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Malcolm X : House Fire

Malcolm (Denzel Washington) and Betty (Angela Bassett)'s house is firebombed.

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close-up, color, crosscutting, cut-in, diegetic sound, displaced diegetic insert, following shot, handheld camera, hard cut, high-key lighting, low angle, match on action, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, overhead shot, pace, pan, point-of-view shot, rhythmic editing, shallow focus, sound bridge, source lighting, stinger, tilt, two-shot, voice-off, wipe

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Black: African-American, Black: Afro-Caribbean, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman

"House Fire" in Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1909

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