The trailer of a Birth of a Nation immediately sets the scene with a panning overview show of a cotton field, and it cuts to a scene of an African American man picking cotton out of the field. This immediately sets to think this film will be about slavery in the 19th century, and gives the audience an instant idea of the film. We gather this film is about the troubles of racism and slavery when a littel boy goes to pick out and read a book and a woman says ‘These books are for white people. Your kind would not understand’. It then cuts to a balck screen with the text ‘based on a true story’ which would hook certain audiences as it gave them a grasp of what racism was like and slavery, back in the 1800s.
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