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Post by pickle20 on Jul 1, 2020 7:35:10 GMT -5
It took 28 years but I finally watched this movie masterpiece this week.
I have always been hit or miss with Spike Lee... at times I find him to be an entitled, whiny brat in real life, but damn if he doesn't make fascinating, powerful movies. I recently watched his new movie, Da 5 Bloods on Netflix, and found it to be a movie with a shifting tone and a great performance at the center of it that ultimately fell short of greatness. Malcolm X is his masterpiece and that it didn't win Best Picture in 1992 (Unforgiven won, which I find to be a meandering, mediocre film) and Best Actor (Al Pacino, my favorite actor, won for one of his most garish performances in Scent of a Woman) are some of the biggest upsets in Oscar history.
And if this movie is true to history and everything I've read says it is, Malcolm X is probably one of the most misunderstood black men in the civil rights movement.
Highly recommended. Especially in these times.
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Post by kandace on Jul 4, 2020 17:13:09 GMT -5
It took 28 years but I finally watched this movie masterpiece this week. I have always been hit or miss with Spike Lee... at times I find him to be an entitled, whiny brat in real life, but damn if he doesn't make fascinating, powerful movies. I recently watched his new movie, Da 5 Bloods on Netflix, and found it to be a movie with a shifting tone and a great performance at the center of it that ultimately fell short of greatness. Malcolm X is his masterpiece and that it didn't win Best Picture in 1992 (Unforgiven won, which I find to be a meandering, mediocre film) and Best Actor (Al Pacino, my favorite actor, won for one of his most garish performances in Scent of a Woman) are some of the biggest upsets in Oscar history. And if this movie is true to history and everything I've read says it is, Malcolm X is probably one of the most misunderstood black men in the civil rights movement. Highly recommended. Especially in these times. I second your recommendation. My one complaint is that Lee's choice of Denzel Washington, a dark skinned AA man, obscured the reality of Malcolm X being rather light skinned. (That's why he was called "Detroit Red." Denzel is most definitely not red). Malcolm's skin tone, in my opinion, contributed to his militancy, and obscuring that fact does the audience a disservice.
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