You Know It's Spike Lee IF... 

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I feel like Spike is often forgotten when discussing auteurs in the world of filmmaking. He definitely deserves discussion alongside some of the greats. As far as I am concerned, he is an American treasure.

Ever since I saw "Do The Right Thing", in my Film Studies class in college, I have been a very big fan of Spike Lee's work.

Brotha Malcolm at the beginning got me in my feelings.

spike lee is an absolute genius. along with tarantino and scorsese, lee stands tall in my list of favorite directors. brilliant.

I love how he portrays African Americans. He always portrays them as they really are not as Hollywood tends to

Another great Screenprism joint to add to the list.

God I'm so jealous of all the people who take Spike Lee's classes I would die just for one lesson

Brilliant, both Spike (whose movies definetily are the definition of "auteur cinema") and the talented woman who made this video, way to go Alani, more colaborations from you please

By any means necessary, ya dig? Sho' nuff.

I know its a spike Lee movie if the the characters are gliding.

You should do one of these for Hayao Miyazaki

A top 5 film director in my book. Spike always directs beautiful films. I think what puts some of his films down are the screenplay and the actors within the films. He doesn’t get it right but his direction is so beautiful, it’s out of this world.

*_a Spike Lee joint..._*

Great video! My mom always played Crooklyn and School Daze every week for my sisters and me when we were growing up. I think Spike effect my narrative style to story where I want things to be upfront and personal.

I had no Idea Spike Lee did an adaptation of Lysistrata.

Babboozled Malcolm X School Daze Clockers 4 Little Girls This short list of Lee’s films alone is enough to make him a top 20 all-time American filmmaker dare I say top 10.

A screenprism joint

Great job and great insights! I like how SP comes out with these vids parallel to the release of auteurs new movies. Please continue to come out with these vids about directors and their trademarks!

YES. WAKE UP! so good. thank y'all for your consistently great work!

Top 10 joints: 1. Do the Right Thing 2. Malcolm X 3. 25th Hour 4. Clockers 5. Jungle Fever 6. Blackkklansman 7. She's Gotta Have It 8. 4 Little Girls 9. Inside Man 10. Summer of Sam

Another great video! Do The Right Thing and Malcom X are masterpieces, and I'm happy to add a few more Spike Lee joints to my watch list

Amazing analysis/&dissection🙏🏿👏🏿

I'd also add to the list the use of repetition, a shot of an action followed directly by the same action, shot from a slightly different angle. "Do the Right Thing", "Malcolm X", "25th Hour" and "Red Hook" come to mind in this regard.

Spike Lee is one of the best filmmakers of all time

Great video. All the things I love about his films but didn't know how to phrase it. Good job.

Lees movies have the most unique dialogue in my opinion

....holy shit! Malcolm X looks so much like Denzel Washington 😨😱

3:20 Lee's been reading up on Lysistrata by Aristophanes! Fun ancient comedy. I think he put that in there to show how educated he, a black man, is.

I’m so glad people are finally recognizing what a lot of us knew when we first saw Do The Right Thing.

As a Spike Lee fan, I really appreciate this video!

Also.... everybody usually looks greasy or super sweaty with a orchestral musical swell in the background speaking directly kinda indirectly into the camera with some witty dialogue

I went to college with Zelda Harris, the actress who starred in "Crooklyn" and had a supporting role in "He Got Game." Just as cool in real life as she was on screen.🙂 As a journalist, I also got to cover Spike's visit to the Montreal Black Film Festival in 2018 and asked him a question about Black business ownership in the movie industry. His answer was *superb:* Let artists (like him) do their art, and let Black folks who actually specialize in business handle the business end of things. Couldn't have said it better my damn self 😏

First salute to Spike one of the best American filmmakers in the last 50 years Malcolm X was awesomely filmed! The irony for me is, people were trying desperately to leave Spike Lees Brooklyn to come live in my borough of Queens and fast forward 30 years later I can’t stomach neither Spikes Brooklyn nor the $10 craft beer 3k a month rent paying organic millennial Brooklyn but one of these Brooklyn’s won’t shoot you dead in the street for no apparent reason, that’s one part of the romanticized version of 70’’s, 80’s & 90’s BK that Spike propagandistically leaves out. ( Excluding Clockers)Like I said I was there.

No mention of Summer of Sam? Weird I think it’s one of his best to be honest.

Mo Betta Blues is my favorite

14 is Spike Lee's biggest weakness as a filmmaker. Most would weave the themes into the story (which Spike Lee is very good at anyway) and it just kills the pacing and flow of the story when Spike Lee pauses the story to preach at the audience. The funeral scene in "Chi-Raq" is a particularly gratuitous example down to a literal preacher.

Hello ScreenPrism. I am a fan of your page. I appreciate how deep you go in analyzing brilliant films and tv shows alike. Thank you so much for creating this page. I have a request. May you do a film analysis on The Devil’s Advocate starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves? I would love to see a movie character analysis on Kevin Lomax, John Milton, and Mary Ann.

excellent analysis. mad girl 6, get off the bus, and bamboozled got no shine

Along with education if you're having a hell lot of fun, you know you're watching a spike lee joint💥💥🔥🔥🔥

Omg I haven’t seen Chi-Raq yet but so cool that it’s based off of Lysistrata. Man he’s so brilliant

Malcolm X was the man.

Excellent Video Breakdown. My Favorite Director. I Hope to Someday Act in one of his Projects.

Loved She's gotta have it

Knew this was coming!

oooh could binge all of Spike Lee's movie

Great video!

Well done.

"She's Gotta Have it" makes "Plan 9 From Outerspace" look like "Citizen Kane."

Spike Lee is a Modern Master!

How did I miss this for 4 years? this is lesson in Film

Crooklyn and Malcolm X are my favorite Spike Lee film. Crooklyn is such a good movie that I rewatch it all the time. That’s one of my favorite childhood films. ❤️

Good breakdown 👍

The screenprism crew is awesome! I haven't watched many Spike Lee movies. I've only seen Do The Right Thing, Inside Man, and Clockers. What are some of his must see classics?

Liked and shared. Great video

Please make a video on First Reformed too. One of the best movies of 2018 imo

The one thing about his movies dialogue is nobody talks about race in their normal lives in normal life. I like his charismatic characters but what they say about race is often over the top.

Please continue this director series.

its a motherfuckin' spike lee joint

Well done ladies

That G is also the the G train that runs through Fort Green you can Sam that it’s the only symbol of the old and the new neighborhood.

You should do one on Sono Sion. He made great movies like Love Exposure, Tag or Suicide Club.

David Fincher WHEN Also cool new host!

the double dolly shot. how creative

Spike is either amazing or terrible. But I really want to see blackkklansman

You girls rock.

The Bomb!

Spike Lee: The more specific something is, the more universal it becomes.

Many ppl dislike his films because of him instead of actually watching them. It’s nice to see a proper dissection of his art.

Bring back this series

DEAR MR SPIKE LEE YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE I CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE I HAVE A MOVIE PITCH ITS A STORY THATS NEVER BEEN TOLD IT'S A PAINFUL SUBJECT YOUR THE KING OF CONTROVERSY SINCE SHES GOTTA HAVE IT I WOULD BE HONORED IF YOU WOULD TELL MY STORY I NEEDS TO BE TOLD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CONSIDER IT I COULD HEAL LOTS OF HEARTACHE S A REAL TEARJERKER

I enjoyed this video

what spike lee movies should i watch? which are the best?

Got an ad for masterclass by Spike Lee lol

you know it's a spike lee film when the race card is the only one in the deck

The dolly scenes 😂🤣😂😅😂😂🤣

Please make a Sense8 video!!!!!

Before we get started... Does Michael Otis want to get out?

Just kind of wish Spike held back on making something every year. It kind of dampens the quality of his films.

Who saw BlacKkKlansman last night?

I’d love to see him do a Seven Samurai reference

OK it's official... I'm definitely in love with the girls from SP. Beautiful, brainy, and churning out AWESOME content on the regular. You gals at the best!

chiraq is also an adaption of the Greek play Lysistrata (look it up).

like spike lee no love spike lee genius!😎

My lord

Niice

If you see the Dragnet style dialogue

His characters are usually so 2-dimensional.

11:48 what film was this from

🗿 Imagine being enrolled in a Cinema class that's taught by Spike Lee❗🥀 (S.F.)

❤🌹👍🏾

You know it’s Harold Ramis if

Could you guys do a video about American Gods?

They're saying wake up so we don't sleep in the movie theatre.

can you tell us what the song is at the end of the video, please?

Nooce

What's that beat on 10:10

I think CLOCKERS takes place in Baltimore.

I got a commercial for masterclass about spike Lee. He says the end scene with mookie and al was important because it shows they were both right. In your video about do the right thing you said only mookie was right. Y'all misinterpreted spikes meaning

Could you make one with Tarantino? 😇