"Mortals keep working hard, and we can save." Goethe said in a conversation with Ekman in 1831, and the secret of Faust's salvation lies in these few lines. "There is an energy in Faust, which ennobles and purifies him more and more, until at death he is saved by the eternal love of the upper world. This is entirely in accordance with our religious conception, because according to this religious conception we You can’t be blessed by your own efforts alone, you have to add the grace of God.”
Obviously Murnau didn’t want to get the complicated realm in Goethe’s book in the movie at all, and the plot was changed beyond recognition. Half an hour after the grand opening, it was time to tell love stories wholeheartedly. The love spoken of in this film cannot rise to the love spoken of in Goethe's book.
Needless to say about the shooting technology, this silent film in 1926 was amazing at the beginning, and I often think about how it was done at that time.
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