Denzel Washington

The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro.” This quote shows integrity because King is responding to the challenges of his critics, and truly speaks about the struggles that black residents go through. During this time, they were waiting too long for the freedoms that they were

He attended the James Madison School and completed his high school in 2000. He wanted to take admission into the University of Texas but then made a decision to move to Los Angeles to chase his dreams and pursue a career in cinema. He had a very accomplished acting career that started at the age of twelve. He was also chosen for the Presidential Scholars Program in the year 2000. He bagged a minor role in the film, A Little Inside (1999). He embarked his career journey by doing the television series Gilmore Girls in the year 2000. He performed the role of Dean Forester in this TV show.

Kevin Smith has make the grueling trek from an unknown, extremely low-budget filmmaker to a well known and respected filmmaker thanks to the

Black people still call America their home, even though they are consistently discriminated against. Consistently hated on because of how they look like. Black people have been viewed as trouble, suspicious, no good, and will never be anything respectable (Goldberg 2). When young black children cannot be protected from this everyday, so they adapted to this way of life and was to never believe otherwise. Racism and discrimination limit not only black people, but everyone of color. People of color believe they will never be like a white man because of all the advantages a white man has. However, people like Benjamin Banneker, Kenneth Clark, and Toni Morrison are showing their skin color does not relate to their success or intelligence (Goldberg 3). These people are showing how even with all the injustice in America, they were still able to be successful. It is not about what the color of one’s skin is, it is about the mindset and perspective of each

“...some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women-

“Being the token Negro was something I was never entirely comfortable with. I was the only black kid in my fifth-grade class at P.S. 138 in the then all-white enclave of Rosedale, Queens.”

Tom Cruise is an extraordinary actor. Critics and films determine and prove that he is one of the best actors to make it in the business. Cruise not only was nominated for 80 awards, he has won 29, and 4 Golden Globe awards (Wikipedia). His life style, and acting wasn’t just handed to him it was earned and hard worked like anything Tom has achieved before.

In the description of Raoul Peck's excellent fact-filled story about an event "I Am Not Your Negro", Dick Cavett asks James Baldwin, "Why aren't black people more positive-thinking?" Black people have made great long steps. They're on films--they are even, he notes, on television commercials. Yes, there are still problems, he admits to, but should not these moments of progress be celebrated? The rest of the film is an extended, painful, carefully unstoppable analysis of why no celebration was, or is, soon going to happen.

The Film I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 Documentary that depicts the key events of the 20th Century African American History. This documentary was inspired by James Baldwin’s thirty-page unfinished manuscript. The manuscript was going to be his next project in which he called Remember This House. The manuscript was to be a personal explanation of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Unfortunately, in 1987 James Baldwin passed away leaving the unfinished manuscript to be forgotten, well that is what some thought. Now master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the manuscript James Baldwin never finished. The outcome is a fundamental examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original thoughts and materials to make the project possible. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of Black Lives Matter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Though this is the main thought of the documentary there are many key features that make this film much so about whiteness in American History and now.

“I Am Not Your Negro” displays the adversities that Black Americans face in American society.

He spoke for his society and fought for what he believed in, all while promoting positive messages and spreading love and peace. He was unique in the ways that he made significant contributions to both US history and culture; he brought new aspects of film to the table that had never been seen before and paved the way to the cinematic elements that we have today, while simultaneously leading and speaking for the people during troubling times in both the economy and foreign relations. For these reasons, his legacy is likely to live on forever in the hearts and minds of

“Racism is a bad thing, you find it everywhere in the schools, the clubs and also in the streets.”

When it comes to movies, many directors are good at their jobs. However, other directors are great in the art of film making. There is no doubt such statement is considered utterly subjective, but what would life be without subjectivity, for it is our differences that make us thrive against a monotonic existence. By the same token, Alfred Hitchcock and Christopher Nolan utilize their singularities to create films that for decades have impacted the movie making universe. In fact, it is their differences that provide us with a high contrast to compare and scrutinize their job and find what made them great at it.

“I was extra careful to pay attention to the other black boys sitting inside […] I studied their postures and their screwfaces, the unlaced purple and turquoise Filas on their feet, their mannerisms […] These boys would never be singled out and dissed the way I had been. I decided I wanted whatever it was that protected them”

It is hard to imagine a person who has not heard of Steven Spielberg. He is one of the most renown, if not the most renown, American filmmakers of the century. His films have captivated and helped develop imaginations of contemporary society and remain among the most successful films ever made.