1925 · drama · silent · war
The Big Parade
Directed by King Vidor2h 31m1925
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Our read: The Big Parade (1925) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · silent · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / silent, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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