Okay, so maybe it’s a tiny bit of a stretch, but I think there’s a lot to be gleaned from the juxtaposition of Renée Adorée (as The Big Parade‘s Melissande) and Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty” (“Leading the People”) I’ve been calling King Vidor a “Romantic” and a “Transcendentalist”–and this exercise might help to clarify what I [...]
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Liberty Waving Goodbye to the People
Posted in Film, Series: King Vidor, tagged Acting in concert, adorno, All Quiet on the Western Front, apolitical strife, Belleau Wood, Busby Berkeley, Chateaubriand, Coleridge, comparative romanticism, Enlightened Romantics, Frank Borzagean, Hegel, Henry David Thoreau, Individualism, Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, King Vidor, Lewis Milestone, Marx, Metronome, Patriotism, Peace, Renee Adoree, Ronald McDonald, Shelley, subjectivized spectacle, The American Auteur, The Big Parade, trancendental melodrama, trench warfare, Victor Hugo, War, Wordsworth on August 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Young Wine in Old Battles
Posted in Film, Series: King Vidor, tagged authenticity, aversicve thinking, Ben Lyon, comedy of remarriage, Eleanor Boardman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, flapper, Henry David Thoreau, Jazz Age, King Vidor, Perry Miller, philistinism, Polka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rhetoric, self-assertion, Stanley Cavell, Walden, William Haines on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
King Vidor’s first film for the newly created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wine of Youth lulls the viewer into a comfortable rhythm with its Jazz Age jocularity–and then rips the skin off its “comedy of manners” facade to expose the capillaries of a culture in (perennial) crisis. Perry Miller famously described Transcendentalism as “the first of a succession [...]
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