- Adapted from the novel, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” written by Alex Haley, this is an amazing biopic of one of the most influential African American leaders to date. It follows the life and times of Malcolm Little through his transformation to Malcolm X and his departure from the Nation of Islam. Spike Lee’s epic film captures the internal struggles, the spiritual, political and structural ch
FEARED AND REVERED, MALCOM X CRYSTALLIZED THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF BLACKS, DEMANDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS DURING THE RACIALLY TUMULTUOUS AND DIVISIVE DECADES OF THIS 1950S AND 60S UNTIL HIS 1965 ASSASSINATION IN NEW YORK, AT THE AGE OF THIRTY NINE.Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee’s earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker’s artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America’s fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as “Detroit Red” to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm’s lifetime, and how these two great figures–held up to the public as polar-opposites within the African American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality “by any means necessary”)–were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm’s early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader–all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm’s wife, Betty Shabazz. –Jim Emerson
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March 22, 2008
#1
John Walker Lindh, (“The American Taliban”) first saw this film with his mother when he was 13 years of age. It was this movie that inspired him to convert to Islam and become an Islamic militant.
Many African-Americans have been convinced to converted to Islam because of this film, and its lies about Christianity being “A white man’s religion.”
March 22, 2008
#2
today i started reading “Malcolm X Speaks.” I read 17 pages and i was got more knowlegde in those 17 pages than in that 3 hour peice of garage. What the hell is Denzel Washington doing playing Malcolm X. That house Negro. Spike Lee is to. The movie was O.K. But it was garbage after i read Malcolms 17 page speech, in the book. He’s states how we bleed for the white man in his wars, but when it’s our war we run away from our problems. He states that he read the time magazine and saw a picture where a 8 year old Chinese girl was shootin her father cause she knew he was a Uncle Tom, in ten years she’d be on of the leaders of China and that’s why the white man feared them. That was part him stateing true meaning of the word “revolution”. To put on one line he said it’s a war where your gonna bleed. Denzel washington and Spike Lee should be ashamed of themselves. The knowlegde Malcolm gave to me in those 17 pages is more than those two UNCLE TOMS will EVER have.
As Malcolm said they should won a oscar cause they did a good job acting I mean faking.
Malcolm even if they’re gone I overstand your message, so you live through me.
You don’t have a holiday cause you still live everyday.
March 22, 2008
#3
I’m not going to waste my time on this much more than say Spike Lee’s movie making skills are terrible. The only good parts of the movie were when he gets killed and the credits roll. Don’t waste your time with this garbage. You want a good movie full of black actors go see Ray.
March 22, 2008
#4
I think Malcolm X was the strongest and the most beautiful character stepped foot on US soil. So this movie by no means represent him or whatsoever (although it has his name on the Title). I think what makes this movie especially -poor- is the “concerns” of the director to give a message against Islam… If you are a muslim, and a black… this movie will make your stomach sick.
However the film music is good
I hope one day Black Americans really appreciate this wonderful man. Peace.
March 22, 2008
#5
The Book from Alex Haley when I read it some 10 years ago changed my life and views of people with color, and everyone should read it, yes even conservatives, mandatory.
however, this movie something just wasnt good. to long? the over all acting?
Spike, you make some great movies, Summer of Sam is one of your best, Do the Right Thing. Spike has a gift for cinematography, however
Spike Lee Interview on ESPN? The interview said,
interviewer:
“Kanye West said that Bush doesn’t care about black people. Would you agree with that?
Lee:
“Yes, I agree with that, BUT I’ll go one step further and say that Bush doesn’t care about people who don’t have any money (whether they’re black or white.) I guaranteed you that if this same disaster happened on Long Island or let’s say The Hamptons, you would have had an entirley different response from FEMA and his administration.”
But you should have seen how he said it, it was as if he was staring right into the camera with this smirk on his face. The dude is bold man, I’ll give him that and I applaude him.
Spike said either black, white, Mexican, or asian.
But what he DIDN’T say was Italians!
That dude has been getting flack forever for his dis’n of Italians in his movies, they call him a racist all the time.
HERE WAS HIS CHANCE to say something, and he blew it.
just didn’t happen to say Italians?
NO
So HE is a racist too.
And so are the Africans in Africa, they never have liked white people either, so what about that Spike? Try going over their and applying for a job!
And while I am at, the African Americans in even Baton Rouge don’t want the blacks from N.O. coming up their! How come spike never said anything about that?
Fkn whiners, so many the world over! give them a mic and let them talk and will put it on TV and let the world see it for the fools they are.
And ignoramus white liberals eat it up as its gospel and he is telling Da Truth
Oh, and Bush just put Condi in as a “token” huh? promoted her to the most powerful black women ever in the United States history, and that does not mean anything. oookay