Spike Lee vs. Stanley Kubrick

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spike at his best is a legit great filmmaker. i would love to see him do more studio fare, cause i think sometimes working in that discipline can erase some annoying quirks when left to ya own devices. like i hate the jazz scores in his movies, they over bearing as hell. shyt ruined clockers for me. should have been allowed to do inside man part 2 but whatever. and spike lee is gonna go down in history, black and white, as a legend in his own right. and again, do the right thing is a perfect black movie, or just a perfect movie period. everything we talk about in terms of identity, politics, how to portray black lives on screen, he perfected it in that film. in many ways its like nas couldnt repeat the greatness of illmatic, and spike couldnt repeat the greatness of do the right thing.
No doubt. He's an HISTORIC black artist, he's up there with those Harlem Renaissance cats, he's up there with all those blues greats, *just* off the strength of Do The Right Thing alone. He made the first truly groundbreaking black film, so he'll always have my respect.
 
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