Justin Igger
06-09-2008, 01:02 AM
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html
The "he" is Spook 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 nigger US unit in the second world war. Lee had noted the lack of Niggers in Eastwood's movie and told reporters: "That was his version. The nigger version did not exist."
." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of niggers 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 a nigger actor in there, people'd go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate."
The "he" is Spook 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 nigger US unit in the second world war. Lee had noted the lack of Niggers in Eastwood's movie and told reporters: "That was his version. The nigger version did not exist."
." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of niggers 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 a nigger actor in there, people'd go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate."