/lit/ - Literature

>>19199905
Birth of a Nation and Intolerance

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>>18287910
it´s the perfection description for low iq retards with no taste like (you)

>>17888443
>Books are a vastly superior medium because they need not concern themselves with the linearity of time flow and superficiality of visuals.

subjective opinion from an insecure pleb

>>16077986
I may refute this silly frog with what Griffith accomplished for film

Griffith had no prior framework for intertextuality. What he did was more significant and transcends the barrier of
"film." Griffith utilized all of history and facets of representation to make his parallels. Griffith united all arts
under one moniker, and in doing so, exceeded all arts. Intolerance is the largest celebration of mankind and the
harshest vindication of its existence, the grandest expression of its futile virtue. When divine intervention reveals
itself at the end, Griffith is cementing the greatest irony of all time. He is showing the ultimate peace is an
impossibility through the illusion of editing and recorded reality. It is dual-edged irony. With Bobby Herron's
rescue against storming civilizations, he reveals that through the deified action of choice, man can become God,
man can change history, man can change time, all this lingering on the notion of capability.

"For many critics and scholars — myself among them — D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance is the greatest film ever made. A century later we are as close to its subject as we are distant from its art. Political specifics, moral arguments, and movie styles may look different today, yet the only real difference is Griffith’s still-daring ingenuity, which calls for a more open-minded reception than in our simplistic habits we are accustomed to: It calls for an optimistic, united popular audience, which Griffith took for granted. When Intolerance premiered on September 5, 1916, its opening intertitles introduced silent-movie viewers to an extraordinary narrative device: “Our play is made up of four separate stories, laid in different periods of history, each with its own set of characters.” Employing a prologue and two acts, Griffith called it “a sun-play,” marked by florid melodramatics developed from Emersonian Transcendentalism, which film scholar Bill R. Scalia has described as “calling for an original American literature,” for “poets with the ability to ‘see’ past the material, apparent world to the world of eternal forms, which shaped nature in accordance with a divine moral imperative. Through this connection, man-as-poet would discover God in himself."

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>>13913401
>>Orson Welles (Shakespeare did a great deal to his brain)

without Griffith, there´s no OW, also robert anton wilson was influenced by shakespeare too, but he didn´t make masterpieces so your opinion is garbage and the sign of an anglo pleb

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>>12231375
and this is smugness