Spike Lee

Spike LeeAmerican director screenwriter and actor. His real name is Sheldon Jackson (he chose the pseudonym Spike - that is, "Spike"). The undoubted leader of the African-American film culture of the 80-90s. Critics call him "the black Woody Allen" - both for his outward resemblance (if you do not pay attention to the color of the skin, they do look similar) and for his obsession with the same topic. Only Li are interested in relations not between Jews and non-Jews, but between blacks and whites, more

Spike LeeAmerican director screenwriter and actor. His real name is Sheldon Jackson (he chose the pseudonym Spike - that is, "Spike").
The undoubted leader of the African-American film culture of the 80-90s. Critics call him "the black Woody Allen" - both for his outward resemblance (if you do not pay attention to the color of the skin, they do look similar) and for his obsession with the same topic. Only Li are interested in relations not between Jews and non-Jews, but between blacks and whites, and he in his films is much more specific and topical intellectual Allen.
After graduating from New York University Lee in just 12 days shot on 16-mm film the film "She needs it badly" (1986) about the amorous adventures of a black woman from Brooklyn one of the objects which he played himself.
Beginning with the comedies SpikeLee moved to a tougher movie, showing in the film "Do It Right" (1989) an explosion of violence that broke the brew of mutual enmity between whites and blacks. Trying to get to the roots of the historical animosity Lee relies on the fact that "sex and racism go hand in hand" The Ku Klux Klan was created to protect white southern ladies from blacks. The film "LeeFever in the jungle" (1991) he dedicated to the memory of a black boy who was killed on suspicion that he came on a date with an Italian woman.
A lot of noise made his biographical tape “Malcolm X” (1992) for which the performer of the title role Denzel Washington received the IFF prize in Berlin-93 and an Oscar nomination. The glorification of the extremist leader of “black Muslims” scared the American public and the director was accused of racism and anti-Semitism.
However, in the future the films Spikea Lee"Crooklyn" (1994) "Drug dealers" (1995) became much more peaceful. And even the “March of a Million Black Men,” initiated by Muslim leader Farrakhan, “Get on That Bus” (1996), is far from the aggressive push of “Malcolm X.”