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Bamboozled (2000) by Spike Lee
It has been a while since we featured an American film. Although almost all of Spike Lee’s films are better than 97% of American cinema, I chose Bamboozled, a 2000 satirical film about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show’s success. A hilarious film.
Did you know that whiteface is also a comic trope?
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strange. this is a film I really didn’t like.
actually it’s almost a relief to find something we disagree about 🙂
‘Bamboozled’ was hilarious… But I must say, Wes Anderson is one fine American director as well. I think his sense of whimsy is something that a good lot of American directors lack.