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Jean 2022-03-25 09:01:10

The religious version of the battleship Potemkin, the French Huang Jiguang, a lot of close-up shots, the rebels are shot from the top, the desperate face raised from the top, the strength is contrasted, there are no fixed-length shots and redundant explanations, only the characters themselves. The editing method expresses the general spatial relationship. The audience only knows that Joan of Arc and the missionaries are in a room, their relationship with the whole space, and the relationship between them, it is difficult to know from the gray background and a series of close-up faces. The master of the silent film era. For one thing, the version shown by the archives has always had very exaggerated background music, which is not in . It is pure performance, pure pain, and there is no excessive emotional rendering.

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  • Leo 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    exemplify everything to which motion picture art had been aspiring: subtle, intimate acting; stylized setting and lighting; an unprecedented freedom of camera angle; rhythmic and lyric camera movement; purely cinematic space created thru intercut (extreme

  • Darryl 2022-03-22 09:02:01

    Passion is a wonderful wording, which means both "passion" and "pain" in French, which is in line with the image of Joan of Arc. Dreyer's shock through various close-ups—in my limited viewing capacity—is far more shocking than Bergman's Persona. When it comes to the degree of touching, there is still no one to beat it.

The Passion of Joan of Arc quotes

  • Évêque Pierre Cauchon (Bishop Pierre Cauchon): So you think God hates the English?

    Jeanne d'Arc: I don't know if God loves or hates the English; but I do know that the English will all be chased from France - except those that die here!

  • Évêque Pierre Cauchon (Bishop Pierre Cauchon): Why do you wear men's clothing? If we give you woman's clothing, would you wear it?

    Jeanne d'Arc: When the mission that God has entrusted to me is over, I will again dress as a woman.