The film narrative matured in Griffith's masterpiece "Party to Fight Differing", and in Griffith's hands, film truly became an art category with independent quality.
In terms of film narrative, the composition unit of the film has been changed, and "the lens is the basic unit of the film's space-time structure".
It is precisely because the lens is used as a unit of film composition that montage is born. The most famous is the rapid editing of "Last Minute Rescue", which breaks through the shackles of time and space through cross montage, creating strong suspense and dramatic conflict, and then matching the parallel montage of the whole film. The last forty minutes of the film, In the fast and exciting film rhythm caused by the rapid time and space switching brought by the parallel montage, the four story lines have won the climax at the same time, causing a huge emotional impact!
Match the recurring symbolic image of the Virgin's cradle.
Thus revealing the theme of the film: no matter what era, people will always be foolish to each other because of hatred and prejudice, creating tragic disasters, only selfless love can bring eternal peace, when the fields full of flowers will meet Replace prison walls!
At the same time, in order to break the boundaries of the movie screen, directors can be seen everywhere adopting photography techniques such as encircling, dividing the screen, and trisecting the screen. Griffith's success lies not in inventing these techniques, but in rationally and organically integrating these techniques. A narrative for him as one.
Although Griffith went bankrupt after filming the hugely expensive "Party Dissent" and spent the rest of his life repaying debts, the innovation that Griffith brought to the film is unprecedented!
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