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a great film
I can't imagine why I have never heard of this film before. It is very well made with tinted scenes, which a French director made famous with his tricolors (red, white, and blue) in "Napoleon Bonaparte." Griffith is concentrated and clear with his focus well honed. Lionel Barrymore is young but you can tell by his eyes who he is - and that is a star already in a silent film; unbelieveable. The film is long, historical, and entertaining. Everyone should see it.
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August 17, 1999
(Rensselaer, NY United States) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5
A Late Masterpiece
At this point in his career, Griffith's shot composition and editorial technique are so honed to perfection that one almost forgets that one is watching a masterpiece. Virtually every composition is extraordinary, and every shot has its exact place in the montage. The dramatization is dull only if one fails to realize that what Griffith is playing off against each other are the aesthetics of the wax museum and the aesthetics of melodrama. This is the dialectic that propels the film, in which American history intentionally looks stuffed and boring against the dissociative fragmentation of Griffith's modernist visuals and the fullsome sentimentality of the romance. Perhaps not for all viewers, but significant work in the Griffith canon.
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June 12, 2009
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Among the distinguishing talents of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith was his gift for endowing history with a sense of drama and immediacy. In his rarely-seen 1924 film "America," Griffith focused his astute cinematic eye and proficiency at melodrama on a rousing, grand scale re-creation of the war for independence. Color tinted and mastered from original negative material, this is the most complete version available of Griffith's classic. Top to learn more
Colonial costume drama
Silent costume drama, whichever era and location it's set in, isn't the easiest silent genre to get into. There are usually a lot of different characters to keep track of, the plot tends to take awhile to really be set up, and there are a lot of long intertitles setting all of the characters and situations up. This film in particular, because of those aspects, did seem a bit slow-going to me at first, and took awhile before I really got interested in it. Before the story really got going in earnest, there seemed to be more telling than showing, thanks to all of those lengthy intertitles explaining who a character was or what a certain historical development was all about. A lot of these silents that have so many long intertitles, dialogue or just explanatory, seem like they would have worked better as sound films.The story is set during the American Revolution, and features at the forefront a Loyalist family, the Montagues, whose lives are turned upside-down when all...
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February 8, 2008
(Santa Cruz, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4
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