Spike Lee's film is loosely based on Ron Stallworth's 2014 memoir of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan as the first Black detective in Colorado Springs.
Film· 2018· Crime
BlacKkKlansman
by Spike Lee
BlacKkKlansman: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced BlacKkKlansman
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Spike Lee opens the film with Gone with the Wind's shot of Scarlett among the wounded at Atlanta and the Confederate flag, then cuts to a segregationist propaganda reel: the film quotes it to argue with it.
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History
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- Ron Stallworth's infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan
Spike Lee's film is based on Ron Stallworth, the first Black detective in Colorado Springs, who infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan in 1978.