There is no effective spokesman for what we might still hopefully describe as American ideals. Friday Filmmaker Spike Lee and actor Edward Norton talk about collaborating on '25th Hour,' in which Norton plays a drug dealer on his last night before his incarceration. And then the black laundry worker's big speech is not about ideas and feelings, but about sex and how much he misses it. The movie's right-wing ideas are clearly articulated by Derek in forceful rhetoric, but are never answered except in weak liberal mumbles (by a Jewish teacher played by Elliott Gould, among others). Interview with Spike Lee, director of film 25th Hour, and films star Edward Norton Lee comments on how films studio Disney agreed to make film only if Lee could get marquee star because many of. Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Spike Lee on the set of 25th Hour (2002). But there's a strange imbalance in the conversion process. Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton (Best Actor, 1999, American History X) heads an amazing all-star cast in the critically acclaimed Spike Lee (Summer of Sam, Do the Right Thing) film 25th Hour. Subtitles: None available Directors: Spike Lee Producers: Spike Lee, Jon Kilik, Tobey Maguire, Julia Chasman Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. He's assigned to the laundry, where his black co-worker ( Guy Torry, in a wonderful performance) gradually-well, begins to seem human to him. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. Fine, but is it that, or a crucial basketball game, that gets him into trouble? Not clear. With a swastika tattooed on his chest, he fits in at first with the white power faction, but is disillusioned to find that all the major groups in prison (black, Hispanics, white) have a working agreement that's too much cooperation for him. One crucially underdeveloped area is Derek's prison experience.
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Its underlying structure is too apparent, and there are scenes where we sense the movie hurrying to touch its bases. I kept hoping it would be more-that it would lift off and fly, as it might have with a director like Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee. In the immediacy of its moments, in the photography (by Kaye) that makes Venice look like a training ground for the apocalypse, and in the strength of the performances, “American History X” is a well-made film. At school, Danny is a good student, as Derek was before him both are taught by a black history teacher named Sweeney ( Avery Brooks), who supplies the moral center of the film. Meanwhile, young Danny and his friends (including a massive guy named Seth, played by Ethan Suplee) wreck a grocery run by immigrants. In prison, we learn, Derek underwent a slow transition from a white zealot to a loner-a brutal rape helped speed the process. The film, written by David McKenna and directed by Tony Kaye, uses black and white to show the recent past, and color to show the 24-hour period after Derek is released from prison. Indeed the race hatred of the skinheads is mirrored (with different words and haircuts) by the other local ethnic groups.
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