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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. The Birth of a Nation This is the one. The icon of epic of the American silent film. Probably the oldest feature film to still be seen on "greatest of all time" movie list. Controversial in it's greatness and innovation of filmmaking vs. its rather racist sentiments and portrayals. It's long, over three hours. And it's really split into two parts. The first part did not seem overly controversial as what I was expecting. It was also probably the more boring of the two parts as well. Surprising since I think this part has more actual war scenes in it. The second part is the "reconstruction" and here is where the racist portrayals come in. A scene of black people who have been elected into congress eating chicken and watermelon during session and sitting there with their shoes off. That was from this movie wasn't it?? I hope I'm not getting it mixed up with anything I saw subsequently. ... "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The Birth of a Nation is on the following AFI list: The Original Top 100 (#44) Netflix, as usual, supplied me with a DVD copy of this film, which is a good thing because I had no intentions of watching it until I discovered that it was on the Original AFI list. I didn't even add it to my queue until I reached its placement on the list. My disclaimer going into this entry is that my day job—you know, the one I shouldn't quit?—is working as a civil rights investigator for state government. In other words, I investigate complaints of discrimination and harassment. Thus, my make-up is generally anti-racist, anti-prejudice, anti- anything that would remotely fall into this category. Now, if you don't already know, The Birth of a Nation is a silent film by renowned filmmaker D. "
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"It’s already been called the most important civil rights film of the decade, but only time will tell if Milk has any real impact on the gay marriage issue or any other related civil rights matter. Obviously the film, which is set thirty years in the past, can be appropriated by the campaign to overturn Proposition 8, but if that campaign is successful, it will be difficult to prove with certainty Milk contributed to the end result. The Birth of a Nation may have inspired a reformation of the Ku Klux Klan and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner may have opened some minds to wider acceptance of interracial marriage (which had just recently been legalized). However, as Time magazine reported earlier this year, it’s quite rare for cinema to really change the world. A "
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"At various turns, Abraham Lincoln (1930), D.W. Griffith’s first and most notorious sound film, comes off as the legendary director’s W.– the story of a simple, silly good ole boy’s rise to the U.S. Presidency. Walter Huston portrays young Abe as a tough but bumbling doof, romantic daydreamer and idle underachiever. Even his bride-to-be, Mary Todd, curses him as a “country baboon” at one point. But the rest of the film illustrates every last Honest Abe tall tale. Well, in that sense, it’s a lot like W., too: When in presidential mode, Huston’s Lincoln is as uncanny a reproduction of a national myth as Josh Brolin’s George W. Bush is of a national disgrace.
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"Not my favorite. Not the best...but...The MOST IMPORTANT and WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT?Rules/Guidelines:YOU CAN'T GIVE MORE THAN 5. Five is the absolute limit.IMPORTANT means it had a profound impact on the film industry, on art, on social change, on mankind.My choices:Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith):The first American epic. It was longer than any film and invented the "feature-length" film.The single most controversial American film ever made. Some credit it with reinvigorating the KKK and inspiring a new wave of racism to take hold in the US.It proved that film could be as important a social medium as an entertainment medium.The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola):No film epitomizes the golden age of American cinema more than this film.This film pioneered the frontier of American epics and changed the face of American filmmaking on an artistic level, giving American film it's first ever unique look and feel.Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas):This film redefined th ... "
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"This is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I'm still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I'm starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I'm going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decide ... "
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