Bamboozled

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's debut.

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ENGLISH

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Satire, one A.

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A literary work
in which human vice or folly...

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is ridiculed
or attacked scornfully.

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B--The branch of literature
that composes such work.

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2--lrony,
derision or caustic wit...

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used to attack or expose
folly, vice, or stupidity.

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Bonjour.
My name is Pierre Delacroix.

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I am a television writer.
A creative person.

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I'm one of those people
responsible for what you view...

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on your idiot box.

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The problem is,
not enough of you...

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have been watching out there
in television land.

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With the onslaught
of the internet, video...

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and interactive games,
900 channels to choose from...

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our valued audience
has dramatically eroded.

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To put it
in much simpler terms...

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Iike rats fleeing
from a sinking ship.

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People are tuning out
by the millions...

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which, needless to say,
is bad for business.

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