Post by Capo on Jul 23, 2007 0:18:50 GMT
The Painted Lady
DW Griffith 1912 USA
The less good-looking of two sisters dresses up and acquaints a conman who she later kills by accident when he burgles the family home.
Moral of the story: women, listen to your fathers. But there are more than morals in Griffith's films, and that is the reason why he is so revered as a filmmaker - not only did he develop ideological cinema, but also what now might constitute the notion of "classical narrative cinema". The intra-frame narrative is developing even further here than in his earlier films, with a lot of close-ups, too, and even attention paid to costume (the innocent girl wearing white, falling in love, then wearing black, once "corrupted").
DW Griffith 1912 USA
The less good-looking of two sisters dresses up and acquaints a conman who she later kills by accident when he burgles the family home.
Moral of the story: women, listen to your fathers. But there are more than morals in Griffith's films, and that is the reason why he is so revered as a filmmaker - not only did he develop ideological cinema, but also what now might constitute the notion of "classical narrative cinema". The intra-frame narrative is developing even further here than in his earlier films, with a lot of close-ups, too, and even attention paid to costume (the innocent girl wearing white, falling in love, then wearing black, once "corrupted").