The Answer

Name: The Answer
Genre: Short
Rating: 4.1
Cast: Ernest Rayford

1980

IMDb RATING

4.1/10

210

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Short

A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of "The Birth of a Nation."A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of "The Birth of a Nation."A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of "The Birth of a Nation."

Director
- Spike Lee
Star
- Ernest Rayford

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IMDb RATING

4.1/10

210

YOUR RATING

Director
- Spike Lee
Star
- Ernest Rayford

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See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

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Trivia
When Spike Lee was a student at NYU Film School, he was so outraged that his professors taught the movie with no mention of its racist message or its role in the Klan's 20th century rebirth that he made The Answer (1980) as a response. Many professors took great offense, and Lee was nearly expelled. He ultimately was saved by a faculty vote. After Lee's film industry success, he became a professor at NYU Film School, and Artistic Director of the Graduate Film Department.

Connections
Featured in First Works (1989)

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The 23 Year Old Spike Lee

In the same way that Oscar Micheaux responded to D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' by making films from a black perspective, Spike Lee took up the baton and responded in the same way. This film was a statement to say that he would write, direct and produce his own films just like Micheaux and Griffith respectively.