Using ideas as a benchmark for parallel montages

Demarco 2022-03-21 09:03:24

"Party to Fight Differing" uses ideas rather than scenes and plots as the basis for a parallel montage, which is nothing but absolutely ahead of its time. Even today, few films can really do it. "Wild Stories" and "26 Ways to Die" also tell several independent stories through the same theme. I think there may be two reasons for this film's box office failure: first, the idea of ​​unifying four seemingly completely different stories is a trick that is difficult for audiences in that era and even today to understand; second, these few This story involves obscure issues of religion, civilization, etc., and it may not be understood by people alone. This may also be the reason why he later divided the film into two parts, and the audience still did not buy it. But all this does not affect him to rescue the film from the confinement of the theater stage and become a master.

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  • Intertitle: Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city whose people have given us many of our highest ideals, and from the carpenter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the Man of Men, the greatest enemy of intolerance.

  • Intertitle: Another period of the past. A.D. 1572-Paris, a hotbed of intolerance, in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her son Charles IX, King of France. Charles IX receiving his brother, Monsieur La France, Duc d'Anjou. The heir to the throne, the effeminate Monsieur La France. Pets and toys his pastimes.