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Mood:
- CaptivatingAtmosphericEmotional
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Plot:
- Human NaturePolitical UnrestDiscriminationInjustice
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriodSilentMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 16th Century1910s20th CenturyAncient History
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Place:
- CaliforniaEuropeFranceHoly LandMiddle EastUSA
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpiece
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Style:
- EpicMultiple StoriesNonlinear
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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Intolerance, 1916
USA
Profile of Intolerance
The mood of Intolerance is captivating, emotional, and atmospheric. The plot centers around political unrest, human nature, and discrimination. It is a drama, period, and historical movie. Stylistically, Intolerance is nonlinear, is a silent production, and involves multiple stories. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Intolerance is set in the Holy Land, California, and France. It happens in the 16th century, in ancient times, and in the 1910s. The movie is known for being a masterpiece, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that Intolerance includes violent content.
Summary of Intolerance
Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the "modern" one, about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle ("the uniter of the here and hereafter") links the stories. At one point, angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle, making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to THE BIRTH OF A NATION as a message of global peace and love (and an answer to his critics' accusations of racism). For a nation poised to enter World War I, this was perhaps the wrong message, and INTOLERANCE opened to mixed reviews and poor attendance. It is now rightly recognized as a unique work of cinematic art. The restored version includes color-tinted scenes.
Details
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 August 1916 |
| Runtime: | 163 min |
Cast and Crew
as The Boy
as The Dear One
as Marguerite de Valois / The Mountain Girl
as Belshazzar's Bodyguard, 'The Mighty Man of Valor'
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