Malcolm X
starring: Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Sonny Jim Gaines, Albert Hall
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Feared and revered malcom x crystallized the hopes and dreams of blacks demanding human rights for african americans during the racially tumultuous and divisive decades of this 1950s and 60s until his 1965 assassination in new york at the age of thirty nine.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/30/2008Starring: Denzel Washington Angela BassettRun time: 201 minutesRating: Pg13Director: Spike Lee
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Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great figures--held up to the public as polar-opposites within the African American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality "by any means necessary")--were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm's early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader--all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. --Jim Emerson
Feared and revered malcom x crystallized the hopes and dreams of blacks demanding human rights for african americans during the racially tumultuous and divisive decades of this 1950s and 60s until his 1965 assassination in new york at the age of thirty nine.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/30/2008Starring: Denzel Washington Angela BassettRun time: 201 minutesRating: Pg13Director: Spike Lee
Amazon.com essential video:
Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great figures--held up to the public as polar-opposites within the African American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality "by any means necessary")--were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm's early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader--all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. --Jim Emerson
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- Malcolm Xcellent
I could easily have given this movie five stars on the acting alone. But I had to take out one star for a few inaccuracies in the movie plus the movie left out certain elements in his life that I felt were important(like his speech to the Africans in Africa that the blacks in America had the same struggle that they had) but dont mistake my tone because I still recommend it flaws and all.
Malcolm X details the life of the controversial yet charismatic figure that sought to deal with the ... Read More
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- Dumb cover
That's a stupid and inappropriate cover. (by the way, the movie's great and it was a travesty that Denzel didn't win and then he won for that disgusting stupid police movie - evn Crimson Tide was better than that.)
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- Malcolm X
Denzel Washington does not disappoint.At times, I forgot that it was not Malcolm in real life.The movie was excellent!
Rating: - Man of Vision Struck Down 20th Century
I was not an avid follower of this man, but some of his ideals should have been scrutinizedfor a better community amongst the people mainly African Americans.
He was a man of integrity especially with family life.His followers were not as strong minded as he just as those in MLK's time.Those supposed followers reacted to certain aspects of their ideas I believe, just to announce that they were a part of a group with some power.
The followers did not fully understand their ... Read More
Rating: - Buy this movie
This is a very good biography of Malcolm X that follows his Autobiography with some exceptions. Denzel is the man.
- Malcolm XcellentI could easily have given this movie five stars on the acting alone. But I had to take out one star for a few inaccuracies in the movie plus the movie left out certain elements in his life that I felt were important(like his speech to the Africans in Africa that the blacks in America had the same struggle that they had) but dont mistake my tone because I still recommend it flaws and all.
Malcolm X details the life of the controversial yet charismatic figure that sought to deal with the ... Read More
- Dumb coverThat's a stupid and inappropriate cover. (by the way, the movie's great and it was a travesty that Denzel didn't win and then he won for that disgusting stupid police movie - evn Crimson Tide was better than that.)
- Malcolm XDenzel Washington does not disappoint.At times, I forgot that it was not Malcolm in real life.The movie was excellent!
- Man of Vision Struck Down 20th CenturyI was not an avid follower of this man, but some of his ideals should have been scrutinizedfor a better community amongst the people mainly African Americans.
He was a man of integrity especially with family life.His followers were not as strong minded as he just as those in MLK's time.Those supposed followers reacted to certain aspects of their ideas I believe, just to announce that they were a part of a group with some power.
The followers did not fully understand their ... Read More
- Buy this movieThis is a very good biography of Malcolm X that follows his Autobiography with some exceptions. Denzel is the man.
