Bamboozled

This movie is a big eye opener. At first I did not know what to think of the film, but once I figured out the message that the director was trying to prove to the audience I understood it a lot better. The follow up question helped me give my opinion a little better, but I will still say what I think. The audience of this film was not only the white culture, but the black culture as well. I will start with the black culture. African-American culture, like white, and even Hispanic culture, have stereotypes. Some African- Americans took this film offensively, which I do not blame them, but I think it also opened the eyes to the African-Americans who do follow along with the stereotypes. No one says that the black culture has to be bullies like the gangsters we saw in the movie, and no body says that the African-American culture has to sit on the porch and play music with shackles on. These are some of the stereotypes that I think Spike Lee was trying to give to the audience. Spike Lee wanted to inspire the African-American culture to step out of there comfort zone and be who they can be.
As for the white audience, I think it did the same for them. They got to see that the black culture has many stereotypes by exaggerating many points during the film. An example of this exaggeration would be the make-up the actors were during the minstrel show.