This is the seventh part of an eight-part series about difficult movies. 

Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 focused on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 4 focused on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 focused on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 6 focused on Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules”.

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Referenced media:

• “Network” (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
• “Da 5 Bloods” (Spike Lee, 2020)
• “Pulp Fiction” (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
• “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• “Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk” (George C. Wolfe, 1995 Off Broadway, 1996-1999 Broadway)
• “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)
• “Bring It On” (Peyton Reed, 2000)
• “Almost Famous” (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
• “Best in Show” (Christopher Guest, 2000)
• “Girlfight” (Karyn Kusama, 2000)
• “Remember the Titans” (Boaz Yakin, 2000)
• “Dancer in the Dark” (Lars von Trier, 2000)
• “Animal Factory” (Steve Buscemi, 2000)
• “Billy Elliot” (Stephen Daldry, 2000)
• “Requiem for a Dream” (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
• “Unbreakable” (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
• “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989)
• “BlacKkKlansman” (Spike Lee, 2019)
• “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” (Walt Disney, 1961-1969)

 Audio quotation:

• “Bamboozled” (Spike Lee, 2000), including the songs "Blak Iz Blak" by the Mau Maus (Mos Def, Canibus, MC Serch, Charli Baltimore, Mums, Gano Grills and DJ Scratch), “Shadowlands” by Bruce Hornsby, “Misrepresented People” by Stevie Wonder, and “Strength, Courage and Wisdom” by India.Arie
• “Network” (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
• “Pulp Fiction” (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
• “Unbreakable” (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
• “(Up A) Lazy River” (featuring Louis Armstrong) written by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin (1930), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7cVSEfqPw