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 »
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