African American Film Director, Spike Lee.
Spike Lee famous director of black film, Malcolm X- Inside Man - Do the right thing – He got Game – Jungle Fever According to: Business Insider, Spike Lee spent the last three decades making some of the most important movies in the modern era of filmmaking. From the socially conscious "Do the Right Thing" to the powerful "Malcolm X," Lee has used the medium to. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and his …show more content…
Also on board: Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nunn, Robin Harris, and Lee himself as the pizza-delivering, trash can-throwing Mookie. Do the Right Thing stands up today as a piece of art, as a milestone in African-American cinema, and as the movie that Barack and Michelle Obama saw on their first date. When Obama related that story to Lee, the director told the President, "Good thing you didn't choose Driving Miss …show more content…
Newly christened as “Girl 6,” at first, she finds success at her new position but the graphic nature of her work, combined with the increasingly threatening tone of her callers, leads to a breakdown and her leaving the job and moving to LA to continue pursuing her acting career, now with more confidence from her experiences as a phone sex operator. With a soundtrack by Prince, many notable celebrity cameos, and the first Spike Lee film not written by the director but Pulitzer-winner Suzan-Lori Parks, Girl 6 had
Spike Lee famous director of black film, Malcolm X- Inside Man - Do the right thing – He got Game – Jungle Fever According to: Business Insider, Spike Lee spent the last three decades making some of the most important movies in the modern era of filmmaking. From the socially conscious "Do the Right Thing" to the powerful "Malcolm X," Lee has used the medium to. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and his …show more content…
Also on board: Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nunn, Robin Harris, and Lee himself as the pizza-delivering, trash can-throwing Mookie. Do the Right Thing stands up today as a piece of art, as a milestone in African-American cinema, and as the movie that Barack and Michelle Obama saw on their first date. When Obama related that story to Lee, the director told the President, "Good thing you didn't choose Driving Miss …show more content…
Newly christened as “Girl 6,” at first, she finds success at her new position but the graphic nature of her work, combined with the increasingly threatening tone of her callers, leads to a breakdown and her leaving the job and moving to LA to continue pursuing her acting career, now with more confidence from her experiences as a phone sex operator. With a soundtrack by Prince, many notable celebrity cameos, and the first Spike Lee film not written by the director but Pulitzer-winner Suzan-Lori Parks, Girl 6 had