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36. "Boots Riley is not a fan"
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While I enjoyed the hell out of the movie, to read this does disappoint me a bit. Thoughts?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/boots-riley-slams-blackkklansman-as-made-up-story-softening-realities-police-brutality-1135797

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Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley is taking aim at BlacKkKlansman as it enters its second weekend at the box office and calling Spike Lee's latest film a "made up story" that softens the reality of police brutality and police shootings of black Americans.

In a three-page essay attached to a tweet on Friday, Riley laid out his argument against the film. His thesis, written a quarter of the way into the story, posits that the movie is "a made up story in which the false parts of it to try to make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression. It's being put while Black Lives Matter is a discussion, and this is not coincidental. There is a viewpoint behind it."

Lee's movie, which released last weekend, is based on real-life policeman Ron Stallworth's 2014 memoir Black Klansman. The film follows the Colorado Springs detective (played by John David Washington) as he infiltrates a local division of the Ku Klux Klan, first by speaking to members over the phone and subsequently by instructing a white colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to act in his stead in in-person meetings with the Klan.

In its first weekend, Lee's film grossed $10.8 million at the box office, which was "a solid start for a specialty film launching in summer versus during awards season," The Hollywood Reporter's Pamela McClintock wrote.

Riley argued the film included "fabricated" story points because the real-life Stallworth infiltrated a black radical group for three years instead of briefly, as the film appeared to portray. There, Riley says, "he did what all papers from the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (Cointelpro) that were found through the freedom of information act tell us he did- sabatoge a Black radical organization whose intent had to do with at the very least fighting racist oppression."

Riley also takes issue with a bombing scene in the film, the Flip Zimmerman character's Jewish heritage, a scene of a cop expressing racist views at a bar and a scene involving Civil Rights organizer Kwame Ture, among other points.

Riley added that black Americans face "actual physical attacks and terrorizing due to racism and racist doctrines" mostly from the police on a day-to-day basis. "So for Spike Lee to come to come out with a movie where a story points are fabricated in order to make Black cop and his counterparts look like allies in the fight against racism is very disappointing, to put it very mildly," he wrote.

Riley ended the piece with a reference to recent reports that Lee was paid $200,000 in 2016 to work with the NYPD on an ad campaign that attempted to improve relations with minority communities in the city. "Whether it actually is or not, BlacKkKlansman feels like an extension of that ad campaign," Riley wrote.

Riley's film, Sorry to Bother You, is entering its seventh weekend in theaters.

Lee declined to comment on Riley's essay.

Read Riley's full essay below.

(can't copy/paste essay because it's just a screenshot of text smh)

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'Black Klansman' (2018, Spike Lee directing, Jordan Peele producing) [View all] , Castro, Mon May-14-18 04:13 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
actually looks good.
May 14th 2018
1
Man he sounds just like his daddy.
May 14th 2018
2
i remember in ballers he had a monologue
May 14th 2018
3
Looks good. I have high hopes.
May 15th 2018
4
Spike's back! 10 minutes? 10 minutes!
May 15th 2018
5
I'm interested
May 15th 2018
6
I'm there
May 15th 2018
7
Making history, y'all silent. For why?
May 20th 2018
8
Da whyteman gave us a trophy, OE! We made it!!!
May 20th 2018
9
You gonna chime in with some thoughts on the movie, chief?
Aug 19th 2018
40
Best Spike movie in a very, very long time. (no spoilers)
Aug 02nd 2018
10
Everything you just said = TRUTH
Aug 11th 2018
29
RogerEbert.com gave it 4 Stars
Aug 08th 2018
11
My boy who is a good critic by my standards said it's fire
Aug 08th 2018
12
Oh wow. Look. PTP hates Black movies.
Aug 08th 2018
13
if you posted more about Blk movies, I could accept you doing this.
Aug 09th 2018
14
if it's any consolation, i'm certain it's just a running gag.
Aug 09th 2018
15
i was assuming he's making fun of orbit_established
Aug 09th 2018
16
I mean, dude only needs to look up a couple posts.
Aug 09th 2018
17
Its lame af. And when OE doesn't it, I tell him the same.
Aug 09th 2018
18
      LMAO you missed the point of the post that explained how you missed the ...
Aug 19th 2018
38
^PTP hates posts about how PTP hates Black movies!^
Aug 11th 2018
28
huh? everyone in this post has a positive remark about the movie
Aug 10th 2018
20
i have to let this sit
Aug 10th 2018
19
You don’t know why you’re upset after watching THAT movie?
Aug 10th 2018
21
Holy shit. Hooooooooly shit
Aug 10th 2018
22
spoiler question
Aug 11th 2018
23
RE: spoiler question
Aug 11th 2018
24
      whoa I didn't even catch that
Aug 11th 2018
25
      Im hoping Im right because..
Aug 11th 2018
26
           *eyes wide*
Aug 13th 2018
32
           I couldn't make out who it was
Aug 14th 2018
33
           it wasn't Adam Driver's character
Aug 14th 2018
34
           I think we're just supposed to ask ourselves it if could be him
Aug 19th 2018
41
                i figured it was the chief or the fired cop. not adam driver.
Aug 24th 2018
60
      took me a while to digest that
Aug 11th 2018
27
It's exceptional. Top 5 Spike, which is *really* saying something.
Aug 11th 2018
30
It's a decent comeback
Aug 13th 2018
31
I'm glad they did it
Aug 19th 2018
42
Excited for Spike.
Aug 14th 2018
35
I read this yesterday
Aug 20th 2018
43
I'm a bit confused.
Aug 20th 2018
45
I think Boots meant that, whether he was part of the COINTELPRO
Aug 20th 2018
47
hate to see us tear each other down but these are legit criticisms.
Aug 20th 2018
48
To be fair
Aug 20th 2018
49
no they arent.. its still a story and not fact truth documentary
Aug 20th 2018
51
I don't think Spike is trying to suggest most of those things, tbh.
Aug 20th 2018
50
      I think it both is and isn't a "pro-cop" issue
Aug 21st 2018
52
Excellent and stirring and entertaining
Aug 19th 2018
37
The Kwame Ture speech scene was incredible
Aug 19th 2018
39
This was middle of the road to me.
Aug 20th 2018
44
I mean, you're obviously entitled to your opinion
Aug 20th 2018
46
does he like spinach or collard greens tho
Aug 22nd 2018
54
My sister had some of the same criticisms.
Aug 24th 2018
61
didnt care for it... not even in his top 10 flicks
Aug 21st 2018
53
That's fair...but what are the 10 better?
Aug 22nd 2018
55
I'd probably slot it in at #9...
Aug 22nd 2018
56
      I would add Crooklyn, School Daze and Bamboozled
Aug 22nd 2018
57
           and Jungle Fever
Aug 22nd 2018
58
                Spike's had a hell of a career...
Aug 23rd 2018
59
I liked the movie
Aug 24th 2018
62
I think this is a movie that made for a good experience...
Aug 24th 2018
63
Wow. One of the worst final acts of a film in recent memory
Jan 01st 2020
64
BINGO!!!!
Jan 02nd 2020
65

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