Soo.... yeah. You know, in film school they talk about this movie. About its significance in film history, and to the craft. But they don't actually show it. They show Intolerance, or Broken Blossoms, the films Griffith made by way of apology. But one of the things that initially inspired this project was my desire to finally take the plunge, and deal with this monster once and for all. THE movie. THAT movie. The bush everyone's always beating around. So, here goes.
January 2, 2011
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Revisionist history, for the win!
Okay, that said...what a bizarre movie. First off, it's LONG. Ridiculously long. At 3 hours and 7 minutes, it's the longest movie I have ever watched (I can't count the director's cut of "The Lord of the Rings" because I always fall asleep during it and thus never manage to see the whole thing). Second, it pretty much completely rewrites the Reconstruction period, complete with evil black people, poor oppressed white people, and the dashing and heroic Ku Klux Klan. Yeah...weird.
Okay, that said...what a bizarre movie. First off, it's LONG. Ridiculously long. At 3 hours and 7 minutes, it's the longest movie I have ever watched (I can't count the director's cut of "The Lord of the Rings" because I always fall asleep during it and thus never manage to see the whole thing). Second, it pretty much completely rewrites the Reconstruction period, complete with evil black people, poor oppressed white people, and the dashing and heroic Ku Klux Klan. Yeah...weird.
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