spike lee is a horrible person

  On 11/30/2013 at 4:49 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/30/2013 at 3:17 PM, plstik said:

 

  On 11/29/2013 at 7:33 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/29/2013 at 7:05 PM, Phoenix said:

The original letter is off-line.

 

"Here Juan, have 10 grant to take that incriminating letter off-line."

Or maybe Radio Raheem blasted him off his socks with the ghetto blaster. Radio Raheem was the real deal.

something fishy about this.

 

not only is that letter offline, but also the facebook page for this guy.

 

come on...that guys letter was on the front page of reddit aaand all over the internet. His server had to give out eventually.

 

No clue what´s up with his fb though.

 

his server hasn't given out though, if you go to the parent directory, the site works.

 

this has nothing to do with the site crumpling under load.

 

but...the letter is still online?

  On 11/30/2013 at 8:18 PM, plstik said:

 

  On 11/30/2013 at 4:49 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/30/2013 at 3:17 PM, plstik said:

 

  On 11/29/2013 at 7:33 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/29/2013 at 7:05 PM, Phoenix said:

The original letter is off-line.

 

"Here Juan, have 10 grant to take that incriminating letter off-line."

Or maybe Radio Raheem blasted him off his socks with the ghetto blaster. Radio Raheem was the real deal.

something fishy about this.

 

not only is that letter offline, but also the facebook page for this guy.

 

come on...that guys letter was on the front page of reddit aaand all over the internet. His server had to give out eventually.

 

No clue what´s up with his fb though.

 

his server hasn't given out though, if you go to the parent directory, the site works.

 

this has nothing to do with the site crumpling under load.

 

but...the letter is still online?

 

no it isn't. not from the source it isn't. you go to the url http://juanluisgarcia.com/dear-spike-lee/ and it is blank, and says "untitled document" in the title bar.

ah silly me. Had to hit F5...

Spike Leibowitz

  On 11/30/2013 at 7:45 PM, marf said:

ive always felt he was a racist douche riding on liberal white guilt. his movies provoke discussion, my ass. they wrecked the korean's store. he worked hard for that. no discussion. ok, they get tax breaks, no mention of that, but Danny Aiello wasnt an immigrant with tax breaks. he worked for hard for that pizza place. you see him working. you dont see the assholes coming in there working. no amount of rationalizing with white guilt is going to get me on your side, Spike. but i guess that is the real design of that film. to make white people like me sound like a racist. That said. do the right thing was a great movie. well done film

Its interesting you saw it that way...one thing I like about this movie is everyone always takes away a little different.

To me, it was just a great subtle indictment of institutional racism/ethnic tension in America rather than "bleh bleh Im a white guy racist monster"

I mean no one is boxed into that black/white dichotomy (no pun intended). The pizza shop owner has some sort of respect for Spike Lee's character because of his work ethic; he seems to have more trouble with other black characters because of his social isolation from them. His family, the successive generations are experiencing the indoctrination that their father had went through in a different way. You can also see the generational divide, personalized by the older black men on the stoop vs. the young, brash kids...both were encountering very different types of institutionalized racial communities, and were dealing with it in very different ways. This also subconsciously effects the newer generations' perception of the older; the blatant disrespect for Ossie Davis's character, the fact that the younger generation viewed their elders as incompetant, jumping into the bottle and hiding their anger rather than confront injustice directly.

That's why I thought the ending was so powerful..if you watch closely, you can see that the death of Radio Rakeem comes as a shock even to Danny Aiello's character. After all, it was the cops (ie. institution) that killed Rakeem, not the pizza owners.

That movie is fucking brilliant in so many ways I can't even begin to explain..and then he makes so many shitty movies in the past ten years it makes me sad....25th Hour was the last amazing movie I saw from the man.

this clip is a great example of the movie's theme in a nutshell...institutionalized racism makes everyone a stereotype.

Oldboy bombed at the box office, so...

yeah do the right thing is a blast, so much style oozing out of spike lee's movies from around that period. he might be a jerk but he was a singularly talented auteur when he came onto the scene.

Am I the only one hating Summer Of Sam?

Someone pls hate with me, I'm feeling cold

i hate it. *throws a log on the fire*

  On 12/2/2013 at 7:39 AM, Squee said:

Oldboy bombed at the box office, so...

It wasn't very good.

  On 12/21/2013 at 2:38 PM, very honest said:

i hate it. *throws a log on the fire*

haha

  On 12/2/2013 at 7:39 AM, Squee said:

Oldboy bombed at the box office, so...

good.