We're not privy to Spike Lee's plans for Christmas Day, but we do know what he won't be doing: Heading out to the multiplex to catch Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."
And not because he's a Les Miz kind of guy.
The man behind "Do The Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" told a reporter from Vibe that he won't comment on Tarantino's new film, a spaghetti Western which Jamie Foxx plays a gunslinging freed slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter played by Christoph Waltz to free his wife from a sociopathic plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). (The film also stars frequent Lee collaborator Samuel L. Jackson.) "All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors. That's just me... I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else."
But he doesn't stop there. He clarified his position a couple of days ago on Twitter: "American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them."
The movie is a revenge fantasy not unlike Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," although "Django Unchained" reportedly shows a lot more of the visceral horror of slavery than "Basterds" did for the Holocaust, and the revisionism is on a far more intimate scale than the Nazi-incinerating finale of "Basterds."
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