{"id":6894,"date":"2009-05-18T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T23:28:58","slug":"quo-vadis-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Quo Vadis? (1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Quo vadis, Domine? Where goest thou, Lord?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster-96x128.jpg 96w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster-202x270.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Quo-Vadis-Poster.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the rule of Nero (Carlo Cattaneo), a Roman patrician (Amleto Novelli) falls in love with a Christian slave named Lygia (Lea Giunchi), who converts him to Christianity.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient Greece and Rome<\/li>\n<li>Christianity<\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<li>Slavery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nMade in 1912, Enrico Guazzoni&#8217;s <em>Quo Vadis?<\/em> &#8212; based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/quo-vadis-game\">novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz<\/a> &#8212; is widely recognized as the first feature-length film, and earns the distinction of being the earliest title listed in Peary&#8217;s book. As noted in Hal Erickson&#8217;s review for the All Movie Guide, it &#8220;nearly single-handedly convinced everyone in the movie business&#8230; that feature-length films were a viable commercial commodity&#8221;; indeed, audiences of the day flocked in droves to see it, paying 30 times the normal ticket price. With that said, the film comes across as undeniably &#8220;primitive and uninvolving&#8221; today: there&#8217;s no exposition or character development at all, characters are introduced perfunctorily through clumsy intertitles, and it&#8217;s assumed that audience members will simply bring their own knowledge of the story to fill in the many narrative gaps. The primary moments to watch for are the film&#8217;s sporadic &#8220;spectacles&#8221; &#8212; such as Nero fiddling while Rome burns, or lions being unleashed on Christians in a coliseum. (Film fanatics take note: it&#8217;s rumored that an extra was killed on film by one of the lions, but this footage no longer appears to exist, and is not evident here.)  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impressive early spectacles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/quo-vadis-lions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/quo-vadis-lions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6896\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply for its importance in cinematic history. Listed as a film with Historical Importance in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0002445\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1913\/04\/22\/archives\/quo-vadis-at-astor-moving-pictures-of-famous-story-of-rome-shown.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quo vadis, Domine? Where goest thou, Lord?&#8221; Synopsis: During the rule of Nero (Carlo Cattaneo), a Roman patrician (Amleto Novelli) falls in love with a Christian slave named Lygia (Lea Giunchi), who converts him to Christianity. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Ancient Greece and Rome Christianity Historical Drama Silent Films Slavery Review: Made in 1912, Enrico Guazzoni&#8217;s Quo Vadis? &#8212; based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz &#8212; is widely recognized as the first feature-length film, and earns the distinction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6894\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60567,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/60567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}