Spike Lee vs Clint Eastwood?

It wasn't about blacks raising the flag.....it was about no blacks in the movie. From what I understand however there was only one black battalion at the location. A small munitions group. So not including them means nothing......they weren't involved in the battles depicted in the movie.

There was a small unit of African American in Iwo Jima but Flags of our Fathers was about the soldiers who took part in the flag raising, which includes a Native American, and Letter From Iwo Jima was the story of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. So for the first movie he might had a point if the movie were about the battle of Iwo Jima in general but it wasn't. And for the 2nd movie unless there were black soldiers fighting for the Japanese Spike Lee has nowhere to go with this one. This was a simple case of Spike Lee attempting and succeeding to get some publicity for his WW2 movie about an African American unit in Europe during WW2. Though with his plantation comment Spike seems to have some prejudices and insecurities himself. He might want to look into that.

I don't believe he was asking for blacks who weren't there to be put into the movie (eg. making one of the flag-raisers black) but to have some acknowledgement of the 900 or so blacks who WERE there, carrying wounded marines off the beach, guarding prisoners, bringing up ammunition, etc. I liked "Flags of Our Fathers" as it was, but I tend to believe the movie could have been made with black marines' inclusions without compromising the main story of the film.

I think the real thing that suffers here is history itself, while Lee and Eastwood engage in a war of words and immaturity. I wish Lee would have made his point without resorting to race-baiting "plantation" references.

I think there needs to be certain acknowledgement of African-American military service of WWII in the movies, as this is how many learn history these days. Lee plans to make such a movie, which is a better plan than to complain about someone else's film.

i admire them the two as movie makers, yet Spike incredibly is a racist fool who can get away with saying the flaws he says by means of colour of his pores and skin; to which he makes use of extra often to divide incredibly than unite. the actual shown fact that he's calling those 2 videos racist, one approximately eastern squaddies and the different dealing in super quantities the story of a close-by American soldier, proves how quite some bigot Spike Lee is by using the fact the only thoughts he has any authentic activity in are thoughts approximately African American men. Spike additionally does not seem to have excellent appreciate for women individuals of his own race, or women individuals customarily. The argument replaced into additionally proved to be pointless, by means of fact there have been black squaddies in Letters to Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers. They have been interior the history interior the invasion scenes. which may well be precise by means of fact it wasn't like the battlefield replaced into swarming with African American platoons. As for the flicks themselves. Clint's WW2 videos are plenty extra helpful than the prepare injury that replaced into Miracle at St. Anna's. To sum up all my factors, there replaced right into a scene in St. Anna's that i will in no way ignore by means of fact of ways unfavourable it replaced into. there's a 2nd interior the movie the place between the burly African American squaddies possibilities up a splash harm Italian boy, he holds him in his arms and then utters this line; "i've got in no way held a splash white boy in my arms earlier. they are so comfortable." Oh my God it fairly is so undesirable on such quite some distinctive ranges.

I was listening to CNN this morning. They were preparing a story before commercial about Spike vs Clint. Before I even heard the freaken arguement I walked off to brush my teeth thinking about.......I wonder what they would be argueing about. I bet it is black troops in Clint's movies.....see the point is I knew right off the back what they were argueing about because it is True. So after I finish brushing my teeth and got back to the story........not to my surprise........Spike said exactly what I was thinking. What Clint should have said was your a correct Spike! My fault.

Yes, I think he put his foot in his mouth.

He should have researched WWII history before he said anything!