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...it gets better. Spike gave everything to this project creatively. You could tell because I think it took all of his energy. He went through a whole lot just to get the film made. It took him a while to recover and you could see it in his films right after Malcolm X (Crooklyn, Clockers, Girl 6).
Reading the autobiography is a must. Its funny, it eye-opening, its a lot of stuff in there that you don't here about or see in a lot of research about Malcolm. You really get into the depths of Malcolm in the book. 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.