Bamboozled is the most slept On movie in Hip Hop

[Ms. Sweeetface]

excellent movie that was purpsoefully slept on. it was too real for the masses. its kinda like the chris rock thing in a way. it you say or do something thats too real and points out white ppls flaws and hypocriscy that either point the finger of blame at you or try to ignore what you said. bamboozled was ignored by hollwood while white folks from coast to coast are taking shots at chris rock for telling the truth

What benefiting more out of it is that younger black audience lack of knowing about this, Gangsta movies, Hip hop beefs, Madea new wave minstrel show before our eyes and whites loving it.

 

[32DaysOfInfiniti]

This movie is so powerful. I never saw it in it's entirety till now.

I tell you, im not real sensitive, but i looked at my skin and started tearing up towards the end. It had me thinking too deeply about how being black really is an almost unbreakable curse cause the way weve been conditioned on this planet. The poison is so real. All our girls want thugs and all our woman want whites...

Where do we fit in, normal black men, where is our place in this society? Do we have to be like Wayans character just to succeed? Hip Hop to me is the epitome of this struggle.

Its so real, it hurts. Im not even sure who this movie is really even geared toward but its definitely an eye opener

@idoitforhiphop10 i wish i could give you ten GOATs for that, excellent drop.

 

[bdbdbd]

00:49:11....the first time mantan and sleepaneat put on black face.....that shit made me sad man, fucking hurt to watch

 

[Serious Juice Mayne]

Yea Man .. Stevie wonder and,mos def soundtrack for t movie slept On ignored too

 

[bdbdbd]

"we must adapt to the times otherwise we will be left behind"

you sir are a G for this thread

 

[skpjr78]

this movie is even more relevent today than when it first came out. you can feel the backlash or should i say the blacklash since obama became president. its like society is trying to put blacks back in their place. you have the dichotomy of obama on one hand and flavor flav one the other. ppl find a reason to put flav and his nonstop coonery on tv these days. smh

 

[Disciplined InSight]

Spike should've gave Tyler Perry a copy of this movie...my 3rd favorite Spike Lee movie next to Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing...

 

[bdbdbd]

this movie is even more relevent today than when it first came out. you can feel the backlash or should i say the blacklash since obama became president. its like society is trying to put blacks back in their place. you have the dichotomy of obama on one hand and flavor flav one the other. ppl find a reason to put flav and his nonstop coonery on tv these days. smh

i feel what your saying and it probably is relevant to the discussion but wernt niggas coonin before Obama....just off the top MTV Cribs....."nigga how many people you know that got a TV screen in their steering wheel"

 

[SleepwalkingInJapan]

lord knows u aint lyin

spike kilt that joint

I was goin to make a thread on this one day. I think every black person who wants to get in the entertainment industry should watch this movie. The racist footage in the end fucks me up.

 

[skpjr78]

Spike should've gave Tyler Perry a copy of this movie...my 3rd favorite Spike Lee movie next to Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing...

i be trying to tell my wife about that tyler perry shit but he has the black female mind on lock. i give tyler perry props for being and entrepreuner and employing a lot of blacks but at what cost? this nigga is like a real life drag queen version of aunt jemima. i appreciate his other projects but he has run this mahdea shit into the ground.

 

[bdbdbd]

wow at that advert....shits shocking

 

[TrueGodHS]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

 

[CirocObama]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

What part u talking about?

 

[32DaysOfInfiniti]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

Her general role in this movie is supportive black woman who keeps her mouth running but dont do nothing about it till its too late. The girl with the ear to the street who has to sustain herself in the white mans world.

Thats why her brother was Mos Def's character, she was always speaking out of line in meetings, was the devils advocate for Manray and then the she delivered justice at the end.

She was the most important character actually.

 

[TrueGodHS]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

What part u talking about?

Jada's character in the movie is seen as the voice of reason to an extent right? But look at her actions. She fucked Damon Wayans, was fucking Manray, and LIED in the beginning about fucking Damon Wayans... and wanted to put the blame all on De La Qua for the disrespect of black folks and the culture, but the whole movie, she was still an accessory to the whole thing. She might've stood up to De La Qua at the end and shot him, but she still played a huge role in all of the whole shit. Yet at the end she kept saying to him "look at what you did, look at what you contributed to", when it actuality, she was just as much a part of it as De La Qua. Maybe Im looking too deep into it, but Jada had a lot of character flaws they never shined too much light on.

 

[Serious Juice Mayne]

He talking about jada fuckin De La in the movie ... Crazy how spike worked that,in there ...,spike the GOAT

 

[TrueGodHS]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

Her general role in this movie is supportive black woman who keeps her mouth running but dont do nothing about it till its too late. The girl with the ear to the street who has to sustain herself in the white mans world.

Thats why her brother was Mos Def's character, she was always speaking out of line in meetings, was the devils advocate for Manray and then the she delivered justice at the end.

She was the most important character actually.

See I understand that logic, and that's kind of my point. It was a subliminal message that while she was the voice of the reason, she had her demons as well. I can't really look at De La's death as justice though.

 

[32DaysOfInfiniti]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

Her general role in this movie is supportive black woman who keeps her mouth running but dont do nothing about it till its too late. The girl with the ear to the street who has to sustain herself in the white mans world.

Thats why her brother was Mos Def's character, she was always speaking out of line in meetings, was the devils advocate for Manray and then the she delivered justice at the end.

She was the most important character actually.

See I understand that logic, and that's kind of my point. It was a subliminal message that while she was the voice of the reason, she had her demons as well. I can't really look at De La's death as justice though.

Yea it really wasnt justice per say, but the fact that he actually shot himself is kind of a fitting end for a man who went off the deep end like he did.

I think her role as conscientious objecter is quite obvious, because even though its hinted in her first scene where she fucks up the meeting that he is only keeping her around because of their "relationship", she is still constantly reminding everyone around her how wrong they are, as if she is the only voice of reason that no one listens too except for Manray of course.

I think he made her realize most how twisted her shit was, which is why she lied to him in the first place.

She was the only one who has knowledge of both sides (black plight v. white struggle). Like you said it was the demons, its impossible to play both sides, thats why i guess she was the only one left to deal with all the pain of all three men in her life dying.

 

[TrueGodHS]

This movie is something... powerful, but what I will say is, did anyone notice the hypocrisy of Jada in the movie that no one really touched on? I think it was a subliminal thing that Spike put out there, but that was something that's rarely talked about

Her general role in this movie is supportive black woman who keeps her mouth running but dont do nothing about it till its too late. The girl with the ear to the street who has to sustain herself in the white mans world.

Thats why her brother was Mos Def's character, she was always speaking out of line in meetings, was the devils advocate for Manray and then the she delivered justice at the end.

She was the most important character actually.

See I understand that logic, and that's kind of my point. It was a subliminal message that while she was the voice of the reason, she had her demons as well. I can't really look at De La's death as justice though.

Yea it really wasnt justice per say, but the fact that he actually shot himself is kind of a fitting end for a man who went off the deep end like he did.

I think her role as conscientious objecter is quite obvious, because even though its hinted in her first scene where she fucks up the meeting that he is only keeping her around because of their "relationship", she is still constantly reminding everyone around her how wrong they are, as if she is the only voice of reason that no one listens too except for Manray of course.

I think he made her realize most how twisted her shit was, which is why she lied to him in the first place.

She was the only one who has knowledge of both sides (black plight v. white struggle). Like you said it was the demons, its impossible to play both sides, thats why i guess she was the only one left to deal with all the pain of all three men in her life dying.

Agreed. I think I would've liked to see more of the mental aspect of what she was going through. The ending seem rushed a bit off(Maus Maus killing Manray, the rush of the killing of De La Qua), but the sequence at the end really made up for what I felt was a rushed ending. I will say though, Thomas Jefferson Byrd(Honeycutt) stole this movie for me as a character.

But I love the fact that the most important character in the movie was the black woman who had to put up with all ends of the spectrum. Bamboozled is my favorite Spike movie probably more so than Do The Right Thing and just a bit above Malcolm X. I didnt really like DTRT that much to be honest, but thats just me

 

[Serious Juice Mayne]

S/O to canibus in the movie