right turn Clyde ...
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!!!!!!!?
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.
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. ??
Memo To Spike Lee:
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Lee remains just another loathsome anti-Semite and America-hater.
So what’s stopping Spike from making his own movie?
Anyone on this thread a historian of Iwo Jima or a Pacific War expert?
In the months preceding the Iwo invasion, the Japanese used at least 10,000 Korean “conscripts” to help dig the cave and tunnel network on the island.
Historically, that seems to be the end of the story.
Anyone here know how the Koreans were treated, or how many Koreans died, or where they went after Iwo, or what ultimately happened to them?
The movie was a weak version of the book................. but adding black troops to it would have been ridiculous, and farcical.
Spike has a movie coming out and needs to gin up some “buzz”. Since Clint is (imho) the finest living actor and film maker in the world I’d think he would shrug this off or have an associate respond. Spike must have hit a nerve so Clint took the bait and shot back regardless that it plays into Spike’s hands.
Peleliu and Iwo Jima
When the 1st Marine Division, on 15 September 1944, attacked the heavily defended island of Peleliu in the Palau group, the 16th Field Depot supported the assault troops. The field depot included two African-American units, the 11th Marine Depot Company and the 7th Marine Ammunition Company. The 11th Marine Depot Company responded beyond the call of duty and paid the price, 17 wounded, the highest casualty rate of any company of African-American Marines during the entire war. Major General William H. Rupertus, who commanded the 1st Marine Division, sent identical letters of commendation to the commanders of both companies, praising the black Marines for their "whole hearted cooperation and untiring efforts" which "demonstrated in every respect" that they "appreciate the privilege of wearing a Marine uniform and serving with Marines in combat."
Black combat support units also took part in the assault on Iwo Jima, where, as at Peleliu, their presence confounded the policy of segregation. Because of the random intermingling of white and black units, an African-American Marine, carrying a box of supplies, dived into a shell hole occupied by white Marines, one of whom gave him a cigarette before he scrambled out with his load and ran forward. Here, too, black stewards and members of the depot and ammunition companies came to the aid of the wounded. A white Marine, Robert F. Graf, who lay in a tent awaiting evacuation for further medical treatment, remembered that: "Two black Marines . . . ever so gently . . . placed me on a stretcher and carried me outside to a waiting DUKW."
At Iwo Jima, the 8th Marine Ammunition Company and the 33d, 34th, and 36th Marine Depot Companies served as part of the shore party of the V Amphibious Corps. Elements of the ammunition company and the 36th Depot Company landed on D-Day, 19 February 1945, and within three days all the units were ashore, braving Japanese fire as they struggled in the volcanic sand to unload and stockpile ammunition and other supplies, and move the cargo inland. Eleven black enlisted Marines and one of the white officers were wounded, two of the enlisted men fatally.
Lee should get a copy of 1952’s “Red Ball Express” which featured numerous black actors as army drivers and mechanics including a twentyfive year old Sidney Poitier.
But really, this isn’t about anything other than publicity for Lee and his next movie.
