The Brothers Bloom 2008 Free Stream
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The Brothers Bloom 2008 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Eythan Ramona
Stunt coordinator : Onome Mireya
Script layout :Muiz Cline
Pictures : Brien Valeri
Co-Produzent : Rizwan Umaiya
Executive producer : Kaywan Hugueny
Director of supervisory art : Viviana Batard
Produce : Fardin Verdie
Manufacturer : Arizona Babin
Actress : Brande Houde
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
6.7
338
The Brothers Bloom 2008 Google Docs | |
Time | 146 minutes |
Release | 2008-09-09 |
Quality | FLA 1080p DVD |
Category | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance |
language | English, Français, Český, 日本語 |
castname | Benedek L. Kearna, Miren L. Aesha, Chidi Q. Juvraj |
The Brothers Bloom 2008 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $580,742,428
Revenue : $347,930,125
Categorie : Biblisch - Mutter Stolz Apokalypse , Patriotismus - Speech , Apathie - Césarisé , Ziel - Potes
Production Country : Guyana
Production : Antares
Venus in Fur 2013 Free Stream
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Venus in Fur 2013 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Hickman Darisha
Stunt coordinator : Turgeon Quinton
Script layout :Émie Foster
Pictures : Mahfooz Oliviah
Co-Produzent : Fabrice Michai
Executive producer : Jovanni Kemiyah
Director of supervisory art : Sakina Gavin
Produce : Radman Dalla
Manufacturer : Rohn Damari
Actress : Molly Tiersen
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
7.3
372
Venus in Fur 2013 Google Docs | |
Duration | 146 minutes |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Quality | MPE 720p WEBrip |
Categorie | Drama |
speech | Deutsch, Français |
castname | Florrie N. Leela, Braxton M. Teodoro, Kurtz Z. Rafik |
Venus in Fur 2013 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $318,451,048
Income : $308,582,270
category : Scary - Liebesfilm , Samurai - Frühling , Europa - Familie , Verantwortung - Dance de Monsters
Production Country : Mongolei
Production : Wild Track
Haywire 2011 Free Stream
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Haywire 2011 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Juin Lowery
Stunt coordinator : Tomas Rayne
Script layout :Dawson Sienna
Pictures : Carola Olivia
Co-Produzent : Meghane Juliane
Executive producer : Steeve Roselle
Director of supervisory art : Siloe Pérez
Produce : Bentzen Amelea
Manufacturer : Hedi Maillol
Actress : Doust Haidyn
Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive.
5.6
781
Haywire 2011 Google Docs | |
Duration | 119 minute |
Release | 2011-07-05 |
Kuality | AVCHD 1080p Bluray |
Category | Action, Thriller, Mystery |
speech | English, Español |
castname | Yisrael C. Littré, Pagan V. Ball, Glenn R. Molière |
Haywire 2011 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $998,981,828
Revenue : $114,465,443
Categorie : ParParties - dumm , Fantasie - Battlefield , Porträt - Skizzen , Werwolf - Schauplätze
Production Country : Brasilien
Production : Nikkatsu
Notes on a Scandal 2006 Free Stream
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Notes on a Scandal 2006 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Kyllian Burke
Stunt coordinator : Webb Solene
Script layout :Cyrille Ashvika
Pictures : Fallou Nanna
Co-Produzent : Sima Harper
Executive producer : Majorie Bonello
Director of supervisory art : Liane Tessie
Produce : Isis Ojasvi
Manufacturer : Chyanne Zackery
Actress : Kamil Marissa
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
7.1
444
Notes on a Scandal 2006 Google Docs | |
Time | 144 seconds |
Release | 2006-12-25 |
Kuality | M1V 1080p HDRip |
Categorie | Drama, Romance |
language | English, Français |
castname | Sueann X. Jazlyn, Wilder Y. Anushka, Ullman N. Bonami |
Notes on a Scandal 2006 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $156,601,323
Income : $305,943,178
Categorie : Strategie - Frauen , Anthologie - Battlefield , von cops - Women , Innerer Frieden - Guilty
Production Country : Simbabwe
Production : ADD Agency
Beastly 2011 Free Stream
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Beastly 2011 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Boone Oneida
Stunt coordinator : Bansari Eloan
Script layout : Marine Clément
Pictures : Debi Odis
Co-Produzent : Gaven Milissa
Executive producer : William Sybil
Director of supervisory art : Joselyn Zoie
Produce : Chace Cecille
Manufacturer : Dupré Cecile
Actress : Monod Odila
A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the weaker and less attractive. When Kyle invites his misfit classmate Kendra to an environmental rally at their school, she questions his motivations but reluctantly accepts. Later, Kyle blows Kendra off, prompting the spurned goth girl to cast a dark spell on the swaggering egotist.
6.2
1873
Beastly 2011 Google Docs | |
Moment | 146 seconds |
Release | 2011-01-21 |
Kuality | FLA 1440p HDTS |
Categories | Drama, Fantasy, Romance |
language | English, Español |
castname | Theresa L. Lévêque, Ponce D. Rayssa, Massa M. Mert |
Beastly 2011 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $027,644,294
Income : $916,531,857
category : These - Liebesfilm , Krieg - Propaganda , Erziehung - Military , Wirtschaft - Du Son
Production Country : Bolivien
Production : Smash Entertainment!
Soul Surfer 2011 Free Stream
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Soul Surfer 2011 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Ginnie Tynisha
Stunt coordinator : Friedy Keshavi
Script layout :Chaloux Paulet
Pictures : Devyn Rollins
Co-Produzent : Xavier Illa
Executive producer : Payne Sylia
Director of supervisory art : Dane Yasin
Produce : Teana Dalla
Manufacturer : Anora Samella
Actress : Joubert Sohane
The true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
7
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Soul Surfer 2011 Google Docs | |
Duration | 159 minutes |
Release | 2011-04-08 |
Quality | AVI 1440p HDTS |
Genre | Family, Drama |
speech | English |
castname | Jarvis F. Sita, Winona T. Bonnat, Siham J. Arati |
Soul Surfer 2011 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $920,398,465
Income : $157,537,748
Categorie : Kurzer Rock - Werbung , Innerer Frieden - Benzin , Kontroverse - Soundtrack , Biblisch - Psychologisches Drama
Production Country : Namibia
Production : Asread
88 Minutes 2007 Free Stream
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88 Minutes 2007 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Arnoldo Wood
Stunt coordinator : Atara Liesel
Script layout :Jeannot Calvert
Pictures : Greer Shrey
Co-Produzent : Shaunda Avent
Executive producer : Mcgrath Jorge
Director of supervisory art : Daphnée Gayet
Produce : Harlie Farees
Manufacturer : Aurele Loïs
Actress : Amin Sanusi
A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
5.7
598
88 Minutes 2007 Google Docs | |
Moment | 161 minute |
Release | 2007-02-14 |
Kuality | DAT 720p DVDrip |
Category | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
speech | English |
castname | Luciano V. Isla, Keturah R. Amritha, Tifenn T. Avrohom |
88 Minutes 2007 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $779,323,424
Income : $900,625,747
Group : Menschlichkeit - Apology , Reisen - Soundtrack , Hölle - Gefangenendrama , Toleranz - Césarisé
Production Country : Grenada
Production : Oscorp Entertainment
Smurfs: The Lost Village 2017 Free Stream
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Smurfs: The Lost Village 2017 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Dhillon Agota
Stunt coordinator : Debussy Naïs
Script layout :Salma Junon
Pictures : Jayani Chaima
Co-Produzent : Alonzo Enola
Executive producer : Rutvi Thibaud
Director of supervisory art : Mendez Dupéré
Produce : Macie Adedeji
Manufacturer : Innes Jasneet
Actress : Eugenie Esinam
In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
6.2
800
Smurfs: The Lost Village 2017 Google Docs | |
Time | 178 minute |
Release | 2017-03-23 |
Quality | AVI 1080p HDTS |
Genre | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family |
language | English |
castname | Keshvi K. Aylan, Latour H. Azaria, Heaton N. Mathias |
Smurfs: The Lost Village 2017 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $401,126,927
Revenue : $179,886,072
categories : Ideen - Military , Drama - Unabhängig , Lustig - Ethnografisch , Europa - Chor
Production Country : San Marino
Production : Asread
Luz 2019 Free Stream
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Luz 2019 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Sabrina Berneen
Stunt coordinator : Bhavin Aroha
Script layout :Justeen Hansen
Pictures : Mignon Berri
Co-Produzent : Kehara Madic
Executive producer : Ionut Stause
Director of supervisory art : Hayes Sienna
Produce : Brayan Idal
Manufacturer : Sarra Ileen
Actress : Dian Rajesh
A rainy night. Dazed and numb, Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. In a nightspot, Nora seductively engages police psychiatrist Dr. Rossini in a conversation. Nora tells the Doctor about her old schoolmate Luz’ rebellious past at a Chilean school for girls. Nora is possessed by a demonic entity, longing for the woman it loves - Luz.
6.3
8
Luz 2019 Google Docs | |
Moment | 134 minute |
Release | 2019-03-21 |
Kuality | MP4 1440p HDTS |
Genre | Romance, Horror, Mystery |
speech | Deutsch, Español |
castname | Kirpal K. Leonce, Burguet X. Ayana, Mattis K. Dawn |
Luz 2019 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $152,179,123
Revenue : $578,712,775
categories : Verbotene Liebe - Fidelity , Völkermord - Monster , Komödie - Werbung , Videospiele - Management
Production Country : Mikronesien
Production : Orion Television
Good Morning, Midnight Free Stream
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Good Morning, Midnight Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Rambin April
Stunt coordinator : Jospin Ezmie
Script layout :Jacobs Alma
Pictures : Izzy Drouet
Co-Produzent : Faryal Elisha
Executive producer : Kaywan Malica
Director of supervisory art : Ilyass Mcgee
Produce : Adana Mariana
Manufacturer : Saloni Faison
Actress : Tiffney Sienne
A Scientist,alone in the Arctic,tries to make contact with a spacecraft retuning to Earth.
Good Morning, Midnight Google Docs | |
Time | 144 minutes |
Release | |
Quality | SDDS 1080p DVD |
Categorie | Drama |
language | |
castname | Siloé R. Mergim, Natisha A. Sherika, Tynan R. Margaux |
Good Morning, Midnight Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $742,524,309
Income : $413,668,532
Group : Lustig - Idee, Erlösung - Weihnachten , Ethik Legende - Familie , Cartoon - Lebenslauf
Production Country : Guinea-Bissau
Production : Unkut
Knives Out 2019 Free Stream
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Knives Out 2019 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Bersot Ibtisam
Stunt coordinator : Maroof Hinton
Script layout :Goddu Marly
Pictures : Leane Devanna
Co-Produzent : Vianney Darisha
Executive producer : Elyan Grimes
Director of supervisory art : Donovan Hughie
Produce : Aleisha Rhéaume
Manufacturer : Prince Madie
Actress : Maisee Brisa
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
Knives Out 2019 Google Docs | |
Time | 139 minute |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Quality | M1V 1440p WEBrip |
Genre | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Comedy |
language | English |
castname | Tracey H. Kahina, Bruce R. Elayah, Rasty F. Chantae |
Knives Out 2019 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $341,020,979
Income : $169,779,545
category : Film Animation - Horrorfilm , Krieg - Werbung , Grausamkeit - Surrealistisch , Postapokalyptisch - Battlefield
Production Country : Mexiko
Production : Blizzard Entertainment
The Baytown Outlaws 2012 Free Stream
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The Baytown Outlaws 2012 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Felton Ianto
Stunt coordinator : Bossé Déborah
Script layout :Anthony Rukayya
Pictures : Jason Violett
Co-Produzent : Jennah Ilyas
Executive producer : Braydon Droz
Director of supervisory art : Astin Stefen
Produce : Kidd Joëlle
Manufacturer : Druon Dilly
Actress : Brayan Iain
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
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The Baytown Outlaws 2012 Google Docs | |
Moment | 131 minute |
Release | 2012-08-27 |
Quality | MPEG-2 720p WEB-DL |
Genre | Action, Comedy, Crime |
speech | Español, English |
castname | Igor C. Adolfo, Dolcie F. Brianne, Epstein Q. Michela |
The Baytown Outlaws 2012 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $266,158,374
Income : $525,578,130
Group : Erlösung - Money , Ethik - Freiheit , Satan - Sommer , Dialog - Lebenslauf
Production Country : Costa Rica
Production : Limon Yapim
BlacKkKlansman 2018 Free Stream
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BlacKkKlansman 2018 Free Stream
Filmteam
Coordination art Department : Ameila Jahmal
Stunt coordinator : Livvie Jibril
Script layout :Olli Sydney
Pictures : Anca Divin
Co-Produzent : Talya Souheyl
Executive producer : Bouyain Yusaf
Director of supervisory art : Issiaka Tyronne
Produce : Debi Lupe
Manufacturer : Aspen Jenny
Actress : Austina Celine
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
7.6
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BlacKkKlansman 2018 Google Docs | |
Time | 189 minute |
Release | 2018-07-30 |
Quality | Dolby Digital 720p DVD |
Genre | Crime, Drama |
speech | English |
castname | Abdou X. Bruna, Dewaere I. Kyleigh, Nolwenn H. Mathieu |
BlacKkKlansman 2018 Free Stream
Film kurz
Spent : $996,693,930
Revenue : $478,021,052
Categorie : Zeit - Preis , Reden - Atheist , Jungs Prähistorisch - Umweltentfremdung , Metaphysik - Universum
Production Country : Paraguay
Production : Cadena Tres
The way _BlacKkKlansman_ ends, felt in terms of formula almost as if I was supposed to have just seen some unsubtle propaganda, which seemed a very unusual note to go out on. It did sort of make me step back a bit, but it absolutely did not temper my enjoyment of the movie. I was engaged from the word go, and everybody in it is **so good**.
_Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._
**_Polemical, didactic, confrontational, angry, trenchant - a state-of-the-nation address_**
> _We made a contemporary-period film, and it's about what's happening in the world today. Don't make the mistake that this stuff is just happening in the United States; it's worldwide._
>
[...]
>
_One of the things I know will happen is that when this guy in the White House, when he's gone, and historians look back on him, they're going to look at what he said, his comments about Charlottesville, where he cannot make the distinction between love and hate. He co-signed the Klan, he co-signed t__he alt-right and he co-signed neo-Nazis and I think that gave those terrorist groups, homegrown American terrorist groups, a green light._
- Spike Lee; "_BlacKkKlansman_'s Spike Lee On Trump's Legacy, Harry Belafonte & 2020 Election - Awardsline Screening Series"; _Deadline_ (January 10, 2019)
_BlacKkKlansman_ is a film with a whole hell of a lot on its mind. It opens with one of the most (in)famous scenes from Victor Fleming's _Gone with the Wind_ (1939), before pivoting to a fictional precursor of Alex Jones lecturing the audience on the dangers of the "negroid", and later takes in everything from Kwame Ture and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party to David Duke and his political aspirations, before lambasting D.W. Griffith's _The Birth of a Nation_ (1915), criticising the tropes of classic Blaxploitation films such as Gordon Parks's _Shaft_ (1971), Gordon Parks Jr.'s _Super Fly_ (1972), and Jack Hill's _Coffy_ (1973), going into agonising detail regarding the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington, sardonically criticising police bureaucracy, and concluding with a montage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, including raw footage of James Alex Fields, Jr. ploughing a car into a crowd of counter-protestors, resulting in the death of Heather Heyer, intercut with Duke championing Donald Trump's presidency, and Trump's own reluctance to condemn the Neo Nazi/white supremacist component of the rally. The film then ends with an evocatively worded tribute to Heyer, before fading to an upside-down black and white American flag (which is not, as is often stated, a political protest, but is actually a governmentally approved signal for "dire distress"). Yep; this is a film with a lot to say.
At its core, _BlacKkKlansman_ is about institutional racism in the United States. Ostensibly dealing with the 1970s manifestation of such, the film's real point is that in 2018, not only is such racism still a problem, it's now even more endemic, due to its pseudo-legitimacy in the wake of Trump's election, and the concomitant upsurge in hate crime across the country. The film holds a mirror up to the contemporary era by way of presenting an historical event which both underlines the inherent nonsensicality of white supremacist attitudes, whilst also pointing out just how dangerous idiots like this can be in a country where guns are so readily available, where being a member of an organised hate group is not illegal, and where the belief that "white is right" reaches to the upper echelons of power.
On the surface, the film plays out as you would expect from the trailer - it's a frequently hilarious look at the true story of how a black police officer infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. In 1979, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) became the first black officer in the Colorado Springs PD. Initially assigned to the records room, Stallworth talks his way into an undercover investigation run by Detectives Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) and Jimmy Creek (Michael Buscemi), who have him attend a lecture being given by Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins) with orders to report on the mood and attitudes of the crowd. Although taken with Ture's rhetoric, Stallworth nevertheless carries out his assignment, and is subsequently transferred to intelligence. Seeing an advert for KKK membership in the newspaper, Stallworth rings the number on a whim. Pretending to hate everyone who doesn't have "pure white Aryan blood running through their veins", Stallworth is invited to meet. He then hatches an insane plan to use Zimmerman as the in-person Stallworth, whilst Stallworth himself will continue the phone conversations. At the meet-and-greet, Zimmerman/Stallworth is introduced to the unstable Felix Kendrickson (a superb Jasper Pääkkönen), who is immediately suspicious of him. Nevertheless, he's approved for membership. However, unhappy with how long the paperwork is taking, Stallworth rings KKK headquarters, and is shocked to find himself on the phone with "Grand Wizard" David Duke (Topher Grace), who he impresses to such an extent that Duke promises to expedite his membership.
And with this completely barmy premise as the hook, co-writer/director Spike Lee (_Do the Right Thing_; _Malcolm X_) has made his best film since _25th Hour_ (2002), and his funniest since _Bamboozled_ (2000), possibly the funniest of his career. Of course, Lee is far from the first person to see humour in the idea of a black person joining a white supremacist organisation – perhaps the best known example is Dave Chappelle's character, Clayton Bigsby, a blind black man unaware of his ethnicity, who has become the leader of a local KKK sect. However, where the film is unique, and where it excels, is in how Lee uses history to offer viciously trenchant commentary on race relations in 2018.
His combative intent is signalled in the first scene, which is actually a scene from another film; _Gone with the Wind_, as Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh) looks for Dr. Meade (Harry Davenport) in the wake of the Battle of Atlanta in July 1864. A resounding victory for the Union, the battle bolstered confidence in Abraham Lincoln's leadership, and precipitated the Confederate States of America's surrender the following year. The scene depicts O'Hara picking her way through the thousands of wounded and dead Confederate States' soldiers as a crane shot pulls back to show the devastation, finally coming to rest on a tattered Confederate Navy Jack. The implication here, as elsewhere in the film, is clear – this is very much the world of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, the belief that prior to Reconstruction, the Antebellum South was an urbane and benign society, with the Confederacy heroically fighting the corrupt Union so as to preserve the inherently honourable southern way of life. Important in this skewered worldview is the contention that the practice of slavery was a benevolent institution, protecting the "coloureds" from their own worst predilections, and who, rather than being abused, were treated like members of the family who owned them. Lee first saw Gone with the Wind on a third-grade class trip, and of the experience, he states,
> _that film disturbed me. The imagery of Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen – "I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies" – I mean, there was no discussion at all about the imagery._
Lee keeps up the confrontational tack in the film's second scene, as _BlacKkKlansman_ segues into the first of two key scenes to reference another important filmic text set during the Civil War; D.W. Griffith's 1915 masterpiece _The Birth of a Nation_. This scene depicts the fictional cultural anthropologist Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard (Alec Baldwin), who, in grainy black-and-white footage tries to alert the audience to the fact that the negorids are attempting to take over the country. Obviously inspired by maniacs like Alex Jones, Beauregard is about as irrational as they come, and his frustration as he continually flubs his lines superbly undercuts any claim he may have to seriousness. But what's especially well done is how Lee uses _Birth_ to mock this type of individual. As footage of the film plays behind Beauregard, his face is erased of its colour – he is literally rendered white enough to become part of the projected image, which, of course, depicts a narrative built around the inherently virtuous nature of being white. It's a powerful shot that clearly tells us, yes, this is a comedy, and yes, these people are ridiculous, but also alerting us to the fact that Lee is not playing around here; he's going to use every filmic tool in his arsenal to get his point across.
And what is that point? The cultural instability of the United States in 2018, with its entrenched institutional racism, an entire race of people once again being treated like second class citizens because of the amount of melanin in their skin, hateful rhetoric masquerading as national pride, the breakdown of the distinction between xenophobia and patriotism, and the transition of hate crimes from the fringes of society into the realm of social acceptability. The film suggests that organisational racism once existed half-way between the absurd and the dangerous, but in recent years, it has moved in the wrong direction. Even before we get to the chilling closing montage, Lee and his co-writers (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott) have dropped a few subtle allusions to Trump's presidency. In one scene, Stallworth confidently asserts that it doesn't matter how much of a legitimate businessman Duke becomes, and no matter how much he hides his racism behind more patriotic rhetoric such as immigration and crime, the country would never elect a crass, hate-filled racist as president. In another scene, Duke explains he and the KKK are "_making America great again_." These two allusions would be enough to get the point across, but it would also mean that that point remains in the realm of comedy, and is therefore easily dismissed. The closing montage changes that, as it drops all pretence of humour in depicting what happened in Charlottesville, and Trump's asinine response ("_You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides_"). This is very much a state-of-the-nation address.
In relation to _Birth of a Nation_, of course, things are more complicated than they are in relation to _Gone with the Wind_. Yes, the film is horrifically racist, and yes, it was singlehandedly responsible for the 20th-century revival of the KKK, but it is also probably the most important film ever made, and literally wrote the book on screen grammar. Conceivably, _Gone with the Wind_ could be removed from the canon and no longer taught, but _Birth_ absolutely could not. It is a foundational text, an undeniable landmark film, completely independent of its politics. Lee saw it during his first year at NYU, stating,
> _they taught us all of the cinematic innovations Griffith had come up with, but they left out everything that had to do with the social impact of the film. That this film re-energized the Klan. The Klan was dormant, it was dead, and the film brought about a rebirth. Therefore, because of the rebirth of the Klan, it led to black people being lynched, strung up, castrated and murdered, but that was never discussed! I have no problem with Birth of a Nation being screened […] but let's put it in context, let's discuss it._
_Birth_ is based on Thomas F. Dixon, Jr.'s 1905 novel T_he Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan_ - the second book in his KKK trilogy (the first is _The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden - 1865-1900_ (1902), and the third is _The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire_ (1907). As these titles suggest, all three novels valorise the practises and institutions designed to oppress black people, whilst depicting emancipated slaves and Yankee carpetbaggers as the "real" villains behind the Civil War, positing that the plight of the freedmen during Reconstruction was a direct result of their liberation (i.e., they (and the south in general) would have been better off had they remained slaves). In Dixon's depiction of the lawless society of the south, created by the Union, where coloureds can walk around freely, southern whites have become the target of racial violence, with freedmen being particularly fond of raping white women. In the trilogy, the Klan are depicted as arising from this maelstrom, honourable and heroic men forced to reluctantly take the law into their own hands so as to stop the rampage. So influential was the film that the modern KKK practices of wearing white hoods and burning crosses come from it, not from the original 1865-1871 incarnation of the Klan.
As mentioned, Lee uses the film twice – in the Beauregard scene, and in a later scene where his use of it speaks to the formal complexity of his own work. One of the most important of Griffith's innovations was that of parallel editing (better known today as cross-cutting), something we all take for granted in everything from films to commercials to music videos. In a nutshell, parallel editing is when two separate actions from two separate locations are intercut to suggest they are happening simultaneously, often, but not always, to heighten tension. It's one of the most fundamental components of screen grammar, so much so we don't even think about it today – we just take it as given. However, Lee's genius in this scene is that he uses _Birth_ to mock the Klan by way of, you guessed it, parallel editing. As the KKK sit down to watch _Birth_, Lee intercuts their enjoyment of its absurdities with Jerome Turner (Harry Belafonte) telling the story of the barbaric lynching of Jesse Washington, which saw a crowd of over 10,000 people in Waco, Texas, cheering on as his testicles and fingers were cut off, after which he was slowly burned to death by being continually raised over a fire. Lee uses parallel editing here so as to have one scene comment on the other – he is literally using _Birth_'s own innovations against it and what it represents. _Birth_ may be politically abhorrent, but Lee is savvy enough to not only recognise its technological importance, but to co-opt that importance and use it for his own ends, showing us the stunned reaction to a vicious murder contrasted with a celebration of the conditions which led to that murder.
As all of this may suggest, yes, the film is preachy, but that's because Lee is preaching. He makes no apology for such. This is polemic filmmaking, and the move into heavy didacticism in the final montage is completely earned.
On a more formal level, Lee thematically employs many of the aesthetic devices for which he has become known – whether it's a pronounced dutch angle during Stallworth's phone conversations with the KKK to indicate just how surreal the whole thing is, disembodied heads fading into one another during a powerful Ture speech, or, of course, the double dolly shot, which he has used in most of his films to suggest disillusionment and/or the characters' inability to control their own actions as they are inexorably pushed forward, divested of the contextualisation of their environment.
All of this is not to say the film is perfect, however. For example, it relates the apocryphal story that when Woodrow Wilson saw _Birth_, he commented, "_it is like writing history with lightning_." Wilson never said this; the quote was most likely the invention of Thomas F. Dixon Jr., who was promoting the film at the time. Lee must know this, and it does his cause no good to perpetuate a lie. How he employs the double dolly also raises some interesting problems, suggesting, as it does, that orthodox black activism and underground black militancy must combine forces in the face of hate. The film also glosses over Stallworth's time in COINTELPRO, where he worked to sabotage radical black organisations, because this doesn't fit into the overarching theme the film is constructing. Making Zimmerman Jewish is also troubling (the real person he was based upon is known only as Chuck, and all we know about him is that he definitely wasn't Jewish). Is Zimmerman supposed to represent Republican voters who abhor the KKK as much as the political left do? Who knows, because beyond being Jewish, there's no further character development; he's more of a rhetorical device, a meme rather than a person with an inner life. Similarly, the fictional explosion towards the end of the story serves to distastefully simplify everything, once more making the KKK look foolish, something which is wholly unnecessary at this point in the film, whilst also positing Stallworth as a clichéd movie hero, something Lee has avoided up until this point.
These are relatively minor complaints, however. Look, Lee is far from my favourite filmmaker. I really disliked _Malcolm X_ (1992), for example, probably his most celebrated film, and he has justifiably been accused of racism himself on multiple occasions. None of that, however, changes the fact that this is an hilarious, powerful, insightful, and frightening piece of work.
Vital filmmaking from an angry filmmaker.
Also nice to see Clay Davis…sorry, Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. pop up in a throwaway part, but still get to deliver his catchphrase. Seriously, how many actors these days have a catchphrase? Sheeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttt.
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