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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.
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.
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...
May 15, 2020 · 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 racial prejudice, writes Kaleem Aftab.
Mar 23, 2020 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media-and their ...
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Bamboozled. With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike.
Oct 6, 2000 · So said Malcolm X, as quoted by Spike Lee in the production notes to "Bamboozled," his perplexing new film. To Malcolm, the bamboozlers were white people in general, but in Lee's films they're the television executives, black and white, who bamboozle themselves in the mindless quest for ratings.
Feb 28, 2024 · Spike Lee's 2000 film "Bamboozled," a hard-edged satire of blackface in cinema and television, was part of the 2023 class of National Film Registry and his fifth film to join the list.
Mar 28, 2020 · Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled' was considered a failure—but a new Criterion DVD proves this scathing satire was just 20 years ahead of its time.
Frustrated when his ideas for a TV series about real African Americans are rejected, Harvard-educated black writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) angrily creates a show--a modern-day minstrel show. 581 IMDb 6.7 2 h 15 min 2000. X-Ray R. Comedy · Drama · Biting · Cerebral. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.69. Buy. SD $10.49.
