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Greed (film)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 4, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 09:54, 25 November 2014 (UTC)



Greed is a 1924 American silent film, written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on Frank Norris's naturalist novel McTeague. The film depicts a trio of protagonists who succumb to their darker nature over a mutual desire for a lottery prize of $5,000 in gold. Von Stroheim shot more than 85 hours of footage and obsessed over accuracy during production. Two months were spent shooting in Death Valley for the film's final sequence and many of the cast and crew became ill. Greed was one of the few films of its time to be shot entirely on location. Von Stroheim used sophisticated techniques such as deep-focus cinematography and montage editing. Originally almost eight hours long, Greed was edited against von Stroheim's wishes to about two-and-a-half hours by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio heads Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer. The conflict between Thalberg and von Stroheim over artistic control of films was a pivotal event in Hollywood history. The cut footage is lost and the original version of the film is considered the "holy grail" for film archivists and historians. Numerous false claims of the original version's discovery have been made over the years and in 1999 a reconstructed version was released using surviving stills from the lost footage.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Not My Life was a recent film article, BUT a silent film has not appeared since February 8, 2014 and a Core list film has not been featured since Barton Fink on August 13, 2013.
 * Main editors: Deoliveirafan Demiurge1000
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: December 4, 2014 is the 90th anniversary of the film's theatrical release.
 * Support as nominator. Deoliveirafan (talk) 10:38, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Non-free image removed. Blurb needs to be rewritten to be NPOV. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll re-write the blurb later today if no-one else has. Also planning to add myself as a main editor :P Also, I'm thinking File:Erich Von Stroheim 1 Motion Picture Classic 1920.png is a highly relevant free image that could be used. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 12:17, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Definitely. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:31, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Please hit closer to 1200 characters with the re-write. Prhartcom (talk) 21:51, 9 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. Interesting topic, well-covered by the article. Blurb is well-done. Prhartcom (talk) 13:59, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, with the free-use image File:Erich Von Stroheim 1 Motion Picture Classic 1920.png. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:19, 9 November 2014 (UTC)