https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/laurence-fishburne-spike-lee-had-major-beef-over-movie-school-daze/ Everything Old School Live Here! Mon, 28 May 2018 23:45:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/laurence-fishburne-spike-lee-had-major-beef-over-movie-school-daze/#comment-1902 Mon, 18 May 2015 08:58:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=9778#comment-1902 Spike Lee’s film memoirs for Do the Right Thing and School Daze address some of the relationship. School Daze companion book “Uplift the Race” (co-written with Lisa Jones) mentioned huge disappointment from an earlier failed film project called the “Messenger” may have set the tone for future issues between the two artists. Lee relates that tension between them during School Daze had similarity to the scene where Dap collars Half-Pint and Half-Pint says “get off me.” Do the Right Thing offered the Raheem role to Fishburne, who only wanted leading roles. Lee asked mutual friend Giancarlo Esposito (“Buggin Out”) to confer with Fishburne, who still declined the role to Lee’s disbelief. Fishburne went on to successful support roles among others in Boyz N the Hood and What’s Love Got to Do with It along with lead roles in Bad Company and Othello. Do the Right Thing remains Lee’s most well known work and has remarkable timeliness with respect to policing, racism, and civil unrest.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/laurence-fishburne-spike-lee-had-major-beef-over-movie-school-daze/#comment-4035 Mon, 18 May 2015 08:58:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=9778#comment-4035 Spike Lee’s film memoirs for Do the Right Thing and School Daze address some of the relationship. School Daze companion book “Uplift the Race” (co-written with Lisa Jones) mentioned huge disappointment from an earlier failed film project called the “Messenger” may have set the tone for future issues between the two artists. Lee relates that tension between them during School Daze had similarity to the scene where Dap collars Half-Pint and Half-Pint says “get off me.” Do the Right Thing offered the Raheem role to Fishburne, who only wanted leading roles. Lee asked mutual friend Giancarlo Esposito (“Buggin Out”) to confer with Fishburne, who still declined the role to Lee’s disbelief. Fishburne went on to successful support roles among others in Boyz N the Hood and What’s Love Got to Do with It along with lead roles in Bad Company and Othello. Do the Right Thing remains Lee’s most well known work and has remarkable timeliness with respect to policing, racism, and civil unrest.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/laurence-fishburne-spike-lee-had-major-beef-over-movie-school-daze/#comment-1901 Tue, 05 May 2015 02:40:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=9778#comment-1901 honestly. I think I have seen all of Spike Lee movies and I always left the theater depressed for days. they were all miserable, light skinned girls versus dark skinned girls with the dark skinned girls always having more morals, smarts then the light skinned ones. yet , Spike marries a woman damn near white. he is such a hypocrite. Larry is a piece of work too. I can see why he and Spike didn’t get along. Larry mama says he doesn’t even get along with her. and one of his daughters he doesn’t support that relationship either. but between the two, I like Larry the best.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/laurence-fishburne-spike-lee-had-major-beef-over-movie-school-daze/#comment-4034 Tue, 05 May 2015 02:40:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=9778#comment-4034 honestly. I think I have seen all of Spike Lee movies and I always left the theater depressed for days. they were all miserable, light skinned girls versus dark skinned girls with the dark skinned girls always having more morals, smarts then the light skinned ones. yet , Spike marries a woman damn near white. he is such a hypocrite. Larry is a piece of work too. I can see why he and Spike didn’t get along. Larry mama says he doesn’t even get along with her. and one of his daughters he doesn’t support that relationship either. but between the two, I like Larry the best.

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