Bamboozled had a huge spot for representation throughout the film. Representation is a way for symbols, pictures, and sign to be associated with an idea. In Bamboozled, the black men are shown as unintelligent, desperate, and willing to do anything. They show this by using stereotypes and "black face." The main characters were displayed as poor, uneducated, and desperate. The film uses the house band and calls them "Alabama Porch Monkeys," I mean come on! Spike Lee is displaying the ideas of discrimination and racism throughout the US. They set the "show" in a watermelon patch and give every actor black face so they appear to be the darkest skin color of black possible.
Each character had a very strong identity. Delliqua(sp) was shown as a tv writer desperate to make it big, he was considered an "oreo" and was displayed as a very high class, "white" acting black man. The boss, was shown with the identity of being a "black lover" and claimed he was blacker than Deliqua, noting he grew up in Brooklyn. These identities are extremely strong and are displayed in the most derogatory way possible.
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