What parts of Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" have occurred in real life?

Even for veteran director Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman is a great movie. Lee received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for the film. It was the first time that he had won an Oscar since coming on the scene in 1986 with She must have it. After several snubs, he will have his shot on the statue.

Meanwhile, BlacKkKlansman will also be selected for the best film and will play six Oscars in total. Aside from rewards, it's a fascinating film for many reasons, and Lee tackles the most intriguing aspect of opening credits. Viewers learn that the story is "based on real, real facts".

But how true is a story about a black detective pretending to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s? This is what Ron Stallworth (the character played by John David Washington) wrote in his memoirs about work in the Colorado Springs police and the targeting of KKK – and how Lee adapted it for his film.

Stallworth definitely infiltrated the KKK with a white detective pretending to be him.

Adam Driver (L) follows the example of John David Washington (R) in 'BlacKkKlansman & # 39; Characteristics of the focus

The basic premise of the movie was in Colorado Springs in the late 1970s. Stallworth wrote to the Klan in response to an ad (a real ad!) Left in the clbadified section of the local newspaper. (In the movie, he makes a call.) When he receives a reminder, Stallworth expresses his interest in joining the Klan.

Stallworth receives an invitation to meet them. He describes a white colleague from the department when the Klan member asks for his description. He sends this cop (played by Adam Driver in the film) to meetings during the investigation that lasted a couple of years.

Stallworth is tied to the great magician David Duke on the phone.

In BlacKkKlansman, there is a hilarious scene in which Stallworth needs to quickly send his KKK membership card. To go faster, he calls the group headquarters and calls the great magician David Duke on the phone. It's actually happened.

The real Stallworth described it in an interview with Time. After this initial contact, Stallworth and Duke chatted occasionally over the phone. Stallworth described Duke as "a very nice guy" and "a very nice talker".

However, he does not seem to be terribly brilliant. Duke told Stallworth that he was surprised to see how well the Colorado Spring cops were organized to stage the local KKK rallies. Duke never suspected that someone had infiltrated the group.

But Stallworth's partner was not Jewish.

Adam Driver and John Driver in 'BlacKkKlansman & # 39; Characteristics of the focus

BlacKkKlansman is the weakest when he is interested in the Jewish identity (or lack thereof) of the character of the driver, Flip. Some strange scenes follow, including one in which a member of the Klan reveals that he has a polygraph machine (lie detector) in his basement. He tells Flip that he needs to know for sure that he's not Jewish.

Then he tells Flip that he will have to drop his pants to prove he is not circumcised. In real life, Stallworth's partner was not Jewish. All these scenes have been added by Lee and his co-authors, reported PolitiFact. But many viewers would presumably presume that someone with a polygraph in his basement was not "real," anyway.

Stallworth actually worked as Duke's bodyguard on his trip to Colorado.

If you asked us to guess if Stallworth was working as Duke's bodyguard in real life or if it was a fictional extension, we would definitely choose fiction. However, this really happened during one of Duke's trips to Colorado Springs. (Stallworth said that he was "nice in person.")

Even the part where Stallworth puts his arm around Duke for a photo took place. According to Stallworth, Duke was angry about this moment. Unfortunately, Stallworth lost the picture. (However, he kept his KKK membership card as a souvenir.)

There was no bombing.

At the end of BlacKkKlansmanKlan members plan to bomb a rally of black students before being thwarted by Stallworth and the cops. It never happened. "There was no real bombing during my investigation," Stallworth told Time.

During this time, no cross was burned during the seven months of the investigation. By sending cops to places where the Klan was hoping to make a statement, Stallworth preempted some KKK activities. He said that he "had prevented three [burnings]. "

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