Master Index of Archived Threads
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
| 1 star | 1 votes |
| 1.5 | 0 votes |
| 2 | 0 votes |
| 2.5 | 0 votes |
| 3 | 0 votes |
| 3.5 | 0 votes |
| 4 | 0 votes |
| 4.5 | 0 votes |
| 5 | 0 votes |
| Benjamin Grimm Mar 24 2013 01:04 PM |
|
I've long been curious about this film, and I finally saw it for the first time yesterday.
|
| Edgy MD Mar 24 2013 01:40 PM Re: The Birth of a Nation (1915) |
|
What's to think? A huge step forward in the art and science of dramatic film. A huge step backwards for the culture of the nation.
|
| Vic Sage Mar 24 2013 09:41 PM Re: The Birth of a Nation (1915) |
|
Griffith invented the syntax of cinema, and created the feature length film with BIRTH OF A NATION, but he was a product of his time and geography. Born and raised in Kentucky, a few years after the civil war, a war in which his father served as a confederate colonel, the film's view of race, reconstruction and the KKK is hideous by contemporary standards. But it was a broadly accepted view of our recent history when it came out (though it did engender some protests in northern cities).
|