Spike Lee in WWII | Movie News

I think edward norton said it best, in ironically a spike lee vehicle, "slavery ended 200 years ago, move the fuck on!"

Naturally, like almost every Spike Lee movie, it has to glorify race. I'm not saying he shouldn't have pride in his race, I'm saying that it's not necessary to point out, as the biggest element of the film, that it's all black soldiers, no one is white, asian or arab, they are all black! This doesn't really help the cause to unite people when this really just divides races.
Then again, I guess Saving Private Ryan was an all-white group of soldiers doing herioc stuff, so I guess Lee's just trying to balance it out?

As long as it has to do with blacks, Spike Lee will have his hand in it. He didn't make one movie that in some way, shape, or form wasn't racially motivated. Not only that but it's like it's shoved down the public's throat. Last I heard he was making a movie about Rodney King and the L.A. riots, now this. God bless the soldiers- black, white, brown, yellow, green- whatever color- who fought, but fuck Spike Lee and his race card. I can laugh at this though because his movies are horrible anyway and black people still don't go out and see them, the man's audience barely exists. Don't get me wrong, it's not like there isn't a fair share of descent black filmmakers, look at Antoine Fuqua, the Hughes Brothers, or F.Gary Gray, those guys made some great films. (Singleton is way overrated, but that's another story).

Also, I seriously don't think Clint Eastwood made a conscious effort to keep blacks out of his films, it's just how it fell into place. The majority of those who fought were white and that's how it was shown, it wasn't about affirmative action.

Imagine if the tables were turned and Lee was a white man, the uproar this guy would cause. Fuckin double standard. This guy is trash.

Afterall, it was Eastwood's duty and intention to show the black soldiers in his film....

they weren't about race.

Lee is the wrong director for this project. Though it would be of interest to see a war film based on the black soldiers experience; Im just tired of the constant white bigotry Lee imposes onto his films. Hopefully he can return to better fare such as 25TH HOUR and leave harbor his hate towards progress.

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