Uncle Luke goes in on Spike Lee

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Spike Lee Is No Quentin Tarantino
By Luther Campbell Tue., Jan. 15 2013 at 7:59 AM 35 Comments
Categories: Luke's Gospel

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)

Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is a brilliant flick that more accurately depicts the African American experience than any of the 15 movies about black culture Lee's directed in his lifetime. It's why the movie took home a Golden Globe award for best screenplay over the weekend and why it was recently nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Since Django Unchained hit the theaters, Lee has been publicly trashing Tarantino. In announcing his personal boycott of the movie, the Do The Right Thing filmmaker tweeted, "American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western," and "It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them."

Lee needs to get over himself. He's upset because Tarantino makes better movies. The man who put Malcolm X on the big screen is Hollywood's resident house negro; a bougie activist who wants to tell his fellow white auteurs how they can and can't depict African Americans.

He complains that Tarantino uses "******" too much (100 times) in Django Unchained, but show me a white man in the 1800s who wasn't dropping n-bombs left and right.

Tarantino is one of Tinseltown's most clever directors. Some of the most brutal scenes in Django Unchained are metaphors for the unfair racial inequality African-Americans still experience today. For instance, Leonardio DiCaprio's plantation owner character Calvin Candie trains some of his male slaves to fight to the death in a sport called "Mandingo Fighting."

When one of the slaves refuses to fight, Candie threatens to feed him to his wild dogs. That scene is analogous to professional boxing where white promoters control black fighters through fear and intimidation.

In another scene, a bunch of slaves are shocked to see Django riding a horse since blacks were never allowed to have one. That's like the cops who stare at and then pull over the dude who is driving a Bentley on South Beach.

While on the horse, Django tells the slaves that he'll treat them worse than any white man ever will. That's the truth about blacks in positions of authority in today's corporate America. They will treat blacks worse than any white boss every could.

Lee could never pull off a movie like this. When he's not being an ass from his court side seats during New York Knicks games, he's making bull crap films that most African Americans cannot relate to.

Spike is upset because Samuel L. Jackson's character in the movie is just like him: a conniving and scheming Uncle Tom.

Follow Luke on Twitter: @unclelukereal1.


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[VladTheImpaler]

 

[Why-Fi]

wow

you know spike has a few brothers that dont really fukk with him. clifton powell said he wanted to beat him up a few years back. crazy...

 

[Rekkapryde]

Luke actually does make some good points, but I can't shyt on Spike out of princple man. Even though he would never do it, Spike would never get an 80 million dollar budget to work with on a movie.

 

[Rack4K]

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is a brilliant flick that more accurately depicts the African American experience than any of the 15 movies about black culture Lee's directed in his lifetime.

 

[Spin]

Luke actually does make some good points, but I can't shyt on Spike out of princple man. Even though he would never do it, Spike would never get an 80 million dollar budget to work with on a movie.

You don't need a 80 million budget to make a good film. Hell look at the numbers King's Speech did or any of the Tyler Perry movies off small budgets. Actions speak louder than words and Spike just hasn't done shyt lately. Inside Man was actually a hit for him, but Miracle at St Anna bombed. Maybe he's just mad because he couldn't get distribution for his new flick "Red Hook Summer."

 

[Ziggiy]

at Django being better than any Spike Lee joint. That statement makes the rest of the opinion piece irrelevant.

Django was a very good and entertaining historical fantasy. That's ALL it was. Django isn't touching Malcolm X or Do The Right Thing

 

[spliz]

at Django being better than any Spike Lee joint. That statement makes the rest of the opinion piece irrelevant.

Django was a very good and entertaining historical fantasy. That's ALL it was. Django isn't touching Malcolm X or Do The Right Thing

Honestly..if Spike himself made the movie..nikkas would be callin him a genius or some shyt..thats the funny thing about this whole thing..the movie was a fantasy but there was ALOT of accurate shyt in the movie for the time period...his opinion on spike's movies doesnt disregard the fact that most of what he was sayin was real talk...spike is a fukkin a$$hole and its bout time a black person called him out on his bullshyt..regardless of the classics he's directed...or were a part of...he thinks he has the right to shyt on everyone elses shyt while not even producing any legit product of his own for a hot minute...Quentin had JUST made a movie about the holocaust and world war 2 with inglourious basterds that was more campy than this film imo and I aint hear spike sayin shyt bout that...let a white man or any other black man had made She Hate Me...Spike himself woulda been shyttin on him...

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Uncle (Tom) Luke is an idiot and should pay his child support.

 

[Ziggiy]

Honestly..if Spike himself made the movie..nikkas would be callin him a genius or some shyt..thats the funny thing about this whole thing..the movie was a fantasy but there was ALOT of accurate shyt in the movie for the time period...his opinion on spike's movies doesnt disregard the fact that most of what he was sayin was real talk...spike is a fukkin a$$hole and its bout time a black person called him out on his bullshyt..regardless of the classics he's directed...or were a part of...he thinks he has the right to shyt on everyone elses shyt while not even producing any legit product of his own for a hot minute...Quentin had JUST made a movie about the holocaust and world war 2 with inglourious basterds that was more campy than this film imo and I aint hear spike sayin shyt bout that...let a white man or any other black man had made She Hate Me...Spike himself woulda been shyttin on him...

What exactly did Spike say that was so outlandish? He told the truth. Slavery was NOT a Spaghetti western, it was an American Holocaust. If Spike decides that he doesn't want to view slavery as fodder for historical parody, he's well within his right to do so and speak on it. He said he wasn't going to see it, that's his prerogative. I don't remember him proclaiming that all black people should avoid it or boycott it. He said that HE wasn't going to see it.

 

[mastermind]

Django being a more realistic depiction of black life than any Spike Lee movie


Spike Lee is an Uncle Tom? Really Luke?

 

[Fillerguy]

2013 year of the c00n. lol a Lee being jealous of QT. out of every director in Hollywood Lee's jelly of him

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Luke certainly showing how he earned his "uncle" title. Of COURSE spike lee is qualified to tell white directors how to depict HIS PEOPLE and the history that he and every black american is a part of. Slavery is a very serious topic and we are still living with the results of it. You don't make a western designed primarily to entertain about such a subject. It becomes just like some sort of action movie and reduces the seriousness of the issue and how it continues to affect black men and women to this day, and it further entrenches this idea of a racist as someone who wants to take violent action against a black person and not someone who benefits from white supremacy and fails to recognize their white privilege and the inequality that exists today. People leave the theatre thinking "well slavery is over and done with. So black people have no reason to complain" as If slavery is the only thing problem black people have with white people.


Tapatalkin

 

[jackswstd]

Luke spoke his mind can't be mad at that but I disagree the Django is better than Spike's whole filmography.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Uncle (Tom) Luke is an idiot and should pay his child support.

QT paypal-ed this nikka some quap to say all that

believe that