>BTW I quoted you in #11. :D
>
>>The movie is based
>>on the book,but the some of the characters are fictional in
>>the movie (like Baines) and some of the story is changed
>that
>>differ from the book.
>
>Yeah but I see some of those characters (like Baines) as
>composites. Spike Lee had a lot of pressure on him and
>threats from Farakkhan forced him to be more creative.
>


Oh yeah, I got no problems with it. I don't know about the Farrakhan thing, though. I remember reading in an interview where the Farrakhan issue was brought up. Spike was like and I'm paraphrasing "he (Farrakhan) knows not to f*ck with me". Meaning, Farrakhan had little bearing on what he decided to put in the film.

I think the Baines character was great and was a collective symbol of what the Nation had represented in Malcom's beginning and right when he was about to leave the NOI. It was great.