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—Frank Norris, quoted from his essay "The True Reward of the Novelist", in a title card at the beginning of Greed. In 1908, John McTeague works in a gold mine in Placer County, California. A traveling dentist calling himself Dr. "Painless" Potter visits the town, and McTeague's mother begs Potter to take her son on as an apprentice. Potter agrees and McTeague eventually becomes a dentist, practicing on Polk Street in San Francisco. Marcus Schouler brings Trina Sieppe, his cousin and ...
Mar 18, 2016 · Before the film’s conflicts begin to emerge, the basic human nature that so fascinates Stroheim appears through the gluttony of the guests, grotesquely stuffing their mouths and making a mess. Bodily needs and limitations become the only laws that truly govern, echoed in Mac’s cruelty. Some of the film’s other metaphors are less effective.
Mar 15, 2020 · There are several reasons for this state of things. Stroheim, who had been very impressed by Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague, masterpiece of American naturalism, wanted to make the perfect film adaptation.
The film is a study of the oppressive force of greed that decays and corrupts three people - an uneducated former miner and dentist (John McTeague) in turn of the century San Francisco, his miserly, vulgar and pathological wife (Trina), and their mutual friend and McTeague's ultimate nemesis (Marcus).
At the time Greed earned comparisons to the films of D.W Griffith but was additionally praised for shooting from many varying angles and sides, treating the film as a unique medium that could reach beyond that of three walls and an audience.
Sep 1, 2022 · There’s a reason why Jean Renoir referred to it as “the film of films” and why it cracked the top ten in Sight & Sound’s first ever “Greatest Films of All Time” poll, but it’s also a ...
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Sep 28, 2023 · German Expressionism was an early 20th-century art movement, wildly influential yet notoriously difficult to pin down. Its cinematic incarnation is an offshoot of the larger Expressionist movement, which had a profound impact on visual arts, theater, literature, and architecture in the early 1900s.
