Malcolm X (2pc) | Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke

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Malcolm X (2pc)

	Malcolm X (2pc) Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke Warner Home Video, 1994 average customer review:based on 149 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Words cannot describe how good this movie really is, and how well it was done. Great movie, it educated me about a man that was rarely understood. Denzel Washington really outdid himself with this movie.

Growth

What makes this a 'must-see' film is it's depiction of emotional, spiritual and logical growth of not just one man but a nation. This film chronicles the life of Malcolm Little (X) from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" through to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. I do want to make mention that Washingtons performance was TOP-NOTCH and mezmerizing to say the least. As X, Washington shows his growth from confused young one to racist and then finally to mature man of the people who understands what it really takes to lend a helping hand. As a white man I will never be able to understand 'fully' what it feels like to be a minority, or appreciate what strength it must take to survive in our society, but what I appreciated about Malcolm's story is that he went from a bitter and angry man who swore white men were all devils to finally understanding that it wasn't the color of the mans skin that made him the devil but the color of his heart. It's a shame it took him so long to understand that part of the equation for if he had known that beforehand he would have been a much greater help for his people. This film is not forgiving nor does it candy coat anything. As a white man who knew very little about Malcolm X beforehand I found myself loathing the man for quite a bit of the film for his views and beliefs contrasted starkly with mine. I feel that to battle racism with more racism defeats the purpose of equality, so for me to see the man Malcolm became helped me to understand why he is regarded so highly because, while he started off on a wrong foot his desire to HELP his people resulted in him truly understand by which means he should go about it. This film is perfectly exicuted on all fronts and shows the after effects of racism but also what we can do as people to help battle any further issues. We are all created equal and appear one color before god so why should it be any different before one another. What I appreciated about this film is it showed well that racism is not one sided, it's not a whites hate blacks thing for it plays the other way too, for Malcolm and his associates started off racist, hating a man for his skin color and they failed to help the black community and only served to create more problems...but as Malcolm learned, when putting aside the color of ones skin and seeing them for the person they are inside we can all make a difference and learn to live together as brothers and sisters. Excellent message.

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A Terrific Primer On the Malcolm X Most Rarely Know...

Living in Atlanta during the late 80s and early 90s, I saw the fury that this film's release tapped. I saw "X" paraphernalia everywhere - on hats, t-shirts, bumper stickers, you name it. Malcolm X was (and still is) the hero of disenfranchised blacks in the Atlantan suburbs where I lived. In fact, the famous Rodney King riots happenned around this time, and I saw firsthand the carnage and destruction wrought from such long-simmering anger and frustration. I was steeped in it. Of course, it didn't help that I'm considered white (technically I'm part-Latin, but this rarely matters in a majority-black setting).

I saw the simmering, sullen hatred from dozens of pairs of eyes whenever I walked as a teen down the public sidewalks or boarded a MARTA bus, so I know how real and burning this kind of thing is.

I didn't watch the movie when it came out.

I was in my early teens, for one; also, for the places where I lived, I would have been perhaps the only white face in attendance. I was honestly scared to go, to tell the truth. I lived in a place where "Gone With the Wind" was still foremost in people's minds - the slavery era had not really ended - and I was a sore reminder of a time that just would not die. I can remember how scared and guilty I felt everywhere I went, though I had no clear idea why.

I had only known about "early" Malcolm X, his "any means necessary" motto (what I saw on t-shirts around me) and of his speeches about "white devils" and their systematic oppression of blacks. I heard his name often in the same breath as declarations to "go back to Africa" or "end apartheid" (or even, "kill whitie"). Pictures of Malcolm X resembled the men exquisitely dressed in suits and bow ties (in the excruciating heat) that I saw on the medians of thoroughfares, ignoring me pointedly as they sold Nation of Islam literature and bean pies.
I had thought Malcolm X and his followers in Nation of Islam was the black equivalent of the KKK, so I figured it wasn't something for me to get into.

I finally saw the movie in 2004.

WOW.

I'm now reading Alex Haley's autobiography of Malcolm X.

This man has really impressed me.

Denzell's depiction and Spike Lee's direction has inspired me to no end. While I am neither black nor capable of understanding fully the pain of such history or its effects today, I was surrounded by its effects during my most tender years and cannot forget what it felt like to be around it.

I almost never buy DVDs. They are a very rare, well-considered purchase for me. Yet I want this one.

Do yourself a favor, if you haven't seen it: do so. It will change your life. Agree with him or not, this was a man who examined the world without flinching and acted on his convictions; this was a man who was not afraid to admit when he was wrong and work to redress it. This was a man who fought tooth and nail yet could think, reason, and even transform himself.

The majority of the learned have few convictions.

Those of conviction rarely have great intellect or eloquence.

Malcolm X was both.

He was a man who understood what he was up against and what he had to lose, but did it anyway. His skill was surpassed only by his doggedness; his impact was seconded only by his willingness to walk away from what did not hold together, even at GREAT personal cost.

Whether I agree with his faith or not, whether I agree with his philosophies or not, whether I agree with his methods or not... this is a man that I truly DO respect, a man who reinvented himself repeatedly after having invested himself completely, facing such tremendous loss and sorrow head-on, and never looking back. He paid the ultimate price, and deserves our love and our respect.

Spike Lee and Denzell Washington have done a tremendous job here in re-introducing us to a great American hero, right or wrong.

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Honor Brother Malcolm

Ilove the movie played bye the two stars, brother Denzel and sister Bassett. The movie showed the true honor and life of Brother Malcolm and how his life was and how he influence his people bye speaking the truth and what needed to be said. His words are as powerful today as they were back then. His words are what's happening right now, he was ahead of his time.Brother Malcolm was our hero and our leader,now and forever Tammantha Shaw.

Powerful

MALCOLM X is a powerful and compelling biography, chronicling the struggle, the rise and the tragic fall of a great American individual. Denzel Washington SHOULD have received his Oscar for this performance. It wasn't anything racist because the Academy normally bestows Oscars to actors for the WRONG performances (Al Pacino for SCENT OF A WOMAN? Paul Newman for THE COLOR OF MONEY? Forget about it!).

The only real problem I had was with the way Spike Lee chose to end the film.
He spends three hours telling the very raw human story of how Malcolm X lived and died--and then tacks on what feels like a recruitment film that worships the image of the man, the kind of deification that might have made Malcolm uneasy. And made me think the filmmakers may have missed the point.

Still, a great biography.

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