Jim Brown played "Robert Jefferson"
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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I thought he was referring to Kelly’s Heroes.
“Does he know anything about American history?”
He probably knows what is ebing passed off as “American History” in public school classrooms today.
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.
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
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!!!!
Uh, the top pick is from “Apocalypse Now”
And, for bonus points, name the actor.
One of the finest war movies EVER MADE.
Very sobering.
In short, Mr. Lee, have you really read up on your history?
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?
Spike hasn’t made a movie that worth watching in over 20 years.
Miserable racist trapped in his own hell.
Here is the Full Metal Jacket shot:
Bump
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.
What a great movie...
Spike Lee...another under-talented, over-paid publicity hound.
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 ..."
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".
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