BlacKkKlansman
Appearance
BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 film about an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, who successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader.
- Directed by Spike Lee. Written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee, based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth.
Infiltrate hate. (taglines)
Ron Stallworth
[edit]- With the right white man, we can do anything.
Kwame Ture
[edit]- All power to all people.
- If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? And if not you, who? (see also Pirkei Avot 1:14)
Other
[edit]- Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard: Hello, my fellow Americans. They say we may have lost the battle but we didn't lose the war. Yes, my friends, we are under attack. You may have read about this in your local newspapers or seen it on the evening news. That's right. We are living in an era marked by the spread of integration and miscegenation. The Brown decision. The Brown decision, forced upon us by the Jewish-controlled puppets on the U.S. Supreme Court, compelling white children to go to school with an inferior race, is the final nail in a coffin, is the final nail in a black coffin towards America becoming a mongrel nation. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life until the Martin Luther Coons of this world and their army of Commies started their civil rights assault against our holy white Protestant values. Do you really want your precious white child going to school with Negroes? They're lying, dirty monkeys, stopping at nothing to gain their equality with white men. Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin white, is it "virgin pure"? Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin pure flesh of white women. They are super predators! And the Negro's insidious tactics, under the tutelage of high-ranking, blood-sucking Jews, using an army of outside northern black beast preda... agitators. God, watch this! God! Using an army of outside northern black beast agitators determined to overthrow the God-commanded and biblically inspired rule of the white race. It's an international Jewish conspiracy. May God bless us all.
- Sergeant Trapp: You know the way to sell hate? Affirmative action, immigration, crime, tax reform... He [David Duke] says, no one wants to be called a bigot anymore because Archie Bunker made that too uncool. So, the idea is under all these issues... everyday Americans can accept it. Support it. Until eventually, one day he gets somebody in the White House that embodies it.
Dialogue
[edit]- David Duke: America first.
- Klansmen: America first. America first.
- Waiter: Ain't this a bitch. If I would have known this was a Klan meeting, I wouldn't have taken this motherfucking gig. Goddamn.
[Ron Stallworth is deciding to crank call the Ku Klux Klan. He finishes pulling the number and waits. After a bit, a voicemail starts speaking.]
- Voicemail: You've reached the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Please leave a message, and God bless White America.
- Ron Stallworth: [After the beep sounds] Hello, this is Ron Stallworth calling. I saw your advertisement in the Colorado Springs Gazette. I'm interested in receiving some reading material from you. My phone number is 103-9994. I'm very much looking forward to you returning my call.
[He hangs up. A few seconds later, the phone rings. Stallworth hasn't even had time to sip his coffee. He quickly puts his cup down and picks up the phone.]
- Walter Breachway: Yeah, who's this?
- Ron Stallworth: Ron Stallworth here.
- Walter Breachway: This is Walter, returning your call...from the organization.
- Ron Stallworth: The organization?
- Walter Breachway: That's right. We appreciate your interest. What's your story?
- Ron Stallworth: Well, since you asked...since you asked, I hate niggers. I hate Jews. Spics and micks. Dagos and Chinks. But my mouth to God's ears, I really hate those nigger rats, and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white Aryan blood running through their veins! My sister, Pamela, she was just recently accosted by one of those black coons.
- Walter Breachway: Is that so?
- Ron Stallworth: Yeah. Every time I think about that black baboon putting his filthy black hands on her purest white, driven snow body. I mean pure, Walter! She's a saint, she's an angel! It makes me want to puke!
- Walter Breachway: You are just the kind of guy that we are looking for. Listen, uh, when can you meet?
- Ron Stallworth: How about Friday night, after I get off work?
- Walter Breachway: Well, that's a deal, buddy boy, we'll get right back to you with the details. Take care now.
- Ron Stallworth: God bless white America. [He hangs up.]
- Flip Zimmerman: Did I just hear you use your real name?
- Ron Stallworth: Oh, motherfucker.
[Some of the other officers there crack up.]
- Jimmy Creek: Yeah, motherfucker, amateur hour.
- Flip Zimmerman: That's your real name, right? Is it, is it Ron Stallworth, right? Isn't that his real name?
- Jimmy Creek: I can't believe he just said that.
- Flip Zimmerman: Well, good luck, Ron, with your new redneck friends. [He turns away slowly as the other officers in the room continue laughing.]
- Ron Stallworth: [asking Flip to help take a photo of him with David and another Klansman] Can you take this picture of us, please?
- Flip Zimmerman: All right, don't touch me.
- Ron Stallworth: Great. All right, all right, thank you so much. Thank you. Here we go. One, two, three!
- [just before Flip takes the picture, Ron puts his arms around Duke and the other Klansman]
- David Duke: Jesus H. Christ! What did you just do, boy? I mean, what the hell did you just do?
- Ron Stallworth: Sir, if you lay a finger on me, I'll arrest your ass for assaulting a police officer. That's worth about five years in prison. Try me. See if I'm playing.
- David Duke: Why don't you come down to Louisiana sometime? See how we play.
- Flip Zimmerman: Boy, you better get your nigger ass out of here now.
- Ron Stallworth: Mm-hmm, America first.
- Patrice Dumas: Are you down for the liberation of black people?
- Ron Stallworth: Power to the people.
- Patrice Dumas: All power to all the people.
- Ron Stallworth: That's right, sister.
[David Duke is in his office as a radio playing some Klan propaganda is blaring in the background. Soon enough, the phone rings and he quickly picks it up.]
- David Duke: Sorry, I'm sorry, let me just... [He turns off the radio.] Sorry, who am I talking to?
- Ron Stallworth: This is Ron Stallworth calling from Colorado Springs, Colorado. How are you today, sir?
- David Duke: Well, I'm quite well. Thank you, uh, what can I do you for?
- Ron Stallworth: I-I desperately want to participate in my chapter's honorary events, but I can't until I receive my membership card.
- David Duke: Of course, that's something I can help you with.
- Ron Stallworth: Great. Um, who am I speaking with?
- David Duke: This is David Duke.
- Ron Stallworth: Did you just say your name was David Duke?
- David Duke: The last time I checked.
- Ron Stallworth: Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, that-that David Duke?
- David Duke: Yes, that Grand Wizard and National Director, yeah.
- Ron Stallworth: National Director too, huh?
- David Duke: Yes, you're darn tootin'.
- Ron Stallworth: It's amazing. I'm honored to be speaking to you, sir. I'm not afraid to say it. I consider you a true white American hero.
- David Duke: Is there any other kind?
- Ron Stallworth: No, sir.
- David Duke: I'm happy to be talking to a true white American.
- Ron Stallworth: Amen. It seems like there's less and less of us out there these days. Now, about that membership card...
- David Duke: Yeah, Ron, I understand the situation, uh, we've had some administrative problems here, it's caused a little bit of a backlag. Tell you what, I'm gonna see to it personally that your membership card is processed, approved, and sent out today. How's that sound?
- Ron Stallworth: Thank you, sir. I can't express to you how much this means to me.
- David Duke: Ron, please, pleasure's all mine. I look forward to hopefully meeting you in person one day, and, uh...God bless White America.
- Ron Stallworth: God bless White America, sir.
- David Duke: Mhm, take care.
- Flip Zimmerman: For you it's a crusade. For me it's a job.
- Ron Stallworth: You're Jewish. They hate you. Doesn't that piss you off? Why are you acting like you don't got skin in the game?
- Andy Landers: [making an arrest] Black bitch, you get this Black Panther out of Colorado Springs before sunrise, you hear me? Or you'll all go to jail.
- Kwame Ture: We were born in jail!
- Ron Stallworth: [answering a phone call from Duke] Mr. Duke, I'm so sorry we didn't get to spend more one-on-one time together.
- David Duke: Well, that was a just a tragedy. I had just met those heroic brothers in the cause.
- Flip Zimmerman: Heroic.
- Ron Stallworth: Yeah. And the chapter is just shaken at the core.
- David Duke: Oh.
- Ron Stallworth: Yeah. And poor Connie, right? I mean, not only does she lose her husband, but...
- Flip Zimmerman: Poor Connie.
- Jimmy Creek: Connie's going away.
- Flip Zimmerman: We feel bad for Connie.
- Ron Stallworth: [continuing] ... she's looking at serious prison time.
- David Duke: My God. And then there was that nigger detective. Basically...
- [the officers laugh]
- Ron Stallworth: [to the other officers, trying not to laugh] Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut up, shut up. [to Duke] Those goddamn coloreds they sure know how to spoil a celebration.
- Jimmy Creek: [to Flip] Hey, you're getting me in trouble.
- David Duke: [to Ron] Christ, you can say that again.
- Ron Stallworth: Those goddamn coloreds sure know how to spoil a celebration. Can I ask you a question, sir?
- David Duke: Shoot.
- Ron Stallworth: That nigger detective, did you ever did you ever get his name?
- David Duke: No. I don't think I...
- Ron Stallworth: Are-uh you sure you don't know who he is? Are-uh you absolutely sure? 'Cause that nigga, coon, gator bait, spade, spook, Sambo, spear-chucking jungle bunny, Mississippi wind chime...
- Flip Zimmerman: Wind chime?
- Ron Stallworth: [continuing] ... detective is Ron Stallworth, you racist, peckerwood, redneck, inch worm, needle-dick motherfucker! [Ron slams the phone back on the register as his coworkers laugh, high-five him, and pat him on the back.] I'll be here all week.
- [Duke is left bewildered and speechless at the whole ordeal and cannot bring himself to put the phone back for a while.]
Taglines
[edit]- Infiltrate hate.
- Based on a true story.
- Dis joint is based upon some fo' real, fo' real shit.
Cast
[edit]- John David Washington – Detective Ron Stallworth
- Adam Driver – Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
- Laura Harrier – Patrice Dumas
- Topher Grace – David Duke
- Jasper Pääkkönen – Felix Kendrickson
- Ryan Eggold – Walter Breachway
- Paul Walter Hauser – Ivanhoe
- Ashlie Atkinson – Connie Kendrickson
- Corey Hawkins – Kwame Ture
- Michael Buscemi – Jimmy Creek
- Ken Garito – Sergeant Trapp
- Robert John Burke – Chief Bridges
- Frederick Weller – Patrolman Andy Landers
- Nicholas Turturro – Walker
- Harry Belafonte – Jerome Turner
- Alec Baldwin – Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard
- Isiah Whitlock Jr. – Mr. Turrentine
- Damaris Lewis – Odetta
External links
[edit]- BlacKkKlansman quotes at the Internet Movie Database