Planning on watching it, but I'm concerned a bit about the pacing. I watch long movies pretty frequently, but never a silent movie longer than Metropolis.
Is it more interesting for historical reasons or actually entertaining?
Nathan Rivera
Mason Ward
Griffith did nothing wrong
Alexander Richardson
It's basically two movies that are 1 and a half hour each, so you could watch it in two goes. All the famously racist stuff is in the second half (post Civil War)
Josiah Bell
Thanks user I'll just watch the second half in that case.
Jack Gonzalez
You should watch the whole thing, the plot follows the lives of two families during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Maybe you should warm up with some pre-BoaN shorts by Griffith before you jump the gun then you might find it "boring" like those people on review sites. I'd suggest his entire surviving filmography, but these one are theme-related to BoaN:
A Corner in Wheat
In the Border States
The House with Closed Shutters
The Rose of Kentucky
Swords and Hearts
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
If you feel like downloading it, here's a rip from the 2015 BFI Blu-ray, better than anything you can find on Youtube, TPB, rutracker or DDL sites:
archive.4plebs.org
You can compare it here to the other versions:
caps-a-holic.com
John Hill
I have a link to a 15 GB copy of this.. I think.
drive.google.com
Though the opening credits didn't seem to mention the BFI directly, they did note it was a 2015 restoration by Photoplay, so I guess it's the BFI release.
Dylan Foster
(runtime is also the same -- 3 hours, 11 min. as opposed to 13 min.)
Charles Turner
Yeah, it's the same restoration.
>-USURY
Don't know how I could have skipped this one. It doesn't even figure on scene release listing sites.
Thanks, user.
Nathan Young
It's unironically kino. It's basically the first significantly modern movie, especially in Griffith's use of editing as a storytelling tool.
Daniel Bailey
I keep looking to see if they'll add it to Vudu as that's the storefront I use for all my movies but I'll have to give in and bookmark your links. I wonder if the age hinders the sale for whatever reason
Blake Perez
I like the second part, I grow up in a bad place (multicultural place, blacks, latinos, trans and mix) violence was common...now I live in a white place, then I believe this movie was racist now I realize how true is it
Christian Lewis
It's pretty boring, unless you're a film student start with the 20s. Unless Intollerance is better I've never seen that one.
Cameron Rivera
>another Yas Forums bait thread
Why? Why do this every other week?
Landon Brooks
You need to watch several "films" which came before it before you can really appreciated it. It raised the levels of the medium significantly, but it's not exactly entertaining in any way by modern standards.
Nathan Ortiz
>It raised the levels of the medium significantly
it's just propaganda.
Wyatt Martinez
I don't think the idea was to resurrect the Klan and cause race riots.
Michael Phillips
>I don't think the idea was to resurrect the Klan
because you're a retard?
Ayden Cooper
Yeah haha that's what CNN told me too!
Jayden Williams
>you need CNN to tell you about a Grififth movie that's over a century old
Nicholas Martin
>MUH CNN
Brayden Nguyen
Don't forget King Kong is racist, even though it wasn't the intention even in the directors didn't know about it we know it's true because we said so.
Aiden Gray
>you can't just bring up that Grifith was a fan of the Klan and that this was all an attempt to pain them as mythic heroes! Noo!!! You can't just do that!
What is the game here? Are you just a retarded person or pretending?
Evan Nelson
>literal propaganda film shilling the Klan
>you can't call this racist though
Carter Gomez
do have any evidence that it was intentional? yes it clearly did but those are not the same thing
Aiden Gonzalez
Wouldn't Yas Forumsshitters be glad that this is a racist movie? Wouldn't that help your narrative more than pretending he was "le ironic" racist by "accident"?
Thomas Allen
In 1915 Klan was only a distant memory of post-Civil War era and nothing more. The Klan than unexpectedly emerged after this movie was based on its appearance in it like cossplayers.
Connor Jenkins
>do have any evidence that it was intentional?
None of you have actually watched Birth of a Nation, huh? It's clearly intentional and Grifith has spoken in favor of the Klan on numerous personal occassions. This is like some bizzare cognitive dissonance.
Christian Robinson
>"distant memory"
>in 1915
based althype faggot retard.
William White
You're right I haven't, why are you name calling instead of giving a link or something. being helpful is more convincing than being a culture-warring fag
Christian Bailey
No it was still pretty boring despite being a film student in my 20s.
Logan Perry
50 years and I won't forget how you thought that 20s-era KKK was already established and the movie was made as a sign of approval. Nice anachronism. Still boring movie.
Henry Campbell
it's very watchable for an over 100 year old production. Perhaps more so if you enjoy a bit of theater.
And it's honest unlike trash like gone with the wind
Ethan Hall
It amazed the audiences back then. Today nothing works for the modern viewer, romance or action. The stuff I liked the most was the depiction of Lincoln's assassination. Movies like Nosferatu or Metropolis aged better. 20s has quite a lot of movies that break the barrier between historical significance and genuine unironic enjoyment.