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Read some of the screenplay. Will finish likely tomorrow. Never watched the movie So I love the opportunity to read this before I do.

I guess in the 90s, you could just talk about all the films you hated. Before you guys gun for Quentin's Throat about Paul Dano, read this lol. Anyways, finished up to the part where the screenplay starts. Spike does a great job at showcasing how much of a bitch studios are to work with. They simply just do not give a fuck about you or art in general. As he calls Warner Bros. In the book "The Plantation".

The entire screenplay starts on this page.

This page is the end of the text of the book. The rest is photos and the entire screenplay.

SPIKE LEE ends with this “I want to and will continue to make films for the rest of my life. I've been blessed. I'm doing what makes me the happiest. Nothing in this world gives me the feeling I get from cinema.”

We have come to PART FIVE: Revelations. The last part of the book where SPIKE shares his thoughts.

We’re to the person in charge of the all-important and edit of the film BARRY ALEXANDER BROWN.

We’re at PART FOUR.

JANUARY 1992. The all important and now infamous POST PRODUCTION phase. As the book dictates BUDGET BATTLES were a factor since day one, but reaches all new heights here.

Talking about filming in CAIRO, EGYPT

SPIKE starts to talk about his supporting cast. This film was the first time I’d seen many of them and they were outstanding.

This page SPIKE LEE starts detailing the actual shoot! They started shooting SEPTEMBER 1, 1991. The film was released slightly over a year later NOVEMBER 18, 1992.

This section is with Academy Award®️ Winner RUTH E. CARTER decades before she won her first Oscar. She was one of only two nominations for this film. The nominations for the 65th Academy Awards: Best Actor for Denzel Washington and Best Costume Design for Ruth E. Carter. She finally won an Oscar in in 2019 for Best Costume Design for ‘Black Panther’, making history as the first Black person to win that award.

Production Designer WYNN THOMAS

I read this book before Film School 👨🏽‍🎓 so I didn’t know the “perniciousness” of line producing 🫠so now I’m very interested to re-read this section with Line Producer JON KILIK.

SPIKE has finished his interviews and is now talking about what he learned.

SPIKE is still interviewing people who knew MALCOLM. His tenacity here is terrific. He REALLY took this seriously.

Spike is interviewing people who knew MALCOLM X.

This page starts the section with MONTY ROSS. He is the co-founder of “40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks” alongside SPIKE LEE and has produced the 40 Acres films including of course ‘Malcolm X’ (1992).

PART 1: THE WELLSPRING

I’m re-reading a SCANNED version of this book. I’ll try to “guesstimate” where I am, but I’ll list the chapters!