格里菲斯和爱森斯坦是世界公认的电影艺术开拓者,是电影巨匠,艺术大师。没有他们,电影迄今仍在魔术,杂耍圈子里徘徊;有了他们,影坛生辉、面貌一新,电影的整个情势豁然开朗,迈上了艺术台阶。格里菲斯(1875——1948)是美国“好莱坞技术主义传统的真正代表”,被誉为“美国电影之父”。格里菲斯诞生在美国南部肯塔基州拉格格畿城的一个破产军官家庭。早年被迫中途辍学,靠自谋职业维持生计,先后当过售货员、工人、报纸编辑、演员等。他喜欢阅读文学作品,喜欢白朗宁、金斯利、但尼生等人的诗歌;爱读傑克伦敦、莎士比亚,托尔斯泰、莫泊桑、欧亨利、狄更斯等名家作品,爱伦坡的短篇小说和惠特曼的诗歌,对格里菲斯影响更大,他曾试图当个作家,写过剧本,可是不为世人赏识,只好作罢。但是这文学底子、文学素养却给格里菲斯以 Griffiths and Eisenstein are the world recognized film art pioneers, film masters, art masters. Without them, the movie so far is still in the magic, juggling circles hovering; with them, the film glorious, new look, the movie’s entire situation suddenly, onto the artistic stage. Griffith (1875-1948) is the United States “true representative of the Hollywood technical tradition”, known as “the father of American movies.” Griffith was born in a bankruptcy officer family in La Grange, Kentucky, in the southern United States. Early childhood was forced to drop out halfway through self-employment to maintain a living, has worked as salesman, worker, newspaper editor, actor and so on. He likes to read literary works, like Browning, Kingsley, Dionysus and others’ poems; read Jack London, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Maupassant, O Henry, Dickens and other famous works, Allan Poe’s short story Novels and Whitman’s poetry, Griffith greater impact, he had tried to be a writer, wrote the script, but not for the world to appreciate, had to give up. However, this literary foundation, Literary Literacy to Griffith to