#Spike lee predicts movie#

In 2000 came Bamboozled which made a mockery out of television and the way African-Americans are perceived by white America and the way African-Americans perceive themselves. The movie, in limited release, yet again featured Denzel Washington. His next film, He Got Game (1998), proved to be another excursion into the collegiate world as he shows the darker side of recruiting college athletes. In 1996, Lee directed two movies: the badly received comedy, Girl 6 (1996), and the politically pointed, Get on the Bus (1996), about a group of men going to the Million Man March. His next films were the comparatively light, Crooklyn (1994), and the intense crime drama, Clockers (1995).

#Spike lee predicts movie#

The movie was a success, and resulted in an Oscar nomination for Washington. Lee's next film was the self-titled biography of Malcolm X (1992), which had Denzel Washington portraying the civil rights leader. Lee's handling of the subject proved yet again highly controversial. His next film, Jungle Fever (1991), was about interracial dating. Lee went on to produce the jazz biopic Mo' Better Blues (1990) which showed his talent for directing and acting, and was the first of many Spike Lee films to feature Denzel Washington. It also sparked a debate on racial relations. The movie garnered an Oscar nomination, for Danny Aiello, for supporting actor. The movie portrayed a neighborhood on a very hot day, and the racial tensions that emerge. Lee went on to do his landmark film, Do the Right Thing (1989), a movie specifically about his own town in Brooklyn, New York. His next movie was School Daze (1988), which was set in a historically black school and focused mostly on the conflict between the school and the Fraternities, of which he was a strong critic, portraying them as materialistic, irresponsible, and uncaring. Since then, Lee has become a well-known, intelligent, and talented film maker. The movie was made for 175,000 dollars, and made seven million. In 1986, Spike Lee made the film, She's Gotta Have It (1986), a comedy about sexual relationships.

Lee's next film, 'The Messenger,' in 1984, was somewhat biographical. Lee went on to produce a 45-minute film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), which won a student academy award.

Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) - a ten-minute film. He made a controversial short, The Answer (1980), a reworking of D.W. After graduating, he went to the Tisch School of Arts graduate film program. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia.