We told y’all about the explosive sit down interview that Clint Eastwood had with the British media in which he tells Spike Lee to “shut his face” and to study history.
Well….
No surprise, Spike Lee has a response to the Dirty one and it’s a doozy!
Says Lee:
“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either. He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”
Lee has a proposal for Eastwood — “If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I’d like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist,” he said. “I’m not making this up. I know history. I’m a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II.”
And Lee’s response to Eastwood’s claim of his historical ignorance — “I never said he should show one of the other guys holding up the flag as black. I said that African-Americans played a significant part in Iwo Jima,” he said. “For him to insinuate that I’m rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ├óΓé¼┬ª no one said that. It’s just that there’s not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that’s why I made that observation.”
Lee ended the interview saying, “Even though he’s trying to have a Dirty Harry flashback, I’m going to take the Obama high road and end it right here. Peace and love.”
You gotta give love to get love, boo!
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
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