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Post by pop_actor on Feb 6, 2017 0:14:04 GMT
Do you think it's a matter of time before they boycott the DVD...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 14:26:38 GMT
Ah, the film was out there in public domain forever. The 'good prints' are probably hard to watch by anyone under 40-50 anyway.
It'll always be out there.
I invested some cash in solid prints of Chaplin, and a few other 'classics'. The bottom line? We are a 'far and few between' bunch. Silent films (as much as I love them, and appreciate their history) are a very, VERY, isolated artform. 10 to 15 year heyday, 25 year total history. Small window.
It's kind of like, going on to youtube, and listening to old network radio shows from the 30's and 40's. One must really have an interest. "Birth Of A Nation" will always have it's 'spot' in film history. Strangely, it's deserved notoriety helps assure that. (Not to mention it being 'privately screened' to the POTUS, 1915).
It'll always be available somewhere. I do believe interest will wain, though. I've had a copy for 10 years or so, had seen it on public television a few times. I have no interest in ever watching it again. At this point, it serves more as a 'time capsule' on how white racism was the acceptable norm in 1915 America in many circles.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 7, 2017 9:32:36 GMT
Ah, the film was out there in public domain forever. The 'good prints' are probably hard to watch by anyone under 40-50 anyway. It'll always be out there. I invested some cash in solid prints of Chaplin, and a few other 'classics'. The bottom line? We are a 'far and few between' bunch. Silent films (as much as I love them, and appreciate their history) are a very, VERY, isolated artform. 10 to 15 year heyday, 25 year total history. Small window. I am still surprised though that silent movies don't have their own, main board here. Funny you should say that, but ... BOAN is a classic, which like The Merchant of Venice or Triumph of the Will , will always be watched and commented upon, not least since, with all faults it is a milestone in the start of cinema as we know it. I agree that it is not something that one would watch more than once or twice though. |
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Post by MooseNugget on Dec 8, 2017 10:17:26 GMT
I finally watched the film. I didn't expect it to be this bad. It's a terribly racist film.
But I'm against censorship. People should be able to express their ideas or make art even if most people don't like it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 20:23:42 GMT
I watched it years ago, Its not a good movie.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 8, 2017 20:47:04 GMT
I have seen Intolerance.
Interesting that BOAN has a "psychopathic" mulatto. Even in 1962's NIGHT CREATURES aka CAPTAIN CLEGG they have a violent mulatto as an antagonist.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 10, 2017 22:51:57 GMT
Egh, it's been a hundred years, I doubt it. Besides, the KKK and similar organizations probably have stockpiled copies from different formats over the years.
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