Originally Posted by Mutt (Post 19469007)

ok i read more about the Sant'Anna massacre - a novel Lee based the movie on had a traitor in the Italian resistance collaborating with the Nazis in the massacre. Whether that is true or not doesn't seem to be known but it sure is entirely possible.

Originally Posted by Far-L (Post 19469821)

You don't think "Inside Job" was worthy of mention?

Originally Posted by Shotsie (Post 19471592)

Entirely possible? The novel is a work of fiction that Spike Lee chose to portray as historical fact. I guess it's also entirely possible that Hitler visited Auschwitz and personally handed out double-dip ice cream cones and Payday bars to all the Jews before they got their Zyklone B delousing showers, I mean, Hitler WAS known to have a sweet tooth. It's entirely possible. But if I put that scene in a movie and blasted "BASED ON A TRUE STORY" across the screen before it began, you would rightfully call me out on it. The survivors of that massacre DID call him out on it, and he still refused to acknowledge that he took some creative license with the story, saying: "there's a lot about your[Italians] history you have yet to come to grips with." adding insult to injury. The guy's a jitbag.


At the time that happened, Italy had already surrendered and switched sides.

I'm not personally insulted. None of that shit bothers me; it?s the hypocrisy, the self-righteous indignation, that bothers me. I could give a fuck if Spike Lee casts a thousand gold cornicello and Fila velour tracksuit wearing, cement laying, greaseball caricatures in his movies; plenty of them exist in real life, some of them are my friends and relatives. And I doubt it would bother any them or any other Italian-Americans because we haven?t made a cultural tradition out of fucking complaining about everything. That's my own personal tradition, complaining about everything.

Anyway, Spike Lee:
http://i.imgur.com/wLibhNb.jpg


"Inside Job" or "Inside Man"? "Inside Job" was about the financial collapse, Spike Lee didn't direct that. "Inside Man" is some detective movie with Denzel Washington he directed.