Posted on 06/06/2008 4:23:42 AM PDT by Bodhi1
Eastwood has no time for Lee's gripes. "He was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. 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." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. 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." Lee shouldn't be demanding African-Americans in Eastwood's next picture, either. Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx. "What are you going to do, you gonna tell a [edited] story about that?" he growls. "Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people."
Eastwood pauses, deliberately - once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho - and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies. "A guy like him should shut his face."
(Excerpt) Read more at film.guardian.co.uk ...
Bump for an excellent read all the way through.
Lucky for us we have Clint around to talk serious to the limpwristed wussyboys.
I was feeling down by Charlton Heston’s passing. I guess I’ll have to look to Clint for encouragement now.
Of course in the first three Die Hard movies none of the bad guys were terrorists. They were thieves and mercenaries. The last one had a motivation where Muslim terrorists wouldn't fit.
You sure that wasn't Auschwitz? :)
and finally to Czechoslovakia
The Czechs in Pilzen are still grateful, despite the communists trying to wipe out that knowledge during the Cold War. They hold a liberation festival every year. US veterans of the liberation are extremely welcome, and your uncle probably won't be allowed to pay for a beer or a meal.
Get ready little lady. Hell's coming to breakfast!
That would be great, except my uncle passed away in 1966, he was only 54 at the time. Guess I should have posted 'my late uncle'.
Sorry to hear that. Still, you could go with pictures of your uncle and stories of how he fought there. You will probably be accorded the same hospitality. They do it every year. And if you're a beer drinker the original Budweiser beer is in plentiful supply there (and a whole lot better than the version here), besides, pilsner beer is named after the city.
That “guy” later reformed and became Walker’s sidekick. Chuck Norris is going to kick your ass.
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Chuck ought to kick his own ass for endorsing the liberal Huckster.
"I know history. I'm a student of history".
"For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ... no one said that".
So, Spike knows history huh? Spike knows about the MOST FAMOUS PHOTO in all of World War 2 huh? Spike believes there were four Marine flag raisers in that photo. Such an embarrassment for someone like him with his sharp Hollywood director's eye and all.
Hey Spike. You are an ignorant race baiting pimp. And your "knowledge of history" is offensive to the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman in that glorious photo.
There were black marines at Iwo.
To quote the National Park Service
African-American troops played a significant role in the capture of Iwo Jima. Negro drivers served in the Army DUKW units active throughout the landing. Black Marines of the 8th Ammunition Company and the 36th Depot Company landed on D-day, served as stevedores on those chaotic beaches, and were joined by the 33d and 34th Depot Companies on D+3. These Marines were incorporated into the VAC Shore Party which did Herculean work sustaining the momentum of the American drive northwards. When Japanese counterattacks penetrated to the beach areas, these Marines dropped their cargo, unslung their carbines, and engaged in well-disciplined fire and maneuver, inflicting more casualties than they sustained. Two Marines, Privates James W. Whitlock and James Davis, received the Bronze Star. Said Colonel Leland S. Swindler, commanding the VAC Shore Party, the entire body of black Marines “conducted themselves with marked coolness and courage.”
None noted on flag detail, however.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003131-00/sec6.htm
But that said, Spike Lee is still a racist moron.
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