Clint to Spike: Shut yer face

[DesertFox]

Clint Eastwood has advised rival film director Spike Lee to "shut his face" after the African-American complained about the racial make-up of Eastwood's films.

In an interview with the Guardian published today, Eastwood rejected Lee's complaint that he had failed to include a single African-American soldier in his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.

In typically outspoken language, Eastwood justified his choice of actors, saying that those black troops who did take part in the battle as part of a munitions company didn't raise the flag. The battle is known by the image of US marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.

"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." Referring to Lee, he added: "A guy like him should shut his face."

More (http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2284235,00.html)

[DeclinetoState]

Eastwood would do the world a favor by shutting Lee's face for him, if you know what I mean.

[TeenageRepublican]

I wouldn't mess with Clint Eastwood. Especially after seeing the Dirty Harry flicks.
Do you feel lucky, punk?

[LivingDeadGirl]

:claps:Good for Clint! Someone finally has the schitzpah to tell Spike where to shove it!

[Wolfcounsel]

"I wouldn't mess with Clint Eastwood." --TeenageRepublican

He is an actor. The same as that duo of "heroes"-- Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Try not messing with Carlos Norris instead.:evilgrin:

[Beowulf]

Spike Lee is from the Jesse Jackson school of playing the race card and nothing more!

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Dirty Harry comes clean (http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html)

(It's a long article, but worth the read)

Clint Eastwood talks to Jeff Dawson about race, euthanasia, politicians, capital punishment - and how he really feels about the 'fascist' role that made him famous . . .

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The "he" is Spike Lee, and the reason Eastwood is asking is because of something Lee had said about Eastwood's Iwo Jima movie Flags of Our Fathers, while promoting his own war movie, Miracle at St Anna, about a black US unit in the second world war. Lee had noted the lack of African-Americans in Eastwood's movie and told reporters: "That was his version. The negro version did not exist."

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"What are you going to do, you gonna tell a ****in' 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."

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

My other favorite parts:

"Eastwood still likes to let his views be known, often forcefully. In 2005, he vowed he'd kill Michael Moore if the documentarian ever showed up at his house, the way he had doorstepped Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine."

But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist. "I don't pay attention to either side," he claims. "I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. So I believe in that value of smaller government. Give politicians power and all of a sudden they'll misuse it on ya."

[Kathy30]

Eastwood should let Lee spout off and expose his ignorance to the world. Spike Lee complained that the Japanese army in Letters from Iwo Jima didn't have black soldiers.

[DesertFox]

As a devotee of the "get ignorant" school of black self-improvement, Spike knows all he intends to know and if you don't like it, it's because you're a raciss honky moh foh.

[DesertFox]

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