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I've finally came down to what will be the 50th greatest talking picture, Bruce. Add Gold Diggers of 1935 to the list on the bigsmartypants account

FUCK YOU

WHAT'S UP FAGS

I've finally came down to what will be the 50th greatest talking picture, Bruce. Add Gold Diggers of 1935 to the list on the bigsmartypants account

Women will always be genetically inferior

Absolutely indisputable. Eisenstein will most likely replace Murnau.

But instead of UFA and Hollywood, the subtext will read minus Potemkin and Strike.

Potemkin and Strike are the biggest pleb indicators

>Putting murnau next to all those literal who's
Where the fuck is Fritz Lang?

>Where the fuck is Fritz Lang?
In the trash

>making death a literal character
>no crosscutting even in 1921
Destiny is Intolerance for dumdums.

long takes > spastic edits

>I've never seen late Eisenstein
t. plebbicus maximus

>Lang, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Bergman
lol this just writes itself

megaautist what do you think of The Struggle?

>soviet montage clique
worst Russian filmmakers, get better taste, pseud
No. The only reason you, as well as other modern youth, prefer Einstein and Soviet montagists, is because since the 80's with MTV and music videos, films have progressively opted for a music video approach with frenetic editing. Whereas in the 60's and 70's long takes were preferred and taken from the theories of Andre Bazin and the French new wave. You consider montage modern but in actuality those still alive from the 60's and 70's consider it outdated and a regression. Montage doesn't take skill or participation from the director nor the audience. That's why many young people bemoan films from the 60's and 70's as being "too slow" and "boring"

How does Griffith create the illusion of lack of narrative momentum when he clearly employs a high number of edits

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How do people consider Griffith's works boring if he clearly employs a high number of edits

Even Andre Bazin rejected Soviet montage theories in his essay on "What Cinema Is" and said that the long take is superior to montage because montage breaks the illusion of realism whereas the long take reveals real time and demands more participation from the audience to dissect the composition of a shot. He cited D.W. Griffith, Ernst Lubitsch, Rex Ingram, and John Ford as masters of such techniques.

Griffith is a genius. One that has never been surpassed.

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why are you asking

just saw it and i didnt think it was as great as his silents or as abraham lincoln

>I didn't think
Oh it shows

kill yourself you fucking pedophile sodomite

this

>27 replies
>5 posters

>D.W. Griffith, Ernst Lubitsch, Rex Ingram, and John Ford
You're full of shit, he said Welles, Renoir, and Wyler

Bazin was also anti-Griffith :)
teehee

Bazin was for photographic reality which is correct. He acknowledges the falsehood of total reality which is also correct, but when you strive for a full replication of reality, you lose the added layers established by representationally ideal, expressive, and convergent realities.

Its 6 posters dumdum

Griffith acknowleged this from the outset of his career. He overlapped realism constantly with all other facets of representation. This overlapping combined with his irises can ambiguously be conveyed as subjective reality, a peak of which is shown in Broken Blossoms, a post-WWI fever dreamscape (limbo) - the melodrama and tinting serve to illustrate impressionistic perception of reality for each main character; they each have their own goals and qualms that inhibit them, this combined with ending bely a subtext that shows the futility of mankind's virtue (the superior defending life, the superior liliom, the superior a matter of life and death) - a masterpiece and the absolute peak of editing, composition, and natural mise-en-scene

Griffith also acknowledged the divergent limitations of psychology for photographic representation. When he mastered it, he rejected it in favor of distilling essence to ideology and motivation, what Eisenstein learned and contracted.

In Broken Blossoms, these divergently subjective realities engage and penetrate one another creating an overlapping exchange of ideology

nuh-uh! You took that from Sarris! You can't think!

Lies, you baboons! lies, lies, all lies!

Capturing the construct and essence of a layered reality stripped of artifice; juxtaposition reaching wider sum

>kurosawa
Oops!

>Hitchcock
Oops!

Most of anyone that has been "influenced" by Griffith did not subsume his technique and "enhance" it. They vulgarized it and simplified.

More equals less. Griffith acknowledged this, as did Chaplin as you can see by his quote "He was the teacher of us all". They had similarities in their rejection of excessively overt abuse of dynamism.

What Griffith strived for was spacing. The in-betweens of his formal decisions elicit stronger meaning. The unmotivated camera movements of Renoir and Antonioni are excessive vulgarizations of the ones featured in Griffith's. When a technique is spaced out and selectively used, it achieves greater impact, greater meaning. One has to actively recall the prior engagements to fully understand the significance of certain formal flourishes that enter a Grifith work.
"A technique is not a toy, it is a tool."

What Feuillade is acclaimed for is conveying complex meaning through performance as opposed to dialectic editing. But Griffith achieved this mightily COMBINED with the dialectic. Feuillade's works only have 2 layers that work to show expressive ideal, Griffith has countless as you can see here Griffith's layers most often work OFF-SCREEN through provoking thought.

except for the struggle

And his greatest stroke of genius.

He never once wrote a script. Even his autobiography which many historians tried to dissect to pinpoint his theories, philosophies, and ideologies, was eventually found to be a misleading trap.

When a pacesetter was 5 steps ahead, Griffith was 50 leaps ahead.

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>When a pacesetter was 5 steps ahead, Griffith was 50 leaps ahead.
Except for when he made The Struggle (1931), of course.

Tell me why you were too dumb to understand it. Humor me.

And he flocks to the burrows

Keep trying, hooknose Dave.

Protruding features are the sign of peak masculinity. Jealousy is the sign of peak felinity

What are Bruce's qualifications for an outstanding picture?

How hard the camera was swung.

If you're looking up, does an ant still move?

Sorry, I'm too busy stepping on them to care

why did you all let the griffith guy ruin these threads
hope the mods just start nuking them this is an embarrassment to the legacy of lbg

daMN, is megaautist the smartest person on /tv?

t. genelet

People hate what they fear.

where is bruce