Damon Wayans
Pierre Delacroix
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Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success.
- $10 million
- Terence Blanchard
- October 6, 2000 (United States)
- Jon Kilik, Spike Lee
Oct 20, 2000 · Bamboozled: Directed by Spike Lee. With Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson. A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
- Spike Lee
- 191
- 2 min
A blistering satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a humorous look at how race, ratings and the pursuit of power lead to a television writer's stunning rise and tragic downfall ...
- (106)
- Spike Lee
- R
- Damon Wayans
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"Bamboozled" shows black actors in boldly exaggerated blackface for a cable production named "Mantan--The New Millennium Minstrel Show." Can we see beyond the blackface to its purpose? I had a struggle. The movie stars Damon Wayans as Pierre Delacroix, a Harvard
Summaries. A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit. Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy League educated black writer at a major network.
May 15, 2020 · 15 May 2020. By Kaleem Aftab,Features correspondent. Alamy. Back in 2000, Spike Lee’s Bamboozled was a flop in cinemas. Yet this explosive satire has come to be seen as a masterpiece, skewering...
Mar 23, 2020 · Spike Lee’s Bamboozled Is Still Sharp, Stinging, and Utterly Vital. The experimental box office bomb didn’t have many defenders when it hit theaters in 2000—but a new Criterion release finally...
