Movies By Spike Lee Appreciation Thread
DrMindbender122
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I dunno if this thread has already been made recently or in the past; I've only been on this site since July 2010. But anyway, Spike Lee has put out some quality work over the years. I'm kinda partial to his earlier work (late 80's/early to late 90's) more so to his more recent stuff. What's your fav Spike Lee movies/movie moments? Speak on it.
Who can forget the classic race rant scene in "Do The Right Thing"?
Or the "F*ck You" rant scene from "25th Hour"?
Who can forget the classic race rant scene in "Do The Right Thing"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxOR3x8FBQOr the "F*ck You" rant scene from "25th Hour"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHA6j_PLrkComments
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Because he speaks on issues, he no get no respect. He didnt like the fact that Quentin Tarantino overly uses the N-word in his films. Yeah he's rich and famous, but he still cares about being black, and white society dont like that. they think that once you make a certain amount of money, race doesnt matter anymore.
thats not wrong, but it aint right either.
movie wise, I love "do the right thing." but i hated how my film class teacher didnt want to discuss it afterwards. he discussed all the other movies afterwards. When we watched cassablanca, he discussed it for 2 ? days, we watched do the right thing, and after the movie, he went back to talking about cassablanca!
im not lying. dude was the dean of arts at my school. gayer than a jaybird and from minnesota. and racist. no reason a person who loves movies should get a C in film class unless the teacher is flacky. -
Because he speaks on issues, he no get no respect. He didnt like the fact that Quentin Tarantino overly uses the N-word in his films. Yeah he's rich and famous, but he still cares about being black, and white society dont like that. they think that once you make a certain amount of money, race doesnt matter anymore.
thats not wrong, but it aint right either.
movie wise, I love "do the right thing." but i hated how my film class teacher didnt want to discuss it afterwards. he discussed all the other movies afterwards. When we watched cassablanca, he discussed it for 2 ? days, we watched do the right thing, and after the movie, he went back to talking about cassablanca!
im not lying. dude was the dean of arts at my school. gayer than a jaybird and from minnesota. and racist. no reason a person who loves movies should get a C in film class unless the teacher is flacky.
Pretty much. Spike used to smell himself a bit much in many of his films (Girl 6, Mo Better Blue, She Hate Me, etc.)
But it's a crime that Malcom X didn't win at least ONE Oscar and Bamboozled is one of the most slept on films of all time. He Got Game was under-appreciated too. -
The final scene in Do The Right Thing is classic stuff...
I love his documentaries on the aftermath of Katrina... great stuff too
He hasn't gotten a good script to shoot though in a long time... he needs to bring that extra heat -
Malcolm X goes without question. Of course that film will get no recognition. It hurts their hearts. Ever wonder why there aint no Marcus Garvey movie? The dont need black people getting inspiration off of the past. Because a movie will reach the masses, the books? not so much. its by design.
Bamboozled is nice. I even have some of those pieces of black mammy memorabilia in my house. At first i thought it was evil and racist, but now i see it as history.
Bamboozled had many parts of that story that i never get to speak on.
Main dude was a sell out. His dad was paul mooney playing paul mooney. Black entertainment keeps shoving him down our throat and he still dont get no credit. its by design.
the mau mau was a real. canibus? Charlie baltimore? Mos def? really son? come'on son lol.
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Wow...I forgot all about "He Got Game". I lot of people hate on Ray Allen in that movie, but I actually thought he did a good job. Not Oscar worthy, but better than half of what these so called "super star" actors are doing today.
I dunno if Spike directed or had some production credit in "Miracle at Santa Anna", but I thought that was a great film, as well.
Oh yeah...Hollywood and the "Powers that Be" did do "Malcolm X" ? . No way that movie shouldn't have won an Oscar. -
DrMindbender122 wrote: »I dunno if Spike directed or had some production credit in "Miracle at Santa Anna"
He directed it... and personally I thought the film was weak -
He directed it... and personally I thought the film was weak
he directed it,
It was a book adaptation. -
man bamboozeled is one of my favs also with dtrt, malcom(of course), mo better blues, and school daze. love this ? work. i wish "our" people would donate money to this ? so he could a marcus garvey movie. that would be epic. or better yet nat turner. now that would be epic
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man bamboozeled is one of my favs also with dtrt, malcom(of course), mo better blues, and school daze. love this ? work. i wish "our" people would donate money to this ? so he could a marcus garvey movie. that would be epic. or better yet nat turner. now that would be epic
why u saying what i already said with no quote? how disrepectful is dat?
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Spike Lee is an inspiration and one of the best directors ever,Do The Right Thing is like his Illmatic one of the best films ever and one of the foundations of independent films.If you watch the end credits of Clerks Kevin Smith gives thanks to Spike and DTRT at the end.
I like all Spike's work people also sleep on Clockers which was a great crime thriller and Mekhi Phifer's debut I think. -
Spike Lee is an inspiration and one of the best directors ever,Do The Right Thing is like his Illmatic one of the best films ever and one of the foundations of independent films.If you watch the end credits of Clerks Kevin Smith gives thanks to Spike and DTRT at the end.
I like all Spike's work people also sleep on Clockers which was a great crime thriller and Mekhi Phifer's debut I think.
Clockers was that work, Man. FF to 7:55 in the clip. Delroy Lindo had me CTFU when he went in on Mekhi Phifer. ? was hilarious when I 1st seen it way back when; still is IMO.
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have yall seen inside man?
jodie foster is sexy as hell in that movie.
that movie is good.
i heard that it won't be an inside man 2. -
Spike Lee is an inspiration and one of the best directors ever,Do The Right Thing is like his Illmatic one of the best films ever and one of the foundations of independent films.If you watch the end credits of Clerks Kevin Smith gives thanks to Spike and DTRT at the end.
I like all Spike's work people also sleep on Clockers which was a great crime thriller and Mekhi Phifer's debut I think.
As much as I love Spike, I think he dropped the ball with Clockers. It was based on a very good book and I remember at the time it was shot, Spike was on HBO going in about "hood movies" and the only reason he did Clockers was because it was based on a book and the studio promised to bankroll his next 3 movies -- so he basically admitted that he did this half-heartedly. He's on that "Black people are more than drug dealers" type of ish, which is true, but don't let that stop you from telling a good story.
A good story is a good story. Period. Italians are more than Mobsters, but didn't stop Coppola and Scorses from making classic mob movies. -
One of the things I like about Spike is the fact that he places "easter eggs" in some of his films, kinda like Joss Wheldon.
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Malcolm X goes without question. Of course that film will get no recognition. It hurts their hearts. Ever wonder why there aint no Marcus Garvey movie? The dont need black people getting inspiration off of the past. Because a movie will reach the masses, the books? not so much. its by design.
Bamboozled is nice. I even have some of those pieces of black mammy memorabilia in my house. At first i thought it was evil and racist, but now i see it as history.
Bamboozled had many parts of that story that i never get to speak on.
Main dude was a sell out. His dad was paul mooney playing paul mooney. Black entertainment keeps shoving him down our throat and he still dont get no credit. its by design.
the mau mau was a real. canibus? Charlie baltimore? Mos def? really son? come'on son lol.
ok, im talkin to much. let me chill.
Nah, keep talkin, I hear you.
Malcom was the Black... nah, fucc that... Malcom X was the MODERN Citizen Kane as far as superior filmmaking is conscerned. I dusted it off and watched the DVD again last week. I promise every scene was perfect, not one second of screen-time wasted.
People don't realize Denzel played THREE Characters in that movie. THREE! He was Detroit Red first, then Malcom X, then El Haj Malik Shabazz. Those were basically three different people.
And Bamboozled was classic too. It was crazy how the Tommy Davidson scenes made you wanna laugh and cry at the same time. And I feel you on the minstrel dolls, I might get one.
Reminds me of my Uncle who has a million dollar crib in ATL, but he has a replica of the SLAVE SHIP diagram just above the front door. Shows how the slaves were stacked like sardines. So whenever you walk out of his front door and look up you'll see that ish. He says it keeps him grounded. -
Anti_matter wrote: »One of the things I like about Spike is the fact that he places "easter eggs" in some of his films, kinda like Joss Wheldon.
Wooooord.
Malcom X is full of'em. Go back and watch the scene where he gets shot. Just before he get's shot he looks at the gunman with the sawed off and *smiles* at him.
And here's a deeper one...
On Malcom X: They start compalining to Elijah Muhommad that "Malcom X is getting too big and thinks he IS the Nation of Islam."
And then notice how every scene after that where Malcom is speaking from a stage -- the pictures of Elijah around the room and on stage get bigger and BIGGER. That last one has a HUGE painting of Elijah behind Malcom as he speaks. Subliminal diss like a mugg. Man, I respect the N.O.I, but they're lame for how they did brother Malcom. Like Malcom/Denzel said in that one scene... "The N.O.I was the greatest organization a Black man has ever seen... and ? RUINED IT." -
greenwood1921 wrote: »Wooooord.
Malcom X is full of'em. Go back and watch the scene where he gets shot. Just before he get's shot he looks at the gunman with the sawed off and *smiles* at him.
And here's a deeper one...
On Malcom X: They start compalining to Elijah Muhommad that "Malcom X is getting too big and thinks he IS the Nation of Islam."
And then notice how every scene after that where Malcom is speaking from a stage -- the pictures of Elijah around the room and on stage get bigger and BIGGER. That last one has a HUGE painting of Elijah behind Malcom as he speaks. Subliminal diss like a mugg. Man, I respect the N.O.I, but they're lame for how they did brother Malcom. Like Malcom/Denzel said in that one scene... "The N.O.I was the greatest organization a Black man has ever scene... and ? RUINED IT."
Yep. A lot of dudes never catch these, not even the simple blatant ones like the fact that he uses those same two cops that killed Raheem in his other movies. -
school daze is a personal classic to me
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greenwood1921 wrote: »As much as I love Spike, I think he dropped the ball with Clockers. It was based on a very good book and I remember at the time it was shot, Spike was on HBO going in about "hood movies" and the only reason he did Clockers was because it was based on a book and the studio promised to bankroll his next 3 movies -- so he basically admitted that he did this half-heartedly. He's on that "Black people are more than drug dealers" type of ish, which is true, but don't let that stop you from telling a good story.
A good story is a good story. Period. Italians are more than Mobsters, but didn't stop Coppola and Scorses from making classic mob movies.
nah Clockers was classic,I remember they interviewed him about the violence in it and he said he made it graphic like that in the movie because it is in real life.Like the begining montage and the scene where the fast food manager gets shot and the coroners are checkin him out and he has a bullet logged in his gums.He said most people that do shootings in the hood don't stay around to see what happened to who they shot,he said that maybe if he showed how graphic it was they'd think twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twpYMFgwwWg
