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Yeah, "A Birth of a Nation" came to my mind, too. Its kinda comical now, its so damn blatant. Surely D.W. Griffith knew better...
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"Surely D.W. Griffith knew better..."
Evidently not. Odd guy, made BOAN but also Intolerance, Broken Blossoms and Abraham Lincoln. Who knows what a guy thinks. |
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French Connection. The gritty, grungy look of NY. The car chase that was done without permission, etc.
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"Hatari"...The animal rights people would go berserk over it...Even though they were trying to preserve animals...
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Freaks.
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Political correctness would certainly change how many characters are portrayed. Could Gone With the Wind be made today with Prissy's famous line: "Lordsie, we got to have a doctor. I don' know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies!"
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"Yet, despite the advances, I am still vaguely aware that it is fake."
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...one of us. We accept you. One of us.
Gabba Gabba Hey! Joey Ramone must have loved that movie. I only saw it recently on IFC or TCM, I can't remember which. NASCAR driver Kyle Petty was a guest on a show and chose that film to watch. I was kind of taken aback by his choice of this movie. I figured he would want to see 'Thunder Road' or 'Greased Lightning' or some race car film, but he wanted to share with the world his love of 'Freaks'. One thing that I could never understand was at the end when the black dude with no arms or legs was crawling through the mud with a knife in his mouth. How exactly do you stab or cut someone when you have no hands? Stephen King calls it "suspension of disbelief". |
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"Dr Strangelove" would be kinda hard to pull off now. So would, I think, "A Clockwork Orange", & "2001: A Space Odessy", especially seein' as how this is 2007, & space travel is arguably farther off in the future than it was in '68.
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