[The meaning and significance of their situation - as unrequited lovers who are soon to separate - is not understood on first viewing.His shrill-voiced wife Jean (Kristin Rudrud) is chopping celery in the kitchen in preparation for dinner.Four of the stars, John and Lionel Barrymore (first popular in silent cinema), Wallace Beery, and Jean Hersholt, appeared in both films.Although Ari claimed that humans were skilled and "capable of a real culture" (she held up her embroidered scarf as proof), Thade objected: "Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist," and Colonel Attar accused her of flirting with blasphemy.In the citadel of the besieged city, an unconscious Faramir was saved from cremation on a funeral pyre, and his insane father (engulfed in flames) jumped to his death.