Quote Originally Posted by lovehurts View Post
The reason the film did influence them is because it suggested racism in the film and showed evil amongst the black man and at the time film was ever more inspirationall and at the time the black man had just ended slavery. So began the questioning and arguing of the black mans worth as a free man. The video showed them as lazy and non productive and evil. This lead to people with feelings they already had to explode into stronger feelings due to slavery just ending and due to the fact that some people wanted slvaery back. People feared the black mans freedom and thus the KKK grew.
Well, there you go. It was never the movie that made them feel angry and racists towards others. But, it was the feelings they already had. People always point them blame at something (especially the media), because they don't want to take responsibility for their actions. Wait, I'm confused... The topic is how movies influence people, right? I feel like I'm going off-topic here.

P.S. That Birth of a Nation movie looks really scary. I could never watch something like that.