Malcolm X: Western Religion

Kivene Dixon

Florida Institute of Technology

August 21, 2014

Western Religion

Spike Lee

Malcolm X

The film that I will be discussing is called Malcolm X. It is also a very moving, touching, and scholastic film. It can be described as one of the best featured film memoires that was directed by Spike Lee. It has to deal with the all-inclusive sweep of an American existence that arose in distress and ended up out into the streets and in penitentiary before the situation of a brave man who became a hero redeveloped himself.

The star of the movie was born with the name Malcolm Little. He was born to a man who was a minister; in fact, his father addressed the philosophies of Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey was a born Jamaican political

His mother suffered in poverty which led her not being able in taking care of her kids; however, Malcolm was forced to be in a foster home.

When Malcolm attended school; in fact, he was the smartest scholar in all of his classes. His white teachers drove him away from aspiring professions; in fact, his teachers told him that he was not good and up to par of being any good in life. As stated by rogerebert.com website, “as a Black man, he should look into a profession where he could perform labor with his hands.” Malcolm’s first jobs he had was a Pullman porter. Later on when he lived in Harlem; however, he performed a numerous of jobs as a runner and a gangster.

Malcolm Little was known as Detroit Red for the duration of the late 1940s when he went through the gangster stage in his time of living while running with a fast mob of corrupted people who joined him in performing a numerous of crimes. He was later arrested and sentenced to prison. While in prison; however, Malcolm join the loop of the Black Muslim crusade of Elijah Muhammad who was played by Al Freeman Jr. which later taught Malcolm to respect his self as shown in the

He included a larger-than-life contextual of sceneries along with great subsidiary characters. Ernest Dickerson who was the cinematographer worked along with Spike Lee. They worked together to paint a great picture of Malcolm X’s life. The two started out with his early life in Harlem then led to his life in prison; in addition, also his life as a great public figure. Spike Lee and Ernest Dickerson did a great job painting a great image in the viewer’s mind when it came to his death. They both showed according to the film and rogerebert.com, “in the mid 1960’s; however, the liberal orthodoxy communicated that racism in America may possibly be treated by legislation, and by some means the hope in words and gospel will without doubt come true; however, Malcolm X questioned it would be