Quo Vadis - Quo Vadis

Japanese: 《クオ・バディス》 - くおばでぃす
Quo Vadis - Quo Vadis

...It is a blockbuster that is made with huge budgets, lavish sets, extras, and a large scale of scale. In Hollywood, sex, violence, the Bible, and spectacle are said to be the panacea for the sick film industry, and it is considered the film genre with the highest box office value and has the longest tradition in film history. Its origins lie in the Italian ancient historical dramas that began to be made in the 1900s, when film was first created. At that time, literary works with Roman history as a background were made into films one after another, and many of them ended up being scroll-like works with little action. However, Quo Vadis (1912), a 6,000-foot, nine-volume, two-hour film that featured 5,000 extras and 30 real lions and depicted the burning of Rome and the massacre of Christians, and Cabiria (1914), a 12-volume film (the original version is said to have been over four hours long) about the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, were pioneers of spectacle films. The latter in particular represents the pinnacle of Italian silent cinema, and is known for the magnificent and magnificent literary subtitles written by D'Annunzio, a famous poet, novelist, playwright, and soldier. Innovative techniques such as the moving shots of the famous Spanish cameraman Segundo de Chomon (1871-1929) and artificial lighting from below at an upward angle, which was later named "Rembrandt lighting" in Hollywood, had a major impact on films around the world. American DW Griffith obtained a print of "Cabiria" and studied it closely, leading to the creation of America's first spectacular films, "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916).

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Quo Vadis" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…巨費を投じ,けんらん豪華なセットを組み,エキストラを動員し,スケールの大きさを強調した超大作のことだが,ハリウッドではセックス,暴力,聖書,スペクタクルが〈病める映画産業の万能薬〉といわれるように,もっとも興行価値の高い映画ジャンルとみなされ,映画史的にももっとも古い伝統をもっている。その原点が映画草創期の1900年代からつくられはじめたイタリアの古代史劇で,当時ローマ史を背景とした文学作品があいついで映画化され,その多くは動きの少ない絵巻物的作品に終わったが,5000人のエキストラとほんもののライオン30頭を登場させてローマの炎上やキリスト教徒の殺戮(さつりく)を描いた6000フィート,9巻,2時間の《クオ・バディス》(1912)と,ローマとカルタゴの第2次ポエニ戦争を題材とした12巻(オリジナル版は4時間を超えたといわれる)の《カビリア》(1914)はスペクタクル映画の草分けとなった。とくに後者はイタリアのサイレント映画の頂点を示す作品であり,著名な詩人,小説家,劇作家,軍人であったダンヌンツィオが荘重華麗な文学的字幕を書いたことでも知られ,スペイン出身の名カメラマン,セグンド・デ・チョーモン(1871‐1929)の移動撮影や,のちにハリウッドで〈レンブラント・ライティング〉と名づけられた人工光線による下からの仰角(あおり)ぎみの照明といった革新的な技術が各国の映画に大きな影響をあたえ,アメリカのD.W.グリフィスは《カビリア》のプリントを1本手にいれてつぶさに研究し,アメリカ最初のスペクタクル映画《国民の創生》(1915)と《イントレランス》(1916)をつくった。…

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