3. "no more war flicks please, spike" In response to Reply # 0
i can't believe ?uest wanted us all to go out and see it in the theater to support out of principle, but i'm glad i didn't listen to him and waited to see it this month...
Thats like saying that Annie Hall is soooooooo much better than Interiors. When it's the director's established forte of coarse its going to be better. Does this really need to be explained?
8. "Fuck it, I will say it" In response to Reply # 0
These days, Spike Lee movies featuring White People are more interesting then his "Black Movies".
********** "See he's organized, and he's on the ball. Never miss a day of school,and he's a underdog. Wanna learn more and more, cuz his mama taught him good. He's about to change the face of yo ghetto neighborhood." (c) Badu
>These days, Spike Lee movies featuring White People are more >interesting then his "Black Movies".
a)The only "black" movie he's made in recent yrs was St.Anna, and that one had people of all races all over it. So I'm not even sure what you're talking about. He doesn't make exclusive "black" movies anymore largely because they aren't that profitable(not his fault, just a demographic thing).
b)Even his "movies featuring white people" often have black leads or blacks in very prominent positions and a very signature Spike Lee touch on them(Inside Man).
So really, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
14. "you're definitely new here" In response to Reply # 9
I can't tell you how many times "the Spike Lee ending" has come up here. No offense meant Ms. Parker. Considered yourself grateful for having missed those posts.
"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
11. "historically speaking, that doesn't even make any sense" In response to Reply # 0
The armed services were segregated during WWII, thus making the black perspective/experience angle interesting enough to make a decent story. Anything beyond Korea is pointless if you are trying to go for that angle. Otherwise you'd just be talking about 1 or 2 black guys in mostly white units. Then it no longer becomes a story about the unit, but rather about the individual soldiers themselves.
------- "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have." - TR
------- "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have." - TR
44. "That doesn't make a grain of sense." In response to Reply # 11
>The armed services were segregated during WWII, thus making >the black perspective/experience angle interesting enough to >make a decent story. Anything beyond Korea is pointless if >you are trying to go for that angle. Otherwise you'd just be >talking about 1 or 2 black guys in mostly white units. Then >it no longer becomes a story about the unit, but rather about >the individual soldiers themselves.
The fact that the race dynamics take place in the context of whites might make it more interesting, as would the idea of focusing on individual soldiers and their stories.
In fact, I know blacks who fought in Vietnam who told me about race dynamics in the military then and how they were almost race riots in some parts of the military, but because everyone was armed no one wanted to set it off.
>i wish I could have an audio of that ready to play on the >press of a button....that would be so much fun to carry around >and use throughout the day.
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