1. Literary image display: The director uses words to introduce what will happen next, the inner state of the characters, etc., and then show the corresponding pictures.
2. Ingenious transitions and the perspective of potential God: The woman rocking the cradle is an ingenious transition and a potential perspective of God.
3. Cross-parallel montage editing, but only to show the parallel narrative, the 4 paragraphs did not carry out the cross-narrative. The form is new and innovative, but it is easy to cause confusion in the audience's memory and understanding.
4. Unique narrative space display: The magnificent Babylon castle is Griffith following the Lumiere brothers’ shooting principles of outdoor real space, and using Méliès’s way of setting up scenes in the studio for outdoor use, creating film history The grandest of the Babylonian city guards.
5. The theme is similar to Rashomon narrative: Using a narrative technique similar to Rashomon, the same theme is presented from different perspectives and different plots, but there is no connection between them.
6. The director's powerful scene scheduling ability, in the story of Babylon, there are many scenes of many people.
7. The lens language participates in the narrative: its close-up, panoramic, and long-range shots are all participated in the narrative.
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