Reply #71: ah, this thread is so predictable [View All]

OP poses the question of Clint Eastwood being racist, and offers a link to a story in which mentions Spike Lee. Bring on the outrage, as defensive posters jump to Eastwood's defense and attack Spike Lee as though he had claimed that Eastwood was a racist: Spike is irrelevant, is a racist himself, is a hack, needs to find something "useful" to complain about, etc. Spike ought to make a movie about the segregated army! Oh, he is? Well then he's just as bad for making a "movie with all black people." :eyes:

Of course, Spike Lee didn't invent this criticism out of thin air--African American veterans (and others) raised the issue when the movies first came out.

I can't imagine why Black veterans who risked their lives at Iwo Jima would want to point out that they were actually there in real life, unlike the widely-acclaimed films--must be because they're "oversensitive" :eyes:

Anyway, Godard said that the best way to perform film criticism is to make another film--sounds like that's what Spike Lee is doing. I find it hard to see what's wrong with that.