Posted on 04/20/2014 11:49:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
*Famed film director Spike Lee has expressed his desire to see the Trayvon Martin story told on the big screen.
During an interview with theGrio, Lee commended 27-year-old new director Ryan Coogler for bringing his acclaimed independent film, “Fruitvale Station,” the Oscar Grant story, to the big screen. He expressed his admiration for the film while stating that the film business isn’t built in favor of young directors like Coogler to succeed.
“Love it…. It’s great,” Lee said of Fruitvale Station. “But it’s something that I have been doing for 15 year [sic]. I teach film. That is my job to help young filmmakers to become professionals in this tough business, so I’m happy for him…I’m happy for any young filmmaker that gets their first feature film made, because Lord knows the odds are against you. This business is not set up for young people to succeed.”
The similarities between Oscar Grant’s story and Trayvon Martin’s are very apparent in how both left thousands of people around the country still demanding justice.
Similar to Grant’s story, Lee touched on the need for having a story like Trayvon’s turned into a film.
“I’m not saying that I’m going to do it, but I hope that there is something,” the Malcom X director said. “The first thing I think is there should be a documentary [about Trayvon Martin] before they do a narrative of it. I’m not saying that I’m doing either, I’m just saying that I would like to see it.”
“This thing is not over yet,” he continued. ” So I don’t even know if it would be the right time to start, because it’s not over yet. Hopefully there will be some more time in court.”
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
LOL!
Hmmmm. chris rock as tres-gone and schwarenegger as the Zimm-master? Ain’t casting wonderful?
Working Title: Steve Urkul meets the Klan
Spike Loo might want to see it, but like the rest of his films, no one else will.
Any movie produced by Hollywierd about Trayvon Martin would be a huge propaganda piece and a lie.
" We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin." - President of the United States Barack Hussein 0bama
Unbelievable!
..when the snow & ice finally give way & Black on Black murder blossom.
Why couldn’t we get this onto billboards??
Some rich conservatives are going to have to HELP. There is so much societal info the uninformed never get to see.
Spike Lee and his `Party of the People’ could make a murder of crows blush with shame:
Lee and Harry Reid are worth millions (Lee, 40 million more or less, celebrityworth.com) but they figure if they bitch a little louder louder and slander working people by calling them racists (”The Man, keepin’ us down!”) and terrorists ( greedy ranchers trying to keep their land) they can pad their bank accounts even more.
Bring it on you greedy demo-pigs.
If a conservative filmmaker made it, it could be hilarious.
First of all, get a white actor to portray Trayvon, without any explanation. George Zimmerman portrayed by a black actor.
And then be very true to the events. The radical racialists would poop themselves.
George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts
George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts
George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2876518/posts
Snookie as Rachel Jeantel...
Not the gal from Precious?
Of course he’d like to see it. If there’s a scene of a black guy pounding a white guy into the pavement, he’d like to put that on a video loop and watch it 24/7.
Yes, I know. But the idea is one of race-reversal, which throws a monkey-wrench into the idea that Zimmerman acted out of racial motives.
Importantly, the movie could begin with the white Trayvon’s misbehavior in school, involvement with burglary, and his gangsta attitude, as well as his violence and consumption of drugs and Purple Drank. He is unsympathetic.
I would like to raise George Zimmerman to Sainthood.
George Zimmerman is the Roman Catholic Saint of Self Defense.
Now that’s funny!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.