“Scott is the most filmic of writers… He may be considered difficult to read today, long-winded & meandering by modern standards, but his narratives still come alive when the characters move dramatically in a visual world” —Scott & #Cinema #BookWormSat www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/watt...

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“no other single literary figure—not Shakespeare or Dickens—has been more significant in the evolution of film narrative” —Prof Tim Dolin, “The Great Uncredited: Sir Walter Scott & #Cinema” www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-fir...
jcar8mm.bsky.social · 0 · 2d ago
Narrative possibly, but both Griffith and Eisenstein said that Dickens was a huge influence for them on the development of film language and technique.