Analysis Of The Movie Bamboozled

Bamboozled: Summarized and Analysed
The story of the film goes like this: Pierre Delacroix, played by veteran Damon Wayans, is followed in the Movie Bamboozled. He is a graduate from Harvard working in a major TV Network as an executive. The network is going through difficult phase and badly needs a hit. Delacroix’s white boss Mr. Dunwitty, played by Michael Rapaport, pulls him aside at one occasion and makes him feel how Delacroix is a lesser and inferior black who does not match the popular image of black culture. His boss boasts his level of engagement with black community to further make his point, “my wife is black and I have two interracial children, makes me much blacker than you.” Delacroix is also criticized for his work being trash

Lee later pointed out that the character playing Sleep'n'Eat actually cried 'real tears' while the blackface application was into its final touches. What is interesting is his assumption of the negro as dumb man on stage despite his backstage humiliation and disgust shown through his face, while less complex Man Tan is cheerful and quite involved into his bit as opposed to Sleep’n’Eat. A whole set of emotional dynamics are conveyed in the movie in that heavily edited scene. Viewers are educated on the crushing mental impact of accepting a role given to African-American actors by their bosses which in actuality belittles

Lee has knowingly depicted the issue in over-the-top method, which is profiled in itself from two angles at least. In the first instance, De La’s willingness in the minstrel is a portrayal of the reality of aggressor’s internalization where blacks are compelled to bear with the devastation. Two dancers, Sleep’n’Eat and Man Tan, graphically depict this phenomenon in their reactions. This is the reminder of concentration camps where kapo to police roles were assigned to Jewish inmates to keep an eye on their companions bearing the brunt with them. In the second instance, Mau Maus, who enact Man Tan on TV, showed the unwillingness to compliance of African-Americans in the subjugation by whites. In many ways, this is the depiction of the conformity of blacks as criminal-minded, violence-prone, and full of aggression.8 Bamboozled received mixed critical reaction. The movie was associated together with that which actually this movie taking the shots at by some commentators. A veteran African-American movie critic Armand White, for instance, remarked that the movie is an embodiment of professional and social ascension, demonstrating contradiction and personal weakness. Career morals and showbiz depiction both issues are confused through his inner incapacity and inconsistency, films of Spike Lee obstruct and aggravate rather than shed light on (White, 2001, p.