Spike Lee yelled at me after the critics of "Blackkklansman", but we are good now – Variety

Boots Riley, director and musician of "Sorry to Bother You," who criticized Spike Lee 's "BlacKkKlansman" for his positive portrayal of the forces of order, said the author and "Do the Right Thing "are good now. But it took time (and drama) to get there.

Last year, Riley called the Academy Award nominated "BlacKkKlansman" an "invented story in which his fake parties are trying to make the policeman the protagonist of the fight against racist oppression." He also said that the film, based on a true story, is full of "fabricated story notes" about its protagonists, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black detective who infiltrates a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with his white partner (Adam Driver).

Lee finally responded to the filmmaker's remarks by saying, "Look at my films: they have been very critical of the police, but on the other hand, I will never say that all police are corrupt, that all police hate people of color. I will not say that. "

But that did not stop there.

Talk with VarietyRiley revealed that the two men then saw each in person and that the drama continued to unfold, Lee shouting after the filmmaker-musician as he passed in front of him during a recent event of the Academy.

"He shouted at me, walking away, saying, 'I'm Miles Davis, you're Chet Baker!' "Said Riley.

"(But) then I saw him at the DGA lunch and he told me to come here and said," Squashed? Crushed.

Although Riley's critics have attracted a lot of attention online, he has said that critics are generally exaggerated.

"There are people on the Internet who call, but they do not behave like that in person," he said.

"I've always said that Spike was the reason I went to film school."