![]() ![]() People have to register to vote…things are shaky right now. On the subject of the upcoming elections, the director added, “At the end of Do The Right Thing, Samuel L Jackson’s character says, ‘get out there and vote’. By chance, the film will get its DVD release on the day of the mid-term elections. Lee’s remarks drew applause from the BAFTA audience.Īt his instigation, Lee’s BlacKkKlansman was released 12 months after the Charlottesville race riot. “If you study history, what’s happening today is from the same playbook of all fascists - where you blame somebody, whether it be blacks, Jews or ‘those Mexicans’”. “I want audiences to understand that what you see in this film BlacKkKlansman is not just a peculiarity of America, this stuff is global and it’s happening all over,” he continued. But we have to involve the people, we have to start looking at stuff with a global viewpoint because this stuff is all connected. America’s more guilty of this than anybody - of just being focused on - no one else matters. This rise of the right is something we have to look at. Film and TV media have been used to tell lies.”ĭiscussing the broad political relevance of his latest movie BlacKkKlansman, Lee said, “What you see in the film is global. We’ve been dying from the get go and still today we haven’t achieved our rights. The first man to die in the War of Independence between the U.S. Blacks were fighting for this country when they couldn’t even vote and weren’t free. ![]() To portray taking a knee as anti-patriotic or militaristic was not the case at all. This whole thing is about lies, about changing the narrative and telling lies. This guy in the White House, I won’t say his name. was built upon genocide, stealing the land, and stealing Africans from their land to work the land they stole. On Monday, his discourse continued on the themes of politics, racial inequality and media bias, “The U.S. Lee has taken aim at the legacy of Westerns before. Spike Lee Reflects On 9/11 At TIFF, Shows Episode From HBO Docuseries 'NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021 1/2' I hate them: Native Americans depicted as savages and animals…F*** John Wayne and John Ford.” I’ve never been a fan of John Wayne and John Ford and that cowboy bullshit. The fight has always been about who is going to tell the story. I remember a time when we would gather round the TV when a black person was on TV. At the time I made this film, American cinema was around 100 years old, TV was at least 50 years old. This film was about how black folk have been treated. during a wide-ranging 90-minute session.įollowing a clip of his 2000 movie Bamboozled, the feted filmmaker vented frustration at the historic portrayal of minorities on screen, “This movie is about demonization and degradation of black people. The firebrand filmmaker discussed his work - showing clips from movies including Malcolm X and 25th Hour - and the current political climate in the U.S. Spike Lee was in typically outspoken form on Monday evening when he delivered BAFTA’s David Lean Lecture in London. ![]()
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