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@AmazingJayB51

5 жыл бұрын

That's the truth, Ruth!

@jcnot9712

4 жыл бұрын

Would they ever take away all movies from an author with the MUBI daily rotation system? Meaning, if I were to sign up today, would there be a chance for all Spike Lee movies to not be available?

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

@mellowillow

3 жыл бұрын

ReyTheJediLady ViaJakku Agreed

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.

@wigsontop

4 жыл бұрын

Brotha Malcolm is a tool, a dead tool at that!

@scotswarrior9535

3 жыл бұрын

@@wigsontop Shut it, Settler

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

@Eisenbison

3 жыл бұрын

No, he absolutely isn't. Go watch his butchered remake of OldBoy and THEN tell me he's a genius with a straight face.

@josb9836

3 жыл бұрын

@Faux ay that’s a horrible take, but who do you think are so much better?

@loonaya

3 жыл бұрын

@Faux of very shallow, teenage level of consciousness dialog. tarantino is in a constant search of amusing one liners that come from those dialogues. amusing. maybe funny sometimes, but nothing else of real substance

@ethanknight1031

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eisenbison Most directors have at least one dud. With Francis Ford Coppola it was Jack and Steven Spielberg it was Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

@mikeouwen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eisenbison Martin Scorese’s Departed is shit compared to the original one. So you can say the same to him too. I guess it’s just the problem doing a remake especially remake on a culture rather distant from the director’s

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

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.

@wigsontop

4 жыл бұрын

He is considered great for a black director, but compared to white directors he is trash. Real talk

@EzeICE

3 жыл бұрын

He's not forgotten at all. He's a legend in the game. Real Talk

@Dvfrzco

3 жыл бұрын

He’s not very good

@ritual301

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dvfrzco Hot take from someone using _Kelsey Grammer_ as their avatar.

@Dvfrzco

3 жыл бұрын

ritual301 Frasier is good

Another great Screenprism joint to add to the list.

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

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

3 жыл бұрын

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

You should do one of these for Hayao Miyazaki

@dark3rthanshadows

5 жыл бұрын

i won't lie he's a bit overrated

@chrism7163

4 жыл бұрын

@@dark3rthanshadows actually he isn't, he isn't praised on the same way Walt Disney is sooo

@dark3rthanshadows

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrism7163 oh he is, and for the cult fandom HE'S A GOD . the guy even won an Oscar... by how revulutionary Disney was and brought animatio nto what we see to day . Walt deserves all the praise

@chrism7163

4 жыл бұрын

@@dark3rthanshadows that's his fandom not world-wide praise. People today don't even know Miyazaki unless they were studying Japanese animation. Walt Disney is past overrated

@chrism7163

4 жыл бұрын

@@dark3rthanshadows the animation we see today sucks compared to the past. Is that what Walt was responsible for?

*_a Spike Lee joint..._*

@Saint_nobody

5 жыл бұрын

*-puff puff pass-*

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

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

@Krissy19986

5 жыл бұрын

Right! I would love to just sit in just once to hear him speak

@pdzombie1906

5 жыл бұрын

I think there's a Masterclass you can pay on line to teach you filmmaking, the girls showed it in the video...

@ayderla789

5 жыл бұрын

spike lee taught me the joys of my white culture thanks spike

@michaelg4074

4 жыл бұрын

Spike Lee is an ignorant moron

@michaelg4074

4 жыл бұрын

And a racist on top of that

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 screenprism joint

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.

@steveempiremantra2120

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@christinethuo6840

4 жыл бұрын

Crooklyn

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

3 жыл бұрын

Amen. Also "When the Levees Broke" was a masterclass in documentary film making. Bamboozled is one of the singularly underappreciated films of our times. The message was so powerful and had it come out just 5 years later, its reception would have been huge. But Brothah Spike has always been ahead of his time.

@Olyphantman

3 жыл бұрын

Cruising with Dr. Braxy Gilkey absolute facts 👍🏾✊🏾

@troytrottie8807

3 жыл бұрын

How you didnt put mo better blues with Denzel and Westley Snipes, and jungle fever straight up classics

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.

@K1ng1995

8 ай бұрын

When I was older and I started reading X-Men comics and started asking about Racism, my mom showed me "Do The Right Thing" at first I didn't get it the movie but now that I'm older and I started listening to other people. I fully get it

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!

@HelloHello-tm7uc

5 жыл бұрын

I agree I would love that! In fact, the video just made me want to finally watch Malcolm X-- I always put it off but not tonight!!

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

Amazing analysis/&dissection🙏🏿👏🏿

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

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

Lees movies have the most unique dialogue in my opinion

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

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

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.

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

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.

@jaymanier7286

5 жыл бұрын

OK?

@joeyclemenza7339

5 жыл бұрын

he's just learned in all forms of drama. he's been a lifelong student of it.

@joeyclemenza7339

5 жыл бұрын

I Do Monologues moreover... most high school students learn about Lysistrata WELL before many of them even take the fucking SAT’s.... I’m sure Spike has known about the nuance of the comedy well before you were even born....

Well done.

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

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

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 😏

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

@MineShackle

5 жыл бұрын

Man I see everywhere, chief

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

@joeyclemenza7339

5 жыл бұрын

there were a few joints she didn't mention, like bamboozeled, girl 6, she hate me, etc.

Knew this was coming!

Mo Betta Blues is my favorite

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

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

Loved She's gotta have it

Great video!

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?

@bolder2009

5 жыл бұрын

The Malcolm X biopic is his most ambitious and 'important' project, with an alltime great performance by Denzel. Do The Right Thing is the best of his features that I've seen. Mo Better Blues is my personal favourite. Bamboozled is one that isn't mentioned too often, which is another good one. Inside Man is a classy genre film. In the last two decades his best work has been as a documentary film maker.

@allaroundwinner

5 жыл бұрын

You gotta watch Crooklyn and Bamboozled

@pm0913

5 жыл бұрын

School Daze is a African American culture classic!

@BenHopkins1000

5 жыл бұрын

I don't recommend Miracle at St. Anna.

@kostajovanovic3711

5 жыл бұрын

She gotta have it

Malcolm X was the man.

@NeverSaySandwich1

5 жыл бұрын

Nightmare Files Until the Muslims killed him

@jonmoore9823

5 жыл бұрын

Yea he was

@wiwysova

5 жыл бұрын

Not really

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

Well done ladies

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

oooh could binge all of Spike Lee's movie

@Eisenbison

3 жыл бұрын

Except for OldBoy. That one sucked ass.

Please continue this director series.

Spike Lee is a Modern Master!

Good breakdown 👍

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.

Liked and shared. Great video

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

the double dolly shot. how creative

You girls rock.

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. ❤️

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

The Bomb!

Bring back this series

its a motherfuckin' spike lee joint

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

Who saw BlacKkKlansman last night?

@TheGeorgeD13

5 жыл бұрын

I did. Damn good movie.

@MayorOfEarth79

5 жыл бұрын

Yo. Great movie. Had a lot of these things here. Especially loved the constant skewering of Gone with the Wind and Birth of a Nation.

@joeyclemenza7339

5 жыл бұрын

i've seen it.... it's amazing. this is truly some of spikes best work.

@amyclarke41

5 жыл бұрын

@@MayorOfEarth79 excellent film in the past i avoided his work as i was scared but you get bored of the rom coms disney and British dames want a change!😁

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

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

@aristothearies

5 жыл бұрын

Dante Crottogini them all but He Got Game is one of my favorite

Spike Lee is one of the best filmmakers of all time

@kostajovanovic3711

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe in the top 200

@The_Fat_Fury

5 жыл бұрын

One of the best? lol, cute.

I enjoyed this video

David Fincher WHEN Also cool new host!

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

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

@alienboy1322

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Woodard Do it.

My lord

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

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

The dolly scenes 😂🤣😂😅😂😂🤣

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.

Niice

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

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

Please make a Sense8 video!!!!!

His characters are usually so 2-dimensional.

If you see the Dragnet style dialogue

You know it’s Harold Ramis if

like spike lee no love spike lee genius!😎

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

Why must you separate us by putting an entire category of black playlist

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!

Nooce

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

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

YA DIG?

@YoungBlaze

5 жыл бұрын

MrNotaComedian with a shovel

@williamross8010

Жыл бұрын

Sho Nuff 😎😆😉

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

I think CLOCKERS takes place in Baltimore.

@zippoboyshaneshank8954

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, I was wrong, the Novel takes place in Nj, the film in Ny. The author wrote for The Wire, which is why I got confused.

@williamross8010

Жыл бұрын

No It's BROOKLYN 😎👍

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

Could you guys do a video about American Gods?

❤🌹👍🏾

11:48 what film was this from

What was the movie when they said high yellow heifa

@gutgutcalor9095

4 жыл бұрын

I found it on Netflix school daze