Benedito Dias Rodrigues
Firstly of all this movie was made in 1911 then it was more daring movie of his time,showing Dante to a journey through inferno,the first ever adaptation from a Dante Alighieri's literally work,the movie took three years to be done and more giants stage was built to tell this magnificent story...Dante was lead by Virgil who goes to all circles of hell and in the way they found such famous characters of our past history....L'inferno show us many levels of suffering and how the different sinners are punished for their errant life....l really love this movie even with added of new score modern music.
Lin2050
A person visits a dirty ghetto and a hill without trees. The people living in the ghetto are mostly naked, jumping up and down sometimes. Note that the ghetto is not dark, or frightening, or disgusting. It's simply tasteless and boring. You call this Hell? Hell is a place that's exciting. You don't fall asleep while watching the images of it.I am not trying to be rude, as this is said to be the world's second feature-length "movie", made in 1911. But after taking a look at those great paintings on this topic, created hundreds of years before this "movie", it becomes impossible to understand what the people creating this were up to.Well, maybe in 1911, anything can be considered a great movie, as long as it shows things that are not still.
L B (LbFilmFanatic)
A celluloid of wonder; When this movie was made, its Box Office Revenue reached 2 Million Dollars after it's premiere. It was made in 1910, released in Italy, and slowly hoisted itself into a larger audience, which ultimately lead to it being successful, financially and palatable enough to an audience subsequently dispersing around the world of the rather premature cinema in that time. It's pretty hard to believe with any sense of incredulity that this movie is so eidetic in it's own quality of imagery - of course, iconography is out of date, such as the spirits of Cleopatra, Seances and The Spirits that float around, but this is actually what makes the movie great, due to how adroit they were in crafting the paradigms of surrealism (essentially just expressionism) and so forth in our minds of how we react to this and how we assimilate it.I think what really entices me is the animatronics of Lucifer, the motifs of such things like the pride, avarice and lust all reflected in the form of animals (of course, not arbitrarily, but rather how it is codified, I believe that to be the case), the alchemy of an individual that is to be enough to immortalise her - Ergo, the inferno.Plot is really austere (but the narrative can actually make you think - it's funny how with movies of this time, it feels more like an actual form of denouement literature, and not like any other box office movie that can be mutilated by its own failure to communicate a story and rather how to show aesthetically, faux and overused concoctions on the screen). The plot centres around a story adapted by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro (who was the one with the most control over the movie, I think) of the Divine Comedy, a story about an allegorical acuity of the afterlife - "To the great beyond avoiding heaven" - Dante is on a quest to try and immortalise a potent 9 year old. He finds Virgil, a roman poet, who accompanies him through the trails of hell, the punishment of people - or rather ones who are under a despot's appetency for a lack of hope. The movie takes you through the dehumanising effects of these situations in kind of a vivacious way.There are problems like: You never get to understand why there was even introductions to avarice, pride and lust (of course, I feel this is just an ad hominem attack at it, but it just came to me like it was kind of off and dispensable to say the least)I can say briefly: This movie was just so fascinating! It's became an entity out of it's own acclaim in cinema, notwithstanding it's endowment of such methodology in cinema like: Tableaux framing, ambient lighting, anecdotal characters (Dante, The Men of Science, Bishop, Virgil - more even then that. The acting is kind of what can poise your understanding of what you're watching, but the odyssey works with how they interact with the out of body world; there is even slight scenes of nudity (some have said it's the first movie to really have this in it, which may not say a lot, but it actually does lampshade it's age, as you can see)"Mastiffs and Harpes leather "thongs"" - The language now, the metric system was back then used as to define "whips", which is another thing that I gleaned on this movie with the terse ways of speaking at that time. "Hell is ultimatum" - this quote alone reverberates the shear theme of the movie.The movies best parts for me involve the way in which smoke is utilised in order to become more transcendental in to the residing form of our normal world. The way in which Dante and Virgil feel like they're almost in a daze - Benign in even the most out of proportion places at once within hell, like a exploration and they're in the same perspective as the audiences - maybe even the emotive side to both hate, endurance and marvel - if you notice the girth of their ground is always higher then the ones underground like a metaphor for heaven and hell. There is so much to cover with this movie, but we cannot look at this movie in the context of this epoch, as it falls flat ultimately. It is a more a look into the depths of what we don't know, fantastically, and also what we didn't know has became a hybrid of elements in which movies nowadays have borrowed or shoehorned into movies.The movie in itself probably receives 7 on the radar, whereas the resonance of its importance ranks that up to a 9/10 (possible 10).
sbryanmr
The sets are crude and the acting is over the top by almost any modern standard -- but, well, it's from 1911. This remains a remarkable film, particularly given its time.It helps to have read Dante's "L'Inferno" before seeing it. Still, these images (derived from Gustav Dore's illustrations) remain powerful; any student of film should be acquainted with this one. There's plenty of nudity, true, but none of it is remotely titillating.But what's up with the garbage from Tangerine Dream (whoever or whatever that is) and the horrible, anachronistic soundtrack that's been plastered onto the movie as the only audio alternative? Turn down the sound: your experience will only be negatively influenced if you listen to it. Try some Liszt or Berlioz instead.
