Griffith's film definition

In 1915, when the film was born 20 years ago, Griffith had formed a personal style and interpreted the concept of editing, which may have been criticized and structured by the Soviet film school later, but no one can deny the value and influence of seamless editing. Power, even the montage of patriarchy, is based on recognition and then breaking... The film is divided into two parts, and the documentary part is nearly three hours long. It's hard to imagine how elegant the media literacy was at that time, and they could be intoxicated. Among them, of course, in addition to editing, the use of lenses in this film is also very skilled, and basically all the stylized operations have been formed now. If you miss that era, you can enjoy it slowly... The most criticized film is that Regarding racial prejudice, in fact, this film is a commercial presentation of Hollywood. As the first commercial film in the sense, it is obviously to follow the audience's taste. Discrimination is unavoidable. Even in the third world, prejudice against black people seems to be written into the bone marrow. Interestingly, almost all black people in the movie are played by white people. It can be explained that this kind of race The thoroughness of prejudice is that white people also excluded black people from participating in the film industry, which was not noble at the time. The film is a one-sided beautification of the KKK, which is an attempt to reconstruct American history. , being such an epic blockbuster, the use of armies and weapons, etc., it's hard to deny that the involvement of the state apparatus made the business cover a strong ideology, of course, the films of that era were very different from today's meaning , because the viewers regarded it as real at the time, but today they are the first to deny it. Therefore, the text that was once used to promote racist attempts became the best criticism weapon against racism later... In the documentary It was revealed that many of Griffith's inspirations came from photos. It is conceivable that there is a close relationship between photography and videography, but Griffith presents the plane in a more hierarchical manner, which is obviously better than the domestic films of the same period. , domestic movies are generally dramatized and then dramatized, and it is difficult to escape the barriers of stage play, so the subject becomes the whole, and the movie image has no sense of hierarchy... From today's perspective, it seems that silent movies are the return of movies, because The movie does not rely on any lines, but on the language of the lens. In fact, people who don't know American history, although they can't understand the chaos between the North and the South in the movie, can still clearly grasp the main theme of the movie, that is, the two represented by black and white. The world, the skin color of blacks, the KKK clothing of whites, and the inspiration of legendary clothing, the exaggerated expression of blacks' fear of white, has become the finishing touch, using the lens to narrate, this is the origin of the movie, how intoxicating, I want to add, the soundtrack of the later version is simple, but it is all classic music, which also makes today's audience who have lost their media literacy look more comfortable...

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