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WITH his new movie "School Daze," Spike Lee has struck at the most controversial issues facing the Black community and has managed to produce an accurate picture of Blacks on college campuses...
...Columbia gave Lee $6 million to make his second feature, School Daze. Six million dollars is a lot of money for, say, a car. But in movie terms it's just enough for a beat-up Buick. No wonder Spike Lee has a chip on his shoulder...
...keep in mind that Elaine May, a white filmmaker casting two white stars, squandered over $40 million on Ishtar, which, in terms of quality, makes Daze look like Citizen Kane. Trust me. I'm one of the four or five people who saw it. And as Lee pointed out in a letter to the New York Times on Sunday, the industry average is $18 million...
Maslin contends that Lee succumbed to "fiscal seductions" and that the musical numbers in Daze were beyond Lee's "technical abilities." Maslin also says that while She's Gotta Have It was "enjoyable small," Daze, which she called "bigger, bolder" in her original review, was a failure. She's Gotta Have It, Maslin writes, "may not have aimed this high, but on the other hand it hit its mark...
...wrong. Daze is not a great movie. But its failures have nothing to do with an excess of money or a lack of technical abilities. Daze is an intelligently conceived film that is too confused, too scattershot and too erratic in style to work...