The Great Train Robbery Comments

  • Lela 2023-04-07 13:38:16

    Méliès's special effects were meant to give the audience an interesting look, while Edwin concealed the technique and incorporated it into the film...

  • Kacie 2023-04-07 03:44:46

    Different from Lumiere's mere record from a single point of view of a fixed camera, and from Mériere's stage performance from the point of view of a bandleader, Baut's parallel editing of The Great Train Robbery breaks the linear narrative of earlier films, making the film out of the prehistoric...

  • Easter 2023-04-03 07:15:14

    Cowboys are thieves. The last set of shots is just to make up for the lack of auditory sensory stimulation. The plot is one part, and the perception is another part that has been cut off. At that time, the film was probably only the creator's work or handwork, and each part had a corresponding function that was deliberately arranged, without interfering with each...

  • Crawford 2023-03-27 03:45:48

    Class viewing. Although there are still flaws in the time logic, he began to use montage consciously, "for the first time using a movie screen to say at the same time"; but still did not break through the fixed camera position. The last close-up can imagine how shocking it was at the...

  • Brain 2023-03-21 07:47:26

    The status and historical significance of the big train robbery in the history of film are beyond doubt. As the earliest western film in history, it also used montage to combine shots to achieve a smooth narrative, parallel editing and one scene. Although it is a bit boring to watch now, and the actors' performances are even exaggerated, their status cannot be...

  • Lukas 2023-03-08 11:05:57

    8/10. Film and Television Basic Course: Breaking the dramatic rules in the movement relationship within the screen. The famous first mirror uses the depth-of-field lens as the visual clues (the robbers tie the telegrapher, the train slows down outside the window), which constitutes multiple levels of people and scenery The interrelationship, and then the scene is divided into a wooden pagoda. The robbers hiding under the wooden pagoda move from left to right and slip onto the train, linking the...

  • Clovis 2023-02-18 23:08:06

    Parallel montages, perfect panning, and depth of field shots. (I'm more curious about how the audience would understand when they saw the...

  • Bernice 2023-02-08 17:47:10

    1. Strong external action events 2. Time and space interlaced editing 3. Cinematic vocabulary 4. Parallelism, cross montage 5. Multi-space and multi-scene to complete the narrative . Focus on the plot and external action 9. The concept of the field 10. Early films are linear narratives, this is a sign that the film is different from the stage art 11. Important transitions 12. In short, hello Baut!...

  • Frida 2023-02-07 05:02:46

    "Through these two films, Porter discovered two surprising laws: The screen doesn't even need to show the full body from head to toe! The two shots stitched together can create context in the audience's mind!"...

  • Melyssa 2023-01-23 13:22:21

    In addition to the traditional expressions, the sensitivity to the characteristics of the depth picture where the front and back scenes are activated at the same time has been initially shown in the shots of the...

Extended Reading
  • Linnea 2022-05-29 09:13:17

    Many firsts in movie history

    As the first western film in history, it has many firsts.

    The first film with sub-lens, which separates the film from the drama;

    Before this film, the form of the film was basically the same as the drama. It consisted of many scenes. Each scene changed one scene. In one scene, the story should be...

  • Barton 2022-09-27 06:30:46

    Edwin Bout the Wise

    From the point of view of the continuity of the actions of the characters in the screen, it should not be a 24/s frame. When looking through the data, it is likely to be 16/s. The composition of the picture uses the guiding principle, symmetry principle, frame coordination principle and other...