So, I've just seen Passion of Joan of Arc from 1928 and I'm blown away.
The acting is superb but what struck me was how graphic it was. It had blood (real too!), disturbing close ups on torture tools, showed Joan's burning corpse and a visible breast.
This was frikking 1928! Not even Griffith's Birth of a Nation from 1915 was that graphic. Was PJA unique or were there other silent films that were graphic as well?
The acting is superb but what struck me was how graphic it was. It had blood (real too!), disturbing close ups on torture tools, showed Joan's burning corpse and a visible breast.
This was frikking 1928! Not even Griffith's Birth of a Nation from 1915 was that graphic. Was PJA unique or were there other silent films that were graphic as well?