BackgroundDirector D.W.Griffith"s expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpieceIntolerance(1916) is one of the milestones and BackgroundDirector D.W.Griffith"s expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpieceIntolerance(1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.His heart was filled with longing as he watched it drift off.Something must"ve told him that we"d never live these days of happiness again, that they were gone forever.The film was originally working-titled "The Presbyterian Church Wager," but was changed when the official Presbyterian Church denomination leaders objected to its adult-oriented subject matter - and the film"s main building structures were mostly brothels, drinking saloons, bathhouses and gambling dens.I think per capita on a given day, there"s probably, uh, three hundred of "em on the beach.In fact, you can"t even, uh, scratch yourself without gettin" a belly-button, uh, up the old kazoo there.Detail
