spike lee versus clint eastwood

i just heard a story that spike lee and clint eastwood were in a war of words. the story goes that during the cannes film festival when lee was promoting his new world war 2 movie about black soldiers, he criticized eastwoods two wwII movies, flags of our fathers (eh) and letters from iwo jima (pretty good) by saying that they didn't properly portray african americans during the war.

apparently, lee never watched the movies cuz he would have realized that letters from iwo jima was about japanese soldiers. anyway, after the criticism, eastwood told lee to "shut his face", which for some reason didn't go over well with spike. spike then went out to say someone like, this isn't a plantation and eastwood is not my dad. pretty much calling him a racist. spike toned it down a little bit later.

i'm going to have to agree here with eastwood, spike should shut his face. i like spike, i like his movies, love that he's a knicks fan, but he's an arrogant and in my opinion, incredibly stupid human being. he's the type of person who only cares about his causes and gaining power for what he cares about. he doesn't really care about creating a positive force in society, in my opinion. if he did, i doubt he would be shooting nike videos for his corporate idol, jordan. that's just my take on that.

but it's also apparent in his movies. like scorsese says about himself and spike, they make movies from their own experiences. i get that and there's nothing wrong with that. so how can you go out and criticize someone else for doing the same thing. clint is white and was making a movie about these white dudes (and one native american) who plant a flag on iwo jima. does spike think that he should have replaced one of the white guys for a black dude? just for equality's sake?

i'll say this... just cuz you make great movies, great songs, great art or whatever doesn't mean you have any opinions that anyone really wants to hear. you're not smarter than other people. you're opinions aren't more "enlightened" than anyone else's. it doesn't mean that you aren't either, i'm just saying. so to spike: keep making your movies, keep making a mockery of yourself on the knicks sidelines and shut your face cuz that's how most of us like it.