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Quote by Louis Feuillade
Le Cinéma était un art nouveau, et il nous paraissait tout à fait naturel d'emprunter au roman ou à la pièce à succès les thèmes qu'ils avaient popularisés.
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The speaker describes cinema as a “new art” that could naturally draw on older, familiar forms. Borrowing themes from novels and successful plays gave filmmakers stories that audiences already recognized. The quote presents this borrowing as a straightforward creative choice, not as a problem, because those earlier works had already made the themes popular.
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- Le GRIMH, reproducing Louis Feuillade’s 1919 text in Le Film
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