12019-01-27T20:46:28+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)plain2019-01-27T20:46:28+00:00Critical Commons19302019-01-25T15:20:49ZVideoLewis MilestoneAll Quiet on the Western FrontPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-01-27T20:55:56+00:003.5 All Quiet on the Western Front1All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)plain2019-01-27T20:55:56+00:00Taking full advantage of Universal’s Broadway Boom, the battle sequences combine the dynamic camerawork of Murnau with the rapid editing of montage. In one scene, a stationary shot of a German soldier firing a machine gun is intercut with a shot traveling from left to right, showing one soldier after another felled by brutal gunfire. The result is a graphic pattern of alternation—stasis, motion, stasis, motion—that imitates the workings of a machine gun, with its rapid but unbearably systematic motion.