"Good intentions" after the birth of a nation

Clifford 2022-03-14 08:01:02

To understand a work, sometimes you need wisdom. But to see through an author's background, the author's true intentions and inner thoughts, you need more than just a little wisdom.

In fact, Griffith's party against dissent actually wants to put the hat of anti-slavery on the head of anti-slavery, indicating that his family's slavery empire is the oppressed party and should be treated with tolerance.

It is not a problem for the slavery empire to open the head of any innocent person, but anyone who opposes slavery with words or actions is partisan, lacks tolerance, and does not understand the true meaning of love. Griffith also wanted to promote another of his own works, The Birth of a Nation, which was released two years ago (1914), and pointed out that those who opposed the birth of a Nation were also partisan.

The vaunted film is, in effect, as much as the Birth of a Nation, washing the ground for the heinous slavery empire, only in a more subtle way.

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Extended Reading
  • Elias 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    In the film, the use of filters of different shades to express different story scenes and the use of baffles to adjust the picture are now less common. The language of montage is even more literary, including Whitman's verses and some narration with the spoken word of the audio age. Language can not replace the length of 220 minutes of filming, the original version of the huge film is 480 minutes long, because modern projection equipment now only has 120 minutes of fast action, the master of editing

  • Eddie 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Parallel splicing, creating suspense, indoor and outdoor different tones, different scenes; association

Intolerance quotes

  • Intertitle: Universal justice, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a murder for a murder.

  • Judge of the Court: To be hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead!