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Malcolm X (1992)
From Amazon:
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...
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| Malcolm X Movie Review by Ezra (2/16/2007) |
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Spoilers ahead:
Malcolm X (1992) may be the film Lee was born to make. Ever since he read The Autobiography of Malcolm X for the first time, he had a vision for the film, and "it was because of Do The Right Thing that a man named Marvin Worth - who had the rights to the material on Malcolm's life - sent ... a letter...
(complete Malcolm X review by Ezra)
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