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    Spike Jonze

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    Spike Jonze is a well-known American actor, screenwriter, producer and director. His work includes commercials, music videos, television, and film. One of his films, however, stands out to the world. Her was directed, produced and written by Jonze in 2013, and made his solo screenwriting debut. The film established groundbreaking production design. Her uncovers a bright and vibrant future populated by human-friendly technologies. In a journal by Hugh Hart, he interviews the production designer K

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    Who Is Spike Milligan?

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    otherwise known as Spike Milligan was an Irish-English actor, playwright, poet, musician, and writer best known for the series of comical autobiographical works documenting his experiences as a soldier in the WWII British Army, children’s poetry and the high popular TV strip The Goon Show. Born of an English mother and an Irish father he spent most of childhood in India the country of his birth before immigrating to the UK later in life. He adopted the nickname of Spike after hearing the Spike Jones and his

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    Spike Lee Essay

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    teacher Jacqueline Carroll and jazz musician William James Edward Lee, Shelton grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he was provided with a rich cultural upbringing that included plays, movies, and music (Gale 1). At a young age, Lee was nicknamed “Spike” by his mother who noticed his rough nature and the nickname stuck well into his adult life. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he gained an interest in film and then graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication. Lee

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    Spike Lee - Auteur Essay

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    Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen. The director I have chosen as an auteur is Spike Lee. Lee’s Life: Spike Lee is an American film director who has directed, produced, written and acted in Spike Lee films such as Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Inside Man and Love & Basketball. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended Morehouse College and made his first

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    Spike Lee is an Afro-American director who has developed more fame and importance in the last 20 years. He portrays his stories in a way that nothing is fictitious and many of them are written about some real events. Lee has co-produced many of his films and has acted in some small roles within them. According to IMDb (2016), Lee 's work consists of: 26 films, 30 television programs, 45 commercials, 15 short films, starred in several films, and was a producer and writer of many other works. Although

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    Essay about Spike Lee

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    I. Intro Spike Lee is one of the many directors who in my opinion always want to keep people alert. Lee is a film director, producer, writer and actor. He is with no question a very intelligent man that believes he has a responsibility to try and explain the world of black folks and other minorities in their most genuine form. When it comes to making films, he always fulfils his responsibility to show the behind the scenes black personnel who are underrepresented in an industry dominated by white

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    Spike Lee Film Analysis

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    Spike Lee is an impeccable film director and actor. He receives a lot of backlash due to the topics he addresses in his films. Spike Lee is known for dealing with controversial issues within is film. Some of those issues depicted in his films were politics, urban violence, and racism. Spike Lee's famous films that displays these controversial issues are: A Spike Lee Joint, Bamboozled, and 25th hour, Do The Right Thing. I noticed familiar faces from both films and I could see a pattern within his

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    Spike Lee and Spike Jonze: producers, writers, and directors that happen to share the same name. Other than that, what makes “ the two Spikes” an instructive comparison is the very vast differences between their film styles and thematic concerns. Spike Lee, immediately recognize for his stylistic credits and dolly shots, more famously known for his controversial topics and stereotypes that he addresses in his films. Spike Lee pushes for the integration in the black community and urges toward unity

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    Spike Lee’s Magnum opus Spike Lee is a huge New York Knicks fan. He goes to every home game and sits courtside, so he can see the action up close. He is a truly passionate person who is not afraid to show it. People might ask why is that relevant that he is a Knicks fan. Well is in the sense that it shows how he is a passionate person. Therefor because he’s is a passionate person it shows in his movies. None more showed about how passionate he is then when he directed the movie Malcolm X. Spike

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    Isabella Pirl Malcolm X Spike Lee 1992 Film Critique 3 Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" celebrates an American life that began in sorrow and bottomed out in prison before the hero reinvented himself. Watching the film, I understood more clearly that people really do have the power to change their own lives, how fate does not deal all of the cards, and that we have strength within us to be the change that the world needs - we don’t always have to rely on a hero to come along, we can be that hero ourselves

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