Directors are taking a page from the rap game; they are starting rivalries. Spike Lee made a comment a little while back about how there are no black folks in Clint Eastwood's recent war films. Eastwood responded by saying that Spike should "shut his face"
Then Spike said that this "was not a plantation" so he wouldn't shut his mouth.
I know as a minority a person becomes hyper sensitive to racisim so much so that you can become nit-picky. I have a feeling Spike would agree to being hyper-sensitive, but I doubt Eastwood would consciously be trying to diss blacks or any other race. He may very well be a racist at home but being racist in public is just not cool to show anymore.
I remember awhile back Spike went at Tarantino for using the word nigger so much in Pulp Fiction. On a Charlie Rose episode Tarantino responded that as a writer he has the right to write whatever he wants as long as it was truthfully, growing up he knew people who spoke that way he told Charlie Rose. They have since then resolved their differences Tarantino even made a cameo in Spike's movie Girl 6
This is the poster for Spike's next film. The story is about four black soldiers during WWII that are left behind when one of them saves a small Italian boy.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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