Sentence:  Of the two , Porter is justly the better known , for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film , toward making the motion picture the intricate , efficient time machine that it has remained since , <WSD>even</WSD> in the most inept hands . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected