step three i'm every woman exercise (3:00)
Before you watch Chi-Raq write down 10 questions about leadership you are interested to explore in the film. These questions might relate to the relationship between gender and leadership across time or questions about how the reworking an ancient play (as Lee does) is itself an act of leadership.
Matching the cast of Chi-Raq with the characters in Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Select five characters from Chi-Raq and identify one important similarity and difference with a character from Lysistrata.
- Nick Cannon as Demetrius "Chi-raq" Dupree
- Wesley Snipes as Sean "Cyclops" Andrews
- Teyonah Parris as Lysistrata
- Anya Engel-Adams as Rasheeda
- Jennifer Hudson as Irene
- Angela Bassett as Miss Helen Worthy
- John Cusack as Fr. Mike Corridan
- Samuel L. Jackson as Dolmedes
- Michelle Mitchenor as Indigo
- D. B. Sweeney as Mayor McCloud
- Harry Lennix as Commissioner Blades
- La La Anthony as Hecuba
- Felicia Pearson as Dania
- Dave Chappelle as Morris
- Steve Harris as Ole Duke
- David Patrick Kelly as General King Kong
- Anthony Chisholm as Mr. Doctor Aesop
- Isiah Whitlock, Jr. as Bacchos