Artigo Revisado por pares

Lost and … Found?: James Baldwin’s Script and Spike Lee’s Malcolm X

2013; Saint Louis University; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/afa.2013.0120

ISSN

1945-6182

Autores

D. Quentin Miller,

Tópico(s)

Music History and Culture

Resumo

This article examines the relationship between James Baldwin’s “scenario” One Day, When I Was Lost (1972) and Spike Lee’s 1992 film Malcolm X . Baldwin’s scenario formed the basis for a script that was doctored by a Hollywood collaborator named Arnold Perl, and Baldwin, frustrated by Perl’s essential changes to his vision, stormed away from the project. Lee’s film used the Baldwin/Perl script as its blueprint. This article argues that Lee’s version is at odds with the spirit of Baldwin’s, and suggests that students of various representations of Malcolm X should not overlook One Day, When I Was Lost .

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