Selma is not as good as Malcolm X.
Mlk had it right, Malcolm didn't.
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Also, how did you see Spike getting in the way in X?
His style at times deafens the story, it's too loud. Perfect for stuff like "do the right thing" but the first 20% was so loud..
It had potential to be better than your typical big studio bio pic and overall more worked for it than Against, it just could have been toned down
I felt mecca was shot beautifully.. but the importance of the trip was an afterthought.. i think it would have served better for the story if it showed cause effect rebirth more directly and linearly.Man, I loved X. Obviously it doesn't live up to Malcolm's legacy -what could?- but I thought it was great filmmaking. I know what you mean by some of Lee's signatures being loud, but I thought the first third was more bombastic on purpose, to accentuate the helter-skelter of his earlier years. I even thought the signature "floating effect" shot in the final 30 minutes was spot-on to how out of body he must have felt.
Didn't initially like that Lee replaced Malcolm's brother introducing Islam to him with the fictional version in the film, but I know why he did and why they needed a vessel for the conflict. But yeah, loved that film.
Malcolm X will forever go down as one of the most underappreciated historical figures in the last 100 years or so. Shameful that he's been reduced to mostly untrue talking points.
Malcolm was nowhere near as conventionally controversial as the perception would lead you to believe. To White America he was, only because he consistently voiced the right for reactionary defense. People hated that. He wanted Blacks to be armed. He wanted them to fight back. That is controversial to nobody but an oppressive entity.
What hurt him in public opinion is that he refused to work with individual Whites even when they empathized. The chickens coming home to roost moment. Jesus was Black. Those things pissed White people off. A Malcolm that was willing to work with Whites after Mecca didn't jive with the existing perceptions. Leaving the NOI was his death sentence.
But he mobilized communities. Had rapport with world leaders. Made the issues global by joining the US struggle with other nations. I'm convinced he would have done so much more even had he not been assassinated. So many other talking points but don't want to cloud the movie thread. Denzel and Angela Bassett killed it.
Swiss Army Man 7/10
Harry Potter becomes a farting corpse and talks about masturbating.
Can you masturbate to it?