Spike Lee on Clint Eastwood: "He sounds like an angry old man."

The disagreement between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood continues to heat up, as Lee responds to the way Eastwood's films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, don't portray the black Americans involved in the Iwo Jima military maneuver. According to Fox News, the argument stems from Eastwood's comments during an interview published Friday, telling Lee to "shut his face" about the lack of blacks in the former's World War II movies.

Lee insists he doesn't mean to cause unnecessary controversy but instead only wants to draw attention to the black Americans who fought and lost their lives in Iwo Jima. Eastwood saw Lee's complaints as the director thinking a black man had been among those servicemen who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi and claimed Lee simply didn't know history. That, Lee says, is not what he meant; he agrees no African-Americans were present during the flag-raising, but feels it is unwise and unfair to overlook the contributions of blacks.

This heated debate is going on as Spike Lee is promoting his own film about Iwo Jima called Miracle at St. Anna.