Eastwood Tells Spike To Stick It Up His _ _ _

This has been floating around for a bit, a little disagreement between Clint Eastwood and smart ass know it all Spike Lee who turns out knows jack diddly about history of WWII according to Eastwood whom I believe in this case, and yet has the audacity to constantly bitch and moan about whatever it is Eastwood happens to be putting on the silver screen at the time.

In this particular case Lee is whining about Clint not changing history like liberals and race baiters wish America to do by inserting a few brothers into the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima for his movie "The Flags of Our Fathers", when history says there was only a small black munitions unit that had nothing to do with the raising of the flag as the movie portrays and is the focus of.

He's given a few interviews on this little battle with Spike "Nike" Lee, Mars Blackman or whatever the hell he wants to be called, but this interview in the Guardian Clint really cuts loose on the whole Hollywood and American liberal establishment and it's followers, dating back to the 1970's Dirty Harry days which I say I found both amusing and informative. I as a child then didn't realize the bitching and crying that the liberals attached to that movie and it's sequels seeing that every thing they turn out today makes his movies look tame as far as violence and outright gratuitous killing goes.

The only more amusing thing I would like to see than reading or hearing his views on those topics would be watching Eastwood kick the living crap out of the loudmouthed Mr Race Himself, reverse racist runt Spike Lee if there ever was one.

Dirty Harry comes clean

Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film: "Clint Eastwood folds his gangly frame behind a clifftop table at the Hotel Du Cap, a few miles up the coast from Cannes, sighs deeply, and squints out over the Mediterranean. 'Has he ever studied the history?' he asks, in that familiar near-whisper.

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.'"

Eastwood has no time for Lee's gripes. "He was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. 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."

Lee shouldn't be demanding African-Americans in Eastwood's next picture, either. Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx. "What are you going to do, you gonna tell a fuckin' 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." continued

News Busters had a little thing about this a few days ago that can be found here, which is where I gleaned the cartoonish pic up above from btw.

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