BlacKkKlansman | Teaching Adam Driver to Be Ron Stallworth

After undercover police detective Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) pretends to be a white man he realizes he made a grave mistake - he used his real name. Determined to expose a hateful group, Ron proposes a dangerous investigation to the Colorado Springs Police Department: Ron will continue to pose as a white man over the phone, while seasoned Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman (Adam Driver) will pretend to be the white version of him in-person.
Film Synopsis:
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a difference, he bravely sets out on a dangerous mission. He recruits a seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation. Together, they team up to take down the extremist organization aiming to garner mainstream appeal. Produced by the team behind the Academy Award®-winning Get Out, BlacKkKlansman offers an unflinching, true-life examination of race relations in 1970s America that is just as relevant in today's tumultuous world.
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[@grantmacneil3448]

"Good call, Sarge" always fucking sends me.

[@FredericFreedom]

Elite level sarcasm

[@c.h.2392]

Where?

[@Rick.Carlson]

@@c.h.2392Narnia

[@MemesOfProduction69]

@@c.h.2392 probably to the floor if I had to guess. Maybe to the other side of the couch. Shit they may just get up and run out the room while laughing!

[@Onetwothreefour.]

One of my favorite lines ever “with the right white man we can do anything.”

[@xwarped83]

I just caught that, gave me a good laugh.

[@boredflower]

the emphasis of whyite always makes me laugh especially because he's very tongue in cheek about it lol

[@BravosReviews]

Says every republicans focus group

[@Crk2784]

"Good Luck with your new redneck friends."

[@mikehuntburns9753]

@@BravosReviewsyou do realize that Biden has crippled the U.S and has cared more about Ukraine than the American people and black appointed democrats have run their cities to the ground.

[@uramisugi]

"Flip you're Jewish?" "I don't know am I" fucking gets me everytime 😭

[@samyes1726]

Bout the most Jewish response he could've given too lol

[@mike9512]

"With the right white man, we can do anything..." such a good line from a great movie.

[@laserbidet]

"With the right hawhite* man" lmaoo

[@Onetwothreefour.]

Let’s copy the most thumbed up comment on the clip … see if we can get some thumbs up too. Lol

[@mike9512]

@Onetwothreefour. lol... Newsflash, not everyone needs likes for their self-worth

[@Onetwothreefour.]

Says the person who copied my comment, A comment which happens to have 3k likes lol. Just thought it was funny, and weird .. when I came back to this clip a few days ago. I’ve never had that many likes on anything. Heck, I’m not even on social media aside from KZbin. You keep doing you though! Maybe I’ll leave a same comment again. Maybe it can rack up some more likes 😂

[@mike9512]

@@Onetwothreefour. Did you ever consider other options. Maybe I didn't see it, he edited (so maybe he changed it), maybe I did copy it, and I just forgot. Either way, I can definitively say just how little care how many likes I get, what you think or anything about this. So this is my comment to you. Move on.

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

“You probably shouldn’t go to that meeting” That was my favorite Line from the movie.😂😂

[@TonyChurch112]

Guess what mine was.

[@sorcerous8401]

This is what natural chemistry looks and most importantly, sounds like

[@thomas_walker]

absolutely. perfectly directed scene

[@TheIpwnkyle]

Dear god, he really does have the same cadence as his daddy Denzel.

[@Lord_Phoenix95]

Damn. That's Denzels kid?

[@sojourndestination3031]

I didn't even know Denzel had a kid

[@robh7800]

This is huge news to me

[@syntheticfever9411]

I thought his voice and acting was very similar to Denzel.. didn't imagine he's his son

[@dmann5938]

They both sound alike in some ways and it’s amazing

[@user-eq3fl1qu2q]

Everytime he said "hhhwite man" it got funnier each time

[@bchearne]

Muting the cuss words in this clip is a crime against art

[@romilrh]

Gotta appease the KZbin overlords. They can handle nudity and gore in music videos, but heavens forbid a man cusses in an R-rated movie clip

[@hrnytinoker4146]

@@romilrh They allow a dude to show his chocolate star fish uncensored on this platform but heavens forbid someone says a mean word lmao.

[@elipse371]

@@hrnytinoker4146 they took it down, but it was considered educational(that’s why it was up). To be fair, for the topic it was, it was mildly educational. Should it have been on KZbin? No, but the fact he could have stretched it out for 10 or 20 minutes for ad revenue and only made it 3-4 is (imo) mildly admirable.

[@pub795]

Some words are not even bad. It's just being overly cautious about the algorithm demonetizing them. It's just sad what this platform has become.

[@bigbadchupa9511]

“How exactly does a black man talk?” 😂

[@TheMiist]

Lmao well the black dude doesn’t sound white no matter how hard he’s trying

[@coolguyjki]

@@TheMiist Cracker from the midwest spotted.

[@dontaskmeaboutmyprofilepic5898]

​@@TheMiistyes he does

[@thezu9250]

@@TheMiistUh no. This is not only wrong but it’s based on a real story.

[@Monkey.D.Shinchan]

It's common, but it's in Black

[@Boxmediaphile]

Dude they’re gonna know the difference because you sound like Denzel Washington

[@weebpotato2366]

ever heard of voice impressions

[@nav7506]

@@weebpotato2366 I believe Robin Williams was the master of such an art.

[@CalamityCain]

But then again... I bet The Klan doesn't watch a lot of Denzel Washington movies. Maybe they'd file that under "guilty pleasure" and get a pass, though, who knows with these guys?

[@Adamdidit]

Luckily that won't be an issue for at least 5 years after the movie is set.

[@lordsafro]

and he sounds like denzel beacuse....he's his son

[@lexx5313]

Couldn't believe this was a true story! The guts in these dudes! 😅

[@RealGigaMind]

Reality is always stranger than fiction.

[@limeon8426]

Off topic I think Adam Driver could play a young John Wick.

[@net343]

😂

[@druggeddragon420]

bro is 40

[@limeon8426]

@@druggeddragon420 Keanu reeves is almost 60 and still can play John Wick amazingly I'm pretty sure Adam Driver could pull off a young John Wick at 40 if Keanu can do it at nearly 60

[@randyangel9412]

Yeah idk lol

[@annedowney7186]

Gotta love these scenes where relative up-and-coming actors (John David Washington) is coaching/giving action lessons to veteran actors (Adam Driver)- reminds me of the scene in Parasite where the son (Choi Woo Sik) is coaching the dad (Song Kang Ho)

[@joekelly7108]

Fits the "rookie cop leads veteran cop" thing that Driver's character mentions at the beginning of the scene too!

[@ilan5821]

Adam Driver is not a veteran actor, he's just very good, but he started acting around 2010, veteran to me means at least since the 90s

[@GenGaara]

At best Drivers breakout role was 2013, JDWs was 2015. If we go by earliest films JDW beats Driver by a mile thanks to his dad. These two are very much actors of the same generation and roughly same level of fame.

[@righteous.4641]

"To get my Allman Brother's fix!" Did the kkk know that one of the drummer's in the ABB is black?! 😂

[@Unkle_Genny]

I was just thinking the same thing!

[@igormennabarretohussene9207]

Man the crazy part this is a real story

[@deathking1019]

what’s crazier is i can see this stuff happening today

[@lam8138]

Pretty much everything but the bomb at the end was real. Adam drivers character wasn’t real but there was a real version he was based on

[@libbybollinger5901]

@@deathking1019obviously this isn’t the same, but there is a (black) comedian I watch who, as a teenager, catfished the KKK.

[@RealGigaMind]

​@@libbybollinger5901are you talking about the guy who successfully convinced about 200 clan members to abandon the clan because he talked to them and got them to actually know how black people are ?

[@baintreachas]

⁠​⁠@@RealGigaMindno, that’s a different guy, no catfishing involved. You’re probably thinking of the one that gave a TED talk, though there are a lot of experts in deradicalisation etc

[@thevoid99]

i almost lost it when he dissed bowie. he's my favorite singer. yet, i forgot he's pretending to be a racist white guy.

[@shaniannajones]

I guess no one ever told you, but David Bowie was White

[@malcolmseabrook8770]

​@@shaniannajones, I guess no one ever told you the Klan hates a lot of white people, too.

[@vietnamsemonky4082]

@@shaniannajonesHate to break it to you, but white people aren’t a monolith, a British person isn’t the same as a Polish person lol, and especially in Europe they have varying opinions on who is white and who isn’t.

[@JimmyBoombox]

@@shaniannajones Still didn't stop KKK from hating on the white Irish Catholics and the white European Jews.

[@ardillarojo]

​@@shaniannajones Hate to break it to you, but Bowie's music and he himself was more black deep down than most white people. After all he embraced the label of "blue eyed soul" for much of his Thin White Duke era ("Fame", "Golden Years" etc)

[@WadeWilson_]

"Doesn't make grammatical sense, but ok" Laughed my ass off

[@Buoyant_Bear]

I love how the chief here is played by the guy who played the IAB officer on SVU... was also Billy on "Thinner".

[@jdobaldo9678]

The way he says white like the h comes first gives me stewie vibe and how he says whip cream

[@LewisB3217]

Whyte

[@eggmar7232]

OJ?! oh boy

[@ackbarfan5556]

It was the 70s! Hindsight's always 20/20! Besides, I think that's just a funny joke Spike wanted to add. 'Do you folks remember when OJ was huge before the murders?'

[@donnya.oryankingdonny230]

OJ Simpson of Roots

[@Jenniferlwarm]

When Adam does that hip wiggle 😂 classic

[@KatesFree]

I love Adam Driver so much...

[@varun009]

"Flip, you Jewish." "I dunno, am I?" Such an underrated line. No, the rest of us can't tell either.

[@king.2597]

Im really tone deaf, but fr?

[@user-ol2mr7cb3h]

An actor playing a character that's learning how to play a character, whole lotta layers

[@plague6174]

Man Adam Driver was such a goat in this movie.

[@edbrook7088]

"Good call, Sarge" 🤣

[@garvwadhwaney306]

0:10 I like to think that was the moment the Sergeant started to like Ron Stallworth.

[@milktenders6219]

“It’s not a Jewish necklace, it’s a Star of David”

[@hanselmenezes1406]

gaddam - it's like watching Denzel in his hayday: like father, like son.

[@mercen4ry57]

TENET 2 looking rather fascinating

[@grumpymonkeyenterprises6413]

You know my absolute favorite, O J😂

[@seankim884]

Is it The Only Focus Features Movie By Legendary pictures?

[@craigledger4645]

It is. Universal used to have a deal with Legendary Pictures in 2013, which included select productions to be distributed by Focus Features. The deal expired by 2018. By then, it reverted back to Warner Bros. until 2022, with the exception of upcoming “Dune” and “MonsterVerse” movies & tv shows, Sony Pictures will distribute all upcoming Legendary productions.

[@panathentic]

Live this movie, love this story. A triumph, in art and reality.

[@artmoloch777]

If you look at the boat picture at about 0:49 and clip forward to 0:56, you can see, while the whole frame stays still, the picture itself changes ever so slightly. What’s that about, @focusfeatures? Did they green screen the picture?

[@hueynapalm]

Hell of an eye noticing that

[@itemax]

Definitely composited in during post and not properly matched between frames. Nice catch

[@M4x1mus847]

good eye! My guess is that they didn't get the rights to the original art that was there for some reason.

[@monyetguru]

how did you even notice that

[@xX_MC_OvU_PvP_YT_Xx]

1. Why would you assume the channel that shares clips from multiple movies would know the inner workings of the editing process of this specific film? 2. No the hell it doesn't. 3. If it does, who gives a hoot? Call it artistic expression or something.

[@Gkilla745]

Sounds so much like his dad

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Why does this man literally sound identical to his dad?

[@wallysworst]

"Say it for OJ, Jimmy you too." 🤣

[@DownD.Hole92]

One of my favorite movies.

[@LoFiHaven693]

And then they realized that Adam driver is, indeed, the right white man.

[@zachsutton6195]

Django reference?

[@randizzle99]

I love this movie

[@lalthamuon6720]

"with the right man we and do anything"

[@champdude17]

4:40 Minecraft villagers

[@user-pq2mu5xc2x]

The sergeant is actually the key here and an absolute G.

[@joedotphp]

When I heard that Bowie line in theater, some guy a few seats down goes, "What!?"

[@nickroman5948]

"You probably shouldn't go to that" - Sarge

[@Jermbot15]

Okay I'm going to ask. Why didn't the Adam Driver character just completely take over the ruse at this point? Coordinating two halves of this character between two different people seems to be adding alot of complexity to an already complex job.

[@smolkafilip]

Because everyone's voice sounds different over the phone than in person. If Driver gets the same cadence and vocabulary, whoever meets him will accept that this is what the guy from the phone sounds like in real life. But if Driver also starts talking over the phone, now his voice sounds different than it sounded last time over the phone.

[@Jermbot15]

@@smolkafilip Okay, that works.

[@AlamoOriginal]

I think the film mentions about 3 times that Ron Stallworth is fluent in the white redneck accent he's trying to mimic

[@angrymofo12]

Nah just say you had the flu last time you called or some shit. Way too much a risk to have to coordinate between two people rather than just letting Adam Driver taking over @@smolkafilip

[@A_Short_Person_Named_Kevin]

OJ being his favorite has aged well.

[@BrotherDoesStuff]

Him trying not to laugh after "So you're a crazy son of a bitch huh" killed me

[@Mary-xy5gh]

He sounds so much like his father Mr Denzel Washington

[@Brendissimo1]

The audio censorship was really distracting, didn't finish the clip. Maybe just post it intact or don't post it at all next time.

[@eyeknow8009]

snowflake

[@sonataoftheeclipse]

@@eyeknow8009 dipshit

[@TheViktorPutin]

@@eyeknow8009 snowflake

[@boredflower]

@@eyeknow8009 fridge temp iq here huh?

[@boredflower]

its so YT doesn't demonetize or remove the video.

[@tjbellah349]

Aye bro buddy wasn’t wrong, with the right white man they got it done.

[@naijahn13]

2:48 fucking OJ 😂😂😂if only they knew

[@xiayabennett6982]

Seriously how does one get an Afro to be that perfect???

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

2:31 some of mine were as well. will smith,(grew up on men in black, fresh prince, I robot) Morgan freemen, Keith David.

[@noahbrown6970]

"With the right white man we can do anything" 😂😂😂

[@AssumedDarkness]

Tell me that ron doesn't sound like Denzel Washington?

[@jm-fe1iz]

He’s Denzel’s son.

[@AssumedDarkness]

@@jm-fe1iz well that makes sense lol

[@lennon30790]

that movie is soooooooooooooo goood

[@ashiqahamed7740]

It’s not white unless you say it like “Hoowhoite”

[@jm-nv5bl]

I gotta be honest watching this movie. I believed the movie should have been about adam he was in the Eagles' nest, risking his life

[@grilledleeks6514]

I wish my introduction to Adam wasn't his dog ass character in star wars... Because I really like every other role he has had. That stink still lingers though.

[@rogerpogger6439]

Adam is the one and only Kyle Ren voice actor

[@charliejuice3098]

Cool whip

[@jackjurn]

The allman brothers didn’t deserve that jab😊

[@etiennecossette1944]

SINCE WHEN IS BART BASS A POLICE OFFICER?

[@Bilal010]

4:25 😂

[@deltamatt001]

This movie is a fucking classic. Such a great scene.

[@TheMeMeGuy2]

2:46 😦💀😦💀

[@spaceo8568]

My God does he sound like his dad.

[@tabom1727]

I see Denzel

[@lewdogg72691]

He sounds like Denzel

[@travjt2]

It’s his son

[@coldpawofthefurs]

Why is that sgt wearing captain's bars?

[@aeoligarlic4024]

I bet this is what guys do in their freetime

[@InstiGator805]

Its a star of david 😂

[@NithinJune]

OJ 😂

[@Brobro7SF]

I was triggered when I heard I-25.

[@donaldjdz]

Was the word 'negro' censored here? : p

[@LewisB3217]

Yes, Donald. You aren’t supposed to say that by the way.

[@jayreis9963]

KZbin will remove the video if they don't.

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@@jayreis9963KZbin doesn't like depicting history. Prefers pretending racism never happened and doesn't exist.

[@colonelturmeric558]

Why not? Its the spanish word for black…

[@lancelaurel3828]

Idk am it

[@COOLMOIVE24]

2:36 i don't know about that

[@rascallyzeus241]

For Supper I want a Party Platter

[@duongbroz5945]

0:38 why did they censor "Negro"? I know that people don't say it anymore, but it's not like it's a slur.

[@williambeisel5686]

Probably to appease KZbin and its algorithm

[@duongbroz5945]

@@williambeisel5686 they still kept the other cuss words.

[@obediahpolkinghorniii564]

Tell your Black friends, "Negro, please," and see what happens.

[@LucidKay9114]

@@duongbroz5945negro is a slur in the way that their using it.

[@donny8619]

hwite

[@scorpiomelancholia1559]

Why pronounce "white" like that?

[@deagle2yadome696]

there are blacks who pronounce it with the two H’s in front of it even today

[@wiwopkxmapknt6251]

@@deagle2yadome696that’s extremely racist

[@musicalDrebin]

i feel so bad for the guy who plays the chief. he always plays the asshole. at best he plays an asshole on the good guys side, but still always an asshole.

[@wiwopkxmapknt6251]

No he plays the tough police chief trying to make sure his officers stay safe

[@musicalDrebin]

@@wiwopkxmapknt6251 fair enough. but i'm speaking in more general terms, as to how he's type cast

[@kawasakieddy61]

R.I.P. O.J. The juice rests

[@s7nr712]

yeah R.I.P. rest in piss

[@wiwopkxmapknt6251]

No he was a murderer

[@Coccyx69]

Didnt give this movie a chance because it came during the peak of race baiting season but wow the two main got some pretty good chemistry going on

[@Dungrave]

Star of Remphan actually. There is no mention of the Star of David in the Bible.

[@bertellijustin6376]

Well he’s playing a Jew, so yes it is the Star of David. You are correct that the Mogen David does not come from Torah, it comes from Rabbinical stories told after both Torah and your Bible were put on paper. The tales differ on its origin, seal of Solomon, David’s Shield and a few others. There are other starsentioned in both Torah and the Bible, but none of these are the Mogen David.

[@bertellijustin6376]

You have to keep in mind Torah was the written history to accompany the oral history. The oral history likely changed and evolved much more rapidly than the written version.

[@Dungrave]

@@bertellijustin6376 You go far to defend the Canaanites.

[@AlamoOriginal]

​@@Dungraveyou worship a jewish Jesus anyway, what makes you different than defending a people from middle east that were semitic than talking about hating Jews?

[@dhorn4005]

I can't by th elove of God see any difference in accent when he is tritying to sound like him...XDDD I mean, I'm not american; not used to he little butle differencies in cadence, rythm, entonation... I can differenciate from british and american... even from texan to californian... they say Chicago and NY are noticeable; but I can't distinguish them... New Englans is supposed to be more 'posh', rigth?... but in this case... nothing I see that when Driver is imitating Ron, he speaks slower; like reading if it had to think about it a little bit... but for the rest; he is using the same voice, same accent... is it a subte change or is me the one who can't see the ovbious difference? XDDD

[@ninjeti03]

Silly ass movie

[@sitcomchristian6886]

I don't know. It's like you can tell this was written by modern-day writers. It's not written as people talk, but with obvious comedy beats where I'm supposed to be laughing. I never got around to seeing the film, though. Heard mixed things.

[@WlatPziupp]

Watch it then. The film is interesting and it doesn't take that long

[@boat1280]

The film is very close to real events.

[@Grastiars1]

Most dialogue in movies is written in an unnatural way. However, it’s to serve a purpose. One of the things about early Black police officers is that they are more qualified than white police officers, and had more education lever higher than white officers of a similar position. So the characters use of a more “sophisticated” vocabulary is there to show that. The comedy is also there to relax the audience as it prepares to move into a scene that is very intense. The film itself is a very intense film, and it needs small breaks like that to keep the audience engaged as it’s hard the comedy breaks let’s the audience take a breath and focus less so that their attention is not worn down before important scenes.

[@Onetwothreefour.]

It’s a great film. One of the best

[@AlamoOriginal]

I think you missed the part where the film genres actually mix with a rather underground genre called Blaxploitation, which was about mature action movies involving black characters that are always being sidelined by the white main guy (not to mention the executives of the film), which is why the 70s styling isn't that obvious

[@BrutalCarnage]

dude's acting like there's no difference XDXD black dudes sound deeper and more masculine in general obviously, like how Asian women sound different to white women for example, usually having higher pitched voices compared to white women how may have that deeper smokey voice

[@drboom.]

Ah so he’s a fed I thought he played a racist guy not some j3w fed in the movie lol. I like the yeah keep driving line

[@Hedgeknight420]

I couldn’t stomach this movie … it didn’t feel funny to me it just felt like an overly politicized spoof , so I got incredibly bored . I hoped it would be like undercover brother at least , but it didn’t even hit that mark.

[@amokana]

That black actor is the worst actor to take major roles ... I don't understand how he got these big roles in really big movies, of all the black actor you chose him ?

[@wiwopkxmapknt6251]

Bc it’s Denzel’s son and just say you don’t like black people

[@tangledtomcat]

That is the son of Denzel Washington, he is literally the perfect actor to take major roles

[@amokana]

@@tangledtomcat being the son of someone great in something doesn't make you automatically good at it, i'm glad i don't see him anymore in recent movies.

[@AA-mi4zg]

This is kind of a racist movie.

[@Mingus_the_dingus]

Cry😊

[@AA-mi4zg]

@@Mingus_the_dingus Wassup, Mingus?! Dude, it's been so fucking long! Where have you been? I've missed you.

[@JimmyBoombox]

Because the white cop had to say racist things while being undercover?

[@HevyDevyD]

Its based on a real story lmao

[@rrjgpl]

Racist in what way?

[@erichenderson304]

Spike put the OJ part in there bc he knew of the reaction

[@spineway]

D whatever with the swears but I really don't think you guys had to bleep Negro lol

[@boredflower]

Its so YT doesn't demonetize or remove the video. YT's ToS is pretty strict on what they think will make the world a better place lol.

[@pantslesswrock]

​@@boredflowerit's not about YT doing this because they want to. It's all about what scares away advertisers. Censorship on KZbin has nothing to do with principles and everything to do with money.

[@borginburkes1819]

Hilarious how racial slurs are considered less offensive than curse words.

[@lordsafro]

@@boredflowernah Coppa is making them do things like this bc YT wanted to promote to advertisers, and used the amount of kids on the site as a selling point to target easy ads to them

[@kingofsting19]

@@boredflower KZbin doesn't give a shit about making the world a better place. It cares about making advertisers happy, because it's a private company that wants to make money. And what makes advertisers happy is squeaky clean content that people of any age can listen to. Everyone constantly whining about KZbin's content moderation is really complaining about not being the company's top priority. It's just easier for people who've swallowed a lifetime of capitalist propaganda to blame it on "political correctness" and "cancel culture"

[@paolomartinelli345]

Pointless movie

[@froggysparkles8590]

*bark* *bark* * bark*

[@LoveFactorySweatShop]

Cough cough cough in the nursing home.

[@brady5006]

I thought it was interesting. Plus it was based off of someone's real life.

[@yuchiachen3075]

Your life is pointless

[@mightbeapersonmaybe8379]

How do you determine if a movie is pointless?

[@frankie3010]

Why does he say huwhite man?

[@daddymcfist8538]

Sooo adam driver likes oj ?