Clint v. Spike

[Moon Man]

Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should 'Shut His Face'

Friday, June 06, 2008

Clint Eastwood says Spike Lee should "shut his face" about the lack of African-Americans in "Flags of Our Fathers."

"Has he ever studied the history?" Eastwood asked the U.K.'s Guardian in an interview published on Friday.

While promoting his own war movie, "Miracle at St. Anna," about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought the Germans in Italy during World War II, Lee said Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie "Flags of Our Fathers" lacked a single African-American.

"There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in 'Flags' or 'Letters From Iwo Jima']. That was his version: The negro soldier did not exist. I have a different version," Lee said recently at the Cannes film festival in France.

In response, Eastwood told the Guardian: "A guy like him should shut his face."

"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 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."

Moon

[Guppy]

Clint would kick Spike's ass.

[drobny23]

The director of "White Men Can't Jump" is a Race Relations Expert!

[Reggie Cleveland]

The director of "White Men Can't Jump" is a Race Relations Expert!

Great moviemaker, but the fucker thinks he's Frederick Douglass.

[Moon Man]

The director of "White Men Can't Jump" is a Race Relations Expert!

Uh....um...oh, nevermind.

Moon

[kennyboyerfan]

Spike should have created some white buddies for Malcolm X.

You know, of all the places one might look for racism, the cast of Flag of Our Fathers wouldn't seem to be the most logical, but that's why Spike's a genius.

[backstop]

Just go with it.

You, my friend, are shooting for the Sudan.

[Iowa_Card]

Apparently Spike Lee's brain doesn't know it's limitations.

[Moon Man]

Spike Lee's gotta lot of nerve. You know, he could occasionally cast someone other than John Turturro to play the token white guy.

Moon

[moedrabowsky]

And yet Spike has been so evenhanded with the Italian-American community.

As far as I'm concerned, Spike Lee is nothing but dogshit. And a lot of things can happen to dogshit -- it can dry up and blow away in the wind, it can be scraped up with a shovel or it can be stepped on and squashed. Spike should take my advice and be careful where the dog shits him.

[Schwahalala]

Spike should have created some white buddies for Malcolm X.

You know, of all the places one might look for racism, the cast of Flag of Our Fathers wouldn't seem to be the most logical, but that's why Spike's a genius.

You obviously never saw the movie -

He had a white girlfriend....

Just saying.

[kennyboyerfan]

And yet Spike has been so evenhanded with the Italian-American community.

As far as I'm concerned, Spike Lee is nothing but dogshit. And a lot of things can happen to dogshit -- it can dry up and blow away in the wind, it can be scraped up with a shovel or it can be stepped on and squashed.

Or, in a John Waters movie, it can be....nevermind. Too close to lunch.

[Reggie Cleveland]

Clint threated to kick Michael Moore's ass, too.

How much better can this get?

[moedrabowsky]

Or, in a John Waters movie, it can be....nevermind. Too close to lunch.

Mentioning Waters already did the trick.

Thanks a lot.

[moedrabowsky]

Clint threated to kick Michael Moore's ass, too.

How much better can this get?

He could shoot Dick Cheney in the face?