Spike Lee's Bamboozled Trailer

[TheRafaelBond]

can someone explain this to me a little bit about this lee vs perry thing,and about th movie? :) greetings anyway ;)

[Sowta]

Does anybody knows the soundtrack of this trailer ? I'm searching for 2 hours I can't find it !

[Booyakahshaify]

It's too bad races back in the day and still to even this day can't get along. Were all humans and we need to work together. Our technology and human culture would probably be triple times better and advanced and innovated by teamwork. Back in the days racism was so bad for blacks and slavery....couldn't even get an education, and live a normal life like whites. If that never happened the African American race wouldn't need to regrow, but after all these years blacks are STILL just recovering.

[appletart205]

this movie is wow

[differentandalike]

YOU SYMBOLIZE HOPE

[PeacemakerShaun1011]

It's impossible to watch this movie without FEELING something. Regardless of your race, you can't help feel for the struggle this film captures.

[iloveblack101]

After seeing this, it makes sense why he deeply despises the Tyler Perry films, he has a right to say this after making this film.

[JhazePhae]

@iloveblack101

That has been the point I have been making myself. Tyler Perry has been blessed with the opportunity to not only put 1 show on TV but 2 shows on TV, and WHAT DOES HE SHOW?? House of Pain, a little girl that acts too damn grown for her age, crackhead jokes and the rest of just BS. We aren't even going to address Meet the Browns b/c it's so much BS that any major topic it attempts to address is overshadow by the buffoonery. I say, Continue to Speak the TRUTH, Spike!!

[jrmetmoi]

@JhazePhae All Tyler Perry did was recycle played out simplistic retro-comedy like Flip Wilson as Geraldine and call her Madea this time.

[DjSkyfaze]

@JhazePhae word. perry puts out modern minstrel shows. i find them offensive as a black guy which sounds insane. i see commercials for those shows and im like damn i hope people dont think black people are really like that. even those movies he does. im not a fan. spike tells the truth of what its really like for blacks and minorities in america. tyler perry is a joke to me.

[cpvonna]

Does anyone know what the song is at the end of the trailer? I've been trying to find it, but I can't.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Mammmmmm me!

Ha ha ha, oh dear.

[MGSFan22]

I uploaded the entire film.

[FAMEROB]

never even heard of it untill now

[softhing]

it very hard to watch something that has so much truth to the hardship our young black generation have to endure. Because we live in a nation that assume it has to teach us and make sure we are on some sort of skin color boundery by creating a world that believes your nationality has some type of connection with how smart you are and everyone knows thats "BS" and we hate that we have to live in a world that will never allow us to know to much but just enough to get by and that will never change.

[TikofTok]

@softhing

Keep blaming whitey for all your problems.

Asians and Europeans DONT kill eachother on mass levels, asians manage to get ahead even further than Europeans. So why aren't blacks getting ahead, exactly? Keep blaming whitey for all the problems, it's been working well so far.

[sithlord519]

@TikofTok

i agree. they are the only race to go backwards. they have so many opportunities but waste them all.

[birchual]

good film but i always thought wayans was a bit too ambitious with his perfoermance. tried to be too eccentric and the chaaracter fell flat on its face!

[MrJohnDeville]

four words Get On The Bus=Lee's best work

[EyeLean5280]

This looks like it would just be too upsetting to bear.

[robbtheruler]

Umm..."Network" certainly comes to mind.

[And8But]

WTF? Ripping off Network? Screw this movie. (Watches Do The Right Thing instead)

[wawaH20]

looks good but the music choice.... not so much

[progrockcoffee]

If you guys like this movie, check out Ralph Bakshi's "Coonskin." Same concept, but different story, and it's ANIMATED! :D

[amensupremera]

Spike's best movie

[savagegalt]

HELP US PROP UP RACE DIVIDERS!

HELP US PROP UP RACE DIVIDERS!

HELP US PROP UP RACE DIVIDERS!

DO NOT IDENTIFY THE PRIVATE CENTRAL BANKS!

DO NOT IDENTIFY THE PRIVATE CENTRAL BANKS

[savagegalt]

DO NOT UNITE AGAINST THE FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM

DO NOT UNITE AGAINST THE FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM

DO NOT UNITE AGAINST THE FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM

FOCUS ON RACE ONLY!

FOCUS ON RACE ONLY!

[savagegalt]

DO NOT UNITE!! DO NOT UNITE!! DO NOT UNITE AGAINST THE FIAT-MONETARY SYSTEM!! DO NOT EDUCATE YOURSELF!! DO NOT EDUCATE YOURSELF!! KRS-ONE IS EVIL! RON PAUL IS EVIL! ALEX JONES IS EVIL! PROF. GRIFF IS EVIL NONE OF THEM SUPPORTED OUR PUPPET OBAMA!!

[CoolerKing37]

Underrated flick.

[jackeyramone]

We watched it in media, bloomin' excellent.

[trademarktaz]

this movie is great and true but a lot of these comments are not

[sexcnappturallesbian]

This movie is so brilliant and powerful i love it. I love it. I love it. Every black youth should see this they should show it in class. I dont know which comment it was but someone said how does tpain represent every stereotype uhhhhh......im guessing yu never heard of freaknik the musical. COONERY BUFFONERY!!!!!

[MiG2880]

One of my favourite movies.

Just a small point: It really annoys me when people say "Everybody's a racist", 'cause it's just not true. Some of us are waay past that. We're just tired of the same old shit.

People say that without even thinking about what they're saying, to make themselves sound more 'intellectual'. Like some kind of buzz word.

It seems to me that the truly intelligent people of this world have been waiting for a long time for these people to catch up.

How much longer?

[siukong]

@MiG2880 Don't hold your breath.

[zxc545454]

I was always taken aback when I was younger on how the white kids who embraced "hip hop culture" spoke the lingo, bought the clothes, rap cd's,, etc. would at the same time be racist as hell. When I first saw this movie advertised, it started to make a bit more sense.

[coolbeens21]

@zxc545454

you speak the truth.

[tbone2872]

@zxc545454 Writer Ishmael Reid talked about that phenomenon in an interview he did for the documentary called Boogeyman: The lee Atwater story. I don't know your age but if you are old enough to remember when George H.W. Bush won against Dukakis in 1988 you remember the whole Willie Horton thing. Ishmael Reid referred to the phenomenon of the "white negro" a term coined by Norman Mailer. Atwater was a huge fan of blues and African American culture yet runs one of the most racist....

[tbone2872]

@zxc545454 (cont'd) political campaigns in American history. Ishmael Reids theory is that some whites who embrace African American sub-cultures like hip-hop and blues etc. eventually succumb to a self-destructive resentment when they realize that they can never be the "real thing." I'm white (of British/Irish descent) and have observed many times as well white guys getting into the whole hip-hop/rap suburban gangsta thing and at the same time being some of the most racist people. It's weird.

[zxc545454]

@tbone2872 I was 7 and have vague memories of that campaign but I did read up on it later in life (at that age I was more interested in Dan Quayle's gaffes)

[tbone2872]

@zxc545454 I was just using that as an example to reiterate your original point. Lee Atwater wasn't into hip hop but was really into blues and was a huge admirer of african american culture and even hung out with BB King, John Lee Hooker, and James Brown while at the same time exploits the divide between whites and blacks in the US by running the most racist post-civil rights era political campaign.

[zxc545454]

@tbone28 The Bush campaign went into '88 as the underdog and they had to do whatever they had to do to win. Walter Mondale ran a very respectful campaign against Ronald Reagan in '84 and got clobbered. Atwater probably figured it was better to be a bad winner than a good loser. In his warped mind it was probably 'just strategy.'

[dienglee]

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND POINGNANT MOVIES EVER MADE!!

[Henryduckfan63]

I wonder what Warner Bros. Reaction to 1:11 was.

[Tacom4ster]

This movie is genius, and I'm Hispanic

[PushyMonk]

"go to your window and shout out Im not going to take it any more"

See the movie " Network " Awesome movie reference Spike!!!

[mskiara18]

Spike Lee needs more praise for his movies. ❤

[Diabl0Pabl0]

i like the "network" scene in the end

[DCAUFan]

Watch my review on this film

[fritos10]

U NA MEAN HAHA u NA IM SAYIN HAHA

[lilmisssassytassy]

lilmisssassytassy @softcelltainted22 response:

[lilmisssassytassy]

softcelltainted22, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure what walk of life you're from, but I wholeheartedly appreciate your empathy to the of the African American ethnicity. My comment was not about racism, per say. It was about the black experience. Racism is only an aspect of that, and no, you don't have to be black to understand how grotesque it is.

[lilmisssassytassy]

But you DO have to be black to understand what it's like to have to work twice as hard to get half as far-- to get a title, and still be regarded as "Dr. Nigger." You DO have to be black to understand that your entire identity as a black person is predicated on ignorant constructs from over 400 yrs ago that STILL EXIST. You DO have to be black to understand that for everyone else, this was just a movie.

[lilmisssassytassy]

They have the privilege of being able to appreciate what theyve just seen, use it for a story [ (or research paper =) ] and forget. For me, this is my LIFE. Those people in that film were my FAMILY. My grandfathers and grandmothers, being exploited, humiliated, abused and demeaned. And that is something that I cannot walk away from, for it is engrained into my very existence. And that is something you will only TRULY understand if you are black.

[lilmisssassytassy]

I have never cried because of a movie a day in my life. Today, I bawled. There's too much history in this racist country. I get that this is a satire, but unless you are black, you really won't understand how deep this movie hits. Not to say anytihing against other ethnicities, of course, but it is a hard, hard struggle to be black in america.

[behinddacurtain]

@lilmisssassytassy this movie was and is very very disturbing I just watched it and huh still speechless, every minute that I watch it, hurt. But after you watch it, you know why they never showed it on an international stage, people with of shitted on hollywood, the movies today are still racist ain´t nothing changed, still got these fuckin so called hip hop flicks with dancers and rappers and they always black poor and mostly uneducated so racism still aint gone, stereotypeism to fuck holywod

[softcelltainted22]

@lilmisssassytassy i respect your experience and your feelings but i don't see how someone of a different race wouldn't understand the depths of this film.

i really am not trying to belittle you in any way. but i have always wanted to see this movie and now, working on a research paper, i finally had a real drive to. i seriously cried during the movie. i was touched and disgusted by it and i really don't think you have to be black to understand how grotesque racism in america has been.

[tvandale21]

Niggas is a beautiful thing.

[emptyeye901]

I saw this movie when i was 11 and i hated it but that was because i did not understand satire

[wallstreetyoung]

Tyler Perry's a Coon and a Bafoon!

[kurt9876543210]

that movie looks hella gay

[99virgo]

2045 Radicalman!!!!!!!!! O-(>

[99virgo]

oooopps! I mean O(+>

[chokoboy5578]

the reason its relevant is cuz it wasn't fiction at 1 time stupid

[Castaril]

Some people talk about this movie like its a documentary, ITS FICTION.

[jxhensley]

It's a documentary that doesn't name names.

[ndfightingirish9]

@Castaril ITS SATIRE

[DomincanXpanther]

wtf man short guy 1:11

[musicishope15]

this movie was genious.

[alizebabi]

This movie needs to be suggested to watch by black youth everywhere. Doesn't seem like the message carried too far. We're still acting lake he degraded fools and hooligans that they* want us to be. Just watch 'Housewives of Atlanta'.

[thislittleblacksheep]

omg soooo true

[jubie5285]

In my opinion this was Spike Lee's greatest film

[DomincanXpanther]

see spike lee likes zack de la rocha

[ShutXUpXAndXListen]

i love the message this movie sent out!

[blaccstacy]

anyone know the song that was playing at 1:36

[dawgie1234]

When I was a kid, my dad showed me this movie. I didn't understand it. Now, as I watch it at an older age, I appreciate it's depth. It's hard to watch music videos when artists like T-Pain embody every stereotype of blacks. They do so with a grin on their face and a few dollars in their pockets, influencing our generation to move backwards.

[ckyvick666]

if you listen to music from people like t-pain then you got the entire message of this movie wrong... hes an uncle tom and hes part of the problem...

[Cyberchick03]

What the heck r u on about?.....thats bullshit......he embodies the stereotypes? what of those people who are infact those stereotypes? hv u t seen T-pain gunning down peope or shit like dat?

[urbanguerilla93]

@dawgie1234 Greetings from Indonesia... I saw this movie when I was in junior High on after midnight movie show in Indonesian national TV station. 

[mightyblack1]

Vh1's Flavor of love and it's spin off 's fit for this format.

[luvrgrl00]

wow, really?

[MalaTemporaCurrunt]

blacks take themselves waaay too seriously.

[prettybunny1995]

I have never cried so much from a movie I learned a lot from it.

[SpartanSoldier440]

this movie was incredible! Left me at a loss for words

[queenmother123]

This movie had me lost for words but the message was strong. Spike lee is the best.

[KrumBum1990]

whats the last song that plays in the trailer? its very beautiful

[DeadlyPoisonedCandy]

Why dont people just stop calling themselves a white man or a black man and just call themselves a person.

Thats how you stop racism

[TheSlickAndroid]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy

if only we had more people in this world who thought like that and were as wise as you.

that really touched me,man

[captainrhodes83]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy agreed....we're centuries away til we reach this day

[MyGodzilla99]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy yea but whats so racist about being called a black or white man? just look at your skin and quit being so ignorant

[xxeternalbeautyxx]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy

How about we just stop using surnames too, and just all adopt the same name?

Fuck off - if you cultural Marxists had your way there would be no variety in the world, nothing but a fucking mass of cultureless shit.

[Division1985]

@xxeternalbeautyxx Amen. My thoughts exactly.

[Honestabe86]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy

Cause thats even dumber.

[InsanityManifest]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy

No, it won't. It's a step in the right direction but society itself has to change. People have to wake up and transcend stereotypes and the beliefs they hold. This isn't easy. It's so much simpler to just label and put people in boxes because that's how we are built, it's how we survived for so long.

[teriyakibowl12345]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy i dont exactly disagree with you, but ignoring the color of your skin isnt so simple. denying your color is denying your heritage and culture and all those who came before you.

[progrockcoffee]

@teriyakibowl12345 The fact that people make entire cultures based on their skin's melanin content is strange to me, although I can understand the history part. Meh, maybe you're right, but my point still stands. For example, women and men have very different values and "roles" in society, although with lots of LGBT people these gender roles are starting to intermingle and switch.

[bakerboisp]

@progrockcoffee The reason that is, is because you have a woman emulating a "man's role", and a man emulating a "woman's role". And that's always been superficial any if you're talkin about a physical JOB CLASS.

But genetically they can't "switch the roles". And at basic human level they can't "switch the roles".

Whether you believe in evolution or creation, Men and Women were concieved with specifics on how they interact with the world and each other.

You can say 2+2 = 9 but it isn't right.

[progrockcoffee]

@bakerboisp Differences between objective mathematical laws and subjective social views aside, that doesn't mean we should prevent anyone from saying that 2+2=9. We're also talking about social norms, not biological characteristics. Besides, in binary 1+1=10. :P

[progrockcoffee]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy That's true. Very true. However, we shouldn't define "person" to mean "human." What if robots become sentient? What if we somehow gain contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life? I think that we should recognize the fact they we're all human, and then give "person" a wider definition. I may be arguing semantics, but you never know.

[bakerboisp]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy Because then yuo lose your identity from which you gain in the culture you're raised in.

Why dont we all stop going by our Nationalities as well and just call each other Earthlings?

Thas some ol bullshit.

Go to Brazil or Africa, any indigenous people in the world, and ask them if to stop calling their selves by the name of their bloodline. Just see how upset they get and how crazy they look at you.

Co-existence of cultures, not uniformity of bullshit my friend.

[MrKingclumsy]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy agreed, and not a black _person_ white _person. Sexism is a problem too

[Staceyb5]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy not really racism is like war it will never go away but it's there and people don't like it but what can you say

[fmcneillii]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy lol 

[CydAstaire]

@DeadlyPoisonedCandy agreed, but unfortunately i don't see everybody on earth doing that

[Pimpingirl18]

good point but what bothers me is that for black ppl we use "black" black singer, black actor, black boy .....if we dont mention anything about the look, ppl assume that the person is white.....weird isnt it?

[PlugginTV]

This movie was shot with an vx1000, superb !!

[USFella]

Perhaps Damon Wayans' worst performance ever. It's like watching community theater. As far as the Malcolm X movie goes, the only things that made it watchable were Denzel Washington's performance and the fact that Malcolm X was a charismatic figure with a dynamic way of expressing himself. The film itself was Spike's usual ham-handed treatment. I would have preferred to simply see a documentary about the man.

[BrentonSteinhilber]

I think Spike is sometimes too concerned about sending a message and not concerned enough about making a good movie. Sometimes.

I've liked many of the movies that Spike has made and respect him immensely as a filmmaker, but as a filmmaker myself, I always want to see the movie put first. Going into a movie trying to send a message instead of telling a story is turning the movie into a tool. And in that regard, I think you're right that a documentary would be better in some cases.

[trevytrev123]

have all of you film critics forgot about spike's movie malcolm X or what...girl 6 spike lee at his best? fuck outa here. LOLLOLOL

[kennymega61]

Interesting, but not very good film.

Spike Lee hit the bottom of the barrel with this one. Good thing he didn't invest a lot into it

[MondoBeno]

When I first saw this trailer, I thought Spike was going to finallly confront the "backface" phenomena, which has long since disappeared. But I could hear Black people in the theatre making negative remarks. One Black guy behind me said "time for Spike Lee to go back to film school."

When the film came out, I was eager to see it. But I was disappointed. It seems that Spike Lee is convinced that White audiences would love a minstrel show. He's wrong. There's nothing funny about it.

[expertguy101]

this movie has a meaning for africain americans . it displays the ties our people and the uncle sam steriotype and why we should finaly confront it and break it . dumbass

[Dangerdoom68]

expertguy101:

In other words, the movie questions and points out how Afro African(black) people are actually acting like "black-face" folks....

Why do that (the movie questions)?

...When in reality, Afro African(black)people can MIGRATE BACK TO AFRICA and learn their TRUE African Indigenous culture, religion, lanaguage, cuisine, history, long-lost relatives,etc! Once over there Afro African(black) people can end...yes...END...their whining and crying of slavery & dicrimination!

word!

[expertguy101]

dager doom - you actualy figured out what i was trying to say we should do. heres your qoute(sorry for calling you a dumbass)

Why do that (the movie questions)?

...When in reality, Afro African(black)people can MIGRATE BACK TO AFRICA and learn their TRUE African Indigenous culture, religion, lanaguage, cuisine, history, long-lost relatives,etc! Once over there Afro African(black) people can end...yes...END...their whining and crying of slavery & dicrimination!

[bxcutie4life2007]

o shut the fuck up u asshole

[USFella]

Dangerdoom68, and you can migrate back to wherever your people came from and stop giving the U.S. and/or European Americans a bad name.

[Dangerdoom68]

For the longest time, I have promoted diversity on Youtube. However, when those who accuse my race of causing ills and evils to theirs....I must defend my fellow blood-ancestral family: European(white) race!

USFella:

"...giving a bad nam"...To whom?!...I'm not giving European(white) people a bad rap because doing so would harm my own race!

I only suggest those who are resentful and ungrateful toward my ansestor's past actions and cultural influence....TO MIGRATE BACK!

word!

[BrentonSteinhilber]

I'm saying this as a white person: We really don't need you to "defend" us. We're good.

[cairo67]

dangerdoom68- you are a nazi. How could you say that African Americans should migrate back to Africa if they are not content. Are you not aware that they were forced to come to the New World? Its not like they decided they were going to become slaves and force their ways on the Europeens. Considering Europeens are immigrants who killed off the native americans, I think you should consider moving back to Europe.

Anyhow, this was a very powerful film. well made and thought provoking.

[cabbageproducts]

too right!

[blueskiestoo]

why would i want to migrate back to africa when most of the contenant is now white? the french, the dutch, the english have taken over and exploted all the good things the country has to offer. being there would be just like beingb hre with ignorant buffones like US Fella who is too bullheaded to see that the only people who have ever given white people a bad name are themselves.

[Dangerdoom68]

I guess you'd rather stay here and continue to ASSIMILATE into the Euro-Western Civilization! Who knows maybe you'll be able to assimilate "structurally" like President Elect Barack H. Obama. He's the prodigy assimilated Afro African(black)man that all Afro African(black)people of West Afro African "black" slave kin should follow and aspire to be & mimic, albeit he's a Mulatto!

Regardless, don't you wantto finally learn your TRUE Indigenous Afro African(black) language,culture,religion, etc?

[bxcutie4life2007]

u sound so fucking dumb first of all how are black ppl assimilating fool? black people has been here in the us just as long as Europeans, we are a part of the foundation of this fucking country and our hard work and labor went into developing much of this shit and making it the success it became as well we are a part of the American culture and has influences in it as well so u sound really fucking dumb.

[Avagadro1990]

you are right but white peeps and black peeps can assimilate each other and neither of us are the same as we would be alone but better together as an iller more efficiant TEAM

[TNNS415]

i dont think some blacks can, when the whites took them as slaves, their culture and history was stolen from them. but now their history is in the u.s. if you really want to talk bout blacks going to africa, then why are there some whites that are not going back to europe. This is Native American land. Blacks and whites came here at around the same time.

[JaneFeige]

You are retarded

[TNNS415]

why, cause im telling the truth. if you think im wrong then obviously your not good in history.

[ouuyy]

very powerful film

spike lee at his best

[NadrianATRS]

I think Girl 6 was his best, but this man is a bad actor and is never going to win an Oscar, he's too focused on making a point and can't make a hit movie that EVERYONE understands and can enjoy

[iaralillylynosjohn]

i agree..this movie maked me really LOVE spike.

[JonTMarin1988]

a disturbing but powerful film... satire at its best... Spike is a genius

[NotherBrother]

One of Spike's most excellent film. VERY underrated because of the images. Nobody wants to face that sh*t. People are quite comfortable confronting violence like the Saw movies and Rambo(2008), but not racism.

[Doublehelixx23]

Your right, people dont want to face racism. Just the other day i posted a question on yahoo answers about racism on xbox live and they removed my question. Spike is a great director and his movies are constantly underrated because of the subject he talks about.

[NotherBrother]

And that's the "double truth, Ruth!"

[Goldenboy2191]

Preach Brothers Preach.

[moseschabu]

funniest line...'i say nigger 100 times every morning, keeps my teeth white'

[KMitnick75]

to quote tommy davidson's character womack: "Thats not funny"

[Project424]

zomg that looks spectacular... not a big Spike fan, tho - but imma torrent dem shits.

[ChukkovProductions]

lol

[Shinitkun]

Yessir.

[KMitnick75]

When I first seen the airing of this film it made me cry literally. especially at the ending score omg the sadder thing is that this is still going on umongst the same race. in short negroes are only hurting each other. Killing on rap song killing in communityies killing each other mentally and physically. Its has got to stop. If my heart had tear ducts not tissuse could ease the pain.

[Hazardousgrrl]

Learn to spell, then, defend your race.

[akamola]

This film is rated R, for RACIST BULLSHIT !!!!!

[jmtejada]

anybod know the name of the song that plays at the end of this traler?

[pakard87]

my favourite folm os Spike Lee is Summer of Sam!!!

[Xkid0074]

It was a comedy but with a very serious overtone and message.

[theblackcrusaders]

Best Spike film besides Malcolm and Do hte Right Thing.

[Forgetthis08]

I'm going to see that today

[omnipotentidiot]

next to Malcolm X,this was my favorite Spike Lee movie. I wish he would do more.

[x100kx]

im black..i remember i watched this movie...and i was scared to look in the mirror that night. that movie was sooo powerful. i was scared to look in the mirror!!! i forced myself to..and ran to my bed.

[oldfool666]

*Nerd alert*

[hotchoccolate23]

wts this film about

[oldfool666]

You do realise its a comedy don't you...I don't get the whole "scared to look in the mirror" thing.

[iaralillylynosjohn]

x100 I watched this movie in brazil when it first came out..i couldn't really never understand the whole thing about that time of In EUA with blacks since in south America the racism is present in different forms. .. This movie really got me disturb that day because i was able to see what i couldn't..