Post by mikef6 on Jun 16, 2017 15:05:17 GMT
Perhaps the ultimate example and the one that people struggle with the most is “Birth Of A Nation.” It advanced the motion picture art in so many ways, esp. montage and cross-cutting, that its influence cannot be overstated. Yet, its subject matter should have relegated it to, at most, footnote status. Roger Ebert once wrote a long, two-part essay trying to reconcile the two halves of this film. I scanned over it once but don’t remember if he reached any conclusion. I don't think there is one.