Author: George PeattyGeorge Peatty Date: May 27, 2007 16:51
On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:39:13 -0000, circle@ armory.com (Samantha, the Dancing
Net-Kook) wrote:
>Birth of a Nation is only watched film students who are forced to
>suffer through it because they have an ameri-centric film history
>professor, and white-supremicist asshats. Most people wouldn't watch
>it without being forced. In that regard, it is probably quite
>comparable to a Michael Bay movie, though it's even more like a Mel
>Gibson-directed film.
I have found it in the bargain bin of my local Best Buy .. I doubt that it
is "only watched [by] film students".
And no less than Billy Wilder, himself no slouch as a director, said that D.
W. Griffith was a genius, a label not likely to be applied to Bay or Gibson
anytime soon ..
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