>be Birth of a Nation(1915)
>a hallmark in cinema, setting the basic template for all feature-length films in the future
>pioneered numerous cinematic techniques we take for granted today: flashbacks, cross-cutting, fades, close-ups, etc.
>first film to feature a scene shot at night and a large-scale battle sequence
>2.3/5 in letterboxd
how
>how
it was capeshit.
Old movies are not good. People really didn't start figuring out how to make good films until around the late-70s.
It's racist. Also, I doubt this is true.
>pioneered numerous cinematic techniques we take for granted today: flashbacks, cross-cutting, fades, close-ups, etc.
Because it told the truth
the worst part is this is how most whites act now
>"Hey Shaquavious, can you sit at this desk and pretending to be ignoring the proceedings while eating and speaking to your colleagues? "
>"Yeah sure"
>"Hey LeJaMarcus, want to stand in center frame and eat a chicken leg, then when Toby takes his boots off, do a double take?"
>"Anything you say Mr.Director"
>LOOK AT HOW UNRULY THESE NIGGERS WOULD BE IN CONGRESS, CAN'T YOU SEE HOW SUBHUMAN THEY ARE
Because it was le racist
I think all of those actors were White people in face paint
Well for one, that's the nature of film and all satire.
And for two, have you never watched any African Parliament? It's not wrong.
How did they make this white guy have a negro skull?
Are you blind
IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE A DOCUMENTARY
What do you expect when that behavior has been glorified to the upper middle class whites of suburbia since the 80's with gangsgter rap.
You don't understand. They are making a mockery of the institutions that raised and guide our country. It was a warning we did not heed, and now we suffer.
it is though? it was so important and influential that it helped revive the KKK and was the first film screened for a president
lol who were these broken bucks who participated in mocking their own race?
>It's racist.
Okay, and?
Oh shit, I didn't actually watch the webm. I saw the film years ago and remembered it wrong
Innovative doesn't mean good.
Nosferatu is a piece of shit too.
The original "Boyz in the Hood"
Give me one example of racism in this movie.
There's a handful of dudes in minstrel gear during the wide shots like the guy in the top hat throwing back a slug in the bottom right of the first scene
Why is minstrel racist?
Triumph of the Will only has 3.5 stars on letterboxd, despite having quite possibly the best photography of any documentary film ever made.
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Stupid opinion. Nosferatu is probably the most “watchable” silent film for today’s audiences. Name another 100-year-old film that is more relevant.
Fpbp
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis off the top of my head, though Metropolis is 5 years from being a century old
>Nosferatu is probably the most “watchable” silent film for today’s audiences.
No.
The Kid
you've acknowledged that the movie should be fairly judged for its technical achivements, so why shouldn't it's intent as propaganda be included in the judgement as well?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a lot more easily digestible than Nosferatu.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of the best movies ever made
>how
I think you meant to post Cabiria from the year before.
Genuine African parliaments are often much worse than this lmao
*blocks your path while being the most beautiful woman in existence*
but black people
>be OP
>green text the backstory to a 200 yr old movie
>”I was born in…le wrong generation”
Dude cringe as hell and letter box is for tr*ns teens
>it was capeshit.
Sheetshit actually
Our congressman used to literally beat eachother with canes. Why are you pretending civilization is anything but a suck joke?
Well, i’m hard. It’s amazing we have pics in the OP so I can easily imagine the scene. I mean just look at those two, I can almost smell the slightly sweet perspiration on their little bodies after a long day. Their limber little doll like frames and those slightly greasy, soft locks of strawberry blonde hair. They smell slightly gross because of their lack of care for hygiene at that age but also there’s a youthful sweetness to the scent. It smells like innocence, like eve after a day of running around in the garden. And then there’s the shadow behind them. A big chunky black man, god I can imagine his musky aroma subconsciously setting off their precocious little breed me alarm. They probably don’t understand it, but their petite oh so delicate little pale white lily flower bodies will react to a towering thick lipped mastiff like that so close. I mean just look at it, there’s an undeniable air of naughty taboo animalistic rutting and de flowering and all he’s doing is standing there!! I bet their piss fish smelling little peepees were trickling the first droplets of horny wetness in that very pic- how ideal that it’s on their birthday. The innocent princess smiles and little lips- god imagine his thick steaming brown rod sliding up against them. Their oversized heads, their squeaky little voices, the treble and pitch of anxious fear out those little mouths as that towering ebony stud grunts and whispers all manner of obscenities as their untouched miniature mouths struggle to cover the staggering surface area of his pulsating nigger meat. They don’t know what this is, they don’t have a choice, at the back of their minds their lizard brains always knew they’d eventually get too coy, too teasing around this stud and his bloody coal member would leap out at them. Even that young biology works it’s magic and their brain needs that genetic diversity. Oh you think they’re so innocent and pure, and they do too, but undeniably there
I like Haxan very much. It never really drags and has singular visuals.
Based
Fun fact. D. W. Griffith wasn't directing the actors. He told them they were going to start filming in 15 and this is them just acting naturally.
I was in my early 30s when that movie came out and it scared the absolute shit outta me.
It is true. Griffith invented the techniques that form the language of film.
The ghost of GriffithFag watches over this thread.
>falling for obvious bait
you sicken me
And those techniques Griffith didn’t invent were mostly developed by Welles in Citizen Kane.
bros...
dogfucker spotted
You forgot the war scene that Kubrick no-doubt wanted to copy in his Napoleon biopic that never materialized.
It's weird that probably the greatest movie ever made was about the KKK saving the day.
I shill for the treasure of the sierra madre whenever I get the opportunity user. It's my favorite movie. I throw it on when I can't think of something to go to sleep to, I've watched it 10 times in a year, I show everyone it. I do not care if it's b8. Watch the treasure of the sierra madre
Oh yes Haxan too, though I think it can drag a bit at times (not much, though).
>be Dude Where's My Car (2000)
>a hallmark in cinema, setting the basic template for all feature-length films in the future
>pioneered numerous cinematic techniques we take for granted today: flashbacks, cross-cutting, fades, close-ups, etc.
>first film to feature a scene shot at night and a large-scale battle sequence
>2.6/5 in letterboxd
how
Does that count though? Sure it was capeshitty-ish but.. being the first of it's kind, does that really merit that title.
It wasn't what gave action hero flicks a bad name, artistic wise I mean.
>It's racist. Also, I doubt this is true.
>pioneered numerous cinematic techniques we take for granted today: flashbacks, cross-cutting, fades, close-ups, etc.
Why are black-ass gorilla-nose negroes so ignorant? They could look something up on their Obamaphone, but they won't. It's like all negroes are determined to stay ignorant no matter what.
Either that or they all have an average of 80 IQ like science says.
Birth of a Nation was prophetic, everyone knows that. But you'll get cancelled for admitting it.
sorry sweetie but The Birth of a Nation is ours now
Didn't this movie flop as Oscarbait because the guy who directed it got metood or some shit
guys who wanted a paycheck and didn't give a fuck
he and his buddy were revealed to be rapists
never got another chance at Hollywood ever again