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Film starts with the Rodney King violence which happened at that time, George Floyd
I’ve seen Ghandi, Selma based on Dr. Martin Luther King but MX moves me,
Spike Lee fought hard to get the movie to be quite long with studio execs, he felt JFK’s long time,
Great adaption from autobiography
Movie production hardships funding spike Lee, Michael Jordan basketball, Oprah Winfrey TV host, Janet Jackson, Prince, magic Johnson
Denzel played character in off broadway play called chickens come home to roost, so destined to do this role, denzel still had the glasses
No Oscars won due to oscars politics, they award Oscars based on lifetime rather than specific films
Hard to know where mx finishes and denzel begins, one year no acting jobs to focus, read the Holy quran, fasting, read arabic, no pork, no alcohol go channel mx spirit, that's dedication to character
You see the transformation of mx take place, kid, detroit red, noi, sunni Muslim,
Filming done in Egypt instead of Saudi Arabia, South Africa for the Nelson Mandela scene,
Wake up phrase uttered by Betty, feature of spike lee films, e.g. do the right thing, school daze. The expression plays as a command to the audience, urging them to awaken their minds to important social issues that are depicted in Lee’s films.
Denzel son John played the first school kid who says he is malcolm x, later on starred in black Klans men directed by spike lee
Denzel Washington Real life mum was in film
Mx dad house was burned, same with mx valentines day molotov cocktail
Spike lee double dolly in lots of films, jungle fever, mo blues
Improvements
• insert all deleted scenes into film
• condense 1st third of film, remove the dancing scenes,
• too much of a musical Spike Lee's vision
• green screen to shoot international scenes,
• movie didnt show the african and uk trip
• should have shown more of the last 2 years of mx life
• Uk and African countries trips not shown, I’ve shown some of the UK stuff in my MX doc
Some differences from the actual book autobiography:
• didnt show the army recruiting scene would have been funny
MX QUOTE: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
I’ve been to New York, but went to tourist places, I wish I could have recited Fatiah at his grave