Spike Lee, Denzel Washington and Malcolm X
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Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of the civil rights leader still resonates on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
The boy sat on the living room floor, knees tucked to his chest, eyes wide, shining like wet stones in the blue flicker of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. Denzel Washington filled the screen, breathing life into Malcolm with each word that pulsed through the television like a heartbeat,
"I don't like to get into what-ifs, but a lot of these people [who own movie studios] were at the [Trump] inauguration."
In those hundred years, Malcolm X's legacy hasn’t aged—it’s evolved: from 1960s press photos to 1990s biopics, and more.
Spike Lee doesn’t think his Oscar-nominated Malcolm X biopic would have been possible to make in Donald Trump’s America. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote his fifth collaboration with Malcolm X star Denzel Washington,
Spike Lee looked back on the tolls of trying to complete his 1992 biographical epic Malcolm X, revealing that the period was the most depressed he has ever been.
He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, remains an icon of the Black civil rights movement. "Malcolm X addressed precisely the issues that were burning on the minds of oppressed African Americans,
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