spike lee..."eastwood is racists!"

[manu1959]

any thoughts on this......

eastwood left blacks out of both of his films on iwo jima......

spike lee is making a black war movie....wonder how he will portray whites in it....

[stephanie]

I was just watching this on Bill O, with Laura Ingram as as host..

Spike seems like a nut case to me..He is always saying something outrageous.

I don't know about this new claim of his.

[Kathianne]

Some context:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hikJlTUDy35zQ7x5J8LpXidpmZhgD90Q2PIO0



Go to Google News

American director Spike Lee attends the Chopard Trophy party during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)


10 hours ago

CANNES, France (AP) — Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.

Lee — whose next film is this fall's "Miracle at St. Anna," the story of an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during the war — said Eastwood's 2006 movies "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima" were whites-only affairs.

"He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films," Lee said Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was a judge in an online short-film competition.

"Many veterans, African-Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. In his vision of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist. Simple as that. I have a different version," Lee said.

Eastwood was in Cannes for his missing-child drama "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie. At a news conference for the film, a reporter tried to ask for his reaction to Lee's criticism, but the moderator cut her off and told journalists to limit questions to Eastwood's own movie.

Due in U.S. theaters in October, "Miracle at St. Anna" centers on four Americans — played by Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso and Omar Benson Miller — in the Buffalo Soldiers division in Tuscany.
On the Net:

* http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html

[manu1959]

I was just watching this on Bill O, with Laura Ingram as as host..

Spike seems like a nut case to me..He is always saying something outrageous.

I don't know about this new claim of his.

is laura ingram sokin hot .... or is just me......

any way spike always plays the race card when he releases a movie.....pretty brave to fuck with clint though.......

[manu1959]

Some context:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hikJlTUDy35zQ7x5J8LpXidpmZhgD90Q2PIO0

Lee — whose next film is this fall's "Miracle at St. Anna," the story of an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during the war — said Eastwood's 2006 movies "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima" were whites-only affairs.

took spike 2 years to speak up......just in time for his movie to be released.....

[Kathianne]

is laura ingram sokin hot .... or is just me......

any way spike always plays the race card when he releases a movie.....pretty brave to fuck with clint though.......

It must be you, she does nothing for me. Now Dr. Hanson, "fanning myself." LOL!

[manu1959]

It must be you, she does nothing for me. Now Dr. Hanson, "fanning myself." LOL!

ya ...he does nothing for me....must be the penis....

[stephanie]

ya ...he does nothing for me....must be the penis....

:laugh2::laugh2:I laughed out loud.

[Sitarro]

I'm surprised that Spikey hasn't done a movie about the "incredible" Tuskegee airmen...... Oh, that's right someone else did one for HBO. Amazing amount of hype about these guys, seems like it would have been right up Lee's alley.

In 2005 George Lucas was planning on doing a movie about them but he is white so he probably wasn't allowed even though he was just as misinformed as most judging by his quote...... George Lucas announced in 17 May 2005, he was planning a film titled Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen. In his release Lucas said, "They were the only escort fighters during the war that never lost a bomber so they were, like, the best."

Air Force historians have proven that claim to be a lie, as many of the disputed kills claimed by these guys. When the other movie came out I asked my Dad about it (a P-51 fighter pilot)and he told me that it was maybe true, to a degree, since they came into the war in 1944 when the Luftwaffe was down to children flying their fighters. By that time, they were at the point of sending up guys with almost no flight time and empty aircraft to try to ram the Allied bombers. I guess it is suppose to take a lot of skill to shoot down inexperienced, unarmed pilots with no dogfighting abilities. George Lucas thinks so.

Another example of the lifting up of blacks to attempt to make them feel better...... in other words, bullshit.

[hjmick]

Clint Eastwood a racist. I have one word for Spike: Bird (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094747/)

Oh, and someone had better inform Morgan Freeman about Eastwood's racism, they seem to enjoy working together.

[Dilloduck]

is laura ingram sokin hot .... or is just me......

any way spike always plays the race card when he releases a movie.....pretty brave to fuck with clint though.......

You're damn straight she's hot !!!!!:hitit:

[Sitarro]

is laura ingram sokin hot .... or is just me......

any way spike always plays the race card when he releases a movie.....pretty brave to fuck with clint though.......

She is not only physically attractive she has an incredible mind that makes her even hotter, kind of like some of the babes here on DP......... :coffee:

As far as little lee, I think he is just that stupid and also keeps some well paid armed, former football players around him 24/7.

[glockmail]

She is not only physically attractive she has an incredible mind that makes her even hotter, kind of like some of the babes here on DP......... :coffee:

As far as little lee, I think he is just that stupid and also keeps some well paid armed, former football players around him 24/7.

She likes to ride a bike as well. :ssex:

Does Lee hire any white armed football players?
:coffee:

[dan]

Spike Lee courting controversy = Spike Lee has a new movie coming out. It's worked for him since the 80's, why would he stop now?

PS: Laura Ingraham is ugly.

[Yurt]

when are you guys going to learn that only black people can empower themselves and have pride in themselves. white people are not allowed that and your next president belongs to a faith that says "whiteness" must be destroyed.

i did find the two year wait to express "outrage" over this a tad humorous. and just how many black people were involved in the battles? probably less than 1%. regardless, this is a movie based on a book, and if clint wants to address only that aspect, that is his right, just as it is spike's right to create a movie only about blacks.

[dan]

....or he could just be like the millions of other people who saw it and see that it's a story about people, not white people. But, that's not really his style.

Hmmm, constantly looking for a race issue when there's clearly none there? Couldn't that be defined as, I don't know, racism!

Anyway, Eastwood will forever have a bigger impact on cinema than Spike Lee.