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Race War! Race War! Spike Lee Vs Clint Eastwood. It’s On!

by Paul Sorrenti on June 8, 2008 16 Comments

It all started when Spike Lee complained that there were no black soldiers in either of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated war films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Spike was upset that the African-American contingent didn’t seem to get any acknowledgement whatsoever from Clint, and he spoke up at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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It all started when Spike Lee complained that there were no black soldiers in either of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar nominated war films; Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Spike was upset that the African American contingent didn’t seem to get any acknowledgement whatsoever from Clint, and he spoke up at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Back then Spike said: Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. If you reporters had any balls you’d ask him why. But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know… To which Clint Eastwood replied: A guy like that should shut his face.
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