I try to refrain from commenting on that movie, as I was too bored with it to finish watching it. See also my silence on AVATAR.
But what if Qin, incensed over the Obama administration’s failure to stop hostilities between North & South Korea leading ot the eventual destruction of the entire peninsula in a nuclear holocaust, stole a time machine and returned to 1864, assassinating Booth before he could assassinate Lincoln, and thus changed the course of history? What THEN?
Ah, then Lincoln is free to fulfill his evil scheme of placing all the states, North and South, under an iron federal dictatorship, and crowning himself Emperor! His will enforced by his fanatically loyal and cruel Negro Praetorians, he suppresses Christianity and ushers in an age of licentious miscegenation! All that stands in his way is that stalwart underground resistance, the Knights of the Golden Circle!
I’d so watch that. It’d be nice watching a movie where the white man wins, for once.
Reconstruction is a debate in itself, but suffice it to say that the losers of a civil war never have a happy time of it.
I thought it was going to be about Harvey Fierstein’s drag persona Bertha Venation and they made a typo. (Though I still prefer Bang Bang LaDeshe to his other drag names.)
Hard to believe a famous movie is about to have a centennial celebration isn’t it? (There’s plenty of movies over 100 years old still around of course but this one was such a blockbuster.)
No studio exec in their right mind would even think of doing a remake of this unless it was to raise funding ala Max Bialystok. However, I think a HBO miniseries about the making of BoaN could be great. You’d get to see the dawn of Hollywood, Griffith, Gish, the actual Civil War veterans serving as advisors, the white actors playing black characters, a snapshot of race relations when it first appeared (it made millions of jaws drop like the crowd from The Producers even then) and of course the White House screening (when Wilson may or may not have made the “history written with lightning” comment- he may not have said it, though he certainly wouldn’t have corrected anybody who did). Plus silent movies are just a fascinating era and Eve of Blessed Memory could get some money as an advisor on Gish.
While you’re at it, why not start all-race branch of the KKK?
That’s happened to a limited extent. The KKK used to be anti-Catholic along with being anti-black but now it lets virtually all non-Jewish whites in.
Why don’t you go look up “race” in the dictionary.
While you’re at it, go ahead and look up “sarcasm”, too.
Actually Verhoeven doing a remake of Birth of a Nation would probably be something to watch.
The KKK. We’ve made a few…changes.
I thought he just implied they let people of the Italian and Irish races join.
The Jew is using the Black as muscle against you! And you are left there helpless! Well, what are you going to do about it, Whitey?
I hate Illinois Nazis!
Gruppenführer, get that car’s license plate number.
I was once a Klansman, the same as your father.
Wow, that’s positively progressive of them.
Oh, no one goes to those KKK meetings anymore. They’re way too crowded.
I do like the new motto, though:
Anymore, Klan marches seemed to be composed mainly of undercover reporters.