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Eve Mason, a very light-skinned negro, leaves Selma, Alabama for the northwest town of Oristown to occupy the land she inherited from her grandfather. There she meets kindly Hugh Van Allen, who turns out to be her neighbor, and he gives her a lift to her place outside of town. Jefferson Driscoll is another very light-skinned negro who wants to be taken as white, and he hates the negro race because his mother once interfered with his wooing a white girl. Driscoll gets in league with unsavory August Barr, an Indian fakir called Tugi, and horse thieves Bill Stanton and Philip Clark. When Driscoll intercepts a letter for Van Allen showing his land is on an oil field, the group posts notes on Van Allen's tent, threatening his life if he won't sell his land. Van Allen ignores the the notes, which are signed "The Knights of the Black Cross," leaves for town to buy furniture and won't be back for 48 hours. In his absence, the last note is posted, giving him 48 hours to sell. The group, led by Bill Stanton, plans a midnight attack and tells the others "In one hour we will have driven him mad and burned him in his lair." Barr's wife Mary, upset by the planned massacre, goes to warn Eve, who rides to town for help, just as Van Allen returns, unaware of the impending attack.
这部没有Within Our Gates流畅，线有点散，但colored race的复杂性被展现得蛮淋漓尽致的，还算个有特征的西部片。排除掉非裔，vicious mulattos/Indian描述的是colored race内部的压迫，而反派白人也被分成了ill-intent和sympathetics。race-conscious的叙事确实能把多样性带进dominant culture啊
这个只用架子鼓的配乐版本好有意思！
Oscar Micheaux叙事太有个人特色了，时间流动随心所欲
配乐劝退
1.起这名字有点标题党了，3K不是叙事中心，少数出现3K的部分也都像是纪录片素材，重点是日夜都不匹配进攻的地点；此外，信息传递也不够视觉化，很多地方没说清楚。2.不过倒是要承认Oscar Micheaux敢于展现不同立场的黑人，这次着重刻画了一个憎恨自己种族的混血黑人（Mulatto）。3.发现MV某种意义上很接近默片，需要视觉精确传递情感，有剧情的话还需要光用视觉就讲好故事，而且MV的表演也是比较浮夸的。
这部有异常复杂的剧情 从一个mulato切入探讨种族问题 又有西部地产的议题 石油大亨 和3k党的片段。Micheaxu的台词总是出自某个人不知为何 3k党和骑马男女主角的交叉剪辑一个白天一个黑夜毫无逻辑/个人觉得配乐不咋样 一直重复想睡
Cast: Iris Hall…