Considering Lindsey has outright mocked TER Fs before on her Twitter and is supportive of trans rights, I find that claim to be bullshit. I'd advise against speculating any conspiracies on it.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I love Celebrities or other popular non-political people using Twitter. Otherwise it just makes me depressed.
Lindsey is ever so unimpressionable. She never did things anyone else's way, she does everything her own way. If she wants to go back on reviewing Wreck-It Ralph, she doesn't. If she wants to leave CA on her own decision, she does. And now Twitter.
edited 21st Dec '17 8:45:42 PM by kyun
Probably the Griffiths one. The Nate Parker one barely made an impact beyond the stuff surrounding the creators of it.
The Griffiths one, though, has a genuinely difficult dilemma surrounding it. Yes, it’s one of the first places that used many of those film and editing techniques (if not ever, at least all together)...but it’s still incredibly racist and glorifies the KKK. It’s also really goddamned boring by modern standards. It’s like three hours long and since it’s a silent film, it’s very difficult to sit through nowadays. It’s also a dilemma that a lot of the really important early films didn’t actually really have.
There’s also the wrinkle of D.W. Griffith maybe having done it on a work-for-hire basis. He certainly didn’t come up with it, it was based on a pre-existing book. His follow-up film, which was definitely a passion project of his, was called Intolerance and had almost the exact opposite message of Birth of a Nation.
My opinion on Birth of a Nation is that it should be remembered and archived for posterity, but it shouldn’t be part of the average film course. Again, it’s really, really boring, but the techniques it uses are actually pretty simple and are in basically everything nowadays. Pick something else that uses the same techniques in a simple way to show how they work, and don’t use the really boring incredibly racist example. If you have to use an example from that period, use a segment from Intolerance. It’s practically an anthology film, so you wouldn’t need to use the entire four hour length, but you’d get the same point across without watching something that glorifies the KKK.
I wonder if she'll do a video on the subject of Disney purchasing 20th Century Fox.
edited 8th Jan '18 12:33:06 PM by Noah1
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