Malcolm X
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Submitted by JFin888 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Malcolm X
In the movie Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee, its bascially about Malcolm X and how he
was an activist for black rights, but his ideas were not quite in line with the more popular figures
of other black activists like Martin Luther King. Having converted to the Black Muslim religion
during the time he spent in jail, Malcolm X later became a prominent leader and minister for the
group. He embraced their ideals of black unity and the formation of a black nation within the
United States. Later, after disagreeing with practices of the Elijah Mohammed, the leader of the
group, Malcolm X officially denounced the sect and started his own black organization. Shortly
thereafter he was executed by men believed to be linked to the black Muslim movement.
The aspect of the flim in which the music plays a big part in how the movie is going along
from the death of Malcolm X to his public preachings about Elijah Mohammed. The feel of
looking into the eyes of Malcolm X would all not be possible if it wasn't for the soulful jazz music
that played a big role in the movie and around that time.
Spike Lee's directing abilities are great, in the aspect in which he manages to put you next
to Malcolm X in a way that portrays the nature of the black person, and how it feels to be a
minority. He doesn't insult whites or blacks, but just asks that you look at the world through
someone else's eyes. It makes it all believable with the old 50's and 60's music in dramatic
scenes throughout the movie.
The genre of this movie is that it is a documentary film, because it tells the life story of
Malcolm X and the documentary sheds dramatic new light on events surrounding the 1965
assassination of the visionary African American civil rights leader Malcolm X. Therefore in this
film it is for...
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