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Oct 6, 2000 · The movie stars Damon Wayans as Pierre Delacroix, a Harvard graduate who is a program executive at a cable TV network. He works under a boss who is, in his own eyes, admirably unprejudiced: Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport) says Delacroix’s black shows are “too white,” and adds: “I have a black wife and two biracial kids.
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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.
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.
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.
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Overview. TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit. Spike Lee.
Mar 23, 2020 · It’s the story of any politician who, thoughtlessly aping the unquestioned class rituals of their peers, donned blackface costumes at college frat parties only to have images of those...
Oct 2, 2000 · By Emanuel Levy. As angry and polemical as “Do the Right Thing,” but not as powerful or accomplished, Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” is an ambitious satire on race and ratings, centering on the...