Spike Lee in 5 scenes

2020-05-29
Spike Lee in 5 scenes

In 1957, Spike Lee, the son of a jazz musician and art teacher, was born. He was born the capital of Georgia, neighboring another, which is the cradle of the Ku Klux Klan - Tennessee. Despite the quick move to New York, in the artist's work he was just about to become strongly rooted the sense of racial and social injustice of African Americans, known to him from the streets of his native Atlanta.
After moving from the South to the East Coast, he continued his education in New York schools, including a college known for black education. There, his attitude was shaped as an attentive observer of Brooklyn reality, which the image was transferred to the silver screen in the debut of "Last Hustle" during education. The obtained master's degree in film and television arts allowed for further development in the audiovisual field, as music had an equally important place in films as his individual shots and frames.

Spike Lee in 5 scenes

From the beginning, Spike's work was dominated by social topics - racial issues, the role of the media in building awareness, crime, poverty and the resulting exclusions. Lee often touched on these big problems in a playful way, but always forced the recipient to think about his own choices in seemingly everyday situations, as he portrayed his characters. Finally, he created an engaged cinema for his brothers, in which many whites found universal values.
Exactly June 12 premiere on the Netflix platform is another director's movie "Da 5 Bloods", whose trailer you can find below:

HE GOT GAME – 1998

HE GOT GAME – 1998

A film about the relationship of father and son, with family drama and basketball in the background. Starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen though you have to say that the single by Chuck D with the same title made no less noise than the film itself.

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT – 1986

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT – 1986

A romantic comedy, but far from its canon. An example of a typically masculine behavior and opinion about a relationship though hidden in a female body - the main character Nola, for whom three men are seeking.

MO’ BETTER BLUES – 1990

MO’ BETTER BLUES – 1990

The history of jazz musician - Bleek Gillian played by Denzel Washington is a tribute to the director for all black artists who had a huge impact on the shape of American music and at the same time did not get the honor associated with it through their skin color.

DO THE RIGHT THING – 1989

DO THE RIGHT THING – 1989

An image highlighting the cultural and ethnic differences of Brooklyn residents during the reign of extreme heat. During the hottest day of the year, there are a number of misunderstandings and scuffles between the inhabitants of this cultural melting pot.

BLACKKKLANSMAN – 2018

BLACKKKLANSMAN – 2018

In the painting appreciated at the Cannes festival - Spike Lee returns to his youth and in tragicomedy he deals with the organization which is Ku Klux Klan thanks to two policemen, seemingly different only in skin color.

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