DTRT Flashcards
(13 cards)
Who said this about the movie?
“One of the best-directed, best-made movies of our time”
Roster Ebert
Which feminist criticised DTRT
Bell hooks
Why was the name of the company (which spike Lee made) called “40 acres and a mule”?
It was a reference to slavery and how black slaves were promised 40 acres of land and a mule after they stopped slavery but this never happened.
What was Brooklyn like at the time of its making?
New York was ethnically diverse and a poor area.
What did the Stuyvesant family make and why is it significant.
They owned a cigarette brand. And they used enslaved people to take care of the tobacco for the cigarettes
Who were some inspirational figures mentioned in the movie?
Malcolm X and martin Luther king (MLK)
Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan too.
The gays code before this movie didn’t like seeing what involving black people?
They didn’t like seeing multiracial relationships (kissing etc)
In she’s gotta have it (one of Spike Lees other films) what were the statistics?
The budget was $175,000
The box office was $7.1 million.
Lighter black people were seen as
Better and were more respected than darker black peoples and the same goes for people who were mixed half white and half black.
What was the standard at the time for the amount of money spent on movies?
$18 million
The movie Malcolm X after DTRT’s budget was…. And in the box office was… why was this?
$33 million
$45 million
This was due to a lack of advertisement.
What was blaxploitation?
It was producers trying to target more of a black audience (often the movies are made by black independent producers)
The term “boy” is a very demeaning word for
Black people. Due to the fact white slave owners would refer to grown black men as a “boy”
