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Movies about the South should help us atone and come to terms with our past, author says AL.com 1 hr ago Ben Flanagan, al.com
From “The Birth of a Nation” to “Forrest Gump,” American filmmakers remain fascinated by the South, while the people actually born and raised in the region yearn to see the place depicted with at least a dollop of authenticity.
But we’re too often served crummy accents and corny gimmicks, not to mention dated tropes that render the films problematic through a modern lens. A deeper dive into Hollywood’s attempts at understanding and portraying the place shows a complicated relationship filled with ups and downs.
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Such a mass of material must of course be arranged, somehow. Not all films get or deserve equal time.
A good deal of the book is arranged by state, but Beard begins with chapters on “Birth of a Nation” and “Gone with the Wind,” two powerful films that set the South in the minds of millions of Americans, for better or worse.
Choose worse.
“The Birth of a Nation” is the first important American film for its technique and brio, but also for its politics and lies,” Beard tells us. The film depicts a Reconstruction of “Black corruption, Black suppression of the white voice….” “Black Union soldiers are murderous gangsters and rapists.…” Black elected officials are “drunks, clowns and dandies, right out of the minstrel tradition.” The KKK rides to the rescue.
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