Whites can twist history and change characters in films and make them white. Now when there is discussion about putting people of color in a film you get talks about "not being accurate". Give me a break!

^^Exactly!

Spike didn't ask that black actors be included in the iconic moment shot of the picture. He just said that there were black folks IN the armed forces at the time and that fact should have been acknowledged. All that would have taken is casting some black extras.

It's gotta be all their way or no way with some white folks.

On the other hand, clint has included non-token black actors in movies like mystic river, million dollar baby and unforgiven.

"A guy like Spike Lee…"

What does that mean, exactly???

The story focused on six guys fighting in segregated units, so naturally the other guys around them would be white (or Native American- one is a Pima Indian). The black soldiers were there, but Eastwood would have had to go out of his way just to get them in frame. I wonder how much Spike appreciated the story while scanning for the elusive black soldiers. Sometimes, they just weren't around where the action in the film was happening. Clint may as well have put them on the Japanese side. How far does one need to go to balance historical accuracy with diversity?

Spike needs to STFU and stop criticizing other directors, especially given the craptastic She Hate Me and the ethnically diverse (yet equally craptastic)25th hour.

Clint Eastwood = most overrated director in the history of film. Any film or director is fair game for critics once it's made and presented to the public.

@ inciquay: I thought 25th Hour was brilliant and Spike Lee is a brilliant filmmaker, IMO

Eastwood's wife is black, I wonder what she had to say about Spike's comment.

@ chic noir

yeah, and they've been married over 11 years.

http://www.carmelmagazine.com/.....wood.shtml

Spike didn’t ask that black actors be included in the iconic moment shot of the picture. He just said that there were black folks IN the armed forces at the time and that fact should have been acknowledged.—

I don't think anyone has a handle of this conversations lol. It's not about that. Spike Lee wants there to be black faces placed in a HISTORICAL event where there were no black in the actual event. It wasn't about WWII it was about ONE historical moment. How hard is it to understand that ?

What does that mean, exactly???–

Someone with a big attitude and a big mouth.

Is it ok to say that and be black? Am I allowed or do I have to play along and bash whitie?

Why is he criticizing a film over two years old anyway?? Perhaps it's because he has his own WW2 film in production, and he needs the publicity.

Btw, I wouldn't call Dina Eastwood black (and I doubt she would either) since her dad was only half black himself. Mixed race would be more accurate.

I think people are putting race on the table, when its Hollywoods twisting of all the facts that is the problem, as a person from the UK they piss us off every day by re-writing our history every time they make a film. in one recent film they move an entire city 200 miles from its real location, in anotherthey changed an entire warship from a British one to a US one.
Holywood is not interested in the truth only what they think they can sell, and you aint going to change that.

Spike Lee should STFU. The army was segregated at that time, the only blacks were in munitions. I am sick and tired of the whole BS of the black culture of poor me in America. Second generation minority imigrants from Mexico, Viet Nam, Korea, Japan, Phillipines, India, China, South America, the former Soviet Union and on and on, are have no trouble taking advantage of every opportunity the U.S. has, and succeeding academically and economically. Yet, the black culture is always, always blaming whitey for keeping them down. I say BS.

Yes No. 17- i agree with you- there is a subculture of blacks who only define themselves in terms of "white people" . Thank God Almighty for the example of the great Barack Obama.