Editing Greed (1924 film) (section)

===Influence===
Among those who have praised ''Greed'' over the years are [[Sergei Eisenstein]];{{sfn|Weinberg|1972|p=10}} [[Joseph von Sternberg]], who said, "We were all influenced by ''Greed''";{{sfn|Weinberg|1972|p=15}} [[Jean Renoir]], who called it "the film of films";{{sfn|Weinberg|1972|p=16}} and [[Ernst Lubitsch]], who called von Stroheim "the only true 'novelist'" in films.{{sfn|Weinberg|1972|p=17}} More recently [[Guillermo del Toro]] called it "a perfect reflection of the anxiety permeating the passage into the 20th century and the absolute dehumanization that was to come",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/962 |title=Guillermo del Toro |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=June 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616132634/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/962 |archive-date=June 16, 2014}}</ref> and Norbert Pfaffenbichler said that "the last shot of the movie is unforgettable."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1094 |title=Norbert Pfaffenbichler |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=June 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224726/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/1094 |archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> American writer and critic [[Susan Sontag]] named ''Greed'' one of her favorite films.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/susan-sontags-50-favorite-films.html|title=Susan Sontag's 50 Favorite Films (and Her Own Cinematic Creations)|website=Open Culture|date=December 4, 2012}}</ref> Jonathan Rosenbaum has stated that ''Greed'' was a major influence on the style and content of many films. Von Stroheim's shots filming the sun predated [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s better-known uses of the technique in ''[[Rashomon]]'' (1950). Rosenbaum compared specific shot set-ups in ''Greed'' to shots in [[King Vidor]]'s ''[[The Crowd (1928 film)|The Crowd]]'', Jean Renoir's ''[[Le Crime de Monsieur Lange]]'', Orson Welles's ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'', [[Howard Hawks]]' ''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]'' and [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s ''[[L'Avventura]]''. In addition, he likened certain plot elements or characters in ''Greed'' to [[John Huston]]'s ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'' (1948), [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rear Window]]'' (1954), [[Claude Chabrol]]'s ''[[Les Bonnes Femmes]]'' (1960) and [[Elaine May]]'s ''[[Mikey and Nicky]]'' (1975). Rosenbaum singled out von Stroheim's influence on May, an American director, with ''Mikey and Nicky'' centering on the disintegration of a friendship over money and sex, and including grotesque elements and characters caught between innocence and corruption. Rosenbaum also asserts that Orson Welles's use of satirical caricatures in all of his films is in "the spirit of von Stroheim".{{sfn|Rosenbaum|1993|pp=52–58}}

The two films most commonly compared to ''Greed'' are Huston's ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' and Welles's ''The Magnificent Ambersons''. Rosenbaum believes that besides Huston's film ending with gold being lost in the desert and similarities between Trina's descent into madness with Fred C. Dobbs own obsessions, the two films have little else in common. ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' and ''Greed'' both have characters who struggle with class differences that lead to their downfall. ''Ambersons'' was famously edited down drastically by its studio and the cut footage is now lost. Rosenbaum goes on to state that ''Greed'' influenced the methods in which novels are adapted into films and filmmakers like Welles, Huston and [[Bill Forsyth]] followed von Stroheim's example by re-arranging the plot and adding new scenes to their films while still remaining faithful to the intentions of the original novels.{{sfn|Rosenbaum|1993|pp=58-59}} In the first chapter of the 1966 [[serial film]] ''Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates'', the uncut version of ''Greed'' is used as a [[plot device]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Devil Is Driving and Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates: Chapters 1 and 2|url=https://bampfa.org/event/devil-driving-and-captain-celluloid-vs-film-pirates-chapters-1-and-2 |website=bampfa.org |publisher=[[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive]] |access-date=February 12, 2021 |date=August 1, 1983}}</ref> The 1994 [[Jonathan Lynn]] film ''[[Greedy (film)|Greedy]]'' pays tribute to the film by giving the main characters the last name McTeague.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/greedy-1994 |title=Greedy |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |publisher=[[Sun-Times Media Group]] |location=Chicago |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |access-date=October 1, 2013 |date=March 4, 1994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421212700/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19940304%2FREVIEWS%2F403040304%2F1023 |archive-date=April 21, 2007}}</ref>