Eastwood Addresses Lee's 'Flags' Remarks
Posted on: Friday, 6 June 2008, 12:00 CDT
U.S. filmmaker Clint Eastwood said he didn't feature African-American characters in Flags of Our Fathers because he wanted to be historically accurate.
Filmmaker Spike Lee recently criticized Eastwood for the racial makeup of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.
Lee made the remarks at the Cannes Film Festival while promoting his film Miracle at St. Anna, which is about members of the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought in Italy during World War II.
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, Eastwood told The Guardian.
Of Lee, Eastwood said, A guy like him should shut his face.
When I do a movie and it's 90 percent black, like 'Bird,' then I use 90 percent black people, Eastwood said, referring to his 1988 Charlie Parker biopic. (Lee) was complaining when I did 'Bird.' 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.
Source: United Press International
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