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A 10 page paper comparing The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley with the Spike Lee movie 'Malcolm X,' released in 1992 and based on Haley's account of Malcolm X's life and political activities. Malcolm X underwent a great change in his thinking during the last year of his life, the year in which Haley's book was published (1965), but most of his political activity was public—and highly militant—long before he discovered the broader implications of the Islam to which he was so committed. As described in this paper, the movie is true to the book overall, but relies more on the negatives of racism than it does on tracing Malcolm X's evolution. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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regardless of how they are presented. Movie versions of books commonly take broad "poetic license" in the screen adaptation versions, but Spike Lee remained true to facts. Some
of the presentation, however, is slanted in such a manner that it does not take into full account the mellowing of Malcolm Xs attitudes or the expansion of his thinking
during the last year of his life. Very Basic Differences When Alex Haley wrote his autobiography of Malcolm X, it was in the vein of "as told to" the author.
Alex Haley was a wonderful writer with a gift of presenting unsavory truths in a non-accusatory manner, yet leaving the predicators of the centuries of injustices to the black
race (i.e., white people) with an overwhelming-and lasting-sense of guilt. That "guilt" Alex Haley was able to generate through his work was of a productive nature. Those possessing
it either truly wanted to work for a real change in the inequalities suffered by the black people in this country, or were fully supportive of those working for measures
intended to accomplish those changes. With the writing of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley, however, Haley had very little control over the content of the
pages he was to write. When comparing quotes from the book to quotes from speeches made during the writing of the book, it appears that Malcolm X was indeed
more reserved in many of his comments preserved in his autobiography. Perhaps Haley had more control over content than is apparent... In the case of Spike Lee, however, seventeen
years had passed since both the publication of the book and the assassination of Malcolm X. The bloody riots were long since over and members of the black race
...