Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee, ‘Shut Your Face’
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Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, June 6, 2008 |
Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee are in the middle of a verbal smack-down and it’s not looking pretty… not pretty at all.
Spike Lee recently criticized Clint for not casting one African-American soldier in two of his war movies, “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima.”
“Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen.
If you reporters had any balls you’d ask him why. There’s no way I know why he did that … But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know.”
Lee’s comments came during a press conference to promote his own war film, Miracle at St Anna, at the Cannes film festival last month.
Clint explained to the Guardian,
Whoa!
Eastwood, who described himself as libertarian - “Just stay out of everybody else’s hair” - has a reputation for outspoken remarks. He once said he would kill fellow film-maker Michael Moore if he showed up uninvited at his house. His 2004 double-Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby was criticized by Christian groups who objected to part of the plot involving “assisted suicide”.
Defending the racial make-up in his films as historically accurate, Eastwood referred to another of his films, Changeling, which was set in Los Angeles before the city had a large group of African-Americans.
I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is. When I do a movie and it’s 90% black, like Bird, then I use 90% black people.”
I really had no idea there was so much fire in Clint’s belly. I mean, I know he’s Dirty Harry and all, but really I’m a little shocked.
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I’m African American and I’m so damned tired of the racial divide I could scream. I voted for Barack Obama for Senator, I reside in Chicago. However, I campaigned for Clinton and proudly wore my t-shirt. I was paying over $300 monthly for health insurance over 20 years ago. I heard her speak [with my teenaged daughter] on healthcare reform while my daughter was in high school. She’s now 32! I’m 59. During my life I’ve been Colored, Negro, Black, African American and maybe a few more I can’t remember. There’s no Irish, Italian, German, Polish–just one category. This country is more sexist than it is racist. However, racism comes a close second. I’m so afraid for Obama because “Change” is his platform. The country is run by an elite group of people. I can’t see that group giving up dividends for the fairness to the rest of the citizens in America.
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I’m tired of the whole Blacks are mistreated bullshit.I overheard a blackman talking about someone calling this guy a whiteboy.If they don’t like being called something then it is time they learn people’s names and quit calling them whiteboy.
Whiteboy is no worse then Nigger.How many Caucasians does lame ass Spike Lee hire?WHY is he allowed to do Black oriented movies?RACIST MUTHAFUCKER!!!!!!!