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While I expect that you won’t much care for Intolerance, you need to watch the whole thing, especially to get the tempo and pacing towards the end of the movie.
Of course, there were technical restrictions of the day, but I think that to consider this film is good only in the context of the day is a bit like saying that Ulysses is only a great novel for its days James Joyce was just perfecting some of the writing techniques he used.
For me at least, the way the stories are interwoven and interrelated are done in a fashion that most filmmakers today (trying to tie together dissimilar themes and periods to be a unified whole) are unable to match.
That plus the incredible crane shots (of the day, to be sure) and Griffith’s mastery of shots with lots of extras. Great stuff.
I can’t remember very well what Brook and I wrote before, but I am sure that Seth disagreed. Of course disagree with our views—it is all good.
¡Time is not my master!
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