Spike Lee Goes in: "Django is disrespectful to my ancestors".....

[Rapmastermind]

LOL @ bringing up "Shindler's List" (Which I already talked about) which is a historical look at the Holocaust by a Jewish Director who is the Biggest director of all time. That wasn't my point. If you guys read I said Hollywood would never allow Concentration Camp brutality in a movie about the Holocaust in the vein of Django. Which is why "b*stards" Stayed far and away from showing Jewish brutality outside of the quick opening scene. I never said Hollywood "NEVER" showed concentration camps scenes. The X-men scene was tame and nothing really happen in that scene. Bad comparison. Read my "Auschwitz Unchained" it's a few pages back and tell me Hollywood would allow that by a NON-Jewish Director at that. It's funny, Every Slavery Movie has been done by Non-Black Directors in America. Why is that? Even "Roots" was directed by A White Director. "12 Years a Slave" is going to be the 1st Slavery topic to be directed by a Black Director for the Big Screen. Gordon Parks did a version for TV.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Let me say that again. EVERY SINGLE FILM RELEASED ON SLAVERY ON THE BIG SCREEN HAS NEVER BEEN DIRECTED BY A BLACK DIRECTOR.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

LOL @ bringing up "Shindler's List" (Which I already talked about) which is a historical look at the Holocaust by a Jewish Director who is the Biggest director of all time. That wasn't my point. If you guys read I said Hollywood would never allow Concentration Camp brutality in a movie about the Holocaust in the vein of Django. Which is why "b*stards" Stayed far and away from showing Jewish brutality outside of the quick opening scene. I never said Hollywood "NEVER" showed concentration camps scenes. The X-men scene was tame and nothing really happen in that scene. Bad comparison. Read my "Auschwitz Unchained" it's a few pages back and tell me Hollywood would allow that by a NON-Jewish Director at that. It's funny, Every Slavery Movie has been done by Non-Black Directors in America. Why is that? Even "Roots" was directed by A White Director. "12 Years a Slave" is going to be the 1st Slavery topic to be directed by a Black Director for the Big Screen. Gordon Parks did a version for TV.

dude who gives a flying fukk about hollywood?

I don't care if Steven Spielberg is a jew. Schindler's list is top5 most disturbing, haunting and depressing movies I've ever seen in my entire life and I'm the biggest movie nerd that I know. He didn't sugar coat shyt in that movie.

Let alone all the holocaust documentaries I've watched where they're bulldozing hundreds and hundreds of bodies into giant burial pits.

Inglorious Basterds had no reason to show concentration camps, again, because this is Quentin Tarantino, it was a simple revenge flick JUST LIKE DJANGO.

I don't know why you're so god damn hard headed man, you're being absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Let me say that again. EVERY SINGLE FILM RELEASED ON SLAVERY ON THE BIG SCREEN HAS NEVER BEEN DIRECTED BY A BLACK DIRECTOR.

How many black directors are there? I can think of 3. Spike, Tyler Perry and Keenen Wayans

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Also. Django isn't about slavery. For the billionth time.

 

[daze23]

Read my "Auschwitz Unchained" it's a few pages back and tell me Hollywood would allow that.

there's little historical context for that movie. IB made sense because it was about something that fits into the context: jewish-american soldiers. it wasn't about a german bounty hunter and a euro-jew cowboy

 

[Blackgate]

How many black directors are there? I can think of 3. Spike, Tyler Perry and Keenen Wayans

:huhwhut:

 

[Rapmastermind]

How many black directors are there? I can think of 3. Spike, Tyler Perry and Keenen Wayans

John Singleton, Hughes Brothers, F. Gary Gray, Kevin Hooks, Tim Story, Antionie Fuqua, Forrest Whitker.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

:huhwhut:

How'd I forget about John Singleton and The Hughes brothers tho?


When is the last time they made movies tho?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

John Singleton, Hughes Brothers, F. Gary Gray, Kevin Hooks, Tim Story, Antionie Fuqua, Forrest Whitker.

So why don't they make the slave movie that you've been dying to see from a black director? :smugobama:

 

[Rapmastermind]

So why don't they make the slave movie that you've been dying to see from a black director? :smugobama:

LOL @ Dying, the whole point went over your head. My point is isn't it funny Blacks haven't been able to Direct a Story on Slavery all these years considering we were the most effected by it.

 

[Rapmastermind]

How'd I forget about John Singleton and The Hughes brothers tho?


When is the last time they made movies tho?

John Singleton: Abduction (With Wolf Boy from Twilight)
Hugh Brothers: Book of Eli and they got "Broken City" with Russell Crowe and Mark Walberg coming out next month.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

LOL @ Dying, the whole point went over your head. My point is isn't it funny Blacks haven't been able to Direct a Story on Slavery all these years considering we were the most effected by it.

Why does it really matter what skin color the director is, as if we're not all human beings and students of history? Like a white director can't know as much about slavery as a black director? No one alive today has lived through slavery so I don't see a difference. Now you're focusing on skin color when it should be irrelevant. Black directors have made great contributions to cinema, they aren't required to contribute a slave flick.

 

[Rapmastermind]

there's little historical context for that movie. IB made sense because it was about something that fits into the context: jewish-american soldiers. it wasn't about a german bounty hunter and a euro-jew cowboy

Maybe but I just think again the Holocaust is treated a little differently. To me America has more respect for the Holocaust than Slavery and Slavery actually happen here. I don't want to make this a Holocaust Vs Slavery cause it is not about one being worst than the other they are both horrible. Though I'd argue you could make a Case that Slavery had longer and lasting effects.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Why does it really matter what skin color the director is, as if we're not all human beings and students of history? Like a white director can't know as much about slavery as a black director? No one alive today has lived through slavery so I don't see a difference. Now you're focusing on skin color when it should be irrelevant. Black directors have made great contributions to cinema, they aren't required to contribute a slave flick.

It matters in a sense cause that Director will have a better understanding of perspective. You think I wanted a White Director to do "Malcolm X"? No cause in my view a White Director would have to understand the Black Experience to do that type of movie. Just like a Jewish Director in Steven HAD to do "Schindler's List" cause it's his heritage and through is family and knowledge he was able to tell a story that honored his people. I never said a White Director "Can't" Do a Slavery film, shoot they are the only ones that have. I'm saying it's sad to know a Black Director has never been given a chance to do one until now. Hopefully "12 Years a Slave" is dope.