In 2000, he was a consultant on Spike Lee's film, " Bamboozled " and has been the subject of several film documentaries.

* Bamboozled: Spike Lee's satire has fake ads for ' Da Bomb ' malt liquor and a racistly named parody of Tommy Hilfiger.

Blackface and minstrelsy also serve as the theme of Spike Lee's film Bamboozled ( 2000 ).

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 success.

In 2000, Pinkett Smith was cast in Spike Lee's film Bamboozled ( 2000 ), as Sloan Hopkins, a personal assistant to the main character portrayed by Damon Wayans.

Moreland and Russell's act can be seen in two all-black-cast compilation films, Rhythm and Blues Review and Rock and Roll Revue ; another variation of the " interruption routine " performed by Tommy Davidson and Savion Glover, was featured in Spike Lee's 2000 film Bamboozled.

Mooney later went on to play Wayans ' father in the Spike Lee film Bamboozled as the comedian Junebug.

The Roots have been featured in four movies: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, both performing album songs and playing as a backing band for other artists ; Spike Lee's Bamboozled ; Marc Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, in which Black Thought plays the protagonist, Solomon, and former band member Rahzel narrates ; and Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore.

Films in which Black Thought starred in include Bamboozled ( 2000 ), Perfume, Love Rome, and Brooklyn Babylon ( both 2001 ).

Bamboozled received mixed reviews ; it currently holds a 48 % ' rotten ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus " Bamboozled is too heavy-handed in its satire and comes across as more messy and overwrought than biting.

The 2000 Spike Lee movie Bamboozled alleges that modern black entertainment exploits African American culture much as the minstrel shows did a century ago, for example.

In addition to the appearance in Bamboozled, ' Da Bomb ' makes appearances in three other Spike Lee films, Clockers, Inside Man, and Sucker Free City.

" 2045: Radical Man " was released on the Spike Lee Bamboozled soundtrack in 2001.

Bamboozled promotional movie poster.

The result has been neglect, fumbling efforts, or superficial treatment.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low intensity operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low-intensity operations such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

* A bacterium, or any microorganism that causes illness and has a superficial resemblance to an insect or bug

The superficial consistency of most beetles ' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.

This narrowness of definition has caused some debate over the years, and its result, the exclusion of Hebridean sites from most major syntheses, can be seen as a shortcoming which, due to superficial typologies, results in the failure to unite these sites, whose inhabitants shared the common habit of living on water.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The kissaki ( point ) is not a " chisel-like " point, nor is the Western knife interpretation of a " tanto point " found on true Japanese swords ; a straight, linearly sloped point has the advantage of being easy to grind, but it bears only a superficial similarity to traditional Japanese kissaki.

One admirer of Heinlein has said that the society depicted in the film showed only a superficial resemblance to the society that Heinlein describes in his book.

It is demonstrated that race has no biological or genetic basis: gross morphological features which traditionally has been defined as races ( e. g. skin color ) are determined by non-significant and superficial genetic alleles with no link to any characteristics, such as intelligence, talent, athletic ability, etc.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

As a matter of fact, the style received harsh criticism, and was seen by some to be superficial and of poor taste, especially when compared to neoclassicism ; despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities, and since the mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians.

The use of mass media campaigns, however, has sometimes resulted in high levels of " awareness " coupled with essentially superficial knowledge of HIV transmission.

French writer André Brincourt commented that Malraux's books on art have been " skimmed a lot but very little read ", and it is true that critical commentary has often given superficial and distorted accounts of their arguments.

He has disdained superficial or meretricious effects.

It has traditionally also been applied to other animals sharing a superficial resemblance, for example ctenophores ( members from another phylum of common, gelatinous and generally transparent or translucent, free-swimming planktonic carnivores now known as comb jellies ) were included as " jellyfishes ".

The spectacle, which according to Debord is the core feature of the advanced capitalist societies, has its " most glaring superficial manifestation " in the advertising-mass media-marketing complex.

In the modern age, " dime novel " has become a term to describe any quickly written, lurid potboiler and as such is generally used as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work.

Like One Law groups, the Two House movement has many superficial similarities to Messianic Judaism, such as their belief in the ongoing validity of the Mosaic Covenant.

Thus an illusion of understanding is generated, even though the processing involved has been merely superficial.

Henrik has said about writing poetry ( translated from Danish ): " I see poetry as an opportunity for immersion in a superficial time dominated by news and entertainment that makes us rootless and restless.

The superficial resemblance of this tongue to that of lorikeets has led some taxonomists to consider the two groups closely related, but DNA evidence shows they are not.

There is also a synthetic dye that has been named " amaranth " for its similarity in color to the natural amaranth pigments known as betalains.

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).

ATM has functional similarity with both circuit switched networking and small packet switched networking.

While these plants are not sold anywhere for culinary use, their visual similarity to bay leaves has led to the oft-repeated belief that bay leaves should be removed from food after cooking because they are poisonous.

Another similarity to the okapi, even though the bongo is unrelated, is that the bongo has a long prehensile tongue which it uses to grasp grasses and leaves.

It has customarily been translated as Five Elements probably because of the similarity of this doctrine to the Western system of four elements.

The sitting pose that of Cernunnos, as found, for example, on the Gundestrup Cauldron ( 200BC to 300AD ,) has striking similarity with the figure depcited in Pashupathi seal ( 2900-1900BC ).

The similarity between this epistle and that to the Romans has led to the conclusion that they were both written at roughly the same time, during Paul's stay in Macedonia in roughly 56-57.

The taxonomic structure of the true finch family, Fringillidae, has been fairly disputed in the past, with some upranking the Hawaiian honeycreepers ( Drepanidinae ) as family Drepanididae and / or uniting the cardueline and fringilline finches as tribes ( Carduelini and Fringillini ) in one subfamily ; the euphonious finches ( Euphoniinae ) were thought to be tanagers due to general similarity in appearance and mode of life until their real affinities were realized.

The similarity in content has been described as such that " it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Luke is dependent in some way, whether directly or indirectly, on this long lost text from Qumran ".

It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

They argue that he has not provided a convincing case that the similarities presented as evidence are due to inheritance from an earlier common ancestor rather than being explained by a combination of accidental similarity, errors, excessive semantic latitude in comparisons, borrowings, onomatopoeia, etc.

Because the mongooses and the mustelids occupy similar ecological niches, convergent evolution has led to some similarity in form and behavior.

The practice of breeding back generally, and specifically whether optic similarity alone are enough to declare that this project has truly recreated the original quagga, are both controversial.

Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, + 2 and the slightly more stable + 4.

It has also been noted that there is great similarity between the names of the Sea Peoples, which at that time were raiding Egypt, as they are listed by Ramesses III and Merneptah, and of the allies of the Trojans.

This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel ( the novel itself does not present electricity as Frankenstein's means of creating the monster.

Because of this similarity, it is often used to indicate that time has passed between the previous shot and the next shot.

It has been found that the amount of trade-off depends on the similarity of the information to be remembered and the information to be processed.

The similarity of names between Hestia and Vesta is, however, misleading: " The relationship hestia-histie-Vesta cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European linguistics ; borrowings from a third language must also be involved ," scholar Walter Burkert has written.

Wagner scholar Lucy Beckett has pointed out the remarkable similarity between Wagner's Sachs and Schopenhauer's description of noble man: