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Intolerance 1916
Intolerance is D.W. Griffith's answer to those who were offended by and criticized The Birth of a Nation. It has been regarded by many respected film historians as one of the greatest American films of all time -- if not the greatest. The grandeur of this spectacle has never been topped. The cost of rebuilding the Babylon sets alone would make the cost of doing so prohibitive. Few films can come even close to being worthy of comparison.
Intolerance consists of four separate but parallel stories portraying intolerance throughout four different ages of human history spanning approximately 2,500 years the image of Lillian Gish rocking the cradle (in a blue tint in the colour tinted versions) serves to link the stories. Some skeptics state that Griffith was unclear in defining the meaning of the interlinking image, but William M. Drew lays these arguments to rest quite easily in his 1986 book, D.W. Griffith's Intolerance: Its Genesis and Vision. The four periods of history covered in Intolerance are the Babylonian (539 B.C.), the Judean (about A.D. 27), the Renaissance (1572 France), and the Modern (1914 America). The audience is shown how intolerance has reared its ugly head in such destructive events as the greatest treason in history which resulted in the fall of Babylon due to intolerance of a newly introduced religion, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and the mass murder of many Huguenots in St. Bartholomew. The Modern Story portrays an example of how intolerance directly and indirectly ruined the lives of Americans in the early part of this century.
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producer | Griffith, D.W. | screenwriter | Griffith, D.W. |
| musicscore | Griffith, D.W. |
duration | 170 |
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color | No |
sound | No |
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genre | drama |
country | USA |
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