Second movie for Spike Lee, and new success. The young director to pick up here and there: film comedy, musical comedy, teen movie, drama ...
Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) is organizing demonstrations to request the withdrawal of funds from South Africa Mission College, his unviersité. But it's not just activists in Mission, there are the fraternities and especially Gamma Phi Gamma and their female counterpart, the Gamma Rays, headed respectively by Julian Eaves and Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell & Giancarlo Esposito). The militants, darker skin, the nickname the "wannabes " and are treated in return " jigaboos . 
But to make things worse, Dap's girlfriend Rachel (Kyme), wants to integrate a fraternity and his female cousin, Half-Pint (Spike Lee) his sworn enemies of the G-Phi-G. And claims and protests are beginning to worry the government ... 
The scenario comes from personal experience of Lee, when he studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta mythical. In the film, many directors of black universities were indignant at the image conveyed by the film. And we must say that the picture presented is far from brilliant, especially as regards the fraternities 'Greek' presented at an angle much less than engaging. 
reports of class and gender are undone by racial prism, and in particular the degree of pigmentation of the students. Does it denounces Spike Lee made a statement of the situation, nothing is easy and Manichean. When the connection is serious, Lee does not impose a point of view, it offers several. Of course, as in Do the Right Thing , he shows his preference (embodied in the character of Laurence Fishburne and not itself subject to more controversy), but while leaving the viewer to choose, in accordance with its achieving each of its actors. 
The achievement is just sublime. Everything seems to graph the different atmospheres for each skit, the sex scenes are suggestive, some on the edge of slapstick, those musicals are particularly successful (Like the one I can not resist to share with you below). Lee even manages the performance of a sequence of the film without ever football game itself. In short, we feel this film emerge in the talents of staging the "black Woody Allen." In addition, the epic film. Lee has installed two different teams in hotels, those who embodied the " wannabes" had rights to the best seats and salaries, as opposed to " jigaboos . The result reinforces the realism in a scene, a fight broke out between the two teams actually Lee leaves turn and the cameras ...
Spike Lee is gradually established a network of actors and technicians: Bill Nunn, Samuel L. Jackson, Roger Guenveur Smith, Giancarlo Esposito, Joie Lee and his sister, his brother Cinque, Ossie Davis, Art Evans, Tyra Ferrell, producer Monty Ross and C. Loreth Jones, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson Roscoe, casting director Robi Reed, the costume designer Ruth E. Carter, editor Barry Alexander Brown, artistic director Wynn Thomas ... Level casting, we must also mention Kadeem Hardison, Kasi Lemmons who became director of the excellent between Eve's Bayou and Talk To Me, the beautiful
Tisha Campbell to prevail in many African-American productions, Joe Seneca, Alva Rogers and of course the main actor Laurence Fishburne, which began in 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me , is now a key player and known for her roles of Ike Tina Turner , the protective father in Boyz N the Hood , the legendary gangster Bumpy Johnson Hoodlum and Morpheus in the Matrix trilogy . 
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