Birth Of A Nation: Film Analysis

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Ever since I was a little boy I have always been interested in film, whether it’s watching the newest episode of Spongebob Squarepants or watching the 2015 Academy Awards I have always been fascinated by motion pictures, and more specifically good motion pictures. Most people when they go to see a film want to see lots of explosions and bad guys getting beat up, when I go to a movie I try to pay close attention to the cinematography and the acting performances for each of the characters. The thing I love the most about film is the way a film can capture a person and completely transport you to a whole new place mentally, while telling a great story. Filmmakers and their works of art have made changes to the way people look at the world by …show more content…

In the beginning films were all silent except for some music and black and white. Movies really started to get big with the release of Birth of a Nation in 1915. Birth of a Nation is an prime example of how film can influence an entire nation and poison the minds of millions. Some view this film as something furthering the cancer of the united states know as racism, which it is, but what it also parades is how an good story portrayed in the correct fashion can be instrumental in an major social movement. Birth of a Nation portrayed African Americans in the united states as beasts and the film blamed them for the civil war and many other of America's problems at the dawn of the twentieth century, and people really believed it. Although it is a film the glorifies segregation in american, it also is a prime example of the way motion pictures can get into peoples minds and completely change the way they view a subject. You can also see examples of this in many other films like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey released in 1968, with Kubrick’s use of special effects and convoluted subject matter this film made humans question their very existence, to this day experts debate the true meaning to this film. In 1972 Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather was released , this picture opened peoples eyes to the other side of America that we don’t see on TV, the world of underground crime, and American fell in love. All throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s “gangsters” took over the movie screen with films like Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), and Scarface (1983). There was just something people loved about seeing bad guys getting away with doing bad things. Just another example of how an good story told in the right way can make people fall in love, no matter how gruesome the subject matter is. You can

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