Clint Eastwood And Spike Lee Continue To Spar
- By Jason Bennett
- Published 06/6/2008
- Movie Star News
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Feuding With Spike Lee Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee continued their verbal assault on one another on Friday. This time it was Eastwood who was doing the shot taking. In an interview in today's Guardian newspaper, Eastwood let lose of Lee.
"What are you gonna do, you gonna tell a f***in story about that? Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's ninety percent black, like 'Bird', I use ninety percent black people," said Eastwood.
He was referring to his latest film with Angelina Jolie
Eastwood insists that Lee missed the point of his films. "Has he ever studied the history. That was his version. The Negro version did not exist," said Eastwood. He also went on in the interview to say, "A guy like him should shut his face."
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3 Responses to "Clint Eastwood And Spike Lee Continue To Spar" 
said this on 06 Jun 2008 2:40:08 PM UTC
why don't spike lee made a war film full of blacks and see if the whites will complain or other races that were part of war's history.
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said this on 10 Jun 2008 5:20:10 AM UTC
It seems that Lee is trying to stir up the pot and gain some publicity. If history does not place black soldiers at the flag raising, then they weren't there. Simple as that. It's true that black Americans served in a number of capacities during WWII and received little recognition for it. Shame on our nation for doing that to them. As far as these two movies are concerned, leave Eastwood alone, and stop pulling the race card. It just shows your ignorance and lack of a genuine argument. The movies weren't that good anyway.
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said this on 08 Jun 2008 10:00:59 PM UTC
Spike has now proved himself to be a card-carrying dumb*ss. He's being quoted in the Guardian as saying:"For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ... no one said that. It's just that there's not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that's why I made that observation."What a bafoon. There were six in the Rosenthal scene and five at the first flag raising.
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