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BlacKkKlansman : Lynching of Jesse Washington Story x Klan Induction Ceremony

Jerome Turner (Harry Belafonte) recounts the lynching of Jesse Washington at a Civil Rights rally as it is cross cut with Philip Zimmerman's (Adam Driver) - posing as a white version of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) - induction into the KKK. Turner describes in detail the murder and we go back and forth between this and David Duke's (Topher Grace) white nationalist speech. All the while, Stallworth is watching the induction ceremony happen from a window.

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act 3 (three-act structure), asynchronous sound, backlighting, blackface, brightness, canted frame, character, close-up, crosscutting, cutaway, dialogue, dialogue underscoring , editing, eyeline match, full shot, handheld camera, high angle, hue, interior, jump cut, lighting, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mise-en-scene, monologue, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, pan, plot, rack focus, restricted narration, scene, shallow focus, side lighting, soft lighting, synchronous sound, tracking shot, two-shot, zoom-in, zoom-out

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"Lynching of Jesse Washington Story x Klan Induction Ceremony" in BlacKkKlansman. Directed by Spike Lee, Blumhouse Productions, 2018, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2354

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