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Spike Lee's newest film BlacKkKlansman, which is based on a true story about a Black police officer infiltrating the KKK in the 1970s, was recently awarded the Grand Prix–second place award–at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The 61-year-old accepted his award, he thanked his hometown of Brooklyn, The Los Angeles Times reported.
“I take this on the behalf of the People’s Republic of Brooklyn, New York,” Spike told the audience.
He added that when he is asked about the state of the world, he quotes the film title “‘The Year of Living Dangerously.’ I repeat, ‘The Year of Living Dangerously.'”
Jordan Peele produced BlacKkKlansman is being honored as it debuted at Cannes earlier this week, it received a 10-minute standing ovation.
W magazine describes, in the blaxploitation-esque film “John David Washington plays Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs, who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s using a telephone line, and a white Jewish coworker, played by Adam Driver, as his avatar.”
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