Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Al Freeman Jr., Albert Hall, Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke, Sonny Jim GainesBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Angela Bassett
Primary Contributor: Washington, Denzel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 202 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: wonderful rendition of an emblematic American life
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up in the civil rights era, whose public face for us (in the suburbs) was the reasonable MLKing. The other side - the violence and militancy, the hate that hate produced - was only dimly heard, seemingly much farther away. It was a great shock for me to read Haley's autobio, but utterly fascinating and important to understand who we Americans are.
Spike Lee has taken the Haley version and grafted almost all of the important incidents into a single long film. In my viewing, it is almost completely successful in evoking an extraordinary life. You get the factual outline, and better yet the feeling for what it was like in X's times.
From the opening, when he is swaggering in a zoot suit with Shorty, to his seething rage at the memory of how his family was dissolved by race hatred and lynching. It is superlatively acted by Washington, who is one of the greatest actors alive. You then follow X into crime, a dissolute life style, prison, redemption, the acceptance of fundamentalist mind programming, to a final stage of questioning it all. I completely believed the portrait of how he grew into all of these roles with extraordinary ease as well as the mercurial energy of a genius.
Lee succeeds in making X a near archetype for the American experience for blacks but also for the entire society, which we must admit to ourselves is intimately inter-related. These are deep questions, and Lee is content to provoke, in my viewing, leaving the audience vexed and interested in finding out more. It is positively Brechtian in ambition, and here it truly works here. And there is a raft of extraordinary personalities who appear and re-appear, enabling us to see where they were able to go and what they could do.
There are a few things that mar with the simplifications of the film medium. For example, there is the fate of the girl Laura, who is in the Haley book. While in real life she disappears from view though we learn what happened to her, you see X walk by her in his Moslem guise as she is about to service a client in a doorway. Other incidents are too succinct, such as his dismissal of the idealistic white girl who asked how she might help (which he later pointedly regretted), but then Lee had only 3 hours and there is so much to tell.
Warmly recommended. X tells us all a lot about who we are as Americans and even as humans. I believe he continues to fascinate because he died at a moment when he was ripe with potential to change. This film made me weep, once again, as I did in my youth with the book.
Summary of Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Adapted from the novel "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" written by Alex Haley this is an amazing biopic of one of the most influential African American leaders to date. It follows the life and times of Malcolm Little through his transformation to Malcolm X and his departure from the Nation of Islam. Spike Lee's epic film captures the internal struggles the spiritual political and structural changes that Malcolm Submitted himself to throughout his life to achieve his changing goals.Running Time: 202 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?085393353124Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great figures--held up to the public as polar-opposites within the African American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality "by any means necessary")--were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm's early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader--all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. --Jim Emerson
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