The evolution of the Black American
people life in US
So far
we have been showing several chapters or situations in the evolution of the
Black American people taking as reference the most recent movies about this
topic. Now, we are going to see two remarkable films really indispensable to
ilustrate the struggle of the Black
American people to achieve the most basic human rights.
The Color Purple is a book of the American writer Alice Walker which obtained the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Steven Spielberg brought it to the cinema in a delightful movie.
The most important topics are:
- Black culture, Black communities in the south of US
- Sexism and racism in US
- Disruption of traditional gender roles
All the movie is a reflection about sexism and racism as an issue to beat.
The movie begins in
1909 when Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) a young girl, victim of incest, is impregnated
by her father. Celie feels ugly and detested, isolated from her adored sister
and children, she has no other option than to be married to an offensive, penurious,
and womanizer husband, Albert (Danny Glover), a man who treats her as a slave. Nevertheless,
Celie's life changes as soon as Albert gives back home with his lover Shug, an attractive
Blues singer.
Despite the
apparently desperate position the movie's story offers Celie with, the Color
Purple is not a tale of her hopelessness, but on the contrary her achievement,
one which is hugely stimulating. Brilliant in each feature this movie is, as
well as Stephen Spielberg's exceptionally smart direction, particularly of the
four most prominent stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey Danny Glover, and
Margaret Avery.
Malcolm X, (May 19,
1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little was an American Muslim cleric and a civil
rights militant.
To his followers he was a audacious activist for the rights of
Black people, a man who accused white America for its crimes against. Black
Americans; critics respondent him of campaigning prejudice and violence. He has been named one of the highest and
most significant African Americans in history.
Malcolm X worked as a
spokesman for the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and '60s. Eloquent, fervent Malcolm
X encouraged Blacks to throw off the restraints of racism "by any way
necessary," comprising violence.
He has been used to represent
an alternative, more militant vision of social protest than Martin Luther King's
nonviolence, and his name appears as a symbol of black pride.
Malcom X, the Spike Lee’s movie was the first
blockbuster of this director. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the southern
of the US. In his childhood he knew the problems of the racism. His family were
closely related with the jazz music. Today is one of the most important Afro American
directors with a significant professional career full of success. In Malcom X,
Lee worked with Denzel Washington in the leading role.
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