Grab the refreshments everybody! It's about to become a geritol-infused Celebrity Deathmatch! Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee are acting all UFC-esque ever since Spike Lee recently criticized Clint for not including black soldiers in two of his war movies, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwa Gima."
While out promoting his own war film, "Miracle St. Anna," Spike told reporters, "Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why. There's no way I know why he did that ... But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It's not like he didn't know."
And what did papaw have to say about Lee's accusations? "The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people'd go: 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate. A guy like him should shut his face." Damn that sound like fighting words to me. Take that Spike! The ball's in your court to retaliate. I don't think people would have been upset if there were black soldiers in the films. besides, name an American who actually cracks open a book and reads anymore.
Anyways, Clint went on to tell the Guardian, "I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a movie and it's 90% black, like Bird, then I use 90% black people. He was complaining when I did Bird. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else."
Clint needs to stop right there! Everyone with a fucking brain knows history was written with a certain bias in mind. So even if there were blacks fighting in the war (which more than likely they were), then why would they be given credit. i would think Clint would be smarter than that.
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