Spike This!

Cocolicious K

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Spike This There is a horrible saying that I abhor. If it was personified I’d probably kick it over a cliff. Actually that sounds a bit violent. But maybe you’ll agree. Let me know. It’s from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Man & Superman” and without context it’s just – ugh – no words. Of course quotes do get passed down without context and in this case it became a mock of teaching. “He who can does; he who cannot, teaches.” Nope. I mean, I’m sure there’s cases of that as this is of people who “do” without knowing but the best teachers are those who are industry weathered. Aristotle said it better. He who knows, does. He who understands, teaches. The person I want to talk about today perfectly proves the Aristotle quote. For 4 decades, since the 1980s, Spike Lee has being creating and releasing excellent film after excellent film. He’s not only prolific but his standards are relatively consistent. Movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has 19 of his films hitting over 90% favourability with critics with many more 80% plus. From his 1986 breakthrough film “She’s Gotta Have it” to Oscar snubbed Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, When We Were Kings and one of my favourites from the last decade Black Kkklansman, he has earned the title of not just director, but auteur. The film She’s Gotta Have It launched Lee's career and he not only directed it but he also wrote, produced, starred and edited the film with a budget of $175,000, It was shot in two weeks and went on to gross over $7 million at the U.S. box office. New York Times film critic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.O._Scott">A.O. Scott</a> wrote that the film helped "usher in “the American independent film movement of the 1980s. It was also groundbreaking media for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in the representation of blacks in American cinema, depicting men and women of color n

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