#birth of a nation

[dimonds456]

Rb for sample size, ect ect

[emmieexplores2]

Lillian Gish, Birth of a Nation postcard 1915

[itcanbefilmed]

The Mountaineer's Honor (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

[mariocki]

RIP David Leland (20.4.1941 - 24.12.2023)

"As I’d left school with no qualifications at all, I was searching for something that I could do that didn’t involve qualifications. I couldn’t go to art school because you had to have an O or A level in art but I discovered that you didn’t need any dreaded qualifications to go to college to study to become an actor and I thought, yes! There we go! I was born to be an actor!"

"I think the writing started during the time I was training to be an actor. We were taught what was known as the Laban Carpenter psychology of movement, theory of movement. It had a language, a jargon attached to it, and we were encouraged to write scenarios – Al Pacino talks about this - which would give you a sensation of how other people behave. We would write scenarios and then perform them to each other and writing became a kind of secret obsession."

[reasoningdaily]

[blackdiasporanews]

#NeverForget

[tonyrossmcmahon]

Ku Klux Klan - a history of brutal murder

The brutal history of the Ku Klux Klan from its founding in 1865 and its record of murder exposed by TV historian Tony McMahon

Flaming crosses and white hoods are what comes to mind when we hear the words: Ku Klux Klan. Since 1865, this organisation has been responsible for thousands of murders, lynchings, and beatings. It��s tentacles have extended into corridors of power. Two state governors who tried to bring the KKK down saw their own political careers destroyed. So, let’s look back at over 160 years of the Ku Klux…

[sea-otter148]

Midsommar is just Birth of a Nation for TERF-adjacent white women and I will maintain this stance to the grave.

[thesapphocinephile]

**Elaborate in the comments or tags**

[ultralaser]

yellowstone is great bc it's about the sanctity of generational familial relationships with land in the face of encroaching theft of sovereignty, but then it's about a bunch of fkn white people

[ultralaser]

important to remember this isnt an allegory, this was 1960 those specific white people are still alive and voting for trump

Same assholes, different year.

[americatransformed]

Going to try and make this a regular episode in my Temples of Light (Avatar) blog - The power of film, through the lens of an alternate universe: (I dare not post this on the Midjourney forum, because doubtful it would be approved!) 

Movies are all about the heroes journey. Imagine one where we go back in time! Visualize a place where anti-heroes are redeemed, after coming face to face with their fallen nature, and seeing a hidden reality they were once blind to. And then allowed to atone for their sins in present day, as a new man or woman, born again, never again doomed to make the same mistake twice.

In today’s Temples of Light Time Travel, we explore the question, “What if Woodrow Wilson screened 2015’s Birth of a Nation at the White House, rather than the 1915 version?” 

But alas, this is all fiction. The dead can never go back and redeem their past. That is the job of the living; to not make the same mistakes as those who never connected with higher consciousness, now stuck in the tombs of their ancestor’s shame!

Upon his first private screening, Woodrow Wilson had an earth breaking awakening, shattering his heart wide open, after connecting to the power of 21st century cinema in the early 20th century. Somehow, a copy of Nate Parker’s 2015 Birth of a Nation, began playing in place of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 version.

Because filmmakers of every generation continue to improve upon their craft, advancing their power to put the audience in the shoes of “the other,” Wilson had an awakening of consciousness, that brought into question his entire life path, and the respect he held for those who raised him.

This was painful for him to watch, knowing now about his complicity in a racist system, his ancestors helped defend and build. He wanted to turn away, but something inside him could not. Film had turned him into an Avatar, a pure witness that had now become Nat Turner, wearing his shoes, feeling his torment, pain, sorrow, and yes, rage!

Like the hero within Nat Turner awoke, bearing witness to the evil he was complicit in serving, Woodrow awoke for the first time in the White House theater, knowing now what he must do, to end the insanity. He had to share this film, not only with his staff, allies and close friends, but with the entire American people.

The next day at the White House Screening of Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation, Woodrow (seated far right) knew some of his so called friends would walk out. It was a perfect test, to see what kind of company he now wanted to keep.

The vivid color images, stunning sound and higher frame rate elicited a powerful reaction from the audience, most of whom could not take their eyes off the screen. At times, fits of crying and angry shouts erupted from viewers, compelling some to remain seated for the entirety of the film, while leading others to leave. By the end of the film, many who endured had a cathartic change of heart just like Woodrow.

He knew he had to take action, and first thing he could think of, was invite his old nemesis back to the White House; William Monroe Trotter, to make amends and change course, offering him a position in his administration.  (Woodrow Wilson hugging one of William Trotter’s Civil Rights associates after offering his sincere apology.)

Next on Woodrow’s agenda, to screen Parker’s Birth of a Nation on every screen in America, which infuriated D.W. Griffith. Soon the president started getting death threats, but this did not deter him. He was on the heroes journey!

Audiences across America were mesmerized by the film, many having the same breakthrough in consciousness the president had.

In city after city across America, the power of film was doing its work; awakening humans to higher consciousness.

(Nat Turner played by Nate Parker in Birth of a Nation)

The horrors of slavery for all to see, which was glorified in D.W. Griffith’s film.

Audiences transported like an Avatar into the shoes of “the other”.

The most powerful scene in Birth of Nation at the very end; freed slaves going into battle against Confederate troops in the American Civil War.

A young Woodrow Wilson around the time he was once a professor at Wesleyan University.

Wilson was not done, he thought back to that young man he used to be, brainwashed with racist ideology by parents just as blind as he once was. He wished he could go back in time, back to his days teaching at Wesleyan University. He was reminded of a beautiful student named Isabel, who had taken an interest in him, but he had to fight away feelings of attraction for her; their love would be forbidden. If only he could have gone back, as the changed new man he was today. He would find the moral courage to stand up to his racist father, declare his love and ask for her hand in marriage.

And if only he had another life to live, to atone for the one he was now ashamed of. He would stand up and be a real man, on a heroes journey to redeem the soul of America. No longer inhibited or stopped from doing what was righteous.

He would take a stand in the 2024 election, and do everything in his power to assure no more racists were ever elected president of the United States again!

[thetemplarknight]

Ku Klux Klan - a history of brutal murder

The brutal history of the Ku Klux Klan from its founding in 1865 and its record of murder exposed by TV historian Tony McMahon

Flaming crosses and white hoods are what comes to mind when we hear the words: Ku Klux Klan. Since 1865, this organisation has been responsible for thousands of murders, lynchings, and beatings. It’s tentacles have extended into corridors of power. Two state governors who tried to bring the KKK down saw their own political careers destroyed. So, let’s look back at over 160 years of the Ku Klux…

[immaculatasknight]

The invisible empire

[wakeupwereinthelastdays]

Birth of A Nation https://www.youtube.com/live/uFv-RLbu9-c?feature=share via @YouTube