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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 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.
@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
@@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
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
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.
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.
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!
@@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
@@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
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.
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.
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
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 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....
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.
That's the point. You either remember the surreal intermission in its preachy glory/annoyance or you remember the movie and what it's trying to say at the end.
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 😏
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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. ❤️
@@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!😁
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
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!
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
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That's the truth, Ruth!
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 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.
He is considered great for a black director, but compared to white directors he is trash. Real talk
He's not forgotten at all. He's a legend in the game. Real Talk
He’s not very good
@@Dvdfco Hot take from someone using _Kelsey Grammer_ as their avatar.
ritual301 Frasier is good
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.
I love how he portrays African Americans. He always portrays them as they really are not as Hollywood tends to
ReyTheJediLady ViaJakku Agreed
spike lee is an absolute genius. along with tarantino and scorsese, lee stands tall in my list of favorite directors. brilliant.
No, he absolutely isn't.
Go watch his butchered remake of OldBoy and THEN tell me he's a genius with a straight face.
@Faux ay that’s a horrible take, but who do you think are so much better?
@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
@@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
@@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
Brotha Malcolm at the beginning got me in my feelings.
Brotha Malcolm is a tool, a dead tool at that!
@@wigsontop Shut it, Settler
Another great Screenprism joint to add to the list.
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
I know its a spike Lee movie if the the characters are gliding.
God I'm so jealous of all the people who take Spike Lee's classes I would die just for one lesson
Right! I would love to just sit in just once to hear him speak
I think there's a Masterclass you can pay on line to teach you filmmaking, the girls showed it in the video...
spike lee taught me the joys of my white culture thanks spike
Spike Lee is an ignorant moron
And a racist on top of that
I had no Idea Spike Lee did an adaptation of Lysistrata.
By any means necessary, ya dig? Sho' nuff.
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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.
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.
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
*_a Spike Lee joint..._*
*-puff puff pass-*
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!
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!!
You should do one of these for Hayao Miyazaki
i won't lie he's a bit overrated
@@dark3rthanshadows actually he isn't, he isn't praised on the same way Walt Disney is sooo
@@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
@@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
@@dark3rthanshadows the animation we see today sucks compared to the past. Is that what Walt was responsible for?
YES.
WAKE UP!
so good. thank y'all for your consistently great work!
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.
Facts
Crooklyn
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.
Cruising with Dr. Braxy Gilkey absolute facts 👍🏾✊🏾
How you didnt put mo better blues with Denzel and Westley Snipes, and jungle fever straight up classics
Amazing analysis/&dissection🙏🏿👏🏿
As a Spike Lee fan, I really appreciate this video!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
OK?
he's just learned in all forms of drama. he's been a lifelong student of it.
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....
....holy shit! Malcolm X looks so much like Denzel Washington 😨😱
Man I see everywhere, chief
Spike Lee is one of the best filmmakers of all time
Maybe in the top 200
One of the best? lol, cute.
No mention of Summer of Sam? Weird I think it’s one of his best to be honest.
there were a few joints she didn't mention, like bamboozeled, girl 6, she hate me, etc.
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.
That's the point.
You either remember the surreal intermission in its preachy glory/annoyance or you remember the movie and what it's trying to say at the end.
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 😏
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
Omg I haven’t seen Chi-Raq yet but so cool that it’s based off of Lysistrata. Man he’s so brilliant
Along with education if you're having a hell lot of fun, you know you're watching a spike lee joint💥💥🔥🔥🔥
Mo Betta Blues is my favorite
oooh could binge all of Spike Lee's movie
Except for OldBoy. That one sucked ass.
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.
Knew this was coming!
excellent analysis. mad girl 6, get off the bus, and bamboozled got no shine
Loved She's gotta have it
Spike Lee is a Modern Master!
Well done.
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?
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.
You gotta watch Crooklyn and Bamboozled
School Daze is a African American culture classic!
I don't recommend Miracle at St. Anna.
She gotta have it
Malcolm X was the man.
Nightmare Files Until the Muslims killed him
Yea he was
Not really
How did I miss this for 4 years? this is lesson in Film
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.
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.
its a motherfuckin' spike lee joint
"She's Gotta Have it" makes "Plan 9 From Outerspace" look like "Citizen Kane."
what spike lee movies should i watch? which are the best?
Dante Crottogini them all but He Got Game is one of my favorite
Spike is either amazing or terrible. But I really want to see blackkklansman
Eric Woodard
Do it.
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 Bomb!
David Fincher WHEN
Also cool new host!
Who saw BlacKkKlansman last night?
I did. Damn good movie.
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.
i've seen it.... it's amazing. this is truly some of spikes best work.
@@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!😁
Many ppl dislike his films because of him instead of actually watching them. It’s nice to see a proper dissection of his art.
Spike Lee: The more specific something is, the more universal it becomes.
Excellent Video Breakdown. My Favorite Director. I Hope to Someday Act in one of his Projects.
Please make a Sense8 video!!!!!
Please continue this director series.
Just kind of wish Spike held back on making something every year. It kind of dampens the quality of his films.
the double dolly shot. how creative
Great video!
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.
The dolly scenes 😂🤣😂😅😂😂🤣
you know it's a spike lee film when the race card is the only one in the deck
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
Before we get started...
Does Michael Otis want to get out?
Please make a video on First Reformed too. One of the best movies of 2018 imo
11:48 what film was this from
To DALEJ gra. I dużo łatwiej. Wystarczy pomysł zapisać długopisem na kartce papieru.
You girls rock.
Well done ladies
Got an ad for masterclass by Spike Lee lol
What was the movie when they said high yellow heifa
I found it on Netflix school daze
Bring back this series
My lord
Liked and shared. Great video
You should do one on Sono Sion. He made great movies like Love Exposure, Tag or Suicide Club.
like spike lee no love spike lee genius!😎
Good breakdown 👍
His characters are usually so 2-dimensional.
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!
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
Why must you separate us by putting an entire category of black playlist
🗿 Imagine being enrolled in a Cinema class that's taught by Spike Lee❗🥀 (S.F.)
I think CLOCKERS takes place in Baltimore.
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.
No It's BROOKLYN 😎👍
I’d love to see him do a Seven Samurai reference
❤🌹👍🏾
Niice
can you tell us what the song is at the end of the video, please?
Could you guys do a video about American Gods?
If you see the Dragnet style dialogue
chiraq is also an adaption of the Greek play Lysistrata (look it up).
They're saying wake up so we don't sleep in the movie theatre.
whats the song in the credits?
I enjoyed this video