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Hold up Spike pulled the NYC >>> card when Chicagoans criticized this movie?!
Son has really lost it.
If you know you can't say something that properly explains why you made the movie you better off being like those directors who are rarely seen and never heard.
Did you seriously just compare Nick Cannon to Johnny Depp as actors? Seriously?
Depp was great in Black Mass. Cannon was great in what? Drumline? Drumline my *****?!
Spike Lee appeared on ABC’s Windy City Live this morning in Chicago to discuss his forthcoming film Chi-Raq. The interview was at times combative, with Lee making some statements that won’t win him any friends in the Chi.
When asked about those who had an issue with a New Yorker making a movie about Chicago, Spike went in.
“You know what that sounds like? That sounds like those redneck [censored] in the South, when Civil Rights people come down to Mississippi or Alabama…’These rabble rousers come down here, we know how treat our Negros good. We don’t need nobody from up there telling us how to work our Negros.’ Same type of mentality.”
He added, “And also, why hasn’t a Chicago filmmaker done a film, then?”
Lee mentioned being a tenured professor at NYU’s Film School and having students who made movies on their iPhone. So he basically told anyone with a problem to tell their own story. As for the film’s trailer, which got people (who usually don’t what a “satire” is) in a huff:
“I gotta say this, you might get mad. But a lot of people in Chicago [have] an inferiority complex about New York. One hundred.”
We definitely think Spike—who also said, “”When you deal with truth, it doesn’t matter where the person comes from”—would have a problem if Tyler Perry made a film about Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, though.
http://hiphopwired.com/2015/11/12/spike-lee-says-chicago-has-an-inferiority-complex/
You can't be from Chicago
I LIVE IN CHICAGO. I work with the very kids who navigate the neighborhoods/streets that are surrounded by this senselessness. Hell, a 9 yr old was murdered in an alley LITERALLY around the corner from where my 2 year old goes to day care a few weeks ago. The issue here is that he's making a satire film about a city's (my city) gun violence/murder rate. Little kids are dying here, mother's are burying their babies, families are being destroyed due to losing loved ones. You don't make a satire film about that. Yes I know it's a take on a Greek comedy, but that's the issue, there is nothing funny or slightly humorous about what's taking place here. So for him to use that as the basis for telling this story is more than disappointing, it's disrespectful to the families who have lost children to senseless acts of violence.
I've yet to come across anyone in my city who is happy with the way the movie is brought to life. **** going to see the movie, seeing the trailer was enough, let alone his responding to Chicagoans criticism of his film by saying we have an inferiority complex to NYC. That was pathetic. To simply disregard the very people whose story you're "attempting" to tell or use as your motivation is to make a mockery of them. Which is exactly how the people I've discussed this with feel.
Did you see the movie?
Sure didn't, neither do I intend to. But I did attend protest rally's regarding the murder of LaQuan McDonald with my students.
