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A 3 page paper which examines how well the film actually depicts the historical events that took place during the civil rights leader’s lifetime. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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more passionately about than the life and legacy of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. His proposed screen biography was several years in the making, and was released in
1992 to widespread critical acclaim and popularity, due mostly to actor Denzel Washingtons mesmerizing and painstakingly faithful physical portrayal of Malcolm. He looked and sounded like Malcolm; therefore, the
audience becomes immediately seduced into thinking that Malcolm X is an authentic representation of the mans life and times and in terms of its portrayal of the historical events that
shaped them. However, as historians have repeatedly reminded us, seeing is not always believing, because despite its appearance and the interspersing of actual film footage in a kind of
cinema verit? montage fashion, the film is "magnificent yet profoundly flawed" (Marable, 1993, p. 7). Lee proudly declares he based his film on The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which
was in fact written by Roots author Alex Haley, based on a series of taped interviews over a period of years. This automatically places the films historical objectivity into
question. It dramatically portrays the spiritual conversion of Malcolm Little, a street hustler and petty thief (Marable, 1993). Malcolm X also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly
rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral guidance and self-respect, and giving people denied opportunity a belief in themselves as capable and productive members of society"
(Marable, 1993, p. 7). Although Malcolm may have received inspiration and direction from reading the Muslim gospel as penned by spiritual leader Elijah Muhammad while serving a prison sentence
for robbery, this massive moral conversion in which countless thugs were taken off the streets and embraced by the religion in the mid-1940s is little more than a "sanitized version
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