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Summary: Great Messages For Any College Student
Review: The movie "School Daze" is as good in my opinion as many movies on "college life" that it transcends time and never becomes archiaic. actors Giancarlo Esposito,Lawrence Fishburne,Spike Lee and Tisha Campbell give talented performances as students and the best lessons were geared to the girls as when Tisha Campbell learns only too late that "she was being tested" as well by the rules of "eliteness":(don't assume that what's popular is considered protocol).The movie ends with the "ringing of the class bells" at sunrise bringing faculty and students out of their dorms "et al" as Lawrence Fishburne's charactor yells "Wake Up"(e.g alert your mentality to a bettr you via smarter actions).
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Summary: Great Messages For Any College Student
Review: The movie "School Daze" is as good in my opinion as many movies on "college life" that it transcends time and never becomes archiaic. actors Giancarlo Esposito,Lawrence Fishburne,Spike Lee and Tisha Campbell give talented performances as students and the best lessons were geared to the girls as when Tisha Campbell learns only too late that "she was being tested" as well by the rules of "eliteness":(don't assume that what's popular is considered protocol).The movie ends with the "ringing of the class bells" at sunrise bringing faculty and students out of their dorms "et al" as Lawrence Fishburne's charactor yells "Wake Up"(e.g alert your mentality to a bettr you via smarter actions).
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Summary: Entertaining!!
Review: This definitely was one of Spike's weaker joint's. Though it was refreshing to see entertaining musical numbers in his film. Once again, race is the topic. However he concentrates on black America's preoccupation with light and dark skin. At the end of the film, you're bound to get into a conversation about it. That's the one thing Spike wants, a deep conversation about what we can do to improve relations with each other.
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Summary: Entertaining!!
Review: This definitely was one of Spike's weaker joint's. Though it was refreshing to see entertaining musical numbers in his film. Once again, race is the topic. However he concentrates on black America's preoccupation with light and dark skin. At the end of the film, you're bound to get into a conversation about it. That's the one thing Spike wants, a deep conversation about what we can do to improve relations with each other.
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Summary: My favorite movie of all time.....
Review: This is my favorite movie of all time. I have seen it 100s of times. I saw it the first time about a year after it came out. I was about ten years old and I was mesmerized. I really loved all the singing and dancing. But when I got older, thats when I got the message of movie. Thats what makes this movie such as classic. The only thing I don't like about it is that I read the book about the making of School Daze and Spike cut out so many scenes that would have been good for the movie. It would have made some of the scenes easier to understand. I wished he would've put them on the DVD. But still, one of the greatest black films of all time.
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Summary: This movie was filmed on Spelman's and Morehouse's campuses
Review: This movie covers everything during the Black college experience.
This movie should even be good for anyone who did or didn't attend a HBC.
(Historically Black college or university).
In my opioion, this is one of Spike's best.
This movie also covers the taboos that Blacks have had to deal with for years.
Straight hair/nappy hear, Uncle Tom Black folks/back to Africa Black folks, etc.
It should really open the eyes for non-Blacks.
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Summary: One Corny Flick
Review: This was only Spike Lee's second movie, and he had a lot of growing up to do. Thankfully, he did grow up and made some good stuff like "Do The Right Thing", "Jungle Fever" and "Malcolm X". I thought that the movie tried to take itself too seriously (yes, I'm talking about that mess of an ending)and had numerous scenes that I felt were cheezy and unnecessary. What was up with the broadway acts? I felt that this movie had nothing to do with black colleges. There are a lot more to them than just stomp shows and ridiculous rivalries between frat parties that Spike could have featured if he wanted to make a movie about the Black college experience. But I did enjoy the debates between the Larry Fishburne and Esposito's characters. I felt that their arguments about how African Americans should represent their roots were thought provoking and valid. As far as watching anything that has something to do with Black colleges, the close as anyone is going to get for now are old reruns of "A Different World".
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Summary: If you don't get it...
Review: To the person who gave this movie five stars yet panned this film, this is a film parodying life at a fictional HBCU during its homecoming, with a focus on three groups on campus: "Da Fellas" and their women (the women are known in the "Straight and Nappy" musical bit as the Jiggaboos, a racist term for African-Americans, because the women refuse to relax their hair), the people who would rather urge Mission College to divest from South Africa because of discrimination at that time; Gamma Phi Gamma and the Gammites, men who claim to have true brotherhood but dish out abusive punishments and orders to "obtain" that brotherhood; and the Gamma Rays (also known as the Wannabes because most--note I did not say all--of these women are light-skinned African Americans that relax their hair and are apparently rich), women that are just mere sex objects and trophies to the Gammas. And no, Spike Lee does not play Urkel--otherwise, he'd be wearing suspenders and speaking in an annoying nasal voice. He plays one of the Gammites who just happens to be connected to Dap (Lawrence Fishburne), one of Da Fellas. Of course, during its time, several people didn't understand this film. For example, while "School Daze" was shooting, the then-president of Morehouse kicked Lee and his cast and crew off of the college (Lee's alma mater) for the portrayal of the Mission College school president in the movie, who is dark-skinned. "School Daze" is a parody focusing mainly on colorism (discrimination among African-Americans based on skin tone), such as the view that the lighter your skin is if you're black, the more doors open for you (which was true prior to intergration laws). I really do like this movie, especially the song sequences done by cast members ("Straight and Nappy," "Be Alone Tonight"). I really encourage people to see this film. Although I realize this movie is not considered to be as good as "Do the Right Thing" or "She's Gotta Have It," this movie does have a point, and most people, despite their race, can relate to the themes presented in this movie.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: Viewing this movie for the first time at age 10, I did not fully understand what the movie or what the words "Please Wake Up" meant. I thought it was just about dancing and music. As I got older I totally understood what it meant. I feel that we as a community do not embrace each other. Instead we constantly disrespect each other and judge with out knowing. It's really sad that things really have not changed that much. I am glad that Spike Lee brought it to the light what most thought was in the dark.
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Summary: New DVD Edition Sparkles
Review: When I first saw this movie, like most people, I couldn't really appreciate it. Years later, after my college days had swiftly passed, I recognize the movie's true genius. The new DVD edition is a must (make sure you're buying the right edition on Amazon), because it includes Spike Lee's commentary throughout the movie. Watching the movie with the commentary makes for a fascinating journey into filmmaking. Without spoiling it too much, Mr. Lee discusses everything from his contentious relations with the Morehouse administration to the relationships between cast and crew members. One insight he offered stuck with me. He said that he housed the crew members of the competing factions in separate hotels (the jigaboos got the worst hotel), so that they could stay true to their roles and to foster role competition. Apparently, it worked a little too well. I'll let you buy the DVD to find out why. In short, School Daze is a picture into a life that the large majority of us, of all backgrounds, will never get to experience directly. Its value is to take unfamiliar observers into one facet of the African-American experience and to do so with remarkable realism and insight.
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