These racist shitbags are not part of God's kingdom. The South were the victims of Lincoln's tyranny, but the Klan were opportunistic bastards who used people's suffering to spread the work of Satan. Christ calls us to love one another, and the DemoKKKrat scum live to spread hate. If white people and black people are fighting each other, they're unable to fight the real enemy: The Democrats.
You're obviously thinking about how they also used Wagner's "Ride Of The Valkyries" in the helicopter attack scene from "Apocalypse Now" (1979), which was followed by the part where Robert Duvall, as the crazy army officer who led the raid, says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory." Ironically, this film was about the Vietnam War, which Civil Rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King considered an extension of American racism, because mostly white American soldiers were making war on a predominantly non-white country (Vietnam is part of Asia), just the way many people consider "The Birth Of A Nation" (1915) a racist movie because it showed the white vigilantes of the Ku Klux Klan fighting villainous non-white (black) persons.
Except it isn't and it didn't. 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' is the first feature length film. It wasn't even the first feature length film produced in the US as many claim.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 It was a joke that I made with the intention of parodying sports chants at the time. I recognise it was in bad taste and wouldn't do it now if that makes you feel any better.
In some versions of this scene, "The Ride Of The Valkyries" is played when the Klansmen are gathering together before setting off on their missions. In fact, this particular piece of music is played just before the Klan rides into the town.
Not that I have to proof anything to any body, but I downloaded this clip from the original DVD, it is in the Library I would have to check it out again to see what information it gives, but also according to other sources such as Reel Music and other film music texts this is the original soundtrack
There is NO such terminology as "original soundtrack" unless the music was recorded specifically for the film. As this is a silent film that is not the case.
@@josephcarlbreil5380 don't be a moron. Its a fault for use of words. This film had not "original soundtrack", but "original musical accompainment", composed by Joseph Carl Breil (that includes the Ride of Valkyries by Wagner).
@@vidimur1977 You're the person who is the moron. Joseph Carl Breil, to whom I am related, composed/arranged/compiled [classical works, including Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"] the original score for the film. I have the complete music score/conductor's score/individual parts. This material was used to record the 2-disc LP [and CD] recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1985. The recording on this video includes Breil's original score/compilation.
There is no such thing as an "original soundtrack", since this is a silent film with music that would have been played by a live orchestra. The Label X 2-LP and single CD release feature the New Zealand S O performing various selections from the original music manuscripts held by the Museum of Modern Art. Therefore, the correct terminology would be "original motion picture score".
I find that there are funnier parts in the movie. In particular, Henry B. Walthall’s overacting and faces. An example is when he gets the inspiration for the Klan.
@@akirasuzami9847his inspiration for the clan is single-handedly the most ridiculous thing in any Griffith film, and that is including Intolerance’s ending with Jesus coming down to stop the violence.
@Mr.agent 47 Yes, I have seen the movie, several times, in fact. Yes, many of the events in "The Birth Of A Nation" are real, like the Civil War, the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, the assassination of President Lincoln, etc. What ISN'T real, however, is the portrayal of what happened in the South during the Reconstruction period following the war. To start with, like a lot of Southern partisan versions of the war's aftermath, it shows Reconstruction as completely punitive towards the white Southerners, but that wasn't always the case. Second, Reconstruction programs existed in other parts of the United States, not just in the South. Third, while it's true that the newly freed slaves were given the right to vote, the idea that some blacks voted more than once, or that white men were disenfranchised is absurd. In any case, the blacks were eventually the ones who were disenfranchised by the white establishments of the Southern states, who used various tricks to deprive the ex-slaves of the vote, like the Poll Taxes (which were rescinded because they effected poor whites as well as blacks), the Grandfather Clauses (which said that no one could vote unless their grandfathers voted, which meant that blacks couldn't vote because their grandfathers were slaves, who, of course, couldn't vote), the rigged literacy tests (which almost every black man failed because they were asked questions that were impossible to answer, like "how many windows are there in the White House in Washington, DC?," or "how many drops of water are there in the Mississippi River?"), but mostly, through the violence and intimidation by secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan -- which brings us to the fourth and main reason that the film is historically inaccurate! "The Birth of A Nation" gives a shockingly racist idea of what Reconstruction was like. It showed black people as savages terrorizing their former white slave masters (encouraged by black Union soldiers), attacking them in the streets, and lusting after their women. Because of rigged elections, obnoxious black men take over the South Carolina legislature, where they make a mockery of the proceedings. One black delegate every now and then takes a swig of liquor out of a bottle; another one openly eats chicken; still another takes off his shoe and plops his bare left foot on his desk (he's convinced to put his shoe back on because his foot gives off a bad odor). The delegates pass bills making white citizens salute black army officers and allowing interracial marriages -- and then leer at the white women in the visitors' gallery! These segments give the impression that all Southern legislatures were dominated by "uppity" blacks, that all Southern states were occupied by "Negro Militias," and that all white Southerners were in constant danger of being molested or assaulted by their former slaves, which was not true at all. As if that wasn't bad enough, the film depicts the KKK as a heroic force, protecting the whites from the blacks, safeguarding "white Southern womanhood" from the ravages of lust-crazed black men, and defending the "Aryan birthright" of the white people. Of course, it was all totally fictional, especially the part where the mulatto Lieutenant Governor, Silas Lynch, holds Elsie Stoneman, a white woman (and the daughter of Pennsylvania Senator Austin Stoneman, Lynch's mentor) hostage in his home and tries to force her to marry him, promising to make her "Queen" of a "black empire," but at the last minute, she is rescued by the Klan, who also stop the blacks from rioting in the streets, and then ride off to save the Southern Cameron family (as well as Elsie's brother), who are hiding out in a cabin (owned by two former Union soldiers), which is under siege by crazed blacks (the Klan, led by Ben Cameron, Elsie's fiance, arrive just in time, and everyone is saved). In reality, none of these events ever happened in the old South. It was a myth invented by Southern revisionist historians many years after the end of Reconstruction, and then repeated by the racist novels of the Reverend Thomas A. Dixon, which inspired the film in the first place. The real Reconstruction period Ku Klux Klan were mainly concerned with keeping the ex-slaves "in their place" -- and away from the voting booths!
