I want to swim in champagne and paint the whole own not only red, but red, white and blue.I want everybody to see how much I adore you, always have adored you, revere you and - and rust you.Also how much I hope you have of warmth for me...." His words concluded the film:A thousand poets dreamed a thousand years.Then you were born, my love.BackgroundWay Down East(1920) is D.W.Griffith""s classic, silent melodramatic film.He bought the film rights to the story, originally a stage play of the same name by an inexperienced writer named Lottie Blair Parker.She reminded Harold that he had broken their deal that they had made earlier, about how Charming would marry Fiona.Three months after the film made its debut, Clarke published a novel based upon the film""s screenplay.When they return to their campsite in the rain, they find their younger brother killed, lying face down on the wet ground, and their cattle herd is stolen.