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The Sorrows of Satan | 1926 | dir. D.W. Griffith

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Have you seen The Birth of a Nation (1915)?

Yes

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onDec 1, 2024

Providing some context to this film due to the nature of its contents. This film appears on the list “1001 Films You Must See Before You Die,” which this blog is currently using for polls. It is a compilation of films deemed important to watch for those interested in cinema as determined by dozens of film critics. The Birth of a Nation appears on that list, and thus this poll blog, because of its technical feats- as it says on its Wikipedia: “it was the first American-made film to have a musical score for an orchestra[, and] it pioneered closeups and fadeouts”- but also because of its historical significance. This film is infamously extremely racist, with a plot line that demonizes African Americans (largely portrayed by white people in blackface) while glorifying the KKK to such a degree that studies even link the film to a rise in support for the racist hate group. This was also the first movie to be screened in the White House, to President Woodrow Wilson, so its historical significance cannot be downplayed.

I am thus choosing not to omit this film from this blog’s polling pool despite its nefarious nature because I am interested in how familiar people are with it and its role in history. I encourage anyone voting “haven’t heard of this movie” to at least read the Wikipedia article (my source for all of the above information) about it as it’s important to be aware of prominent films like this and how they did and continue to impact the culture we reside in.

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Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith created their own film studio, United Artists Corporation, on February 5, 1919. #OnThisDay

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The unchanging sea (1910), D.W. Griffith

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"The Birth of a Nation" (D.W. Griffith, 1915)

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Griffith's Vision of Babylon! A mare's nest mountain of scaffolding, hanging gardens, chariot-race ramparts, and sky high elephants, a make believe mirage of Mesopotamia dropped down on the sleepy huddle of mission-style bungalows amid the orange groves that made up 1915 Hollywood, portent of things to come. The Purple Epoch had begun.

And there it stood for years, stranded like some gargantuan dream beside Sunset Boulevard. Long after Griffith's great leap into the unknown, his Sun Play of the Ages, Intolerance, had failed; long after Belshazzar's Court had sprouted weeds and its walls had begun to peel and warp in abandoned movie-set disarray; after the Los Angeles Fire Department had condemned it as a fire hazard, still it stood: Griffith's Babylon, something of a reproach and something of a challenge to the burgeoning movie town — something to surpass, something to live down. The shadow of Babylon had fallen over Hollywood, a serpent spell in code cuneiform; a scandal was waiting, just out of Billy Bitzer's camera range. — Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger

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