All of King Vidor’s films deal with artists (people who transmute the materials furnished by life into something far more personal than life, properly speaking, ever is), but La Boheme is the first one to be set in the artistic milieu–and the director doesn’t paint a pretty picture. Oh there’s plenty of charming bonhomie and [...]
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Tragic Muse-conceptions
Posted in Film, Series: King Vidor, tagged art world, artist, Edward Everett Horton, John Gilbert, King Vidor, La Boheme, Lilian Gish, model, muse, Puccini, stations of the cross, tragic muse, weaponized weepie on August 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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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