Review of The Big Parade (1925) by Jonathan P — 08 May 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013.
(1925) The Big Parade.
SILENT ROMANTIC DRAMA/ WAR/ COMEDY.
Influential film casting thousands of extras of a war, setting up an ambitious love story between a rookie soldier and a French girl. The time is during WW I when France were fighting against the Germans which Hitler wasn't in power yet which to me serves nothing but a backdrop to this love story that evolved upon the main star residing camp in some French countryside. It's called "The Big Parade" because there's a parade when the soldiers go off to war and then another parade upon the soldiers coming back. Some of the nuances work while others don't. I said that the film was influential because they're some existing scenes are identically similar to what one can often find in David Lean movies as well as other war movies that include love couples departing to go to war, particularly the part when the French girl tries to find her love interest off just to see him for the very last time while many soldiers are marching past her. I've only seen the 2 hour version from "Turner Classic Movies" channel which the original running time was supposed to be 2 hours and 20 minutes and felt that near the end was cut a little too short.
For the time being I'm giving this.
3 out of 4 stars.
This review of The Big Parade (1925) was written by Jonathan P on 08 May 2013.
The Big Parade has generally received very positive reviews.
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