"Intolerance" was completed in 1916, and many of the scenes in it are considered a great deal today. Actors alone used more than 60,000. A huge city wall was built and a grand palace was built. The city walls and palaces in the film were constantly used and became common scenes in later Hollywood movies.
The film shows four different events in four different historical periods, including the fall of Babylon in ancient times, the Passion of Christ in the Middle Ages, the massacre of St. A murder case in the era Reeves lived. These four unrelated events are used to represent the same theme - partisanship.
These four stories appeared alternately, which greatly tested the understanding ability of the movie audience at that time. Facts have proved that this test failed. The box office fiasco was a mountain, not only costing Griffith all the profits he made on The Birth of a Nation, it also bankrupted him.
Many of the film language used in the film has become a common practice today. But there is a restricted area that most directors and all investors dare not touch again. Because if you touch it once, the box office will be miserable. That is, using cross-montage to tell unrelated stories in the same film. The improved approach of later directors is: when using several clues in a film, they generally make these clues intersect. Ning Hao's crazy series is the most typical representative.
Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" actually tells the different stories of two women, and there are very few intersections between the two. This makes the ordinary audience very unaccustomed, and often has to conduct in-depth analysis, thinking that the father of the team leader is Teacher Tang played by Jiang Wen. Interesting.
The difference is actually the difference between the audience of commercial films and the audience of art films. Since the audience of art films is too small, the ticket price of art theaters can be considered to be increased.
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