History Film / Sunrise

* HeavySleeper: The Wife falls asleep on the way back and doesn't wake up when the wind picks up and a storm rolls over the boat. It takes a clap of thunder to bring her around.

* MessyPig: One gets loose at a restaurant.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Woman from The City is the Dark Feminine (hedonist, cheater), while The Wife is the Light Feminine (goody-goody all the way through).

''Sunrise'' is considered a stylistic masterpiece and is the UrExample, TropeMaker or TropeCodifier of many now-common camera and special effects techniques like EpicTrackingShot and ForcedPerspective. Its lyrical camera movement and minimal use of intertitles are typical of Murnau, and [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist]] influence shows in the oversized sets of the amusement park where much of the film takes place and in the juxtaposition of outdoorsy tactile details with soundstage artificiality in the village scenes. But the setting is not disturbing in itself, as it is in many German Expressionist films (the fractured brainscapes of ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', the cold machine-world of ''{{Metropolis}}'', the corrupt antiquation of Murnau's own ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}''). Instead, it functions as an unobtrusive, archetypal backdrop for what is in essence a modern fable.

* EverythingsMessierWithPigs: One gets loose at a restaurant.

* [[{{ptitle4tgnbery6dem}} Everything's Messier With Pigs]]: One gets loose at a restaurant.

* NoNameGiven - The {{archetypal character}}s are known only as The Man, The Wife, and The Woman from the City.

* ChekovsBoomerang: The bulrushes.

* AwardSnub: A strange retroactive example. When people mention the first Academy Award for Best Picture, they simplify it to ''{{Film/Wings}}'', rather than explain that there were two Best Picture awards, one for outstanding production (''Wings'') and one for artistic achievement (''Sunrise'').
** Also, Gaynor's win for Best Actress? Its often listed in reference books like ''The World Almanac'' for just ''Seventh Heaven''. Strange considering the critical acclaim of ''Sunrise'' and the otherwise obscurity of ''Seventh Heaven''.

''Sunrise'' is considered a stylistic masterpiece and is the UrExample, TropeMaker or TropeCodifier of many now-common camera and special effects techniques. Its lyrical camera movement and minimal use of intertitles are typical of Murnau, and [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist]] influence shows in the oversized sets of the amusement park where much of the film takes place and in the juxtaposition of outdoorsy tactile details with soundstage artificiality in the village scenes. But the setting is not disturbing in itself, as it is in many German Expressionist films (the fractured brainscapes of ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', the cold machine-world of ''{{Metropolis}}'', the corrupt antiquation of Murnau's own ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}''). Instead, it functions as an unobtrusive, archetypal backdrop for what is in essence a modern fable.

''Sunrise'' is considered a stylistic masterpiece. Its lyrical camera movement and minimal use of intertitles are typical of Murnau, and [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist]] influence shows in the oversized sets of the amusement park where much of the film takes place and in the juxtaposition of outdoorsy tactile details with soundstage artificiality in the village scenes. But the setting is not disturbing in itself, as it is in many German Expressionist films (the fractured brainscapes of ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', the cold machine-world of ''{{Metropolis}}'', the corrupt antiquation of Murnau's own ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}''). Instead, it functions as an unobtrusive, archetypal backdrop for what is in essence a modern fable.

Full title: ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans''. A 1927 film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was his first American film and won three Academy Awards: Best Actress (Janet Gaynor), Best Cinematography, and Best Artistic Quality of Production (an alternate Best Picture award that existed only that year).

** AwardSnub: A strange retroactive example. When people mention the first Academy Award for Best Picture, they simplify it to ''{{Film/Wings}}'', rather than explain that there were two Best Picture awards, one for outstanding production (''Wings'') and one for artistic achievement (''Sunrise'').
*** Also, Gaynor's win for Best Actress? Its often listed in reference books like ''The World Almanac'' for just ''Seventh Heaven''. Strange considering the critical acclaim of ''Sunrise'' and the otherwise obscurity of ''Seventh Heaven''.

* TearJerker

* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Wife, still cooking dinners and looking after the baby...

* NeverFoundTheBody

* TheCity: the Woman is from there, and the Man and Wife renew their love there.

* FunWithSubtitles: It's a silent film, so they're title cards, not subtitles, but....when the Woman asks the Man "Couldn't she be drowned?", the titles melt and fall to the bottom of the screen.

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