So I'm watching "Do the right thing" by Spike Lee and while watching this trainwreak I just asking myself, why is Spike Lee like that?
Was he strapped in a chair Robot Chicken-style and forced to listen to racial slurs for a month? I feel like he's fooled us into thinking he makes good movies just because they are racially charged. I might just be too angry to comprehend his genius because of the nonsense that went down in this movie.
One example is when that dude with the dreadlocks got pissed that the Italian owner of the Italian restaurant only had pictures of Italian hall of famers on the walls and no black stars. Nobody's that dumb. He was decked out in 80's African heritage wear and was literally forcing the owner to compromise his cultural identity. Don't tell me that this was Spike Lee's intention because I know; that's one of the reasons for this rant. It seems easy to make a hate-filled mess and then pass it off as positive since it was sprinkled here and there with notions of peace and racial harmony. It's like he takes a normal situation and adds some extra hate and gets paid.
I then recalled how I just don't like Spike Lee. Has he ever made a movie that wasn't about race? Can he? And he just seems like a condescending smartass. His latest movie"Inside Job" which I thought was going to be his first movie that doesn't get into the race issue, eventually does have an incredibly forced racial moment that to me, just slows down the movie. It's like he's "reminding" us that racism is still out there so he sticks it in random parts of the movie... such a shame.
Anyway, back to "Do the right thing" the chracter he was playing was acting like the straight man and then suddenly he breaks character when he sparks a riot which results in the restaurant(where he works) burning down and he still expects to get his week's pay.
If I were the owner I would've shot his goofy race baiting ass on the spot. Some douchebag employee burns down my business and demands to get paid??? Fuck that!
Spike Lee comes off as a very bitter, very hateful human being and he's just as racist as the people he screams racism on. I'm not judging him by his movies, but by various interviews. His arguments make no sense and whenever someone disagrees with him he just keeps spouting off the same old tired crap and ends up sounding like a moron.
It's a shame really. He has the potential to be so much more.
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I totally agree. I never understood people who just made themselves into martyrs over everything. It really is abundantly sad, because it hinders the progress of equality by making everyone who's black (in this particular case) look like raving angry people. It's the same with women who perhaps don't get hired for a job and blame it immediately, without thought, on some sexist boss, whether it's true or not. I take personal offense to women who do this, and I could see how you could be offended by Lee's attitude also.
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Crash was the worst shitfest of non-stop over-the-top rascist scenarios.
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