Monday, June 9, 2008
Clint Eastwood doesn't put up with Spike Lee's shit.
Old Spiko wants to rewrite history by criticising Clint Eastwood's film about Iwo Jima. Spike wanted more black dudes who werent there. Clint doesn't put up with that revisionist crap. Access Hollywood reports:
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Spike Lee has hit back at Clint Eastwood’s recent suggestion to “shut his face,” by claiming the Oscar winner sounds like “an angry old man.”
“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re n
Spike Lee has hit back at Clint Eastwood’s recent suggestion to “shut his face,” by claiming the Oscar winner sounds like “an angry old man.”
“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re n
ot on a plantation either,” he told ABCNews.com. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”
Lee seemed to start what has now become a public exchange of criticism in May at the Cannes Film Festival, by calling out Eastwood for his lack of black faces in his two World War II films — “Flags of our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima.”
“He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films,” Lee told reporters last month. “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.”
On Friday, Eastwood’s response ran in UK newspaper The Guardian. The veteran actor and director claimed Lee was not up on his facts when he made the comments
Eastwood said there were black troops in Iwo Jima, “but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that.”
“If I go ahead and put an African American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate,” Eastwood added.
I'm with Clint on this one and frankly somebody needs to tell Spike Lee to shut the fuck up. Ok, I'll do it...Spike, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
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