Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Eastwood Rejects Lee's Criticism of His WW2 Films
reuters.com ^ | May 23, 2008

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!"

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: hollywood; makemyday; race; racebaiting; wwii
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-102 next last
To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought he was referring to Kelly’s Heroes.


41 posted on 05/24/2008 2:44:53 PM PDT by sportutegrl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

“Does he know anything about American history?”

He probably knows what is ebing passed off as “American History” in public school classrooms today.


42 posted on 05/24/2008 2:49:31 PM PDT by MissEdie (On the Sixth Day God created Spurrier)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

When (Spike Lee) aka the “poster boy for bigotry” opens his yap, I simply laugh and move on. He’s a joke. Mr. Eastwood doesn’t owe him an explanation or apology. Read your history books, Mr. Lee. That’s the “right thing” to do.


43 posted on 05/24/2008 2:52:28 PM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Black
Dirty Dozen (1967)

Jim Brown played "Robert Jefferson"


44 posted on 05/24/2008 2:53:35 PM PDT by ktime
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: zeestephen
http://www.counterpunch.org/reed02022006.html

In the years after 1939, the historians calculate, the Korean numbers in Japan swelled to over a million -- their figure is 1,120,000 -- although Tokyo's official government number is only 724,287. The miners' task was to descend into difficult seams to dig coal shipped exclusively for military use......Most workers suffered malnutrition, as they received only a handful of rice a month supplemented by inferior cereals. No meat was provided, for what is a more carnivorous people than the Japanese, who to this day prefer fish

45 posted on 05/24/2008 2:56:58 PM PDT by Bommer (There's an (R) next to his name! I must trash my principles & beliefs and vote for the (R)!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Eastwood Rejects Lee’s Criticism of His WW2 Films...

just wait until b. HUSSEIN is POTUS.....the blacks single handidly will have won the war while the shiftless whites were too busy trying to go after da loose ho’s!!!!


46 posted on 05/24/2008 2:57:42 PM PDT by nyyankeefan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ktime
Let's not forget a little movie called "Glory (1989)"

Spike Lee is a racist ass who exposed his lack of education.

Denzel Washington as "Pvt Trip".


47 posted on 05/24/2008 2:58:46 PM PDT by ktime
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Jack Black

Uh, the top pick is from “Apocalypse Now”

And, for bonus points, name the actor.


48 posted on 05/24/2008 3:01:18 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: ktime

One of the finest war movies EVER MADE.

Very sobering.


49 posted on 05/24/2008 3:01:56 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Bringbackthedraft
During World War II, the only prominent blacks involved in combat were supply battalions operating just behind the front line of advancing American troops on the ground and the famous all-black 332nd Fighter Group. It wasn't until President Truman integrated the military that blacks became involved directly in combat, starting with the Korean War.

In short, Mr. Lee, have you really read up on your history?

50 posted on 05/24/2008 3:02:43 PM PDT by RayChuang88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Blindingly stupid. It’s a simple historical fact that the military wasn’t integrated in WWII.

I guess Lee is one of those people who wanted black people in Titanic, too. And some of the Spartans in 300 should have been black, also. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—no black people either. What’s up with that?


51 posted on 05/24/2008 3:06:12 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Spike hasn’t made a movie that worth watching in over 20 years.


52 posted on 05/24/2008 3:07:05 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
You KNOW it sucks being Shelton Jackson Lee aka “Spike” Lee.

Miserable racist trapped in his own hell.

53 posted on 05/24/2008 3:10:18 PM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJSAMPLE
Some how my posting got messed up. That's Lawrence Fishburne in "Apocolypse Now". He played the draftee wacked out on acid on the boat. It was his first movie role, and he was 14!

Here is the Full Metal Jacket shot:


54 posted on 05/24/2008 3:11:40 PM PDT by Jack Black
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Fiddlstix

Bump


55 posted on 05/24/2008 3:16:17 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

If Lee the mouth-breather doesn’t like it then make his own movie and watch it tank at the box office.

He is a talentless hack who only makes movies about bad white folks and “oppressed black folks”, gee why not expand your horizons and make a movie someone would actually like to watch.


56 posted on 05/24/2008 3:19:57 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ktime
"Glory (1989)"

What a great movie...

57 posted on 05/24/2008 3:20:48 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: D_Idaho

Spike Lee...another under-talented, over-paid publicity hound.


58 posted on 05/24/2008 3:21:34 PM PDT by kittymyrib
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
So tell him: Why don't you go back and study your history and stop mouthing off!"

Alternate line: "I know what you're thinking, 'did he include six Blacks or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself ..."

59 posted on 05/24/2008 3:34:39 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Just because you're running for President doesn't mean that you are the center of the universe")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SandRat
“Very few Hollywood films deal with black soldiers,” Lee said.

You notice how Spike Lee always criticizes movies he has no interest in making. And then he criticizes white directors for making movies about the "black experience".

60 posted on 05/24/2008 3:40:41 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dear Dems, please let the Americans drill for oil So Others Might Eat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-102 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson