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Inthemiddle of the week, a writer and black lgbtq+ rights activist known as Anti-Intellect tweeted his view about Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Speaking out about his feeling that School Daze is unbalanced and inaccurate, Anti-Intellect tweeted, "Some defend @SpikeLee's homophobia in School Daze saying Blacks were homophobic back then. Maybe so, BUT many Blacks were fighting back." Spike Lee tweeted endorse, "Not At Morehouse."
Anti-Intellect immediately questioned Lee's justification, tweeting skeptically, "@SpikeLee isn't homophobic (so he says), but homophobia is in School Daze because everyone at Morehouse was homophobic when he attended?" The critically acclaimed and controversial filmmaker then asked the writer whether he had ever seen Lee's 1996 film Get On the Bus and whether he thought it was homophobic. The Twitter spat went on, dissecting the Morehouse College that School Daze was based on and whether or not the film offered a unbiased portrayal of the homophobia that existed at the Atlanta-based historically black college at the time. The writer ended the conversation by noting that he's a fan of Lee's work and a
Homosexuality in a Spike Lee Joint
A huge difficulty I have had throughout this course has been with Spike Lee’s representations of (and the way his characters deals with) women and homosexuality. It seems that because of the subject matter of “Get on the Bus” and the actual enforced absence of women (a issue that luckily is not credited to Spike Lee), Lee was able to focus on fine-tuning the different kinds of men that exist in his films and was therefore finally proficient to create a somewhat more well-rounded representation of a homosexual man.
Our first introduction to homosexuality in “Get on the Bus” occurs when Randall aggressively ‘outs’ his ‘macho,’ closeted boyfriend, Kyle. We then fetch the reactions of the other men on the bus, who use words that we often hear in Lee’s other films, such as “homos” (in a derogatory manner), “sissy,” and “faggot,” but it seems that Lee is putting these words under a microscope for the first time and looking at the implications of using them critically rather than casually. X then stands up for the two homosexual men, saying he does not spot anything wrong with being gay, which I initially reflection was a affordable tactic on Lee’s part. Jeremiah t
This post was written by Carmen Phillips and Alaina
At the end of November, Netflix released a television series remake of Spike Lee’s 1986 film She’s Gotta Have It. The original is often considered one of Lee’s most iconic works. It’s also almost uniformly derided by feminist critics for the depiction of its protagonist, Nola Darling. In both the original film and the newly released television series, Nola is a juvenile black woman who self-identifies as a “sex-positive, polyamorous, pansexual” artist juggling relationships with three men: married business professional Jamie Overstreet, model/photographer Greer Childs, and bike messenger Mars Blackmon.
She’s Gotta Own It (1986) / She’s Gotta Hold It (2017)
The brand-new iteration has a potentially more lgbtq+ ending, thanks in part to Nola’s female love interest, Opal Gilstrap, a character who is also reimagined from the original production. The new She’s Gotta Have It has sparked a nuanced discussion among black women and black queer folks, with some calling the series “a feminist breakthrough” and others pointing out that it maligns representations of queerness and polyamory. With that ongoing dialogu
Queerness in She’s Gotta Have It (1986 vs. 2017)
I think Spike Lee is one of the greatest filmmakers of all moment. Of course, I have to acknowledge his two masterpieces: Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X. But I also passion how so much of his work is filled with bold and messy experimentation. That sequence in Crooklyn where the aspect ratio changes and the image is stretched? The way he has his characters glide during walk and talks? The seemingly random subplots that insist humanity on people other filmmakers would’ve written off as minor characters? His films don’t always fully work, but they’re almost always fascinating. And She’s Gotta Hold It (1986) is one of his boldest and best. It’s everything a debut film should be. This makes it all the more disappointing that the new Netflix reboot of the film is my least favorite thing he’s ever done (granted I haven’t seen Girl 6... does Spike Lee have a woman problem?? https://www.theroot.com/spikes-woman-problem-1790869653)
I’m hardly the most qualified person to write about this show’s misgivings. For a more extensive breakdown read this piece by Angelica Jade Bastién (http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/shes-gotta-have