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Latest Flicks / Sorry to Bother You Director Boots Riley Has a Critique of BlacKkKlansman
« on: August 20, 2018, 07:48:29 am »
Anybody see BlacKkKlansman yet?
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/boots-riley-vs-spike-lee-the-sorry-to-bother-you-director-tweeted-a-blistering-critique-of-blackkklansman.html
Thoughts?
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By Matthew Dessem
Filmmaker, activist, and musician Boots Riley has some thoughts about Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman: He is not a fan. Riley, the writer/director behind Sorry to Bother You, tweeted out a fiery essay Friday cataloguing the ways Lee’s film departs from the true story it was based on (significantly, when it comes to Ron Stallworth; not very much, when it comes to Jesse Washington) and analyzing the political impact of the changes Lee and his co-screenwriters Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott made to their version of Stallworth’s story:
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/boots-riley-vs-spike-lee-the-sorry-to-bother-you-director-tweeted-a-blistering-critique-of-blackkklansman.html
Thoughts?