Messages in Spike Lee's 'Jungle Fever' - Los Angeles Times.
Spike Lee BY NattY126 The interior meaning of Directors Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing is centered around shedding a light on the injustices that were happenning in black communities, specifically Brooklyn in the 1980’s. Like many of Lee’s films he also incorporated political and social aspects as well.
It's when Spike Lee's Jungle Fever opened. Various characters in the movie also float the theory that dating white or light-skinned Black women is a status symbol of sorts for African-American.
Samuel L. Jackson had just undergone treatment for drug addiction, and had only two weeks from his discharge from rehab to the start of filming. Jackson has gone on record as saying that Gator's ravaged look was not make-up, but actually the result of Jackson's own detoxification.
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Jungle Fever lets its audience know that despite how far racism has come from where it was, there is still a big hurdle to be jumped. Even in today’s society though it is getting easier, the movie reveals that it would be a challenge to maintain a relationship between an African American and a Caucasian.
F rom the opening credits of Spike Lee’s seminal film, She’s Gotta Have It, viewers in 1986 were able to recognize the presence of an extraordinary talent. For it was Lee, a graduate of the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (which also produced Down by Law director Jim Jarmusch), who brought black cinema back to the forefront of American consciousness, simultaneously.
The cast of Jungle Fever is racially integrated, but there's so little holding the diverse elements of the movie together that Lee could have called it Jumble Fever. Own a piece of history!