/lit/ - Literature

>>16874793
>Intolerance and Birth of a Nation are garbage
Pump the brakes kid, those films a quintessential classics for understanding American film, just as much as Ford imo
>buh-but it's racist!!!
Well yeah, but that's the point of 'BoaN', I honestly think if Griffith never made that film, racism would not have been as bad in the US as it was. It did so many things films had never done before (like something as simple as inventing the close-up), and to me, it showed the power of using new art forms for propaganda. 'Intolerance' is the perfect companion piece since Griffith wanted to use that to atone for what he had done, and he did so masterfully.

It's insane that we live so close to the birth of an art form as powerful as film, and for anyone that truly loves it, it will do them good to study even the "controversial" ones that shaped our visual literacy and understanding. It'd be like loving video games as a medium and disregarding things like Pong or Tetris because they're "old."