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Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success.
Oct 20, 2000 · Bamboozled: Directed by Spike Lee. With Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson. A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
Feb 10, 2023 · Check out the official Bamboozled (2000) trailer starring Jada Pinkett Smith! Watch on Vudu: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Bamboozled/1793466...
Watchlist. TRAILER. Watchlist. A blistering satire of network television's pitfalls and prejudices, a humorous look at how race, ratings and the pursuit of...
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Oct 6, 2000 · You've been bamboozled. So said Malcolm X, as quoted by Spike Lee in the production notes to "Bamboozled," his perplexing new film. To Malcolm, the bamboozlers were white people in general, but in Lee's films they're the television executives, black and white, who bamboozle themselves in the mindless quest for ratings.
Bamboozled. With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike.
