Spike Lee's going in on Black Brit actors

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Tyler perry is the equivalent of a mixtape rapper blowing up and then giving back . He was out there grinding in the black theatre circuit breh

This. Dudes stay tryna slight TP. Tylers flicks aint my thing but folks a damn lie to act like it wasnt black people supporting his plays and seeing his movies in droves.
 
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Spike should be bigger than tyler perry if we keep it real. Also people like Clifton powell called out spike for not putting on other black people outside of those in his click

Spike’s click was MOSTLY unknowns when he got started though:gucci: he put on damn near half of recognizable black hollywood throughout the 90’s. Halle Berry, Doug E Doug, Mekhi Phiper. They all got their start with Spike Lee joints
 
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I'd like Spike to explain why he was such a egotistical dikk that he kept giving himself plum roles in his own movies that could have gone to black actors who were looking for a break.
Aside from She's Gotta Have It there is no reason why Spike Lee was in full co-star roles in all of his flicks up to the 2000s besides ego.

Spike Lee is an Auteur. He writes, Directs, produces and in many cases, finances his OWN movies. It is his right as the creator to star and or co-star in his own movies if he feels he is right for the role. An auteur’s work is an expression of self just as much as it is an art piece for a wide audience. Spike, in this way, has oaved the way for other black auteurs such as Donald Glover, Issa Rae, and Jerrod Carmichael to write, direct, and star in their own projects.
 
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Spike Lee is an Auteur. He writes, Directs, produces and in many cases, finances his OWN movies. It is his right as the creator to star and or co-star in his own movies if he feels he is right for the role. An auteur’s work is an expression of self just as much as it is an art piece for a wide audience. Spike, in this way, has paved the way for other black auteurs such as Donald Glover, Issa Rae, and Jerrod Carmichael to write, direct, and star in their own projects.

Breh 90% of these ppl in this thread don't know AA history

Let alone AA movie industry history like Spike

They are consumers like white people

LMAO at the hurt feelings
 

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Spike’s click was MOSTLY unknowns when he got started though:gucci: he put on damn near half of recognizable black hollywood throughout the 90’s. Halle Berry, Doug E Doug, Mekhi Phiper. They all got their start with Spike Lee joints
Spike’s click was MOSTLY unknowns when he got started though:gucci: he put on damn near half of recognizable black hollywood throughout the 90’s. Halle Berry, Doug E Doug, Mekhi Phiper. They all got their start with Spike Lee joints

Those folks arent part of his click and still doesnt take away from the claim of him mistreating these unknowns especially when you see people you names were one and done.
 

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Spike Lee is an Auteur. He writes, Directs, produces and in many cases, finances his OWN movies. It is his right as the creator to star and or co-star in his own movies if he feels he is right for the role. An auteur’s work is an expression of self just as much as it is an art piece for a wide audience. Spike, in this way, has oaved the way for other black auteurs such as Donald Glover, Issa Rae, and Jerrod Carmichael to write, direct, and star in their own projects.
Spike Lee could have cast a young black American actor looking for a break to play the parts Spike played in Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, School Daze, Jungle Fever, Mo Betta Blues etc.
You can't sit on a high horse shytting on other people for supposedly stealing jobs from black American actors when you were basically stealing a job from a black American actor on multiple occasions ya damn self.
 

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May the best man win. 90% of people only go into the industry for the clout/money and could really give a shyt about the actual craft involved. At least the big British actors have that true from stage to screen background. If anything black actors need to step it up like they did in the 70s which lead to all the household names we have today.
 
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May the best man win. 90% of people only go into the industry for the clout/money and could really give a shyt about the actual craft involved. At least the big British actors have that true from stage to screen background. If anything black actors need to step it up like they did in the 70s which lead to all the household names we have today.

I've never seen anyone give receipts that AA actors don't go to acting school

Can you prove this? Or just talking out your ass like usual about AA culture

Like l said these people in here are merely consumers not producers

Hurt feelings think they know more about the movie industry than Spike Lee

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