The director Spike Lee has clearly decided not to "shut his face" as Clint Eastwood advised following the former's complaints about the racial-make up of Eastwood films. Lee has hit back following this week's Guardian interview with Eastwood, in which the veteran actor and director rejected Lee's attack that Eastwood had failed to include a single African-American soldier in his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.
A clearly unfazed Lee told ABCNEWS.com that Eastwood is a great director but had sounded like an "angry old man" by telling him to shut his face, He also has a proposal for Eastwood: "If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I'd like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist. I'm not making this up. I know history. I'm a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II."
So what next? Will Eastwood respond? This looks like one conflict that does not yet seem to be over ...
