Posted on 10/13/2005 1:45:24 PM PDT by reelfoot
Spike Lee is to produce and direct a documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for HBO, Variety reports. Provisionally entitled When the Levee Broke, early indications suggest it will continue Lee's tradition of polemical films addressing the US's fraught race relations. Lee has never been one to shy away from controversy, with films such as Do The Right Thing, about a race riot in Brooklyn; Jungle Fever, taking a contentious look at mixed-race love affairs, and his eponymous Malcolm X biopic. When the Levee Broke is currently waiting to go into production while Lee completes work on thriller The Inside Man, starring Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen. But an interview earlier this week gave an early pointer to the line he is likely to take. The poor, black neighbourhoods of New Orleans suffered particularly badly after the devastating hurricane struck at the end of August. During an appearance on CNN this week, to promote his memoir That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, Lee was asked about the conspiracy theories that the largely black Ninth ward of the city had been deliberately flooded by authorities.
He said: "I don't put anything past the United States government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."
The film will be Lee's second documentary for the cable TV and film producer HBO. It follows 1997's 4 Little Girls, which revisited the 1963 bombing of a black Alabama church that killed four children
Gee, I can't wait. Will P. Diddy be making a cameo?
I don't suppose Spike will be playing up the fact that many of the horror stories we heard were pure media sensationalism.
It seems appropriate here, somehow.
Mr. Lee would present an accurate portrayal of the events- I'd watch with huge interest
but
if it's like the stupid lies michael moore puts out- well -I will not.
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If a white person had shown such contempt for mixed race couples as this man has -- they'd be lynched (literally). And no movie studio in the world would touch him.
Since this is Spike Lee of course, the rules are different. What a putz he is. I'm sure though the message of the movie is: "Bush is racist". Good ole Spike should look in the mirror someday.
The relevant quote from Spike comes from an Oct. 1992 Esquire magazine article. Lee said, "I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street."
As per Larry Elder's book "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America".
He's already said he believes Calypso Louie, that will NOT be a documentary anymore than a M.Moore version.
Ollie Stone is gonna do "9/11", that should be another real winner. < sarcasm ON >
I can't wait to see the cannabalism scenes!
700 phantom police to collect free money? Enough buses within a mile and a half to evacuate all in both entities. Blanco refuses to call in the National Guard. 500 police deserters. Rapes,Murder, plunder totally over reported, on and on . I am sure that the crap from Spike will explain all these situations.
Dude, it's HBO. They crron over guys like Spike Lee and Bill Maher. I gave up HBO because they are liberal shills.
On this Tuesday, the Heritage Foundation featured a forum of some black conservatives. Included were Rev. Jesse Peterson, Shelby Steel, and three others.
They dealt with several interesting questions, and I learned a lot about the range of points of view, from these people.
None of them think Bush blew up the levees, or that racism played any part in the way this natural disaster was handled, as far as rescuing people.
The program was on Cspan.
"The relevant quote from Spike comes from an Oct. 1992 Esquire magazine article. Lee said, "I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street."
LOL
Wooooooo! I'm scared.....
"Daggers"...........
This dude is like what?.... five foot nuthin' and 115 pounds soaking wet, right?
Serious case of SMS goin' on there Spike.
You should have attached a 'homicidal-nut-case-mega-left-wing-hypocrite-projectile-vomiting-alert' tag to the article title...
;>)
The guy's a professional racist.
Precisely taxed2death. Always what I thought (re: SMS). Plus he looks like a nerd who must've gotten beaten up a lot as a child. Possibly by the product of an interracial coupling. LOL.
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