Greed (film)
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Greed is a 1924 silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim, based on the novel McTeague. Particularly noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of various "troubled production" tropes, the film's original cut came in at a stunning nine and a half hours. MGM eventually took the film out of von Stroheim's hands and released it with a running time of about two and a half hours. The shortened film was a flop, panned by critics and disowned by its director.
A four-hour version of the film (with inserted stills from cut scenes) was created in 1999 by Turner Entertainment.
Tropes used in Greed (film) include:
- Downer Ending
- Dude, She's Like, in a Coma
- Epic Movie
- The Film of the Book
- Gold Fever
- Love Triangle: Gone horribly wrong.
- Money Fetish
- San Francisco: Shot on location.
- Staggered Zoom: The chilling last shot, where the film zooms out to show McTeague handcuffed to a corpse in the middle of a desert.
- Thanatos Gambit
- Thirsty Desert
- Wanted Poster
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: You got the gold. Mazel tov. Too bad you're in the middle of a desert with no water.