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Synopsis: Malcolm X is a 1992 American biographical drama film about the Afro-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, as well as Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo. Lee has a supporting role as Shorty, a character based partially on real-life acquaintance Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, a fellow criminal and jazz saxophonist. Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and future South Africa president Nelson Mandela have cameo appearances. This is the second of four film collaborations between Washington and Lee.
Production: Warner Bros.
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
1992
202 min
1,750 Views


TWO-SHOT. They are dancing closer than before. Sophia begins

to rock his black world.

CLOSE - MALCOLM

Trying to play it cool -- but he is beginning to pant. Not

from the dancing, but from the situation: a gorgeous white

chick asking for it.

SOPHIA:

Why don't you take your little girl

home, Red, and come on back?

He stops in his tracks. He can't believe it.

SOPHIA:

Just walk. Don't run. It'll be here

when you get back.

He can only grin.

EXT. LAURA'S HOUSE - ROXBURY - NIGHT

The porch of a respectable house. Malcolm with Laura; he

anxious to get away.

MALCOLM:

I better not come in.

LAURA:

I ain't stupid.

MALCOLM:

I mean it's late, baby.

LAURA:

I know where you're going.

MALCOLM:

I'm going to bed. I gotta work

tomorrow, need my rest.

Laura walks to the door.

MALCOLM:

Baby, I'll call you tomorrow.

LAURA:

What for? I ain't white and I don't

put out.

The front door opens, it's Laura's grandmother, MRS. JOHNSON.

MALCOLM:

'Night, Mrs. Johnson.

He runs down the porch steps.

INT. SOPHIA'S CAR - NIGHT

The lone light emits from the car radio which plays The

Inkspots' "IF I DIDN'T CARE."

ANGLE - SOPHIA

Sophia pulls her tight sweater over her head to expose two

full ripe white breasts. Malcolm's eyes are popping out of

his head. NOTE:
It's very unusual for women not to wear a

bra back in that day but you might say Sophia was way ahead

of her time.

SOPHIA:

Malcolm, look at them. Have you ever

seen white breasts like these?

CLOSE - MALCOLM

He shakes his head.

SOPHIA:

Put your black hands on them.

He is paralyzed.

SOPHIA:

Please do as I say.

Malcolm mumbles something. He then kisses Sophia as if his

black life depended on it and he commences to kill it.

SOPHIA:

Hey, baby.

She stops him for a moment, but he buries his head in her

long neck.

SOPHIA:

Am I the first white woman you've

been with?

She already knows the answer. He laughs.

MALCOLM:

Sheeet, you ain't. I had aplenty.

SOPHIA:

...That isn't a whore?

Knowing she's right, Sophia becomes the aggressor.

A beat -- both panting -- then Malcolm stops abruptly. He

raises his hand to his face, then to Sophia's hand which is

still caressing him.

SOPHIA:

That's alright. Baby, take your time.

Sophia's not going anywhere. I told

you to walk, don't run.

MALCOLM:

Shhhh! I don't like women that talk.

CLOSE - SOPHIA

She shrugs, then moves to embrace him.

SOPHIA:

Who wants to talk?

The couple starts at it again.

INT. MOVIE THEATRE - DAY

On the screen, Bogart and Cagney are blasting away the dirty,

flat-footed coppers with machine guns. It's one of those

great Warner Brothers gangster B movies, maybe The Roaring

Twenties.

ANGLE - MALCOLM AND SHORTY

Malcolm and Shorty sit, transfixed in their seats.

MALCOLM:

Don't you know, you can't hump the

Bogart.

SHORTY:

Eat lead, coppers.

EXT. BOSTON COMMONS - DAY

A bright, sunny day, long shadows in the park. The Commons

is almost empty. Two improbable zoot-suited blacks race past

trees, and run over the grass. Malcolm and Shorty are playing

Cops and Robbers while PASSERSBY stare.

SHORTY:

Bang, bang. You're dead.

MALCOLM:

Naw, you missed me, copper. Try this

on for size.

Malcolm fires an imaginary tommy machine gun at Shorty.

SHORTY:

I forgot to tell you I'm wearing a

bulletproof vest.

MALCOLM:

The hell you are.

SHORTY:

I'm tired of always playing the cops.

I wanna be Bogart sometimes.

MALCOLM:

You're too small to be Bogart.

SHORTY:

I'm not too short to be Cagney.

Shorty shoots Malcolm from behind.

SHORTY:

Pow. Take that.

Malcolm acts as if he's been hit.

MALCOLM:

Ahhh! You got me, you dirty, filthy,

rotten, stinking copper, only a low-

down yellow rat bastard would shoot

a man in the back.

Malcolm starts to stagger, this is a long drawn out Hollywood

drawn-out death a la Cagney death in Public Enemy.

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