Donald Trump should see that movie, Director Spike Lee. His latest work, “BlacKkKlansman” to be running in the cinemas and refers to the racist policies of the US President compared to Black.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Spike Lee: the Moralist
This man has a message. In 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, – born Director is considered to be a champion for the rights of Blacks in the cinema. In his films he often tells stories of oppression and racism. 20. March, Spike Lee is 60 years old.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Reconnaissance and cool Arrangements
Spike Lee comes from a teacher family. Also his mother, who died when Lee was 20, was a teacher. This may explain the educational Impetus of many of the films of the Director. But Lee is also the son of a Jazz bassist and composer. You can see it in his films: the joy of life, wit, musical rhythm shape the works – how to Do the Right Thing” from 1988.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
A promoter of black actors
The film’s Director, the presence in his films, often as an actor, has enabled many young black performers to a career in American Film. Denzel Washington, is here on the side of Lee in “Mo’ Better Blues” in 1990, today one of the Top Stars in Hollywood.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Heated Tempers
Also Lee’s Film “Jungle Fever” brought a few of today well-known performer on the canvas. Wesley Snipes and Halle Berry, with the help of Spike Lee at that time a relationship had, are now also an established actor. “Jungle Fever” is a Film about relationship fights full of emotions.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Magnum Opus: “Malcolm X”
In 1992, Spike Lee then brought his up to then the most expensive and the most expensive plant in the cinemas, that should be all of the bundles, what moved the film: the story of The black movement in the United States is treated in the film biography “Malcolm X”. Denzel Washington (R) plays the Black-Muslim-leader.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Autobiographical: Crooklyn
Two years later incurred costs, to the movie “Crooklyn” that shows a family in the 1970s in New York, was coined to Refer numerous autobiographical. Without the educational Ballast of his Politepen such as “Malcolm X”, which is dominated here, again, the joy of life and wit.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
The issue of drugs in “Clockers”
In 1995, the rolling of the movie “Clockers” to language topics, which Spike Lee has always been worrying. The (Over-)live in drug and crime-ridden quarters of the city of New York, the conflicts between different ethnic groups.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Actor Magnet
In 1996, the Director told in his Film, “Girl 6” is the story of an unsuccessful actress, the money earned by the way at a phone sex Hotline. In small supporting roles such greats as Quentin Tarantino, Madonna and Naomi Campbell worked with mark for the great popularity of the Director.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Love of the Sport
The Fan of Basketball, Spike Lee staged in 1998 his favourite actor Denzel Washington as a gifted athlete. Lee shows in “He Got Game”, among other things, how strong the Sport in the USA is socially rooted.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Crime in New York
Also in 1999, the Film “Summer of Sam” turned to Spike Lee again, one of his preferred Subjects: the crime in New York, and the clashes between ethnic gangs. Is located the Film, which is based on a historical crime case in the 1970s.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
There are 25 hours…
One of his strongest films in the Director, delivered in the year 2002. Edward Norton plays in “25th Hour,” a drug dealer who has to compete in the 25 hours of a seven-year prison sentence. A melancholic view on the transience of life, asks the question, what is really important.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Elegant Entertainment Cinema
“Inside Man” in 2006 showed that Spike Lee could also be the keyboard of the big commercial cinemas. The Thriller about a Bank robbery is extremely entertaining, hidden under the surface, but also a lot of typical Spike-Lee-theme.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Documentary and video clips
After “Inside Man” directed Spike Lee’s documentary reinforced in movies and turned in addition to promotional films, music videos for major Stars in the industry. So Off the Wall tells the story of the musician Michael Jackson, before this was star to the world.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Berlinale Film Festival-Participation 2016
At the Berlinale in 2016, Spike presented to Lee at the Berlin film festival Chi-Raq”, a pop musical drama play” to gang crime and street gangs. As Background, the classic Drama “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, served as the Director.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Latest Klu Klux Klan Film
In “BlacKkKlansman” infiltrate two police agents – of a Jew, the other Black – in the Klu Klux Klan. This latest satirical Film, Spike Lee takes on a true story from the 1970s, but also relates to the Situation today in the United States, where racism turns against the Black population again and again, in violence.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Spike Lee: the Moralist
This man has a message. In 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, – born Director is considered to be a champion for the rights of Blacks in the cinema. In his films he often tells stories of oppression and racism. 20. March, Spike Lee is 60 years old.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Reconnaissance and cool Arrangements
Spike Lee comes from a teacher family. Also his mother, who died when Lee was 20, was a teacher. This may explain the educational Impetus of many of the films of the Director. But Lee is also the son of a Jazz bassist and composer. You can see it in his films: the joy of life, wit, musical rhythm shape the works – how to Do the Right Thing” from 1988.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
A promoter of black actors
The film’s Director, the presence in his films, often as an actor, has enabled many young black performers to a career in American Film. Denzel Washington, is here on the side of Lee in “Mo’ Better Blues” in 1990, today one of the Top Stars in Hollywood.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Heated Tempers
Also Lee’s Film “Jungle Fever” brought a few of today well-known performer on the canvas. Wesley Snipes and Halle Berry, with the help of Spike Lee at that time a relationship had, are now also an established actor. “Jungle Fever” is a Film about relationship fights full of emotions.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Magnum Opus: “Malcolm X”
In 1992, Spike Lee then brought his up to then the most expensive and the most expensive plant in the cinemas, that should be all of the bundles, what moved the film: the story of The black movement in the United States is treated in the film biography “Malcolm X”. Denzel Washington (R) plays the Black-Muslim-leader.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Autobiographical: Crooklyn
Two years later incurred costs, to the movie “Crooklyn” that shows a family in the 1970s in New York, was coined to Refer numerous autobiographical. Without the educational Ballast of his Politepen such as “Malcolm X”, which is dominated here, again, the joy of life and wit.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
The issue of drugs in “Clockers”
In 1995, the rolling of the movie “Clockers” to language topics, which Spike Lee has always been worrying. The (Over-)live in drug and crime-ridden quarters of the city of New York, the conflicts between different ethnic groups.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Actor Magnet
In 1996, the Director told in his Film, “Girl 6” is the story of an unsuccessful actress, the money earned by the way at a phone sex Hotline. In small supporting roles such greats as Quentin Tarantino, Madonna and Naomi Campbell worked with mark for the great popularity of the Director.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Love of the Sport
The Fan of Basketball, Spike Lee staged in 1998 his favourite actor Denzel Washington as a gifted athlete. Lee shows in “He Got Game”, among other things, how strong the Sport in the USA is socially rooted.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Crime in New York
Also in 1999, the Film “Summer of Sam” turned to Spike Lee again, one of his preferred Subjects: the crime in New York, and the clashes between ethnic gangs. Is located the Film, which is based on a historical crime case in the 1970s.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
There are 25 hours…
One of his strongest films in the Director, delivered in the year 2002. Edward Norton plays in “25th Hour,” a drug dealer who has to compete in the 25 hours of a seven-year prison sentence. A melancholic view on the transience of life, asks the question, what is really important.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Elegant Entertainment Cinema
“Inside Man” in 2006 showed that Spike Lee could also be the keyboard of the big commercial cinemas. The Thriller about a Bank robbery is extremely entertaining, hidden under the surface, but also a lot of typical Spike-Lee-theme.
-
An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Documentary and video clips
After “Inside Man” directed Spike Lee’s documentary reinforced in movies and turned in addition to promotional films, music videos for major Stars in the industry. So Off the Wall tells the story of the musician Michael Jackson, before this was star to the world.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Berlinale Film Festival-Participation 2016
At the Berlinale in 2016, Spike presented to Lee at the Berlin film festival Chi-Raq”, a pop musical drama play” to gang crime and street gangs. As Background, the classic Drama “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, served as the Director.
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An exceptional talent – The black Director Spike Lee
Latest Klu Klux Klan Film
In “BlacKkKlansman” infiltrate two police agents – of a Jew, the other Black – in the Klu Klux Klan. This latest satirical Film, Spike Lee takes on a true story from the 1970s, but also relates to the Situation today in the United States, where racism turns against the Black population again and again, in violence.
The black Director and filmmaker Spike Lee explores in his films again and again with the Situation of the Afro-American population in the United States. In his latest Film BlacKkKlansman, the on 10. August is coming to U.S. cinemas on June 23. August in Germany is starting, it’s about violence and racism in the United States.
Appears in the Film exactly a year after the violence at protests against neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. The anti-racism activist Heather Heyer was passed over the protests and is murdered. After the Assaults in the Charlottesville, Lee decided to complement his Film with documentary footage of the protests, including the cars, the Heyer hit. The shameful reaction from Trump, the “both sides” responsible for the violence, has a built-in Lee.
The Anti-racism Farce finds applause
The Film itself is about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and is based on a true story. In 1979, succeeded the black under cover agent Ron Stallworth, together with a Jewish colleague, the Racist Ku Klux Klan to infiltrate. Lee has made it into a parody, into the Ridiculous, but also deeply serious. The so-called Anti-racism Farce draws clear Parallels to current US policy, and to the social ills in the United States. In the lead role is John David Washington, son of Denzel Washington, at his side, Adam Driver plays.
Lee began his career as a film Director in the ‘ 60s, a time when well-known black actors like Sydney Poitier in Hollywood are still the exception. In the 80s and 90s, Spike Lee was one of the most influential Directors and produced films such as “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986) to “Inside Man (2006).
His Anti-racism parody, it was just shown at the Locarno film festival and received a special round of applause. In Cannes, he had to get the “Big prize”, the second highest award of the festival, for his new strip.