Griffith's melodrama

Amparo 2022-01-20 08:01:21

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 looks like a patient mentally and psychologically. When Griffith used a few close-up shots to express his psychological emotions, he magnified the weird expression and became angry. , Joy, sadness and other emotions are all weird.

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Broken Blossoms quotes

  • Battling Burrows: Take them things off!

  • Narrator: The Yellow Man more than ever convinced that the great nations across the sea need the lessons of the gentle Buddha.