Spike Lee Being Questioned On His Accuracy

October 3rd, 2008 // 2 Comments

How come Spike’s always the only dude questioned about his damn films? What do they have against short, bespectacled, cranky people? Spike Lee‘s new joint, Miracle at St. Anna, is being question by Italian groups on its accuracy.

The film tells the story of a unit of black soldiers’ actions during a 1944 Nazi massacre of 560 Italian civilians. In the film, Lee asserts that an antifascist Italian partisan resistance group was involved in events that led to the massacre.

Lee and the film’s screenwriter, James McBride, held a press conference in Rome and Lee got feisty when he was confronted with questions about how the story was told.

“I am not apologising for anything,” he said. “I think these
questions are evidence that there is still a lot about your history
during the war that you [the Italians] have got to come to grips with. This film is no clear picture of what happened. It is our interpretation, and I stand behind it.”

Hah! Spike Lee has more balls than a meatball sub. Sitting in Rome and telling Italian journalists to suck it. Wow. By the way, this film got underway because Lee got into it with Clint Eastwood over what he felt was Dirty Harry’s lack of black soldiers in his own flick, Flags of our Fathers. Spike Lee is ornery, but I like cranky bitches.

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How come Spike’s always the only dude questioned about his damn films? What do they have against short, bespectacled, cranky people? Spike Lee‘s new joint, Miracle at St. Anna, is being question by Italian groups on its accuracy.The
film tells the story of a unit of black soldiers’ actions during a 1944
Nazi massacre of 560 Italian civilians. In the film, Lee asserts that
an antifascist Italian partisan resistance group was involved in events
that led to the massacre. Lee and the film’s screenwriter,
James McBride, held a press conference in Rome and Lee got feisty when
he was confronted with questions about how the story was told.”I
am not apologising for anything,” he said. “I think these
questions are evidence that there is still a lot about your history
during the war that you [the Italians] have got to come to grips with.
This film is no clear picture of what happened. It is our
interpretation, and I stand behind it.”Hah!
Spike Lee has more balls than a meatball sub. Sitting in Rome and
telling Italian journalists to suck it. Wow. By the way, this film got
underway because Lee got into it with Clint Eastwood over what he felt was Dirty Harry’s lack of black soldiers in his own flick, Flags of our Fathers. Spike Lee is ornery, but I like cranky bitches.

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Comments (2)

  1. Leona | October 3, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks for taking up for all of us short, bespectacled, cranky people. We always end up in the shade. Ornery, four-midgets rock!

  2. Snow Pie | October 4, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Didn’t the freak rape or molest Rosie Perez in his racist Do the Wrong Thing and Rob all Immigrants in the Ghetto film?

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