Has "BAMBOOZLED"(the spike lee movie) become more prevelant

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I remember seeing bamboozled when it first released
I was like 14 or 15
Didn't really understand all the underlying meanings
I peeped the blatant ones
Just watched it again
And damn :smh:
With TV and social media and music
It seems to me that bamboozled is a damn reflection of society today
 
Awesome film and your question is yes. Large part of our demographic are participating in a daily minstrel show and they don't even know it.
 
Funny i watched this again last night, and yes the movie foretold what was going to happen which is the state of media we have right now.
 
KingFoamNYC said:
Awesome film and your question is yes. Large part of our demographic are participating in a daily minstrel show and they don't even know it.
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LuckyLuchiano said:
Funny i watched this again last night, and yes the movie foretold what was going to happen which is the state of media we have right now.
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Like it makes me sad
They scared of us
But then also look at us as fools
Thugs
Ignorant
Idiotic
Savages
BUT
Damn we continue to feed into those stereotypes
But then again damn
Sometimes that's all we know
Our(as in the majority of black folks) enviornment is ****** up
Our family structure is all ****** up(don't even need to explain why)
Our priorities are ****** up
We cant even trace our history :smh:
maaaaaaan being black is hard
it takes a strong person to put up with this ****
My bad if I'm all over the place
My thoughts are just jumbled
 
Like even at the end when the get the people who killed Savion glovers character
They shoot all the black dudes
But just arrest the white dude :smh:
While he there screaming about how black he is
And wants to be shot
Talkin bout he 1/16 black
 
:lol:

:smh:

I used to love that movie. I was a big Spike Lee fan during that era. He touched on so many of our issues in his movies. But yeah, I feel you man.

Anyone else notice MORE racist behavior from people in the past few years? I mean in your personal lives. I feel like some folks go out of their way to show they hate black folks. And a few times in restaurants I've heard people having loud convos talking **** about Obama almost like they think it's gonna hurt my feelings.
 
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I was just telling my coworker to watch this film 2 days ago :wow:

My English teacher junior year of high school introduced me to this film years ago and it's crazy how prevalent the movie is now. It was pretty spot on back then as well but it does feel like blacks in the eyes of the media have regressed ten fold.

Anytime I see Kevin Hart I think of this movie :smh:
 
Brolic I've noticed less in my own personal life, more in every day observation. Sometimes you can see it, or feel it.

That sneer when someone is being loud, or that look when a group of black teens walk into a store or even a sidewalk.

I think the media exacerbates racial tension in this country, and I think it's on purpose. I'm almost positive its on purpose.

Obama's presidency really brought it out. Every excuse in the book popped up to try to keep that man down. Black kid does something wrong, "if Obama had a son" quote get thrown out there.

Haven't watched Bamboozled in a long time, I think tomorrow will be a good day for that.
 
Brolic Scholar said:
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:smh:

I used to love that movie. I was a big Spike Lee fan during that era. He touched on so many of our issues in his movies. But yeah, I feel you man.

Anyone else notice MORE racist behavior from people in the past few years? I mean in your personal lives. I feel like some folks go out of their way to show they hate black folks. And a few times in restaurants I've heard people having loud convos talking **** about Obama almost like they think it's gonna hurt my feelings.
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This x10. Racism isn't as underlying as it was say 5 years ago. I have heard and witnessed some **** over the past 2 years that had me asking "what's really going on". Some of these whites have gotten extremely bold in how they speak about and to blacks. To expound on that Obama comment I heard a group of white people talking about a month ago saying that Obama never had a clue what he was doing and that's what happens when you let people on government assistance vote :wow: I was about to punch each one of the bastards in the mouth

The world we live in :smh:
 
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Maybe cause white folks see us laugh and joke fun of ourselves on TV
And on social media
They think that it's ok for them to do it as well
WE need more of our people leading by example in the spot light
The ones that are in the spot light
Turn either into uncle toms and suck up to the white folks
Or just decides to leave us(black folks) behind
And try and have little to do with us as possible
I think it's important to give back
Not only that
I think it's important for others to see and know u give back
Just so that MAYBE it would inspire the next man to do the same when they make it
Or get the opportunity
A big part of our(black folks) problem I feel
Is the lack of good father figures
Mothers can't raise a man to be a man IMO
My mom did a good job
But I can see at times when I reflect on my upbringing
How hard it was for her
And how hard it hurt her to explain how hard it is for a black man
And how I would be perceived
U know don't wear wave caps/durag(even though u just wear it for ur waves)
Don't grow ur hair out and get braids or dreads(u know white folks gonna think of u as a thug)
U know what I'm talking about
Those things ur mom taught u growing up if u grew up with just UR mom
 
When haven't we been used as entertainment for them though? Why would it ever change? It isn't MORE prevalent now than it was 30 years ago. 

No saying it is right bt it is what it is. 
 
I think this movie was like Hollywoods last straw with Spike, it seems like after wards he either chilled on movies/decided to go a different route.
 
nawghtyhare said:
U know what
I never even peeped that
But I mean they "allowed" him to release it
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This was treated like an Art house film though, and the only reason a few big theaters showed it was due to Spikes name, but even then I believe it was super limited release, I dont think he has had a film come out in Theaters after this (maybe Red Hook Summer, but I think that was another Art House flick and it sucked).
 
Never seen Bamboozled but it sounds interesting but he released 25th Hour afterwards, I looked it up. 25th Hour is :smokin
 
movie was ight. havent seen it in like 15 years tho. the timmy hil****** and 40 oz commercials are classic tho
 
He had Inside Man, Miracle at St. Anna and Old Boy after this so he did alright I think HE personally just wanted to get back to making independent movies, in the same vein how Jon Faverau went back to indy after Iron Man 2. Guys from that indie art house background obviouslyt want to make money, but guys like Spike can't say what they REALLY want unless they go back to they roots.

He's in a good space he has bread, I just wonder if he has another Do the right thing, Bamboozled, School Daze in him .
 
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This movie is DOPE 
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. 2000? I was a youngsta but I would watch it frequently. Man-tan...
 
His most recent movie Da Sweet Blood of Jesus was ok.

Snoop from The Wire is in it...and has a sex scene which almost made me vomit but other than that the movie was decent.
 
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