Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his coworkers. Stallworth requests a transfer to go undercover, and is assigned to infiltrate a local rally at which national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (birth name Stokely Carmichael) is to give a speech. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, the president of the black student union at Colorado College. While taking Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a corrupt, racist officer in Stallworth's precinct, who threatens Ture and sexually assaults Patrice..
Director Spike Lee and his writers moved the story back seven years from when it actually took place in 1978 to 1979. This allowed the film to reference both the then trendy blaxploitation movies and the re-election campaign, supposedly supported by the Klan, of President Richard Nixon. See more »
Goofs
The newspaper Ron is reading has six columns, but newspapers of that time period had eight columns and were larger than those published today. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard:
Hello, my fellow Americans. They say we may have lost the battle but we didn't lose the war. Yes, my friends, we are under attack. You may have read about this in your local newspapers or seen it on the evening news. That's right. We are living in an era marked by the spread of integration and miscegenation. The Brown decision. The Brown decision, forced upon us by the Jewish-controlled puppets on the U.S. Supreme Court, compelling white children to go to school with an inferior ...
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In the 70´s, in Colorado Springs, the quirky Afro-American Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) joins the police department and is assigned to work in the records room. Soon he offers to work undercover in the Narcotics, but his chief assigns him to infiltrate in a black movement led by Stokely Carmichael (Corey Hawkins) instead, where he meets the leader of the students Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier). When he sees a Ku Klux Klan advertisement in the newspaper, Ron contacts the organization and is invited to join it. He convinces his chief to let the Jewish detective Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to go to the meeting posing of Ron Stallworth and they both investigate the organization.
"BlacKkKlansman" is a great film based on true events in the biographic book by Ron Stallworth, who was the first black police officer in Colorado Springs. The screenplay is engaging with tension and humor in right doses and the performances are top-notch. The footages in the end of the film are impressive. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Infiltrado na Klan" ("Infiltrated in the Klan")
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In the 70´s, in Colorado Springs, the quirky Afro-American Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) joins the police department and is assigned to work in the records room. Soon he offers to work undercover in the Narcotics, but his chief assigns him to infiltrate in a black movement led by Stokely Carmichael (Corey Hawkins) instead, where he meets the leader of the students Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier). When he sees a Ku Klux Klan advertisement in the newspaper, Ron contacts the organization and is invited to join it. He convinces his chief to let the Jewish detective Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to go to the meeting posing of Ron Stallworth and they both investigate the organization.
"BlacKkKlansman" is a great film based on true events in the biographic book by Ron Stallworth, who was the first black police officer in Colorado Springs. The screenplay is engaging with tension and humor in right doses and the performances are top-notch. The footages in the end of the film are impressive. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Infiltrado na Klan" ("Infiltrated in the Klan")