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Showing posts with label Invictus. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2009

Clint Eastwood's "Invictus"

To be clear, understand that Clint Eastwood's upcoming new movie, "Invictus" about South Africa, Nelson Mandela and a scrapping soccer team is a mea culpa from Mr. Eastwood to Spike Lee, purely and simply.

If you'll remember, Clint made 2 WWII movies and gave African-Americans virtually no coverage in all the hours of both critically-acclaimed hours of film.

Spike came down on him hard--fairly, but hard--for leaving out their contributions.

And now this movie.

Oh, yeah.

I don't think it will be discussed anywhere else and if it is, it will be denied but it seems rather blatant.

Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/movies/06invictus.html?th&emc=th

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2098097/Clint-Eastwood-and-Spike-Lee-row-over-black-soldiers.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/07/2008-06-07_spike_lee_jabs_back_at_clint_eastwood.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/