Many of the best films ever made were made during the silent era. Titles such as Nosferatu, Sunrise and The Crowd are all stunning examples of how mature an art form silent cinema actually was.
Literary adaptations made up most of the earliest cinema. As films were perceived as a cheap form of entertainment it seemed crazy to actually pay someone to write when you had hundreds of books to film.
Last Of The Mohicans is (obviously) an adaptation. Sadly it is not a good film. Actually it makes me think whether it is a film at all. All of its storytelling happens in the captions. At times you get several captions following each other telling what the characters do. They are followed by panoramic shots of American nature not necessarily relating to the captions in any way. At best you get Images depicting what has just been expressed verbally in the last caption. Murnau made "Der Letzte Mann" without any captions and managed to tell a story ten times more complicated in a lucid and coherent fashion.
All in all this is a very disappointing film that should be forgotten.
Literary adaptations made up most of the earliest cinema. As films were perceived as a cheap form of entertainment it seemed crazy to actually pay someone to write when you had hundreds of books to film.
Last Of The Mohicans is (obviously) an adaptation. Sadly it is not a good film. Actually it makes me think whether it is a film at all. All of its storytelling happens in the captions. At times you get several captions following each other telling what the characters do. They are followed by panoramic shots of American nature not necessarily relating to the captions in any way. At best you get Images depicting what has just been expressed verbally in the last caption. Murnau made "Der Letzte Mann" without any captions and managed to tell a story ten times more complicated in a lucid and coherent fashion.
All in all this is a very disappointing film that should be forgotten.