garbo plays a ghetto girl abandoned by some spanish peasant due to his mother's disapproval. There're some vividly binary conceptualization abound in the early cinema, and the dichotomy of madonna/whore thrives in this primtivee stage of cinema to resonate the stark vision without vocal expressions. 1926 "torrent" is divine greta garbo's american debute starring the soon to be unknown ricardo cortez (the first sam spade in 1930 maltese falcon), despite louis b mayber's dimissive criticism of garbo as "tall, chulky peasant," garbo still shimmers without adrian's endorsements of glamour until her later cooperation with john gilbert in "flesh and the devil" which catapults garbo into the niche of aboslute seductress in silent cinema.
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