specializes in the weak and poor. On the screen, she always plays Xiaojiabiyu, a tuberculosis patient, and a bullied weak female stream. In "Remnant Tears", she played a poor girl who was beaten and kicked by her father, just like her real life.
After the 1920s and 1930s, when sound films were born, Lillian Gish decided to retreat. Stomp on the stage again. Occasionally, she also made guest appearances in movies, such as " Duel In The Sun ", which brought her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
As an emperor superstar, Lillian Gish has not forgotten his roots. When Griffith was eliminated from the film business he founded and fell down in his later years, it was Lillian Gish who thought of drinking water and caring for his teacher until his death.
In the years to come, Lillian Gish was still active on stage and TV. The more famous is the TV series " The Trip to Bountiful " (The Trip to Bountiful, 1955) .
In 1971 and 1984, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and AFI .
At the age of 94, she co-starred in " As Baleias de Agosto " with another screen legend Bette Davis , which became the last work in her acting career.
Personal Life
Lillian Gish has not been married in his life, and is known as Miss Lillian Gish.
In 1993, Lilian died in her sleep at the age of 99. Every October 14th (Lillian Gish's birthday) , The Museum of Modern Art will show at least one of her movies or TV series to commemorate the great woman of the silent film era .
Character Evaluation
Lillian Gish, the first lady on the screen
This is a pair of breathtaking and magical eyes, quiet and deep, black holes generally attract all eyes and make people forget the existence of faces. And that was an equally perfect face, round, soft, and elegant, exuding inhuman purity of brilliance.
And under this rare beauty is a rare creative mind.
Lillian Gish's birthday has always been set as October 14, 1896. After her death, her agent revealed that she was actually born in 1893, almost the same age as the movie. No one has ever suspected that she underreported by 3 years, she always looks younger than her actual age. Gish was born in a broken family in Ohio. Gish dropped out of school to tour with the troupe when he was a teenager to supplement his family. In 1912, the sisters were recommended to Griffith together. In Griffith's view, Gish is like a character from Dickens' novels. Such a pure and fragile classical beauty is the ideal actor.
Gish is not only a dedicated actor, but also a talented actor. He is the earliest and most perfect practitioner of Griffith's claim that film performance must be implicit and natural. He has become a naturalistic performance genre. Pioneer. The performances of the actors who played with Gish seem to be somewhat artificial, only Gish's performance is impeccable. For a long time, her films have been used by people who are interested in film acting, especially for those actors who have switched careers from theatrical acting. However, when necessary, Gish can also express his feelings to his heart's content. In "Battered Flowers," Lucy hid in the closet after being snatched home by her father. Her father smashed the door of the closet with an axe and dragged her out and killed her. During the rehearsal of this scene, Gish only performed restrainedly, and Griffith was already satisfied. Unexpectedly, Gish saved all her energy for the official shooting. When she was trapped in the closet, and when the axe was chopped down, she let herself play to her fullest, expressing the despair and fear of the desperate Lucy to the fullest. Reeves was dumbfounded. This shot has also become the most distressing scene in the movie.
After filming " Orphans of the Storm , " Gish left Griffith and went to another film company. Without Gish, Griffith could no longer produce outstanding works, but Gish’s acting career has reached the peak, most importantly, including the 1926 adaptation of Puccini’s opera Bohemia "Asian Girl" and "Wind" filmed in 1928. When filming "Bohemian Girl", Gish put her life in danger again, but this time she asked for it: when the filming of her starring squint death day approached, she started Hunger hunger made me weak; then, water was absent and dehydrated; I felt that it was not enough, so I dried my saliva with cotton and made myself look as seriously ill as a squint. When the scene where she died, her breathing stopped. The director suspected that she was really dead, not only because her body was dying, but also that her soul must have gone with the character. Gish herself thinks that filming "The Wind" is her most difficult experience. The wind was stirred by the propellers of the airplane, and the dust was full, and the temperature in the wind was as high as 50 degrees Celsius, and Gish took pictures one after another in this wind, and it was her most outstanding performance.
Gish became a film activist in his later years, and vigorously promoted and sponsored the study of silent films. In Griffith's later years, Hollywood had completely forgotten the patriarch, but Kish did not forget to take care of the sickly Griffith until his death. After Griffith's death, under Gish's lobbying, the US government issued a stamp commemorating Griffith. On February 27, 1993, Gish died in his sleep at the age of 99. The history of film creation lost the last witness. In his will, Gish left a large sum of money to the American Film Institute to protect Griffith's films.
Gish is unmarried for life. Her life can be summed up in her autobiographical dedication: "To my mother, she gave me love; To my sister, she taught me to laugh; To my father, he gave me no A sense of security; dedicated to Griffith, he taught me that work is more fun than play."
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