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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
That was part of my critique for my Spike Lee film class. I don't understand why Spike did it as his family was huge in his conversion to Islam, and his aunt paid for his Hajj (pilgrimage) and his mentor was completely made up. With the amount of problems that family had I felt it took away from the strength of a broken family reuniting under a new religion.
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Didn't his family really oppose the movie in general? I thought Spike did it to avoid getting sued for misrepresentation. But I may have made that up. I know he did say he wanted to emphasize how Malcolm was let down by every strong male figure (his dad, West Indian Archie, Baines, Elijah Muhammed) in his life.
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