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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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D.W. Griffith's Colossal SpectacIe is considered by many critics to be the greatest film of the silent era. The Iavish, innovative epic weaves four separate stories that depict the menace of hate, from ancient civilization up to the present day, tied together by a poignant motif of life's continuous struggle with good vs. evil in which the Eternal Mother (LilIian Gish) is seen rocking the cradle of humanity. Griffith's superb dramatization of intolerance is reaIized through the falI of Babylon, the Pharisees' condemnation of Jesus Christ, the persecution of Huguenots in 16th-century Paris during Catherine de Medici's regime and a contemporary morality pIay wherein sociaI reformers destroy a young coupIe's pursuit of happiness.
After the swarm of controversy that Griffith experienced with The Birth of a Nation (1915), he used lntolerance to defensively answer his critics. At two miIIion dolIars, it was the most expensive film of its time; the outdoor set for the BabyIon sequences was the Iargest ever created for a HoIlywood picture, featuring a crowd of 16,000 extras. The nonlinear, cross-cutting narrative was among the many novel techniques that would influence the art of fiImmaking for generations to come. |
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