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Spike Lee On His Issue With 'Soul Man' (1986) | The Dick Cavett Show 

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Film Director Spike Lee outlines his issue with the 1986 movie 'Soul Man' in which a white actor depicts a black person with the use of 'black face'
Date aired - 12/2/1986 - Spike Lee
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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Комментарии : 903   
@connor100wilson
@connor100wilson 3 года назад
Spike answered all the "Soulman" questions 14 years later with his movie BAMBOOZLED (2000)
@henryphilips6563
@henryphilips6563 Год назад
Nice correlation captain
@shanenolan085
@shanenolan085 11 месяцев назад
Good Film 🎥 🎞
@bigsassyster
@bigsassyster 5 месяцев назад
Yeah, he showed them...
@erickthefantabulous1
@erickthefantabulous1 3 года назад
I didn't realize the Dick cavett show lasted until the eighties Spike Lee you've come a long way man
@steveconn
@steveconn 3 года назад
He navigated several networks, including CNBC.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
It had several different iterations.
@MS-ns2pj
@MS-ns2pj 2 года назад
Spike has remained a racist and a bigot throughout it all.
@lostlakepictures7378
@lostlakepictures7378 3 месяца назад
I was just thinking that. When did it go off the air?
@sethmeyer2443
@sethmeyer2443 4 года назад
it's 2020 and I'm still celebrating the 86 Mets
@yztrewq
@yztrewq 4 года назад
You're showing your youthful age. I'm still celebrating the 1969 miracle Mets. Now THEY were some heroes! Please don't mistake me for someone who relates to Spike Lee, the most racist person in this country. I definitely don't.
@Beforeitsgone00
@Beforeitsgone00 4 года назад
34 years late
@dickhartzell6261
@dickhartzell6261 4 года назад
God knows we can't celebrate the 2000 Mets, the 2006 Mets or the 2015 Mets.
@ng2603
@ng2603 4 года назад
I'm from Boston and still mourning it
@waynemontpetit8181
@waynemontpetit8181 3 года назад
Long live Mookie
@strumdynastygaming7217
@strumdynastygaming7217 4 года назад
As others have pointed out, every time a black person is on his show, Dick turns into Michael Scott.
@strumdynastygaming7217
@strumdynastygaming7217 4 года назад
Briteone6988 Yeah
@HoldenNY22
@HoldenNY22 3 года назад
Who's MIchael Scott? Is that the guy from the Office? I never watched the show. Can you please explain your comment?
@THEDONSTR8Fightah76
@THEDONSTR8Fightah76 3 года назад
D
@qui-gonjinn6060
@qui-gonjinn6060 3 года назад
@@HoldenNY22 yes he’s the boss in the office he’s says awkward and inappropriate things and when black people are around Micheal he acts weird
@Mike-kv5pl
@Mike-kv5pl 3 года назад
@@HoldenNY22 Bingo
@mikekock927
@mikekock927 3 года назад
Saying that Spike Lee is the black Woody Allen is like saying the Earth is flat.
@MrBen51309
@MrBen51309 3 года назад
In hindsight yeah, in 1986 it probably made sense.
@youknowknow2500
@youknowknow2500 2 года назад
The Earth is flat and level just like how water always finds level and has to be contain no matter what you can't do nothing without water unless it's contained and it always finds level and you always see the Sun and the Moon rotated around you along with the Stars you do not ever feel movement no one has ever felt the Earth spinning a thousand plus miles per hour through infinite nothing. Millions of different people around the world know the Earth is flat anybody that does not clearly only going by what they were taught and haven't done any real research on their own that's why you think the Earth is spinning a thousand miles per hour through infinite nothing. Even the fake NASA tells you on there very website that the Earth is flat and Motionless the Holy Bible has over 200 verses that tells you the Earth is flat and motionless and not spinning you can go to any ocean Shoreline and take a Nikon p900 or Nikon p1000 and you consume in any ship that is out of your vision back into your sight with that camera and see flat ocean in front of it because the Earth is flat and Motionless in water always finds level and has to be contained no matter what you do with it see if you can do an experiment with water without containing it or it finding itself unlevel.
@NUMBNYFILMS
@NUMBNYFILMS 2 года назад
True, spike didint marry his daughter
@AlphaJayCharlie
@AlphaJayCharlie 2 года назад
Spike Lee is more like a Black Shaun King
@josephgriffin2388
@josephgriffin2388 Год назад
I know. Spike Lee films are at least entertaining.
@mr.regentsdude5621
@mr.regentsdude5621 4 года назад
The dude from perfect strangers
@roglo06
@roglo06 4 года назад
Mr. Regents Dude Yes! Mark-Linn Baker.
@WaterShowsProd
@WaterShowsProd 4 года назад
Also an accomplished stage actor and he starred opposite Peter O'Toole in the film "My Favorite Year". And he was really good in a Tic-Tac commercial that aired in the early '80s.
@AndrewMichel
@AndrewMichel 3 года назад
@ Cousin Larry
@PDXVoiceTeacher
@PDXVoiceTeacher 3 года назад
STAAAAAAAAANDING TAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!! ON THE WINGS OFY DREAMMMMMMM!
@christinacascadilla4473
@christinacascadilla4473 3 года назад
Mark-Lynn Baker. Probably there to plug “My Favorite Year.”
@brycewilson1909
@brycewilson1909 3 года назад
love dick cavett. he asked real questions other people were curious about but too scared to ask. sure sometimes he came off awkwardly but i appreciate the conversations!
@ulisesantonio8764
@ulisesantonio8764 2 года назад
I'm white, I had no problem when the Waynes brothers palyed two white chicks... This is BS
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 Год назад
That’s because you have powers and privileges as a community that people of color don’t, so it won’t create the same level of potential harm.
@totallyrufus
@totallyrufus 8 дней назад
The Wayans Brothers also don't get offended by white people pretending to play a black person. It's because they are light hearted and easy breezy. Also, Marlon is my doppelganger, except my skin is darker. Love those light hearted brothers. I think that's why they seem so happy.
@ProfOsmo
@ProfOsmo 4 года назад
You gotta give Dick a lot of credit for uploading things like this. Was he perfect? No. But he tried earnestly to understand his fellow man and you can see him grow over the years. This is obvious to most fans here, but how great would it be for dick to come back to the game? hed bring such a great vibe to the late night scene.
@Geekmasterproduction
@Geekmasterproduction 4 года назад
This channel is gonna blow up. All these political correct talk shows are boring, as a 25 year old its interesting to see how talk shows in the past were and I LOVE IT.
@buzzkill808raven2
@buzzkill808raven2 4 года назад
All I'm going to say, is that Dick really lives up to his name...he's one of the most insidious, unassuming kind of evil
@psychedelicfright85
@psychedelicfright85 3 года назад
@@buzzkill808raven2 oh shut it dumbass
@johnvolkman7208
@johnvolkman7208 Год назад
@@buzzkill808raven2 what the dickens are you talking about?
@robertodelosangeles3247
@robertodelosangeles3247 Год назад
@@buzzkill808raven2 explain please…
@happydayz7857
@happydayz7857 4 года назад
How offensive now to be called the black Woody Allen. Back in the day when it seemed like any prominent black person had to be called ‘The Black So-n-so.’
@1234pouvez
@1234pouvez 4 года назад
It's offensive now, it was offensive then and it will always be offensive. Had they just said both he and Woody Allen are directors from Brooklyn, that would have been fine. Woody Allen probably wouldn't appreciate being called the Jewish Orson Wells.
@buzzkill808raven2
@buzzkill808raven2 4 года назад
even more offensive is how dick asks him the question by pretending to not ask it...what a snake
@jonnysupreme
@jonnysupreme 3 года назад
Cuz they're second rate
@thejonesexperience
@thejonesexperience 3 года назад
@@jonnysupreme Like your whole lineage..
@MrSuperbluesky
@MrSuperbluesky 3 года назад
@@buzzkill808raven2 I thought Dick gave Spike a chance to speak about that horrible comparison made by another. I was surprised how Spike wanted it to rest rather then Highlight it as example.
@sannimcable
@sannimcable 3 года назад
Good interview 👍
@TSquared2001
@TSquared2001 3 года назад
Wow. Didn't know Cavett was stilll doing his show during this period.
@jaymillymills
@jaymillymills 3 года назад
Me either
@briankelleywastaken
@briankelleywastaken 3 года назад
He had a line of different talk shows on different networks with his name on it up until about '96.
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
In my mind, he was a thing from the 70s (even his logo is from the 70s). I had no idea he was still around when i graduated from high school.
@John-ct9zs
@John-ct9zs 3 года назад
Young Spike Lee handled this with class, and Spike even seemed to realize that Dick Cavett is probably a well meaning white dude but just out of touch with racial politics. Cavett was more a man that simply thought "Segregation is bad! Bigots and KKK are bad!", but he was not a man that understood anything beyond that. It was classy of Spike to give Cavett a way out of the topic before it became too embarrassing and overly tense beyond redemption.
@jedijones
@jedijones 3 года назад
Or maybe he was a man who understands that radical racial politics are divisive BS.
@friskydingooo7992
@friskydingooo7992 3 года назад
@@jedijones usually a white guy talks like this ,
@conchobar
@conchobar 2 года назад
Spike was talking with Ego, not intellect. He would try to own anyone who critiqued his film without seeing it. His critique of 'Soul Man' would make a movie like 'White Girls' open game for being labelled "Racist".
@Blackman19498
@Blackman19498 2 года назад
@@conchobar I don’t know what 🤷‍♂️your point is, ?And I am guessing you don’t know your self
@jackdempsey9644
@jackdempsey9644 2 года назад
Shut it. A well-meaning white dude? I hate to burst your bubble but white people do not sit around talking about black people all day and white people are not racist. A very small percentage of white people are racist. Black people are way more racist than white people are and that’s a F fact. You can make a movie called the white men can’t jump and that’s OK but you make a movie called soulman and it’s racist get the fF out of here with that BS.
@SuperWilliamholmes
@SuperWilliamholmes 3 года назад
Cousin Larry is like "shit's about to get real!'
@TheRayvolution
@TheRayvolution 3 года назад
“Don’t be ridiculous Cousin Larry.” - Dick Cavette
@barfyman-dm6zx
@barfyman-dm6zx Год назад
🤘🤘I'm just over here patiently waiting for 'Soulman 2: Black by Popular Demand' to come out🤘🤘
@ndeamonk24
@ndeamonk24 3 года назад
Spike been THERE!!!! 💯💯💯
@christopherharper9932
@christopherharper9932 3 года назад
The Golden Age of the Spike Lee joint, miss those days
@filmtoppings
@filmtoppings 3 года назад
I still think Spike is at his A game
@123brendan12
@123brendan12 3 года назад
He’s back to his best imo. He’s on quite a roll
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
@@123brendan12 I haven't seen one of his in probably decades. Checked out around 25th Hour. Guess i'll have to check back in on him. Any recent recommendations?
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
@@osamanoor1570 thanks! I remember Black Klansman looking good.
@jadezee6316
@jadezee6316 3 года назад
cavett has never appeared at ease discussing racial issues...here spike gives him a way out before he embarrasses himself beyond repair
@bartstarr100
@bartstarr100 3 года назад
Bad take.
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 2 года назад
Watch the interview, and note that Cavett wasn't looking for "a way out" of anything - he was looking for honest dialogue.
@cockoffgewgle4993
@cockoffgewgle4993 Год назад
The only one embarrassing himself is the one being openly racist: Spike Lee.
@lizziebkennedy7505
@lizziebkennedy7505 Год назад
@@maestroofamore8948 then why didn’t he bring any of his own? he’s way out of his depth.
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 Год назад
@@lizziebkennedy7505 We can agree that Cavett should've challenged Lee's ridiculous assertions about "Soul Man" and Rae Dawn Chong. I know I would have.
@welchce
@welchce 3 года назад
Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris has entered the chat...
@SonofStLouis
@SonofStLouis 4 года назад
There was a real case that an Indian student passed himself as black in-order to get in to some Ivy League university ....and he did
@davidadams2395
@davidadams2395 4 года назад
Well, I can buy that than a white per....oh, Rachel.
@TheStranger513
@TheStranger513 3 года назад
Much easier to pass off lol.
@Targisvear
@Targisvear 3 года назад
@@TheStranger513 You cut your hair and done.
@EdertheJust
@EdertheJust 3 года назад
It was mindy kaling brother.
@Targisvear
@Targisvear 3 года назад
"he", "Mindy Kaling". Checks out. Lulwat?
@christopherharper9932
@christopherharper9932 3 года назад
I HATE that! "The Black so and so". They may as well say, "The poor man's..." Spike is SPIKE, one of a kind! My man!! Spike was 29 there!
@marchdave1
@marchdave1 3 года назад
We are humans. And its in our nature to label things. Its how we communicate and make sense of things. I see " the black woody allen" as trying to communicate to other people (mainly white) what type of film make Spike Lee is. I dont rhink we are ever going to not see things in terms of race but hopefully we can understand why we do and not let if feed into our prejudices.
@geraldjarvis2115
@geraldjarvis2115 3 года назад
European Americans.
@gbmbg114
@gbmbg114 3 года назад
I totally understand your point of view here.. However, if I may, I’d like to suggest an alternative way of looking at things. I think the height of creativity and happiness is to NOT label so much. When a person is a full person when we first meet or see them, then we can allow who they actually are to inform our opinions about them. Honestly, and I mean this respectfully, to say “I don’t think we can ever not see race” is kind of a limiting belief about people’s potential. To me, I think the object is to challenge ourselves to rise to the ideal that we seek. If we accept “race” as a label, what wr’re really saying in that moment is “you know how this group is in general, so fill in the gaps that I’m too lazy to fill in about this individual person/circumstance”. That’s not meant to put blame on anyone. It’s just that when you can approach a person or their work for the uniqueness of their offering, we ALL get a richer taste of life. IMHO at least.. an exercise that helped me with this was deciding to refrain from describing people racially in conversation. Reaching for all of the other adjectives at my disposal. With practice, you can learn to focus on other qualities.
@mikekock927
@mikekock927 3 года назад
He can’t even watch a movie that he criticizes, he just watched clips from it lol. He did the same thing with Django Unchained.
@christopherharper9932
@christopherharper9932 3 года назад
@@marchdave1 uh-huh
@famousbowl9926
@famousbowl9926 3 года назад
Its CRAZY how many years and eras of talkshow he had
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
I'm stunned to find out that Dick Cavett was still on the year i graduated from high school!
@konstantinkoverchenko9587
@konstantinkoverchenko9587 2 года назад
Christ, how many times did you have to repeat a grade? >_
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 2 года назад
@@konstantinkoverchenko9587 ha well i was born in '68 and i knew he was on when i was a little kid in the 70s but i had no idea he was on well into the 80s.
@EyeLean5280
@EyeLean5280 3 года назад
Goodness, he's a BABY here!
@jordani0205
@jordani0205 3 года назад
America needs to learn how to understand anothers opinion without so much hate. we dont have to like the same thing or have the same values, we just have to respect each other as living beings, thats all, evolution will follow. I see no hate or anger from either person. The only thing i dont like is that Spike Lee was invited to talk about his film and it was derailed by questions about another film to open a debate that people secretly want to have especially back then.
@TheKitchenerLeslie
@TheKitchenerLeslie 3 года назад
Cousin Larry!? Where's Balki?
@jeremiahwoods8200
@jeremiahwoods8200 2 года назад
🤣Balki vs Fez from that 70's show by Smartymcfly Don Liberace my new song on RU-vid
@TheKitchenerLeslie
@TheKitchenerLeslie 2 года назад
@@jeremiahwoods8200 What? There's nothing like that on RU-vid.
@jeremiahwoods8200
@jeremiahwoods8200 2 года назад
@@TheKitchenerLeslie 🤣 sure it is I recorded the song Blaki vs Fez it'll turn up soon Leslie I guess my page is not so popular,,,take care have a great one
@TheKitchenerLeslie
@TheKitchenerLeslie 2 года назад
@@jeremiahwoods8200 I don't understand the point of your post. I searched for it... it doesn't exist. This is a really strange troll.
@bizzyrizzy4025
@bizzyrizzy4025 3 года назад
Ya gotta understand, Dick is from NE. I am from NE. This is how most from either Lincoln and/or Omaha speak to each other. It’s not condescending in anyway. Dick is coming from a place of endearment. All he is trying to do is to understand Spike. He is speaking the quintessential, dry, inquisitive tone that we Nebraskans all have in some degree.
@FAMc81
@FAMc81 2 года назад
Interesting.. thanks for sharing.
@kevhos1000
@kevhos1000 2 года назад
There is no endearment here because this tone is too common from white people who are underline prejudice. People who are on the opposite side of prejudice is never understand
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 2 года назад
You nailed it, bizzy rizzy. Cavett as always, is utterly polite & respectful here - questioning Lee's bias without ever criticizing it.
@lizziebkennedy7505
@lizziebkennedy7505 Год назад
@@maestroofamore8948 You are a bigot.
@Outlawgurl24
@Outlawgurl24 7 месяцев назад
Marlon Brando was from Nebraska too and he never acted like he was afraid of black people or looked uncomfortable around us .
@asifsaeedmemon
@asifsaeedmemon 4 года назад
1986, meet Rachel Dolezal
@cle-chi
@cle-chi 3 года назад
lol
@strokerace4765
@strokerace4765 3 года назад
The real problem, “all good comedy is somewhat offensive” Eddie Murphy’s Delirious is extremely disrespectful to elders, but so funny.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
Soul Man wasn’t exactly good comedy.
@strokerace4765
@strokerace4765 2 года назад
@@RocStarr913 actually I thought it was funny, “now go get my hypodermic needle with my herion in it Roc
@strokerace4765
@strokerace4765 2 года назад
RocStarr913, the part where everyone thinks he can play basketball is hilarious!
@danielgagnon2355
@danielgagnon2355 2 года назад
Spike never had a problem when the Wayan Brothers came out with the movie White Chicks 2004 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aeVkbNka9HM.html the Hypocrisy from Spike lol
@bluestate69
@bluestate69 4 года назад
Spike Lee is a genius. He is far more than just a "black" director.
@peterparks9435
@peterparks9435 4 года назад
bluestate69 I agree.
@DineshBhadwal
@DineshBhadwal 4 года назад
This is a must for every budding filmmaker.
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus
@Jizzlewobbwtfcus 4 года назад
I agree. He will teach them how not to be a hypocritical asshat
@ATLbench
@ATLbench 3 года назад
Eddie Murphy did a skit about being white and it was hilarious! Comedy at its best is meant to provoke.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
Soul Man wasn’t exactly the best example of that. The comedy was mainly low-hanging fruit seen in many other movies targeted towards its demographic.
@ATLbench
@ATLbench 2 года назад
@@RocStarr913 whatever. It’s a double standard. Making fun of stereotypes is fair game it’s a crucial part of comedy in general. And the reason is that it’s often got some truth to it.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 Год назад
@@ATLbench No, it isn’t. White people, and especially white men, still have power and advantage a lot of people in society don’t. Black people in whiteface simply does not cause the same level of actual potential harm to white people as a whole the way white people in blackface would because black people are often treated as the other in society.
@justbstalk9846
@justbstalk9846 Год назад
@@RocStarr913 I agree that the finish lines for black people and white people are different and it simply isn’t the same but the irony of the “blackface” dialogue is that a lot of racists during the 1920s and 1930s hated minstrels for exposing white audiences to jazz. Al Jolson, who was probably the most successful minstrel, was also Jewish and his views on civil rights were very progressive because he recognized that he owed his success to black entertainers.
@mizzury54
@mizzury54 4 года назад
I loved that first movie " She's gotta have it " Great work !
@comedianjwatch8738
@comedianjwatch8738 3 года назад
Then you must see the Series on Netflix. Everything he didn't do in the movie he did in the show
@RayPaganJr
@RayPaganJr 2 года назад
I remember taking my girlfriend at the time, a short Jewish Jersey girl and I walked in and we were the whitest couple there. We totally enjoyed it and I’ve been a fan of his ever since. Damn, that was a lifetime ago. Do The Right Thing is one of my favorite movies, as well as Mo’ Better Blues.
@ryank.1214
@ryank.1214 4 месяца назад
“I haven’t seen it…but I can tell you everything about it.” Ok Spike.
@Orf
@Orf 3 года назад
5:00 “attack on affirmative action....I didn’t see the film...I don’t have to see it...I’ve seen clips”
@eseterik78
@eseterik78 3 года назад
Larry Appleton just chillin.....
@APisceanSlant
@APisceanSlant 3 года назад
Until the discussion about Hollywood Squares & Love Boat, lol. Would have loved for the camera to pan to him, as Spike was talking about the fate of one-hit wonders
@theshark84724
@theshark84724 3 года назад
Dick was a special person. He was spontaneous and reserved. I sure wish my name was Dick tho
@thehotyounggrandpas8207
@thehotyounggrandpas8207 Год назад
IS a special person, he's still alive!
@adamw116
@adamw116 2 месяца назад
Wait and Mark Linn Baker from Perfect Strangers was also a guest wow?? Dick Cavett going off on the Mets, another wow!
@niradnagrom2356
@niradnagrom2356 2 года назад
"Buttah on my whole wheat bread." *LMAO!*
@septimus64
@septimus64 2 года назад
And yet we have Rachel Dolezal
@timtalton1709
@timtalton1709 3 года назад
I liked the movie 34 years ago when i was 22. I never met(s) a black person in my life until i went into the service. Shenendehowa high school, clifton park, ny. Class of '81
@knowitall3892
@knowitall3892 3 года назад
Dam I was born 93
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
Yup, i never met a black person until after high school. There wasn't a single black person that lived in my town, or any of the surrounding small towns, and we were only a half hour from St. Louis, on the Illinois side. People were pretty racist there, including some of my parent's friends, but my mom was good on the topic, so we grew up without any glaring prejudices. So even in the best of circumstances, it was all too easy to grow into attitudes like Dick Cavett's here- the well intentioned but ignorant white person
@center8922
@center8922 3 года назад
@@kdkseven @Tim Talton What about the mailmen?
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
@@center8922 i grew up in a small town, population 3200. There was not a single black person living in our town until i was a senior in high school.
@jfjoubertquebec
@jfjoubertquebec 3 года назад
Love Spike Lee. Bonjour du Québec.
@harshailapakurty
@harshailapakurty 3 года назад
So good
@isaacmartinez6904
@isaacmartinez6904 4 года назад
Discussion on Soul Man 4:23
@JC_wonderland
@JC_wonderland 3 года назад
The real MVP thank you
@allenscott68
@allenscott68 3 года назад
Zulu swashbuckler. 1018miamidrive I remember this movie and I would have said the same thing but now that I'm older and know better this shite was offensive just like tropic thunder🗣‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
@mrleroyskillet800
@mrleroyskillet800 3 года назад
@@allenscott68 Yes
@mrsmokeydog7830
@mrsmokeydog7830 4 года назад
Comedy has different colors and shades and is just that COMEDY. it is not to be taken serious. So it is not an insult to any group of individuals irregardless of race. Unless they choose and decide to make it a serious issue. The Wayan Brothers made a film where they were 2 Black men portraying 2 white girls it was ridiculous but it was COMEDY. So really making an issue and pointing fingers and complaining about all these things is frivolous "Live and let Live". And don't sweat the small stuff.
@dreamquesttv
@dreamquesttv 3 года назад
@Kevin L There's so many white people who love White Chicks it's jaw-dropping.
@enriqueluiz437
@enriqueluiz437 4 года назад
THANK YOU!
@MediaSock
@MediaSock 3 года назад
6:03 "could nobody make a film in which a black man is played by a white man & getaway with it?" , Yes, yes they can, Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Junior.
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 2 года назад
For that matter, Soul Man "got away with it" too, earning back nearly *8 TIMES* its budget. Not a bad ROI.
@marianotorrespico2975
@marianotorrespico2975 2 года назад
@@maestroofamore8948 --- CORRECT. | "Soul Man" (1986) was made for white suburbanites, like the protagonist. If you try hard enough, you might find excuses and justifications for "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), analogously, "Tropic Thunder" (2008) deliberately ridiculed that practise of racist misrepresentation.
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 2 года назад
@@marianotorrespico2975 I'll leave it to you to "find excuses & justifications for The Birth of a Nation" if you're so inclined, but Soul Man was primarily targeted toward the 18 to 35 year-old demographic, a not-insignificant percentage of which is composed of persons of color, which were represented to some degree in the cast. Tropic Thunder deliberately ridiculed "method actors" as it flaunted the squeamish expectations of contemporary "virtue-signalers".
@marianotorrespico2975
@marianotorrespico2975 2 года назад
@@maestroofamore8948 --- You have proved my point, by going off-topic.
@maestroofamore8948
@maestroofamore8948 2 года назад
@@marianotorrespico2975 Nope, but you're either failing to read or failing to comprehend the topic, or both. Either way, best of luck to you.
@Orf
@Orf 3 года назад
10:15 as an artist you’re walking a tight rope
@easyriderrider4580
@easyriderrider4580 2 года назад
Yeah, I actually Am more interested in what Rae has to say... Spike's stuff was Laughably over the top and cartoonish... Even back in the day, lol...
@amafirenze-vi1uh
@amafirenze-vi1uh 10 месяцев назад
Cary Grant posing as a french girl in "I was a male war bride" was more unbelievable than Soul Man. But, its an Hollywood movie in both cases, not a documentary.
@briandukes1619
@briandukes1619 3 года назад
Wonderful interview i got to watch more . I like the way he does not try and trap anyone he seems like he was fair and a all around good interviewer and good person
@jasrob009
@jasrob009 3 года назад
I always felt for all the interesting guests Cavett seemed awkward as an interviewer especially with black guests. He's nice and all just a bit clumsy.
@sannimcable
@sannimcable 3 года назад
Spike Lee seems like a cool 😎
@StannisHarlock
@StannisHarlock 3 года назад
It would be awesome to talk to Dick Cavett.
@nickboot8603
@nickboot8603 3 года назад
In terms of intelligence and social impact Spike was always the logical successor to Malcolm X in the 90s
@dannyhustle2599
@dannyhustle2599 3 года назад
Nope not even close. Spike lee just like hypocrite Hollywood celeb
@cadillaccalhoun3516
@cadillaccalhoun3516 3 года назад
Please! What are you smoking 😂😂😂
@ricomajestic
@ricomajestic 3 года назад
Yea right! Haha. Malcolm was an intellectual and way smarter than Spike!
@Outlawgurl24
@Outlawgurl24 7 месяцев назад
80s
@christophertracy2807
@christophertracy2807 2 года назад
He never had a black guest on without bringing up race. I like him but I never liked that
@jansonwilliams776
@jansonwilliams776 4 года назад
Legend!
@SuperWilliamholmes
@SuperWilliamholmes 3 года назад
Cousin Larry!
@nightmuffin937
@nightmuffin937 3 года назад
Sit down. Be Humble
@maddymud
@maddymud 3 года назад
$175K - what an achievement
@learnbahasaindonesia3361
@learnbahasaindonesia3361 3 года назад
Spike lee condemned the movie without seeing it. I don't respect him in this interview.
@mr1derful
@mr1derful 3 года назад
I’m sure Spike is losing sleep over it
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
The movie isn’t exactly very good.
@happydayz7857
@happydayz7857 4 года назад
What a treat for Spike to be on this show with that other guy from Perfect Strangers right?
@roglo06
@roglo06 4 года назад
Happy Day Mark-Linn Baker. “Perfect Strangers” was one of the most-popular sitcoms in the mid-‘80s.
@TheStranger513
@TheStranger513 3 года назад
@@roglo06 Never watched it. But at least it brought us Family Matters.
@nathancoleman7235
@nathancoleman7235 7 месяцев назад
WOW! Spike Lee in his very very early days!!!
@SteveSmartPoetryandMusic
@SteveSmartPoetryandMusic 3 года назад
Spike Lee... Still here!
@SteveSmartPoetryandMusic
@SteveSmartPoetryandMusic 3 года назад
BTW 'the next one'? Do The Right Thing. The undying classic.
@JEREMY99218
@JEREMY99218 4 года назад
Spike Lee totally missed the point of the movie. The message of the movie is clearly ANTI-RACISM and treating people equally. Actress Rae Dawn Chong said of the controversy: "It was only controversial because Spike Lee made a thing of it. He'd never seen the movie and he just jumped all over it… He was just starting and pulling everything down in his wake. If you watch the movie, it's really making white people look stupid… [The film] is adorable and it didn't deserve it.…I always tried to be an actor who was doing a part that was a character versus what I call 'blackting,' or playing my race, because I knew that I would fail because I was mixed. I was the black actor for sure, but I didn't lead with my epidermis, and that offended people like Spike Lee, I think. You're either militant or you're not and he decided to just attack. I've never forgiven him for that because it really hurt me. I didn't realize [at the time] that not pushing the afro-centric agenda was going to bite me. When you start to do well people start to say you're a Tom [as in Uncle Tom] because you're acceptable" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Man_(film)
@blueblur2273
@blueblur2273 3 года назад
I love Spike but he got a history of talking out of his ass.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
It wasn’t exactly very intellectual or clever most of the movie. It was mainly played for cheap laughs like many other young adult comedy movies tend to be.
@jamespotter3660
@jamespotter3660 3 года назад
for a typically smooth interviewer, the first few minutes of this interview are pretty awkward.
@valvemedia
@valvemedia 3 года назад
The guy didn’t see it. He can’t …..
@55Porter
@55Porter 3 года назад
This is weird. He mentions Mars Blackman around 3:45 but I don't recall that character coming on the scene until the early 90's. In fact I don't even remember Spike Lee being a prominent director around this time. Strange stuff.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
Mars Blackmon was originally in Lee’s very first movie She’s Gotta Have It, which was what he was mainly known for at the time. He was an up and comer at this time.
@WhiteNinjaProductions
@WhiteNinjaProductions 3 года назад
I watched Eddie Murphy play white and thought it was great, although not real at all.
@bryb2644
@bryb2644 3 года назад
??? I’m trying to pay for this newspaper. What are you doing??? Just take it.
@LLOOYYYDD
@LLOOYYYDD 3 года назад
*She's gotta have it is in my top5 of all time, Spike Lee is a genius and I have total respect for the guy. And I'm Italian*
@theoriginalthinker9199
@theoriginalthinker9199 3 года назад
Aren't you a great guy! Your virtue signaling is obvious.
@MS-ns2pj
@MS-ns2pj 2 года назад
Spike is a racist, a bigot, and a sexist and he hates you. Where’s your self respect?
@HELLH0WND
@HELLH0WND 3 года назад
Does selling tube socks pay for his season court side Knick tickets?
@capoislamort100
@capoislamort100 3 года назад
Hey, you gotta hustle in these streets!!
@HoldenNY22
@HoldenNY22 3 года назад
"she Gotto Have It" I think was his first film. I am not that Big a Spike Lee Fan, but I think most people think more of his other Movies like "Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, etc.
@mjfromla
@mjfromla 3 года назад
He had one before She's Gotta Have It, "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads."
@mikekock927
@mikekock927 3 года назад
The only movie of his that I liked was 25th hour because it didn’t have any racial undertones like every other film of his.
@yeahheyyayya4745
@yeahheyyayya4745 3 года назад
@@mikekock927 snowflake
@psychedelicfright85
@psychedelicfright85 3 года назад
Inside Man is a very underrated movie of his.
@midlwestern3237
@midlwestern3237 3 года назад
I must have a completely distorted view of how standards of racial sensetivity were in the 1980s... wouldn't the question/answer be : "What's the problem with 'Soul Man?'..... IT'S BLACKFACE!!!!"
@albertcovington9942
@albertcovington9942 3 года назад
My guess is you haven't seen the film?
@midlwestern3237
@midlwestern3237 3 года назад
@@albertcovington9942 like Spike lee, I have not watched the film and will not watch it. The preview makes it crystal clear that it is a movie about a guy who dresses up in black face to attempt to get an African-American scholarship. why would anyone need to watch any more of that to understand why it's terrible?
@MrBen51309
@MrBen51309 3 года назад
Don't watch Tropic Thunder then, if you think blackface is completely unacceptable in every context.
@VinnieBoombatz374
@VinnieBoombatz374 2 года назад
Believe it or not, this movie wasn't actually that controversial in the '80s and grossed a lot of money. It was a hit. Me and all my friends saw it as kids (I'm black) and never considered that what we were watching was blackface. I was so young though that I probably didn't know what blackface was yet, but the adults around me didn't seem to have a problem with it either. It actually is a very funny movie, I think it's much more controversial now than it was back then.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 2 года назад
The blackface is the tip of the iceberg. The ultimate issue is it’s just another dumb young adult comedy.
@kaguth
@kaguth 4 года назад
Did he give RDJ a pass though? He did admit it was part execution and Topic Thunder was much better executed.
@EZ-IZZY1995
@EZ-IZZY1995 4 года назад
kaguth well that was 22 years later too
@kaguth
@kaguth 4 года назад
@@EZ-IZZY1995 Yeah, I'm not trying to criticize him. I'm honestly just curious why people are less mad or more mad at something that is kind of the same. I think the details make the difference, and like Spike said no one would really think C Thomas was black in Soul Man, but in Tropic thunder everyone knew he was white, which I think helps and adds to the self aware irony.
@EZ-IZZY1995
@EZ-IZZY1995 4 года назад
kaguth Exactly. White Chicks is the same deal; everyone pretty much knew that the makeup was bad and the voices sucked and the main characters were even baffled at how they pulled off their disguises. Soul Man though....”white man cant get in to prestigious law school so he pretends (horribly) to be black to do it” is just a weird concept for a movie
@lynxminx4
@lynxminx4 4 года назад
Thematically, Soul Man depicts a white person trying to take a black person's spot and becoming a fish out of water. While you could frame RDJ in Tropic Thunder as a white person trying to take a black person's spot, the comedic angle is completely different- his character isn't funny because he's a 'fish out of water', he's funny because he is so arrogant and narrowly focused on his craft he is blind to the impact he is having on his audience....and to the fact that the explosions and gunfire around him are now real....and to everything else except himself.
@riverc.820
@riverc.820 4 года назад
I simply listen to what another person has to say and consider their perspective instead of asking for some sort of checklist or litmus. Think about the context of when that movie came out. it's not even 20 years after the civil rights act has passed and not a lot has changed for black America. Its a clueless movie, not directly racist, but the Reagan era in general really missed this country up from moving forward.
@Gannooch
@Gannooch 2 года назад
I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos on YT.
@faraimunodawafa6900
@faraimunodawafa6900 2 года назад
35 years later... can still smell the champagne
@duprestreet
@duprestreet 3 года назад
This is very uncomfortable
@rogerclark5221
@rogerclark5221 4 года назад
Spike you are everything. Young and unafraid
@TheKitchenerLeslie
@TheKitchenerLeslie 3 года назад
And a black supremacist!
@epictetusofhierapolis4461
@epictetusofhierapolis4461 3 года назад
No need to be offended by Soul Man. If it's not funny, then it's not funny, but offensive? please.
@eltoro969
@eltoro969 3 года назад
Dick Cavett could do this tv show today in the same form. He is using the old school interview style but it always ends up as conversations, like on podcasts.
@lizziebkennedy7505
@lizziebkennedy7505 Год назад
He is a racial nada. He does not know anything about anything and he insults his guest and doesn’t even get to the core of any of the issues he raises. The only place he could do this today is Charlottesville, and even there he’d rate badly.
@alansands256
@alansands256 Год назад
If this was a "conversation" it was an awkward one.
@nicholaslipowski7744
@nicholaslipowski7744 3 года назад
Do the right thing is a classic oh, one of my favorite films of all
@johnnylightning1967
@johnnylightning1967 3 года назад
How did affirmative action workout?
@gsutton78
@gsutton78 3 года назад
Johnny Lightning. Nowhere near as good as the Homestead Act and Jim Crow. Those were affirmative action policies for whts.
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
@@gsutton78 Exactly. People like Johnny up there don't realize that white Americans have been giving themselves a place at the head of the line from the very beginning. And actually Johnny, affirmative action was quite effective.
@MrBen51309
@MrBen51309 3 года назад
Ironically, feminists wanted a piece of that pie and now white women are the biggest beneficiaries of the policy. That's right folks, Karens gain the most from affirmative action.
@johnnylightning1967
@johnnylightning1967 3 года назад
@@kdkseven Why does it have to be white that give you stuff . I find it very ungrateful for people that claim racism but want to live amongst white people . It seem to me everyone is flooding into Areas with European countries or countries of European descent . Stop pointing your fingers , but look at yourself .
@johnnylightning1967
@johnnylightning1967 3 года назад
@@gsutton78 go cry a River , I owe you nothing
@bryb2644
@bryb2644 3 года назад
Is perfect strangers on a streaming service somewhere?
@jedijones
@jedijones 3 года назад
Looks like Hulu has it. I don't understand why it's not on HBO Max because Warner Brothers produces the DVDs. I can't figure out streaming, LOL.
@RocStarr913
@RocStarr913 Год назад
@@jedijones It probably doesn’t do well enough to justify being on that particular service. It’s all about what demographic of viewers go on a streaming service.
@somethingyousaid5059
@somethingyousaid5059 4 года назад
Spike was always chill. He never seemed nervous on camera. I wish he was more prolific with his output of films though.
@Zeldarw104
@Zeldarw104 4 года назад
.......I just died in your arms tonight it must've been something you said?!😬 Spike Lee was a young man, and he was just getting his work out, as a director, so that might account for some of his nervousness in the interview, but, I think he did great a job expressing, himself, Dick cavett seems to be all over the place.🤔
@somethingyousaid5059
@somethingyousaid5059 4 года назад
@@Zeldarw104 I didn't mean to imply that he was being nervous in this interview. Obviously he's very calm, confident, and poised in it. I was just making the point that I never saw him be nervous in front of the camera ever.
@Ronnie-Jones
@Ronnie-Jones 4 года назад
RU-vid banned the most forbidden documentary ever published but it’s still available at archive-dot-org: "Europa The Last Battle". Watch it while you still can.
@toiletsinjapan9933
@toiletsinjapan9933 4 года назад
The fact that he wasn't more prolific may have something to do with why you can remember them all. Quality over quantity :)
@kalin9ne651
@kalin9ne651 9 месяцев назад
@@Ronnie-JonesAutism
@swpo1
@swpo1 4 года назад
Spike Lee right here is cool and chill. Nowadays he got his finger in everybody's Kool aid and just overall having a attitude where he thinks his opinions really matter. But then again...... .........who am I?
@mrHoppedupford
@mrHoppedupford 4 года назад
Dudes never been cool.
@toiletsinjapan9933
@toiletsinjapan9933 4 года назад
@@mrHoppedupford Which celebrities are? Other than the ones you know personally, of course. Very few people act the same when their opinions suddenly start to matter to millions of people.
@riverc.820
@riverc.820 4 года назад
LOL. That's what people said back then.
@ObediahPolkinghornIII-cz5io
@ObediahPolkinghornIII-cz5io 4 года назад
I admire your humility.
@blueblur2273
@blueblur2273 3 года назад
@@riverc.820 Exactly. Spike's always been like that
@karlwba1372
@karlwba1372 4 года назад
Spike is measured here...Dick brings in other race issue film`s..." yeah but what about this " etc..attempting to make it a competition instead of judging Spike`s work and how he is subtly trying to change the narrative, whilst at the same time attempting to challenge perceived race narratives hopefully moving us all forwards with real change...as of today not a lot has changed...but at least he tried...big up to him from the UK..
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
Dick Cavett is a perfect example of the well-meaning but ignorant white liberal.
@MrBen51309
@MrBen51309 3 года назад
Spike Lee attempting subtlety was the most shocking part of the entire interview.
@TheJayblaze3
@TheJayblaze3 3 года назад
What happen to that spike? After he made that documentary about my city New Orleans (he went backwards)
@123brendan12
@123brendan12 3 года назад
Have you seen any of his recent movies. Blackkklansman and Da 5 Bloods are both fantastic imo
@blueconversechucks
@blueconversechucks 3 года назад
@@123brendan12 I thought those were okay. Don't hold a candle to do the right thing and malcolm x though.
@stevemalek2970
@stevemalek2970 3 года назад
I like the movie Soul Man and it does have a good universal message at the end. I think Spike Lee should give it a chance and not condemn it so quickly.
@NovaRack
@NovaRack 4 года назад
13:46
@markant9534
@markant9534 3 года назад
Reminds me of Tupac here.
@pulse4503
@pulse4503 Месяц назад
Great film
@MrKjames711
@MrKjames711 3 года назад
Can Dick sound more condescending in his introduction? I don’t know, I’m pretty young-was that his thing?
@TheSonnyjim1000
@TheSonnyjim1000 3 года назад
They should make soul man part 2 with Rachel Dolezal and Megan Markle. Soul Woman!
@crazyjim9380
@crazyjim9380 3 года назад
Why Megan Markle?
@thesadwolf
@thesadwolf 4 года назад
Lee's second film, School Daze, made $14,545,844 against a $6,000,000 budget so he did ok : ) 12:07
@wwbuirkle
@wwbuirkle 3 года назад
Outside of do the right thing i don't care for this race baiter's movies
@123brendan12
@123brendan12 3 года назад
@@wwbuirkle keep crying loser... I swear you want to be persecuted so badly😭
@wwbuirkle
@wwbuirkle 3 года назад
@@123brendan12 Who's crying genius.You're not even making any sense dummy
@seang3019
@seang3019 3 года назад
@@wwbuirkle He Got Game is the worst example of that I've seen. Malcolm X however is IMHO his masterpiece.
@kdkseven
@kdkseven 3 года назад
@@wwbuirkle Calling someone a race baiter is race baiting.
@Kruppt808
@Kruppt808 2 года назад
people say this was an uncomfortable interview, i think both Spike and the host were fine. They got their points across, not to bad.
@Clifffields
@Clifffields 2 года назад
Sheeeeeesh
@thefifthdoctor6780
@thefifthdoctor6780 3 года назад
Thanks for recommending, enjoyed the comedy film.
@lobsterwhisperer7932
@lobsterwhisperer7932 Год назад
I also checked it out, it was boring AF
@TheGenreman
@TheGenreman 3 года назад
Apparently he never saw it.
@rainblaze.
@rainblaze. 3 года назад
Word !!
@namco003
@namco003 3 года назад
Nor, was he going to.
@lisazinn866
@lisazinn866 Год назад
Whadda dope
@cynthiaschultheis1660
@cynthiaschultheis1660 2 года назад
Caveat had best guests on tv
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