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BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth.
Jan 23, 2019 · Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlnasman’ is a delightfully twisted enigma. A black police officer, the first in the vicinity, reads an advertisement by the Ku Klux Klan, the KKK, and calls to have a conversation. Unintentionally, he reveals his true identity and sets up a meeting.
Aug 10, 2018 · BlacKkKlansman is, unbelievably, based on a true story, but how much of Spike Lee's tale of a black detective who infiltrated the KKK over the phone and had a white officer play him in person actually happened? In short, a surprisingly large amount.
- Alex Leadbeater
- Content Director
BlacKkKlansman. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Spike Lee
- 2018-08-10
May 16, 2018 · Spike Lee’s latest film tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer, who along with his Jewish colleague, managed to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
Aug 10, 2018 · Just for fun, Zimmerman learns how to mimic Stallworth’s “White voice” by reciting lyrics by America’s true poet of Soul, James Brown. With this undercover case, “BlacKkKlansman” becomes the story of two people engaged in the same bout of passing as a racist White person.
Synopsis. In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is hired as the first African American officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his coworkers.
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