Spike Lee is at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival in the port city of Jeddah this weekend to present a screening of his Oscar-nominated 1992 epic biopic Malcolm X and partici…
The whirlwind trip coincides with the 30th anniversary of
Asked if he would be interested in coming to shoot in the Arab world or film another language, Lee batted back the idea. He added later in the press conference: “I’ve never ever said it saying it can’t be done, BUT, I think there have been more examples than not where the culture was appropriated, or the story was twisted and told from the viewpoint of the dominant culture.”The Saga Of, about the American civil rights activist and American football quarterback who has been ostracized by the National Football League since 2016, for taking the knee before matches.
Questioned on whether he felt parallels between his own trajectory and that of Kaepernick, Lee said there was “no comparison”.
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