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Birth of a Genius
Hilton 2022-03-21 09:02:45
After watching "The Birth of a Nation", in that era, it was a downright "experimental film". Griffith is indeed a genius. In my eyes he should be the first storyteller, the first person who changed the meaning of the film. The dead-set camera, the blurry film, and some comical performances all make it hard to hide it from being a great work. In the process of the film, I also seem to feel that Griffith is growing... Until the final war scene, especially the one where Lincoln is assassinated, the skills have been very mature, the so-called "classic cut" is intended to be based on people The psychological editing of the image, omitting the fragments that can exist by default in people's psychology, and inserting a method of narrating two things in parallel, this kind of jump is also naturally acceptable to people-in this extremely old film, the film Has shown a mature appearance. . . 100 years, everyone is in vain. . "Going back to the basics solves big problems." People who don't have this habit can't go one step further in any area. What Griffith discovered was not some kind of performance that a still camera could capture, but the meaning of each picture. Since then, movies and stage plays have said goodbye, and it has become a magician of time, condensing the original things in the world into "beauty" in the jump~~~. Thank you for being a genius!
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Raegan 2022-03-28 09:01:08
The first movie of 2015. It's not the first time I'm used to watching such a long silent film
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Rowena 2022-03-26 09:01:10
It must be admitted that Griffith still has high achievements. This film is second to none for the restoration of many historical scenes. Especially the Civil War scene, Lincoln assassination, has a real background. Aside from the obvious racial discrimination, the handling of such a big scene is not only a little chaotic and unfocused, but it also feels like a small picture in many cases. It can only be said that although Griffith is powerful, it is far less dazzling than the later Eisenstein.
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intertitle: [Margaret cannot speak to Phil] Bitter memories will not allow the poor bruised heart of the South to forget.
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intertitle: Over four hundred thousand Ku Klux costumes made by the women of the South and not one trust betrayed.