The Death of a Nation
The circle of life continues!
Like you didn't see it coming; "I want my three hours and twelve minutes back." The only good thing to come out of those 192 minutes were an intertitle where Evil_Mulatto_Guy demands Elsie Stoneman's hand in marriage (don't get excited, I had to look up her name), and asks her to, I'm paraphrasing here, but these words were used, "sit beside him as the Queen of his Black Empire."
As I sat there in the second row, I could not help but let slip, "together, we can rule the galaxy!" in a whisper to the guy next to me. He laughed a little. The kicker was the kid sitting in front and to the left of me heard it, and thought it was the funniest thing he'd heard all day. By the way his laugh is utterly contagious, so after the second laugh he let out, the entire class erupted at his laugh. I finished laughing by the time the kid started, but the laughter looped back on me, and I was welling up because 120 people just laughed at a joke they didn't hear, that I told. I'm so funny. (ps. If you didn't get it, it was most definitely a joke you'd needed to have seen the Empire Strikes Back for.. and no I'm really not this nerdy. I'm not, shut up!)
The rest of the movie was an "innocent" smear on "blacks" in the post-Civil War South. Let's talk stereotypes. I got to see an African-American eat fried chicken in the State legislature of South Carolina, at the same location, I saw another member of this same legislature with his feet up on a desk, another sneaking booze during the session. And in the domestic realm, I saw a female eating a watermelon! I know what black people are all about now along with ya know, stealing our women and impregnating them with colored seed. Thank you DW Griffith, I understand the purpose of the KKK now - to protect the Aryan people. As was said in an intertitle. Unfortunately, Aryan people are in extremely short supply in the American South even today! Your wanting to protect them makes perfect sense. Although I don't understand a "Klan" of white guys in white sheets running around to protect Iranians, I get lost on that. Sorry! Or maybe it was the uneducated South run amuck on its own stupidity, and the entire movie was an attempt at irony. I get it now!
If the movie weren't "super ultra feature length film" (feature length is qualified at 40ish minutes, and this was the first ever to break 100 minutes long) we would've only watched it as "the crazy ass stereotypes of the period movie." Or, "the movie about the KKK." Good times!
I had a hard time appreciating anything in this movie. Although, knowing the entire thing was filmed without a script, storyboard, or any of that stuff, makes the 192 minute movie all the more impressive, if no less annoying.
Thanks for nothing Grand Wizard Griffith.
Like you didn't see it coming; "I want my three hours and twelve minutes back." The only good thing to come out of those 192 minutes were an intertitle where Evil_Mulatto_Guy demands Elsie Stoneman's hand in marriage (don't get excited, I had to look up her name), and asks her to, I'm paraphrasing here, but these words were used, "sit beside him as the Queen of his Black Empire."
As I sat there in the second row, I could not help but let slip, "together, we can rule the galaxy!" in a whisper to the guy next to me. He laughed a little. The kicker was the kid sitting in front and to the left of me heard it, and thought it was the funniest thing he'd heard all day. By the way his laugh is utterly contagious, so after the second laugh he let out, the entire class erupted at his laugh. I finished laughing by the time the kid started, but the laughter looped back on me, and I was welling up because 120 people just laughed at a joke they didn't hear, that I told. I'm so funny. (ps. If you didn't get it, it was most definitely a joke you'd needed to have seen the Empire Strikes Back for.. and no I'm really not this nerdy. I'm not, shut up!)
The rest of the movie was an "innocent" smear on "blacks" in the post-Civil War South. Let's talk stereotypes. I got to see an African-American eat fried chicken in the State legislature of South Carolina, at the same location, I saw another member of this same legislature with his feet up on a desk, another sneaking booze during the session. And in the domestic realm, I saw a female eating a watermelon! I know what black people are all about now along with ya know, stealing our women and impregnating them with colored seed. Thank you DW Griffith, I understand the purpose of the KKK now - to protect the Aryan people. As was said in an intertitle. Unfortunately, Aryan people are in extremely short supply in the American South even today! Your wanting to protect them makes perfect sense. Although I don't understand a "Klan" of white guys in white sheets running around to protect Iranians, I get lost on that. Sorry! Or maybe it was the uneducated South run amuck on its own stupidity, and the entire movie was an attempt at irony. I get it now!
If the movie weren't "super ultra feature length film" (feature length is qualified at 40ish minutes, and this was the first ever to break 100 minutes long) we would've only watched it as "the crazy ass stereotypes of the period movie." Or, "the movie about the KKK." Good times!
I had a hard time appreciating anything in this movie. Although, knowing the entire thing was filmed without a script, storyboard, or any of that stuff, makes the 192 minute movie all the more impressive, if no less annoying.
Thanks for nothing Grand Wizard Griffith.
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