"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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  • Intertitle: Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city whose people have given us many of our highest ideals, and from the carpenter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the Man of Men, the greatest enemy of intolerance.

  • Intertitle: Another period of the past. A.D. 1572-Paris, a hotbed of intolerance, in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her son Charles IX, King of France. Charles IX receiving his brother, Monsieur La France, Duc d'Anjou. The heir to the throne, the effeminate Monsieur La France. Pets and toys his pastimes.