As Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' hits Netflix today, the director explains why he wove President Trump into his film about Black Vietnam vets.
unlike anything seen in half a century. That said, he isn’t entirely shocked either.
Retrofitting an original script by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo in which the soldiers were white, Lee and co-writer Kevin Willmott decided to bring those deeper themes to the fore by making one of the vets, the volatile, embittered Paul , an ardent supporter of Donald Trump.
Lee, whose preferred nickname for the president is Agent Orange, persuaded Lindo that making Paul a Trump fan would not only generate some interesting dramatic friction with his fellow vets but would also enable the film to touch on the sort of hot-button political currents that his work has so often tapped. “Delroy tried to talk me out of it, but he knew it was the best thing for his character and the best thing for this film,” Lee says. “It wasn’t a long discussion.
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