BAMBOOZLED -Media Analysis

Bamboozled (Directed by Spike Lee)

• Bamboozled focuses on how the media stereotype black people. In the 2oth century black people were seen to be abused by the media as being stupid and poor (stereotype).The movie is about a TV producer and his assistant worker who are the only black people within the industry.The producers was trying to find a way in which he could get fired, by doing so he created a contemporary minstrel show, in the earlier centuries shows consisted of white people with painted black faces which represented black people within the shows. Spike Lee showed a modern version by using ''black people with blacker faces'' - having shown two actors as poor black men (man ray and Womack) as making ''fools'' of themselves with blacker faces. (the words the producers used - "black people are not wanted to be seen on television unless they act like ''buffoons''.)
• The producers white boss was married to a black women and had two mixed race children - having this background as a white man he felt that using words such as ''nigger'' was ok. He felt that he was ''more black'' then [Damon Wayans] the producer, he had large images all over his room of successful black people and was argued to use a more appropriate stereotype of the way black people speak.
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