DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.
So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
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So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
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Also, I thought it was far too long & rather boring.
Like it was the 20th-century equivalent of a Trump tweet but with more racism.
Yeah, he did none of these things and I have the receipts.
But edited closeups were pioneered and popularized in 1900 by George Albert Smith to capture two important things: his cats and his wife's legs.
Well, two words: Elon Musk.
But seriously, Griffith himself took out a whole double page ad spread to claim he invented everything.
Quick question: Have they SEEN a Griffith film? Or a film made by anyone else at the time? Or is this a Blue Stone of Galveston situation?
Griffith encouraged blatant ham.
That movie is bonkers and outrageous and so horribly racist it boggles the mind.
https://youtu.be/Dz7BvYzTHqc?si=u_te9bLXbjBTpyPQ
(to the tune of 12 days of Christmas)
Three Griffith films
One Melies
One Edison
And a burning cross for you and for me!
The same professor claimed Marlene Dietrich was a star due to her “exceptional orifices”
Taking notes in that class was an exercise in eye rolling
Thank you for posting. 👍🙏
..if only I could bookmark it.. 🥺
I still haven’t seen BOAN and have little desire to, but I don’t get the impression it would do that.
I've always said, TBOAN *and* Gone with the Wind should only be taught to show the HISTORY of (1) how deeply embedded the KKK was in U.S. power structures, and (2) how the Lost Cause Mythology was spread.
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