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Intolerance Overview:

Intolerance (1916) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by D.W. Griffith and produced by D.W. Griffith.

SYNOPSIS

Griffith's mammoth achievement, spanning several centuries and cultures. The silent film presents four stories linked solely by a single common thread: intolerance. Three of the stories are based on historical fact: medieval France during the reign of Charles IX; the birth and crucifixion of Christ; and the fall of Babylonia. The fourth tale is a "modern" story of greed, cruelty, and betrayal. Intolerance had its New York premiere on September 5, 1916; it was released two years after The Birth of a Nation, and it is widely regarded as Griffith's protest and self-defense against the charges of racism leveled at him for Birth's glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. Composer Carl Davis created a new score for a recent release.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Intolerance was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989.

Intolerance BlogHub Articles:

Silents are Golden: A Closer Look at – Intolerance (1916)

By Lea Stans on Apr 19, 2019 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Silents are Golden: A Closer Look at: Intolerance (1916) Along with my “Silent Superstars” series, I thought it would be fun to dive into the history behind specific films. Let’s start with a look at one of biggest spectacles ever put on film–Intolerance! It is one of the grandest,... Read full article

Intolerance (1916)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 1, 2016 From 4 Star Films

His ambitious follow-up to The Birth of the Nation a year before, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance boasts four narrative threads meant to intertwine in a story of grand design. Transcending time, eras, and cultures, this monumental undertaking grabs hold of some of the cataclysmic markers of world ... Read full article

Intolerance (1916)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 1, 2016 From 4 Star Films

His ambitious follow up to The Birth of the Nation a year before, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance boasts four narrative threads meant to intertwine in a story of grand design. Transcending time, eras, and cultures, this monumental undertaking grabs hold of some of the cataclysmic markers of world ... Read full article

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

By Beatrice on May 21, 2013 From Flickers in Time

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages Directed by D. W. Griffith 1916/USA Triangle Film Corporation/Wark Producing Repeat viewing #5 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die IMDb users say 7.9; I say 5.0 My definition of a movie I’m glad I don’t have to see again bef... Read full article

Watch: Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1)

By Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jun 2, 2012 From Pretty Clever Films

Summer seems to be on hiatus in my backyard this Saturday. If the same is true where you live, then maybe it’s the perfect time to drag your laptop over to the cozy, comfy bed and settle in for a watch of D.W. Griffith’s epic Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages. I have so... Read full article

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Intolerance Quotes:

The Mountain Girl: But touch my skirt and I'll scratch your eyes out!
The Dear One: I'll walk like her and maybe everyone will like me too.
The Boy: Nothing doing on the good night stuff, I always go inside to see my girls.
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Intolerance Facts
One of the intertitles is a quote from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde i.e. 'And wondered if each one of us/ Would end the self-same way,/ For none can tell to what red Hell/ His sightless soul may stray'.
2007: The American Film Institute ranked this as the #49 Greatest Movie of All Time.
The Babylonian orgy sequence alone cost $200,000 when it was shot. That's nearly twice the overall budget of The Birth of a Nation, another D.W. Griffith film and, at the time, the record holder for most expensive picture ever made.
The title and some lines from the poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by Walt Whitman are used as intertitles in the movie.
D.W. Griffith invented false eyelashes for this film in 1916 because he wanted Seena Owen (who plays Attarea, the Princess Beloved, in the film's Babylonian segment) with lashes luxurious enough to brush her cheeks when she blinked. In collaboration with a wigmaker, who did the actual fabricating, the solution Griffith is credited with involved weaving human hair through a fine strip of gauze, creating false eyelashes.
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