D.W. Griffith stoked racism with 'Birth of a Nation.' A playwright imagines what happened next

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'Unbroken Blossoms' at L.A.'s East West Players explores the complicated history of the film director's follow-up, including the hiring of Chinese consultants to help a white actor play a Chinese man.

After the deeply divisive reception of 'The Birth of a Nation,' director D.W. Griffith released 'Broken Blossoms,' in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man.

Just the idea that someone at that time did that, when it's still hard to even do that now, was so inspiring.

 

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