Dw griffith babylon set from intolerance
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Intolerance Set
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Corner Eighth and Francisco
- "That place is dangerous, but it might be a good spot to hide."
- &#;Marlon Hopgood
The Intolerance Set is a location and a landmark in L.A. Noire.
In-Game Description[]
The Great Wall of Babylon set was built for D.W. Griffith's silent epic 'Intolerance'. More than 3, extras paraded past the altar and throne, beneath eight giant plaster elephants. The film - the most expensive ever produced at the time - flopped at the box office.
Description[]
The location is an abandoned Hollywood film set and a landmark in L.A. Noire. The massive four square city block set was built for D.W. Griffith's silent epic film, Intolerance. The set was a reconstruction of ancient Bablyon for a scene in the film.
Events of L.A. Noire[]
Phelps engages in a shootout on the set during the case The Fallen Idol, and later he found the ring belonging to Evelyn Summers here. The set is located at Francisco and 8th in Centra
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Intolerance |
DW Griffith’s vast historical drama, linking four stories of intolerance through the ages, was a response to criticism of his previous film, The Birth of a Nation, and its glamourisation of the Ku Klux Klan.
A landmark in cinema, in its scope and ambition, the most famous sequence is the fourth ‘Babylonian’ section, which inspired the whole historical epic genre.
The vast ‘Babylon’ set, with its rearing elephants, has become a symbol of overblown Hollywood extravagance. It was left, towering over east Hollywood for four years after filming, at Sunset Boulevard at the junction with Hollywood Boulevard in Silverlake, until being dismantled in The site is not far from the Vista Theater, Sunset Drive, seen in Get Shorty, Scream 2, and Tony Scott's Tarantino-scripted True Romance.
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If you’ve been to the Hollywood & Highland Center and have a working knowledge of silent bio history, you may have noticed that the hulking mall’s design has been lifted with mixed success from the Babylon set in DW Griffith’s epic Intolerance. (An influential and ruinously expensive feat of filmmaking in which Griffith calls out critics of his previous film, The Birth of a Nation, as the real racists; it interweaves tales of intolerance from ancient Babylon, the life of Christ, Renaissance France, and then-modern America).
That’s pretty weird, right? What kind of mind came up with that? In a posthumous essay just published at the Paris Review, late science fiction author Ray Bradbury says it was his idea.
Intolerance’s Babylon set was built on a still-dirt Sunset Boulevard, at Hollywood, site today of the Vista Theatre, and it was both carefully researched (though Griffith insisted on the totally inappropriate elephants) and enormous; in Kevin Brownlow’s book The Pa