Birth of a Nation
Date Submitted: 12/18/2004 14:05:35
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 3 pages (879 words)
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 3 pages (879 words)
"Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith was a great masterpiece. It was one of the most technologically advanced films ever made for it's time period. The film paved the way for the great film industry: showing its audiences the longest film they had ever seen and the most eventful. "Birth of a Nation" had such an impact on the American people that excluding "Gone With the Wind" it is thought to have the …
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…ly trying to gain justice in the country. All of these strategies permitted the American people to be impacted by the film's messages and values. These themes, messages, and cinematic techniques had such an impact on Americans that the film changed the way Americans interpreted their history, to believe that whites were the underdog minority, blacks were the stupid savages who lusted after white women and anarchy, and the KKK were heroes fighting for justice.
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