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I got hooked because it was teatime and there was fuck-all I could find on my 28 streaming services and Twilight was just on telly. Sooo... now I have to re-watch the rest.

As popcorn films, they're not bad. The politics - fucking hell, there's a huge NOPE about once every ten minutes.

But, hey, nowhere near as bad as #BirthOfANation or #BreakfastAtTiffanys and they're lauded works.

This one is only for students of the #craft and #art of #film.

Repeated use of *the* #homophobic slur bothers me, though that was how most people spoke publicly in that era, and even into this century.

#Misogyny is also open here.

Both so casually accepted and expressed it really reduces the value of watching this to being purely technical for most people.

I won't watch #BirthOfANation regardless of its place in #cinematic #history.

The originality of this can't negate its open #bigotry

9/23 Among other things, Wilson hosted a screening of a new thing, a movie, #BirthofANation, which portrayed the #KKK as "a heroic force, necessary to preserve American values, protect white women, and maintain #WhiteSupremacy".

Celebrating this movie in the White House legitimized #WhiteSupremacy and connected it to Washington, the north!

Jim Crow, lynchings, Confederate symbol installations all grew in his wake. Not coincidence.

Feb 8th 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
FULL VIDEO ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN USA HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgMxy4Arj8&t
• (part 1) #onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #usa #civilrights #blm #hollywood #racism #birthofanation #filmhistory #problematic #blackhistory

If I ever teach a first-year film course, I am NOT making a whole class watch BIRTH OF A NATION because it’s just not worth it. Why put them through that just to see examples of cinematic techniques that we can look at in other films from a few years later?

#FilmStudies #FilmSchool #BirthOfANation #racism #cinema #cinemastodon