Posted on 05/24/2008 1:26:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Veteran actor and director Clint Eastwood rejected criticism from fellow U.S. director Spike Lee that his films "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" failed to recognize the role of African-American soldiers.
In an interview with Germany's Focus magazine, Eastwood said it was nonsense to suggest he had "erased the role of black GIs from history". He said there were no Afro-Americans in those films because there were no Afro-American soldiers involved.
"Does he know anything about American history?" Eastwood told Focus when asked about Lee's criticism. "The U.S. military was segregated til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
"The story was about the men who raised the flag and we can't make them black if they were not there. So tell him: Why don't you go back and study your history and stop mouthing off!"
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Ha! Good for Clint. Its about time somebody told Lee off.
Rhetorical question, I'm sure. Spike knows nothing about anothing other than how to make bad movies and play the race card.
Obviously Clint Eastwood is a racist. < /liberal>
Go Clint.
OK,... now Spike Lee is really in Trouble. He’s attacking the John Wayne.
“Very few Hollywood films deal with black soldiers,” Lee said. “For the most part, if you look at the history of Hollywood cinema they haven’t dealt with anybody other than white Americans. If you think Hollywood and World War Two, you think John Wayne — the great white male that saved the world.”
Popcorn.
Where’s my popcorn?!
HAS ANYONE SEEN MY POPCORN!!!!!!!?
can’t - find - my - POPCORN!!!!!!!?
That would solve a lot of problems if people would do it.
“If you think Hollywood and World War Two, you think John Wayne — the great white male that saved the world.””
oooo...that’s bordering on blasphemy....Dang! Some people hate us having any hero’s don’t they?
Yeah, Lee only knows the American history "he" wants to portray.
Besides the story had nothing to do with race, that's why Lee is such an ignoranamous. In Lee's wrapped mind I guess you have to "recognize" race in every movie.
I’m watching Flags of our fathers tonite
Gotta love Clint Eastwood.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. .................... That shows Clintwood did his research. Ira Hays wasn’t white but he was there as one of the flag raisers, and that is what the whole movie was about. This is not to say there were no blacks, its just that they were there as CSS troops and were not in the offensive operation as being front line troops. They were however involved in sporadic rear enemy remnant action. Those actions had nothing to do with the actual flag raising unless you consider the passing of ammo to the troops at the beach. ??
Even worse,
Do you know how much Spike has given to preserving the history of the 92nd Inf Div http://www.swabuffalosoldiers.org/index.html or any other prominent national Black organization or figure?
Not one moment!
Not one word!
Not one penny!!!
Spike is all mouth and no Moxie.
Memo To Spike Lee:
Click the Pic
Lee remains just another loathsome anti-Semite and America-hater.
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