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- Way Down East (1920) is D.W. Griffith's classic, silent melodramatic film.
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Oct 6, 2018 · This opposes the usual ‘fallen woman’ narrative of maternal melodrama in which the mother loses her self-respect due to her disgrace. In fact, Esther is posited as a ‘New Woman’ not just in the decisions she makes, but the way she is honest about her sexual desires.
Mar 1, 2021 · Way Down East was a melodrama about small town life that had been successful on Broadway for many years. It tells the story of an innocent country girl who is deceived and abandoned by a rich playboy. She finds a new life and a new love, but her past threatens to ruin all chance at happiness.
Joshua reviews the classic D. W. Griffith melodrama, ‘Way Down East,’ and its recent Blu-ray release from Kino.
Apr 2, 2020 · This was the reception given to Griffith’s melodrama about an innocent girl from the country who is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy cad. Way Down East was a box office sensation that cost more than US$800,000 to make, but grossed US$4.5 million.
Way Down East is a 1920 Tearjerker Melodrama film, directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It was adapted from a popular 1890s stage play by Lottie Parker. Anna Moore (Gish) is a simple country girl who lives with her mother. They are dirt poor, so she goes to the city to ask her wealthy relatives, the Tremonts, for help.
Way Down East thinks rather highly of itself, insisting in its opening title cards that the Christian notions of purity and monogamy are good, and that the characters represent all people. However the film is just a melodrama, though a moralising one.
Nov 25, 2009 · In 1919 and 1920, in the midst of an epochal boom of urbanization, D. W. Griffith filmed “Way Down East,” a pastoral melodrama set in a nostalgic small-town and rural America, which I...
