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BlacKkKlansman : Kwame Ture Speech

Civil Rights leader Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins) recites a speech at a local rally hosted by the Black Student Union. Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) attends, going in undercover on behalf of the police as Philip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) and Jimmy Creek (Michael Buscemi) listen in. Ture speaks on the need to embrace Blackness and Black beauty, police brutality, opposition to the Vietnam war, and the fight for racial equality.

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act 1 (three-act structure) , asynchronous sound, backlighting, character, close-up, crosscutting, cutaway, dialogue, diegetic sound, editing, eyeline match, full shot, insert, interior, jump cut, key light, lighting, long take, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mise-en-scene, monologue, pan, performance, plot, restricted narration, scene, sequence, shallow focus, side lighting, stylized acting, synchronous sound, tilt, zoom-in, zoom-out

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"Kwame Ture Speech" in BlacKkKlansman. Directed by Spike Lee, Blumhouse Productions, 2018, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2353

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Mahlet Tedla

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