Da 5 Bloods with Director Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott (Ep. 272)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Director Spike Lee discusses his new film, Da 5 Bloods, with fellow director Kevin Willmott in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film follows four African-American veterans, who battle the forces of both man and nature when they return to Vietnam, seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

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0:00.0	I automatically thought of what's going on.
0:03.9	The album came out in 1971.
0:06.0	Vietnam War was still going on.
0:08.4	So the black soldiers, they were hearing that album where they were in boot camp in the United States
0:17.4	or when they were sent halfway around the world to the American War.
0:24.3	When you go to Vietnam and you say a Vietnam War, you are politely reminded we do not call it that.
0:33.8	I'm speaking of the Vietnamese people.
0:35.7	They say it is the American War.
0:40.8	Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild
0:45.2	of America.
0:46.6	Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Spike Lee's new adventure drama, Defive Bloods.
0:52.5	The film follows four African-American veterans who battle the
0:55.7	forces of both man and nature when they return to Vietnam, seeking the remains of their fallen
1:00.6	squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide. In addition to Defive Bloods, Mr. Lee's
1:07.1	directorial credits include the feature films She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Shyrock.
1:14.6	He was nominated for the DGA's Feature Film Award for his 2018 feature Black Klansman and was awarded with the DGA honors in 2002.
1:24.2	Mr. Lee spoke with director Kevin Wilmot about filming to Five Bloods in front of a virtual audience.
1:30.0	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:35.1	Hey, hey, hey, welcome everybody.
1:38.4	This is our conversation tonight with the one and only, the director of the Five bloods, the man himself, Mr. Spike Lee.
1:46.6	How are you doing, Spike?
1:47.8	Good, good, good.
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