WATCH: Three clips from Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ featuring John David Washington, Topher Grace, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier

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Focus Features has dropped three clips from the upcoming Spike Lee joint BlacKkKlansman and I’ve got them here for you.

BlacKkKlansman tells the 1970s era true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington),the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out, including Academy Award winner Jordan Peele and Jason Blum. The film won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Cannes Review: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is Spike Lee’s best film in over a decade

In the first clip, “America First,” Topher Grace as KKK Grand Wizard espouses white supremacy’s most famous credo, ‘America First,’ which we’ve heard directly from the current president’s mouth in an effort to work up his rabid fan base. “Today we are privileged to be among white men, and white women, such as yourselves,” Duke says, toasting with a glass of champagne.

In the next clip, “The President,” Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) flirts with Black Student Union President Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier) before a speech from Brother Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) in Colorado Springs, CO.

The third clip features Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) arguing the virtues of the job versus the crusade and Zimmerman’s ability to “pass” even though he’s hit with anti-semitic discrimination from local rednecks and Klan members.

Focus Features will release BlacKkKlansman nationwide on August 10th. Follow my Oscar predictions for the film here.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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