Spike Lee’s cultural viewpoints

Spike Lee famously said that in order for a film to authentically reflect the experience of black culture, it should be directed by a black person. I do agree with this statement as you can only speak about an experience, if you have experienced it. Spike Lee claimed that movies such as Detroit (Bigelow, 2017) and Django Unchained (Tarrantino, 2012) were misinterpreting black narrative. This is because those films were directed by white people and therefore Lee concluded that because they did not have the experience they could not create the film. In my opinion anyone should be able to make any film however i do believe that It would be more accurate, more politically correct, or just a better film in general (perhaps) if it was directed by someone with the experience of the situation.

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