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"Jungle Fever"

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This Spike Lee joint is almost (almost) free of the
"OK Spike, we get it, we get it!" moments and is a fairly interesting look at inner city interracial romance. Wesley Snipes is a an up and coming architect, married happily, who at first resents the new Italian woman hired his firm's partners to replace his assistant (he had asked for an African-American). Over time ,however, and this is portrayed very skillfully, they start a friendship which develops into a full fledged romance. Sub plots involve a similar attraction involving one of her brothers, Snipes'crack addict brother Samuel L.Jackson and their relationship with their minister father and their mother, and other more minor stories. Well acted and includes a truly frightening scene in a massive crack house. The first musical score of many for lee by Terence Blanchard.

Follow Ups:

RE: "Jungle Fever" - Jazz Inmate 12:31:37 08/17/07 (0)
I thought Jungle Fever was sophomoric and that the characters were too two-dimensional. For me it had plenty of those Spike "moments", especially when he injected himself into the scenes.
"I got the fever."
"The fever?"
"The fever."
"The fever?"
"The jungle fever."

That's just annoying writing. We get it already.

And I thinkTerence Blanchard's scores were featured in earlier Spike films, most notably "Mo Better Blues". That is actually a pretty good movie if you can get past the spike moments. Heck, even Do the Right Thing is better than Jungle Fever.

The best Spike Lee film (by far) was Clockers.
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