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When I first saw this movie, I didn't love it that much until I saw the very last part. It was really intense and I immediately recognized the importance of this film. This video helps me appreciate the message even more. Lee did a great job there. That being said, I don't find this movie to be a masterpiece. This could has been a greater film, it let me with this feeling it just could be better. Is this movie important? Yes, its message is relevant. Should you watch it? Yeah, please do until the end. I learned so much. Was it necessary to be in the Best Picture category? Not really.
@@GigaChadh976 Yeah, in 1992, compared to that days, now at days, TV Shows and movies are more sanitised in favour of the rich and powerful than ever. Back in the days you could say that a politician could murder and be corrupt, than corporations could destroy the lives of common people, but thanks to corporate consolidation those days are over.
Watching this after we know Green Book has won, in a way it really comes full circle, everything repeats itself, even the oscars. Blackkklansman is still my personal favorite.
Oscars and Hollywood is in a fairy tale don't ask me look what movies were made in the 2010 s race movies The Help ,Django Unchained, The Butler the other slave movie and 2 different flicks about Abraham Lincoln.And they praised a hack like Quentin Tarantino who makes trivial movies just saying.
Just watched this film (finally), and OMG yes! There are horrifying parts of the movie, but there's so much humor that you're able to stay sane watching it. The ending completely took me off guard and suddenly I couldn't breathe.
@@nameslesss of course it isn't lmao, but lawlessness has reached to a height in this country. People literally get lynched for eating beef here and the perpetrators are never bought to justice because whatever they did it aligns with the government's fascist ideology.
I think to make it broader: just because an ideology we, several decades later, see as crazy, doesn't mean people still won't adopt it in the present day even with its horrible connotations.
Is more look to the other side meanwhile rich people rob your pension, your way of life, and never, ever do nothing to mitigate the caused that lead to the rise of racism and xenophobia. AREN'T WE SO MUCH PROGRESSIVES?
I love this movie so much. I have seen it twice at a theater and people is always left speechless and horrified. Consider I live in a small country in South America but racism is an universal issue.
I liked the statement spike lee was making. We like to think these things are outdated but in reality, they’re going on and he draws attention to this important fact
This take politely trashed it and I agree. When I came out of the theater I remember how upset I was by the way Spike Lee portrayed the Black Panthers. By constantly editing and "contrasting" the two radicals in this story, the ultimate take away that someone takes from this movie is "oh those radicals are equally crazy, let's be a good centrist instead". It's called the theory of the two extremes and it's a disgusting equation of the Black Panthers with the KKK. The peak of the movie WAS NOT as many think the ending scenes with all the real events. He is simply trying to get credit from the emotions these scenes create. The peak of the movie was those fast cuts where the black panthers protest and scream "Black Power" while the others say "White Power". That was his own material and ultimately what he wanted to pass on. That for me was by far the worst of all scenes and I am so glad you noticed it too and in a way you mentioned it in the very beginning of this video. Spike Lee, for years now has been too cozy with the rich Hollywood elites and he has become a moderate just like so many do when they grow old and rich. Nothing will ever beat the realness of "Do the right thing". He is not the same person or with the same experiences anymore. And don't get me started with the latest one "Da 5 Bloods" and the fact that he is currently promoting bitcoins with commercials and all that "Get rich fast" schemes. Truly despicable stuff. He has almost lost his mind in my opinion ...
I find this comment interesting because I can see where this notion of Spike Lee equalizing The Black Panther with KKK can arise. I do disagree that it was done for juxtaposition or equalizing. I don't know if it has to do with me being a Caribbean leftist, I just saw it as contrasting. Because, fast-paced scenes aside, the beginnings of each scenes must be mentioned. In the beginning of the Black people gathering, the elder talks about his experience with lynching and other heinous crimes. In contrast, in the beginning of the KKK gathering, they're watching a movie mocking Black people. To me, the fast-pacing show the difference in power and context of each phrase. Black power is about resistance of the marginalized, while white power is about maintaining the status quo in violent and racist ways. To hear Black power can only make the powerful racist uncomfortable. At least, that's my perspective and understanding.
@@misslabellekitty1298 being a leftist myself as well, I understand how you interpret that scene. And I wish everyone would do the same. But you ask too much from a broad audience. They are not gonna go there. People learn by comparison. And what they see are two equally aggressive sides. They are not doing the mental gymnastics we are doing here. That's my argument basically. Remember also, who is the audience. He's a famous Hollywood director, with a very big budget that can do as he pleases. He had amazing distribution and studios/platforms promoting it relentlessly. His movie was meant to target a large audience. Not an artsy, little indie film at a few minor festivals. Knowing that you have contracts to do this kind of movie, you carry the full responsibility of the "lessons" you wanna teach people. And his ultimate lessons are (which have been fairly consistent lately), centrism is good, meritocracy is real and if you work hard enough you will be drinking cocktails at the Oscars after party very soon, as long as you believe it hard enough!
Good film, not Spike Lee's best tho. I also didn't buy the Internal Affairs Racism sting at the end. Boots Riley raised some good points about the film too.
I didn't get the "pulls the rug out" moments because I very much agree with Mr Lee on his initial premise. I don't think we've come that far, and I think that the system is still not designed anywhere close to equality. We need to do better. I cried or was on the verge of it for most of this movie.
That's pretty sad if you think "WE" haven't come that far. ? Mr. Spike Lee believes that to.... either he is very very naive or he himself is a racist ! I'll go with the latter... especially if you look what all his movies are based on. By the way I liked the "Black Klansman" movie...but he definitely took liberties with it since it's not the whole truth of what happened.
Let’s all agree that John David Washington made a great performance in BlacKkKlansman and in Tenet. A black lead in a Christopher Nolan film? That’s greats!
I've seen the movie twice and loved it both time but I don't think I ever picked up on the comparison's to Lee's other works. With this, I think it deserves Best Picture 100%
Wasn't really his fault there. Studio kept meddling to the point he basically disowned the thing, hence why it's "A Spike Lee Film" instead of "A Spike Lee Joint". Movie's shit, though. Watch the 2003 one instead.
The point about passing is... Interesting to say the least. Passing is an individual choice, which negatively affect the community if many people make it, but often is made out of internal conviction. Philip Zimmerman here didn't FEEL Jewish and was only forced into this category by bigots for whom culture, language and religion, that is, things a person can to a degree choose and actually influence his life and worldview, don't matter - for them, everything is about ancestry, and if you have the "wrong" ancestry, you are condemned into otherness. But then, for the jewish community at large, Zimmerman was sort of a traitor, who refused to share their struggle... Although he didn't do it for his own benefit, but because this is what he was raised as, just as many others were raised jewish. It's complicated to say the least.
There is also a very weird standard on people's race. 50% white 50% black -> black, 75% white 25% black -> black, 1/16th black -> black. And that's not even coming from the white supremacists but from the supposed progressives. The standards for trans is "be whoever the fuck you want", why doesn't this apply to everyone?
I mean, if we take the politics out and just focus on him as a filmmaker, I think his movies are either really really good or really really bad. Back in the 2000's, he made Inside Man and then at the same time made that one really weird male gigolo movie
I've never seen a Spike Lee film that could be really really bad. My only issue would be his remake of that Japanese movie. Lee should have got the nod for Malcolm X, that was a great film. He should have got the nod for do the right thing for its artistry not for the politics. That gigolo movie you're speaking of with Anthony Mackey (lol the Falcon) is a great film or at least an average movie but if you think it's bad then you're basically going off what critics at the time got wrong, the movie was making a few interrogations that are very relevant in our current me too climate. But I'm not going into all of that, all I'm saying is Lee is Great in a not trying too much way, which is what I love about him. My fav Spike Lee movie is Get on the Bus and I also really like Red Hook Summer. Red hook is a crazy f'ing movie.
2:25 "comfortably thinking the worst of racism is behind us".... yes that's exactly what most common sense (the non outspoken majority) people think... with that said, it was a pretty good movie.
Spike Lee should've won Best Picture & Best Director for Do the Right Thing as well as Malcolm X. By the time he's old as fuck, his prescience will recognized, but only after it's too late to give him complete creative-control & financing.
I'm hoping Roma wins best picture but I'd be happy if Blackkklansman won. As long as Green Book doesn't win, that would feel like Driving Miss Daisy all over again.
Green Book is so average and it's such a silly fairy tale look at racism, didn't deserve to be nominated for anything let alone best picture and it won over the Favourite and First reformed for screenplay as well. Those films have literally a perfect script. Such a joke.
@@jmaopp Poverty, income inequality, tax cuts to the rich, famine, diseases, and the fact that rich people and corporations use race tensions to point the blame elsewhere meanwhile they run with the money by the back door. It not rocket science, but this movie and Black Panther have the same problem, they are centre-right movies disguised as progressives one, they point out the problem, but never says the caused of it, hell, Black Panther even allied with the same people that caused the problems in first place, the CIA, by overthrowing democracies and killing foreign leaders.
Ah, girls... you've only released two Oscar videos so far this week... Are you planning to release the other four between friday and saturday? Still, great as always, thanx for waking me up to these significative films!!!
I thought the modern footage at the end was ham handed and condescending...like Lee didn't trust us to make modern connections for ourselves. That's also a staple of Lee's otherwise excellent work.
@@blurelic4 don't know. But I'm supposed to beleive that Trump is a klansman? Yeah right. I don't even like the president but the comparison is ridiculous.
@@jonathanvian2607 It's not necessarily a 1 to 1 comparison. Trump isn't a Klansman but he has been an apologist for white supremacists and not explicitly denouncing the white nationalists at Charlottesville. Also David Duke endorsed him. Trump didn't condemn Duke and shrugged it off saying he didn't know him (which is false, as he was in an independent political party with Duke in the 90s. He also claimed he left because he didnt care for Duke's politics).
Chris Camerino It's is not a comparison at all you brainwashed libtard progressive. He brought black and Hispanic unemployment to the lowest it has been EVER. He has awards from the NAACP and from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. So shut up with your parroting BS from the MSM. He said there were good and bad people on both sides in Charlottesviile, you dolt. And he did disavow Duke multiple times if you watch anything other than the MSM. Go crawl back under your rock and don't forget to vote Nov 4, 2020.
Hollywood has always played a vital role in race relations. That role has not always been positive one. In-fact, Hollywood has gone out of its way to whitewash the horror of race relations in this Country. The movie industry, like most others, caters to the will of the majority. If they make a movie, and no one goes to see it, then they've lost money. Movies have to be able to put butts in seats. An honest depiction of the African-American struggle is not going to garner the kind of profits Hollywood requires for a production to be successful. Still, Hollywood didn't completely ignore the issue. Your take on the "White Savior Trope" is evidence of that. Still, your video didn't go far enough. You never addressed the reason these movies were made in the first place. Deep down, the majority knows that Blacks haven't been give a fair shake in this Country. They know the stories. They know the horrors, and it's a truth that no one wants dancing before their faces on a large screen.
this movie has one of the most scariest twist endings EVER. when they arrest the racist cop, i was like....nice, it's a happy ending, sunshine,butterflies and BAMM... spike lee gives you a bitchslap into reality! fucking scary!
So, if I'm born jewish in America but I'm not drawn to the culture and heritage I should feel ashamed (for not facing "my" otherness within) and do the effort, otherwise, I WOULD BE PASSING😶. There's something I'm missing about american culture.
I don't think Spike Lee is so much siding with the moderates seeing as how Ron's belief in the police is proven wrong multiple times in the script and Patrice is always proven right. Still, we're still supposed to ultimately side with the black cop, seeing him as someone on the same side but too naive and capable of ultimately making the right decision for the cause when actually he was sent undercover originally to investigate their movement and in real life Patrice would have been putting herself and all of her activist friends in danger by continuing to engage him after finding out who he was. Even if some cops can be made to see the light that's hardly a risk for one young activist to take on since they are still beholden to the system and the system is still racist.
Oh shit, I'm been saying this kinda thing for years. Paul Newman didn't even show for his Oscar win (for The Color of Money), because he'd been snubbed so many times he was sick of believing it was "his time". & of course, The Color of Money isn't his best-role (mind you, it's one of my favorite-movies & also one of Tom Cruise's top three performances, the other two being Taps & Magnolia- ironically, he's extraordinarily adept at fools & villains, not superstar-fodder). Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid or Cool Hand Luke, seriously?
If folks have not seen "Bamboozled", I would recommend checking it out. Its my favorite Spike Lee race commentary movie, and it continues to be a good exploration of minstrelsy, black face, and entertainment. Not like we have had any issues with that recently, right?
I see myself as white/swede even though I'm Persian and Hungarian. Reason is I've never been connected to these countries in any way. So I don't see any point in forcing myself to recognize my identity.
@@empressfreya9872 If she had mostly Scandinavian/Nordic DNA, then she would be a Swede. If I grew up in Japan with a piece of paper espousing my Japanese citizenry, it wouldn't make me Japanese. You can't steal other people's identity and heritage just because you're living in their country.
@@matthaios527 you´re one of these, I see. Eww. Anyways, Lisa R is a Swede since she mostly likely grew up in Sweden and was raised between their culture. You´re not the identity police so luckily whatever you say doesn´t matter, only her legal papers and own feelings towards it.
@@MrAudriem lol! my brother in law is Luso. and his name is Gonzaga, so i am used to it. but what's with the german last name Wagner , and as a first name though. I am half german so the name is familiar to me.
I must be in a very small minority where I wanted BlackkKlansman to win, but happy that Green Book won. I didn't view the end of Green Book as "racism solved" but rather the opening to learn more from each other. Did I wish that Dr. Shirley's family had a chance to be at the writing table? Yes! But I'm also pessimistic and didn't think that would ever happen. Green Book shows us where the mass 'public mind' is now, and surprisedly it is informing people about the green books for the very first time. BlackkKlansman was a better movie, but I see the value of Green Book.
But even with the Green Book, they didn't fully explain things. The Green Book was for Northern states as well and a lot of the places where Blacks could stay was considered really good. I would recommend to watch the documentary on the actual Green Book. Edited due to words
@@rodgermurphy5721 the Oscars are the whoever gives us the most bribes win in their category so they have always been a joke like politics. It was literally a way to make the movie industry seem like less of a joke when it first started and be considered a high class thing. That's why only sad miserable period pieces get nominated or foreign films half the time.
