If you think Quentin Tarantino overuses the N-word in his films, he thinks you should look away
"See something else," Quentin Tarantino advises critics in a new interview. "If you have a problem with my movies, then they aren’t the movies to go see."
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Quentin Tarantino has faced many questions as a director—questions like “Why do you love feet so much?” and “What did you and Paul Thomas Anderson say to Fiona Apple that night?” But others that have dogged nearly his entire career relate to the high level of violence in his movies, and his extreme comfortability with using the N-word in his scripts. His response to content criticism? “See something else.”
The topic of racial slurs came up during a conversation between Tarantino and host Chris Wallace on the HBO program Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace. “You talk about being the conductor and the audience being the orchestra,” Wallace asks Tarantino in the interview (via Variety), referencing one of the director’s previous comments. “So when people say, ‘Well there’s too much violence in his movies. He uses the N-word too often.’ You say what?”
“You should see [something else],” Tarantino responds. “Then see something else. If you have a problem with my movies then they aren’t the movies to go see. Apparently I’m not making them for you.”
Tarantino doesn’t stand alone in his personal defense. Samuel L. Jackson has also continuously defended Tarantino’s liberal use of the N-word (Django Unchained, set in the slavery-era South, uses the slur nearly 110 times.) One of Tarantino’s longest-running collaborators, Jackson has acted in nearly every one of the director’s films, including Django. In 2019, he told Esquire he thought the criticism was “some bullshit.”
“You can’t just tell a writer he can’t talk, write the words, put the words in the mouths of the people from their ethnicities, the way that they use their words,” Jackson explained. “You cannot do that, because then it becomes an untruth; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest.”
Django star Jamie Foxx has also stood with Tarantino on the matter, although his statements have been slightly less impassioned than Jackson’s. “I understood the text,” Foxx told Yahoo Entertainment in 2018. “The N-word was said 100 times, but I understood the text — that’s the way it was back in that time.”
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Hmm
You’re a little pitchy.
Obviously, Quentin’s in the DGAF part of his career.
To be fair, I don’t think he ever wasn’t in that part of his career.
He sure puts a lot of effort into not caring
… because he answers questions?
“He sure puts a lot of effort into not caring”
He sure does. He *checks notes* answered a question that was posed of him.
Boy, that’s a lot of effort, isn’t it?
He’s earned it
I mean, some people have already taken the “see something else” to heart and would still like to know why he feels so comfortable using the N-word, but okay.
He thinks because he idolizes black culture, he gets a ghetto pass. (See also: Bill Maher)
Add Rogan to the list. I always compare them to the guys I went to college with who smoked weed with one of the Black guys they thought was cool and took that to mean it was okay for them do say and do things they shouldn’t.
We always used to have to explain A) I don’t use the word so don’t use it around me and B) Just because ___ told you it was cool while you’re with him, that does not extend past him. I think the same applies here, just because SLJ told him it was cool does not mean it’s something he could get away with around someone like Denzel.
or Bill Cosby.
Ha, one of my college friends (white) recounted a story with exactly the outcome you’d actually expect. Their high school friend group included some black guys who would throw the n word at each other all the time. So they’re hanging out and he drops “n__ please” into their bullshitting. Conversation stopped immediately. “Uh-uh. That’s not for you.” Needless to say he absorbed the lesson.
I have several mixed race cousins and Black friends I met through them and I learned damned well at an early age that it doesn’t give me a free pass. In the proper context, and depending who is around it might be totally fine, but better to just avoid it without a pretty specific reason.
(See also: Sal “The Stockbroker”)
Yeah but to be fair he’s also Kool the Candy Rapper
“Free John Gotti” still a banger
I mean if you saw Chris Rock at a Beastie Boys concert, what you would you say?
“Hi, this is Sal Governale…”
Artie Lange: “It’s funny already”
No, Sal’s just an overt racist
Dude the way Bill Maher used it is totally different than in the context of a movie. Tarantino’s not slinging it around on talk shows.
I bet you think you should get a pass for your racist username
using the name Yoko is racist? I think it’s more likely they are a disgusting terrible person that thinks it’s funny to imply killing the spouse of a deceased icon, and the racism is likely further down on the list of reasons to avoid that person.Presumably, unless they’re also a racist who thinks it’s funny to kill someone else.
I mean if you don’t think the hatred that Yoko got and apparently continues to get wasn’t rooted in racism
That’s entirely possible, but the hate for Yoko undoubtedly came primarily from being blamed (fairly or not) for breaking up the Beatles.
And why do you think the hate was directed at Yoko specifically and not the other band members’ wives?
Because the other band members’ wives weren’t constantly in the studio, performing on songs, and quite so much in the public eye?
That or it’s a play on the old joke that Chapman was “aiming for Yoko.”In either case, I don’t really have it in me to be too chagrined by a reference to a joke that was overplayed before I was even born.
Only Americans could pigeonhole a skin tone to a single culture and still think themselves bastions of multicultural enlightenment.
And he doesn’t even idolize Black culture. He’s fascinated with some version of Black culture that he imagines that is definitely not actual Black culture.
He’s a writer. It’s fiction. He doesn’t want to censor himself. Those are the reason he’s comfortable using the N-word, or killing Hitler or saving
Also, I’m struggling to think of a time that someone use the N-word in his movie and was considered to be a “good guy”.
Thieves. Murderers. Shady guys with mob connections. Slavers. KKK mobs. I don’t recall Mr. Orange or Beatrix Kiddo saying it. Hell, I’m not even sure Jackie Brown said it.
Clearly, the word doesn’t get used in the real world, so, clearly, Tarantino’s a liar.
And they deserve an answer why?
Exactly.
Foot fetishist declares untruth!
Foot fetishist freely flings falsehoods!
Here to see all the white people bragging baout how they’ve never said the n-word.
It’s about context. Generally, characters in QT’s films that use that slur are morally reprehensible if not outright bad people.
Sure, but it’s also undeniable that QT thinks he has a hood pass because he likes black culture and thus goes overboard in using it because he’s convinced he’s earned it.
well, I talked to the Hood, and they concurred. He has a pass. It’s good until 2025 and must be renewed/reviewed by the Hood Pass Arbitration Committee, but they’ve been denying them at a much higher rate than they did in the 90’s. But there is the possibility they may grandfather him in- it happens, even in a progressive bureaucracy like the Hood Pass Arbitration Committee.
Disagree. it’s much more generic than that. Tarantino’s brand is largely anchored in his willingness to go places other filmmakers won’t go. Breeching this taboo is not different for him, it’s different for the people looking on.
True but it is odd to me a writer thinks they get a free pass with “You’re a bad character so I’m going to make you say slurs a ton.” I always think back to his scene in Four Rooms where a character describes a car as “n….-red” and whenever this subject comes up I wonder where that came from, and who in his life ok’d it.I watch Django and Hateful Eight probably a dozen times a year each so it’s not as if I care strictly as a viewer of the film in the moment.
Yeah, it’s also weird in True Romance with the “Sicilian Speech”. I’m not saying that he doesn’t overuse it. Just that I’d be a lot more up in arms if it was thrown around like F and T slurs were by “good characters” in so many other films by other writers/directors.
I remember back in the 90’s, Jon Stewart said the Sicilian speech was his favorite movie scene of all time. Things are different now.
See I think the Sicilian speech is the one time it makes sense to be used by a white character. Hopper is screwed and trying to goad Walken into killing him before he can give away where Clarence and Alabama are (successfully, at least for a minute) by using Walken’s own racism against him.
True but it is odd to me a writer thinks they get a free pass with “You’re a bad character so I’m going to make you say slurs a ton.”Lazy writers do love this as shorthand for “this guy sucks”, but it’s like… the shit’s exhausting for those of us who are the targets of the slurs. I remember trying to decide between going to see The Revenant and The Hateful Eight, and I settled on The Revenant even though it was packed specifically because I wasn’t up for a bunch of n-bombs. Like ten minutes in, one of the white guys goes “We got a swarm of tree niggers out here” in reference to the indigenous tribe they’re fighting. Another black woman who was sitting next to me turned to her friend and whispered “Did he just say tree niggers?!” and I just sighed and said yes.
The weirdest one by far is Taratino himself in Pulp Fiction, though. A friend stops by – a MURDERER – and he’s slinging it around? He’s lucky to not end up in the trunk with Marvin.
Yeah, and it’s the fact that he cast himself for that part that makes me discount his statements otherwise. He just likes saying the word, period. Don’t dress it up, QT.
I find “generally” absolutely hilarious in this context.
But Jimmy from Pulp Fiction is supposed to be fairly likable and is played by Tarantino himself and uses it for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than QT trying to be “edgy.” It’s actually fairly sad.
Is Jimmy supposed to be likable? I’m not sure anyone who’s more annoyed than horrified that you’ve brought your manslaughter victim into their garage is likable.
There was no reason to make him a racist. Tarantino clearly just gets a kick out of being able to say the word
And then thinks he can’t be criticized for it because “artiste.”
Absolutely.
But why must that be his go-t0 shorthand for bad people? And why sooooo fucking much?
I really don’t think he uses it as morality shorthand, it’s just a poor argument.
Yeah, but additional context: He seems to relish the opportunity to write these roles for himself. It’s like he’s creating them as a little treat – “Today I get to say n***** three hundred times!”
Been not wasting my time on this dildo for years anyway. Unfortunately I know several white Peter Pans who are itching to get this kind of “edgy” with me. Been dealing with these skidmarks since junior high. It’s a sicknesses within them. Fortunately they know this elderly Black woman will curb stomp them into infertility if they try.
Challenge accepted. I’ll look away.
I’m a big fan of his body of work, but his deflection of see something else seems like he doesn’t want to spend the effort in justifying his decision to use that word, when a white person should know full well that they definitely need to at least explain themselves using that word, even if it’s being used in an “artistic” way.
“but his deflection of see something else seems like he doesn’t want to spend the effort in justifying his decision to use that word”
Of course he doesn’t want to waste his time trying to justify it to people who won’t accept any explanation.
Also, why does he need to justify it to you or anyone else?
So are Black characters using the Word with each other or are white characters using it? Pulp Fiction (and a few others) were all I could endure, so I haven’t heard first hand.
If you’ve seen Pulp Fiction, you’ve see examples of both. And most of the ethnic slurs are spoken by white characters (Quentin’s character and Christopher Walken’s character come to mind).
I think this problem has always overshadowed Quentin’s work to some degree… it doesn’t bother me to stop watching his movies, and so far, I’ve never actually met a black person who says it bugs them. The only ones it seems to bother are the Terry Gross’s of the world. It’s hard to really put my finger on. I’m white, by the way. I’d like to know what black people think. If it bugged them as a community, I suppose QT would have been canceled by now. He obviously hasn’t. However, I do think he could have left the N word out of Pulp Fiction entirely? and it still would have been a masterpiece. Not sure. He was going for a post modern gangster movie. Did he need the racial component? The cast could have been all white or all black. I think the script is that strong. It could have been a cast of raceless people wrapped like mummies. I think QT including the racist epithets was a bit of an own goal. A distraction from his immense timeless classic? Maybe it was intentional. Maybe he wanted to humanize his characters to a terrifying degree? Everything else about Pulp Fiction (and all his other movies) is pretty much set to 11. Racism included. I’d love to read black criticism of QT. Anyone got any links?
Have your heard of a man named Spike Lee?
So I’m a white guy married to a Black woman. When I first introduced her to my parents after we’d been dating a few months, we all went to see Django Unchained in a theater. I knew she was a QT fan and I hadn’t given the subject matter a second thought, but then felt really uncomfortable throughout the runtime. She was fine with it. When we were discussing the movie afterwards and talking about Sam Jackson’s character, she was like “oh you mean the house n-word?” I was shocked she had the license to say it! But she had the point of view that the movie takes place in the 1800s and it’s probably a more frank depiction of how people actually talked back than we usually see.There is no “Black community” consensus view on the use of the word, and whether white people are allowed to say it or write it. Some Black people don’t think the word should ever be said, period, and some think it should never be said by a white person. My father-in-law once gave me permission to say the n-word, on the condition that it didn’t have an -er at the end of it, because I had a Black family and therefore it couldn’t be racist. He was fucking with me, obviously, because he knows hearing the word makes white people uncomfortable and he wanted to see how I’d react. QT’s work is deliberately provocative in its use of the word, but there are arguments for and against it. Not everyone sees it like Spike Lee. But some people see it exactly like Spike Lee.
I don’t care if this comment is 100% factual, or a complete lie. It’s perfect.
“I was shocked she had the license to say it!”You were shocked that a Black person had “license” to say the n-word? And you think Black people need “license” to say it?Also this—”My father-in-law once gave me permission to say the n-word”—says a lot about what kind of Black family this is.“because I had a Black family and therefore it couldn’t be racist”Just a whole fucking lot about this ignorant ass family.
“… He was fucking with me, obviously, because he knows hearing the word makes white people uncomfortable and he wanted to see how I’d react…”
My point in telling these very personal anecdotes is that the OP was asking about a consensus point of view on a topic that is both very sensitive, and has a high degree of diversity of opinion within the Black community. I don’t think my wife needs “license” to say the n-word, but I was still kind of shocked to hear her say it for the first time. It’s a shocking word. Similarly, this conversation with my father-in-law made me very uncomfortable, but at the same time I think he was trying to make the point that it’s just a word and it’s the hateful way in which it can be used that carries power. Which is one point of view, and one that Sam Jackson subscribes to and Spike Lee doesn’t when it comes to Tarantino’s stated artistic license to use the n-word in his work.I don’t know how you can possibly call the private conversations of internet strangers ignorant when you didn’t hear the full conversation.
Well, first of all, he wasn’t talking about “a consensus point of view.” He said he has personally never met a Black person who had a problem with Tarantino’s use of the word. Leaving aside the fact that that’s a nonsense thing to say, since he obviously doesn’t know the feelings of every Black person he’s ever met, assuming he’s even met any, when he said he wanted to know “what black people think,” that was an opportunity for Black people to talk. Not an opportunity for a white person to tell him what he thinks Black people think, especially when none of the conversations he provided support the conclusion he claimed to draw.Second of all, your very personal anecdotes were completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. He wasn’t asking what Black people think about the n-word generally. He was asking what Black people think about how Tarantino uses the n-word. None of your very personal anecdotes relate to that at all, and a Black person can have no problem with Black people using the n-word and have a big fucking problem with Tarantino using it.Your wife wasn’t just using it for no reason. She wasn’t referring to just “That n—-r over there.” She was talking about the “house n——r,” which is a *very* specific concept with a *very* specific meaning. So just because she used the term to describe the very specific thing doesn’t mean that she approves of white Quentin Tarantino throwing the word around with abandon. Just because your FIL made a shitty and inappropriate joke with you doesn’t mean that either.As for whether your FIL “was trying to make the point that it’s just a word and it’s the hateful way in which it can be used that carries power,” only he can know, but if that’s the point he was trying to make, he’s exactly as ignorant as I said he was above. If he wasn’t trying to make that point, and if you are again putting yourself in the position of speaking for Black people (which you are, since you said you “think” that’s the point he was making), then you should 100% stop doing that.“I don’t know how you can possibly call the private conversations of internet strangers ignorant when you didn’t hear the full conversation.I mean…I’m sorry you only provided context that made your folks sound like Uncle Ruckus. *shrug*At the end of the day, the question was asked what do Black people think. And then here your white behind comes in talking about “hi I know some Black people, and they said the n-word one time so I believe they support white people using it whenever they want.” You can fuck all the way off with that. Don’t use your Black family as props to support anti-Blackness. If they want to support anti-Blackness, let them say so themselves.
Wow you are insufferable! I’m sorry that telling a story about my experience seeing Django Unchained in a theater upset you so much.And I have to ask, are you white? Because my personal experience is that white progressives are *way* more likely to fly off the handle and call names and completely write off a person as irredeemably racist, which is something the OP has mentioned. I’ve never met a Black person who hates Tarantino either.
“And I have to ask, are you white?”No, I’m Black, as I’ve said multiple times in this thread and comment section, and I’m sorry you find it insufferable that a Black person doesn’t want white people putting in their two useless cents when someone wants to know what Black people think. But you’re going to have to suffer it. You don’t get to answer the question “what do Black people think.” Shut the fuck up and let Black people speak for themselves. I love that you’re accusing me of flying off the handle when you can’t even handle the simple idea that maybe you shouldn’t answer questions for Black people.“I’ve never met a Black person who hates Tarantino either”Because you’ve asked this question of every single Black person you’ve ever met in your entire life? Dumbass.
So what do you think about QT’s use of the n-word in his work?
It’s racist as hell. He’s racist as hell. He uses his “art” as an excuse to say it because he has the mind of a 13 year old and gratuitous violence and using the n-word are the only ways he can think of to be “provocative,” and using racism to be “provocative” is just another way to be racist, and he enjoys getting to say na-na-na-boo-boo about it because he feels he has a free pass and that no one can stop him which, he’s right, we can’t, and he likes that because it makes him feel powerful by breaking one of the primary rules of civilized society which is that you don’t say that word in public if you’re white, and he doesn’t give a shit that he’s empowering millions of shithead Tarantino bros to say it too and to otherwise see Black people through the same objectifying lens that Tarantino himself does, leading to further harm down the line. My feelings on it and him are well-documented on this site. He’s a dick. His movies are bad. He uses Black people and and Black people’s pain as props for his “art” and nothing more. He’s a piece of shit all around.
Thanks for asking.
ok Quentin
“I’ve never actually met a black person who says it bugs them.”
Hi. Let’s meet. I’m curious how many Black folks you’ve met and what percentage of them you’ve discussed Quentin Tarantino with and what percentage of them actually felt comfortable enough around you to share their true feelings as opposed to the percentage who looked at you and realized the conversation would be pointless so they just brushed it off and went about their day.
If QT has it in his movie 1 time or 100 times is up to him. That’s what freedom is all about, and we’re not movie critics. If you don’t like it, DON’T PAY TO SEE IT. Every day we get shoved information down our throats that we DON’T choose to watch – like commercials that could be construed as offensive to the individual. But again, we can change the channel. Why is everyone playing the victim? Oh, and for those self-rightous ones who feel they need to educate everyone, when you pay for my movie ticket, you can educate me.
Freedom includes QT being questioned about his use of the word. It goes both ways.
“If you have a problem with my movies, then they aren’t the movies to go see.”That’s true. We’re all watching Marvel movies. I saw Pulp Fiction in the theater, and thought it was over-rated then. Clearly he won’t listen to a rational piece of advice: that decent people don’t use that word, like ever.
The characters in his movies who use that word generally aren’t decent.
yikes. y’all out here calling blacks not “decent people”, and you mad at QT? check the mirror…
“I saw Pulp Fiction in the theater, and thought it was over-rated then.”
I love that people think he’s going to start crying because you just pretended you didn’t like a movie 25 years ago.
I mean, for fuck’s sake, he SAID not to bother, and you think you’re TOTALLY PWNING him?
Noones talking about decent people, a bunch of hitmen and criminals IN MOVIES use it. Im fine with it.
It’s not illegal, and nobody is forcing you to watch them, so he’s right. But that doesn’t make for click bait I guess
I mean, he’s absolutely right.
His movies can be indulgent, Kill Bill could have been one 90 minute movie, the “Royale with cheese” conversation is one of many overrated scenes that any other director would have cut, and I’ve had enough gratuitous feet shots to last the rest of my life, but by far the worst thing about him is his obsession with the N word. Why is Mr. Pink racist? Just because. Why does Samuel L. Jackson’s character tolerate some white muthafuckah throwing it around? Because Tarantino wants to normalize it. It’s one thing to have characters in the god damn 19th century use it, but for films set in contemporary times, a white character saying it is just weird and distracting. It doesn’t serve any purpose other than Tarantino’s obsessive need to prove that he’s allowed to say it. You always were, dude, that doesn’t mean you should.
you are the proper audience for “see something else”
Nah, the Royale with Cheese conversation was build up to the “Let’s get in character” comment before they go in and take care of business. It’s small talk that establishes these guys as regular coworkers before you discover their work is assassinating people. I won’t argue his movies aren’t indulgent but wouldn’t put that scene on the last. Oh, and Mr. Pink is racist because most gangsters are dim, violent animals with impulse control problems and racism is a side effect. I think all the RD characters felt more of less the same.
Uh, do you know any white people? They didnt stop saying “nigger” in the 20th century, or even the 21st.
Weird that you felt the need to spell it out.
No, its not weird. Whats weird is thinking racism has somehow magically dissapeared.
Anyone who replies to any comment is “spelling it out” i guess.
No, that you felt the need to spell the word out.
Why wouldnt I? What, you expected me to say “ The N-Word”? Thats childish and stupid.
That’s certainly one take. Another is that people use “the n-word” not because they’re childish and stupid, but because they are empathetic, kind, and respectful and don’t want Black people reading this to have to be assaulted with that word as they are doing some casual perusing. But, yes, the kind of person who says the word is also the kind who thinks empathy, kindness, and respect, are childish and stupid, so I understand your perspective. Not atypical of a Tarantino-bro.
Wow everything youve said is totally wrong. Impressive. Im sure seeing the word “nigger” in print isnt going to destroy your average black person. You sound like the kind of white liberal that gets defensive on their behalf, on shit like this.
First of all I have to ask you to show me where I said it would “destroy” anyone, because I think you might have posted this reply to the wrong comment. Second of all, thank you for typing the word again, and confirming what I already knew. I have already told you I understand your perspective. You love Quentin Tarantino and/because you are a racist. I assure you that you don’t need to continue making that clear, though I have no doubt that you will.And I’m not a white liberal. I’m a Black liberal.
Again, youre ridiculously assuming a lot of things that just arent true.
I assumed nothing. I drew a conclusion based on your behavior, and absolutely nothing you’ve said has done anything to prove my conclusion wrong. In fact, the opposite has happened with each subsequent comment of yours.You, however, assumed much, including that I’m white (despite the fact that I’ve told you before that I’m Black), and including that even if I were white, I’d be somehow in the wrong for suggesting that you, a white person, maybe shouldn’t be throwing around the n-word. But hey, go ahead and continue proving what I already know about you. As I said, I knew you would.
Kinda sucks here that this was a combo question with violence and the n word and not just focusing in on his love for throwing around a racial slur.
Why? What’s the difference? Why is a fictional character using racial slur worse than fictional violence?
What’s the share of internet outrage that dissipates when people stop living by the philosophy of “I don’t like this thing personally, and so I’ve decided that no one should be allowed to enjoy it”?
I dunno, what’s the share of your outrage at people not wanting racism normalized?
What’s the share that dissipates if someone tells them “you can’t get angry about racism if you can’t agree on rules about racism”?
What?
How much anger is based on the fact that nobody agrees on any of the rules around racist speech? Imagine if people were robots. Two given persons A and B can’t agree on what’s racist speech, and they were also programmed not to get angry about kind of speech that had no defined rules. Like, how much anger would just not happen?Like, imagine if there were some rules that didn’t rely on people’s interpretations of “be nice”. And the golden rule is shit. We could treat people how they want to be treated, but without a long acquaintance how can I know that?
In other words, we’re not programming the same rules about racist speech into everyone. If we had rules, we could build on them. I sincerely DO want to treat people how they want to be treated. I’m not white, but I sympathize with well meaning white people. Who’s teaching them how to interact with POC? If POC can’t agree on rules for white people, why are we so surprised? Part of my work is POC community stuff, and sometime we want it both ways: we want to speak as a populace sometimes, but then we each want to “do it our way”. This is a reflection of my age. When I grew up, the N word was forbidden. It was a simple rule to follow. The rule had its issues, and hid a lot of racist behavior, but it was something to build on. There’s very little to build on when everybody is a nation/community of one. You never know what to say to anyone. Shit, me even using punctuation pissed someone off this week. I used a period and they thought I was yelling at them.
I don’t understand the point of this. Tarantino’s been criticized over and over again for using racist slurs and he continues to do so and deflects any criticism he gets for it. He’s been taught how to interact just fine, he just won’t listen.
I do hear your point. I hear your truth. I’ve been around, though, to see plenty of POC not take offense to it. Back in the 90s even the intellectuals, the bleeding edge, were OK with a lot of stuff we wouldn’t give air to these days. I’m just saying being “taught how to interact” means different things to different people. I haven’t seen a playbook on this since maybe 2005. Part of my work deals with the lack of a playbook. You step back far enough, you begin to see that people don’t all talk one way, and worse: nobody’s working on getting them to talk one way. Never mind getting them to talke the “right” way.
For folks who don’t enjoy how Tarantino gets away with this, they’re only gonna get disappointed. The trend is not moving toward one opinion on this subject. I tracked these kinds of things for a political campaign. The rules on race language are atomizing.
Since when is “killers do something in a movie” normalizing it?
Like, someone watched Reservoir Dogs and said “well, if sociopathic killers can say the N-word, so can I”? That’s a reasonable assumption in your deformed brain? And you think that it’s Tarantino’s fault?
Someone who is going to pretend that Pulp Fiction normalized racism for them didn’t NEED anything to “normalize” it.
about 4.
So is he on tour or are you splitting one interview into like fifteen outrage click articles? You’re slicing this guy’s indignities awful thin here.
He should really question what kind of people are pretty ok with his use of the n-word and why he wants to cater to them. Remember why Dave Chapelle said he cancelled the Chapelle Show?
“He should really question what kind of people are pretty ok with his use of the n-word”
Bad people say the N-word in his movies. Why would you not be OK with bad people doing bad things in movies?
I can just imagine what would happen if he made a screenplay without it. Mainly Samuel Jackson gets worried about if he pissed Tarantino off or something.
He just uses the word to be edgy. If he really thinks he has a ghetto pass, let’s see him go on the west side of Chicago saying that word. I guarantee nobody will think it’s cool.
I get Jackson’s point. But there’s absolutely no reason QT’s character in Pulp Fiction had to say it a bunch of times
I think the part was written for a black actor. Friend of SLJs character, black wife, etc. But then QT decided to take the part.
“But there’s absolutely no reason QT’s character in Pulp Fiction had to say it a bunch of times”
Says who? Why do you get to decide what dialogue appears in a movie?
Especially because the character’s wife is a black woman. Like, wtf was going on in his mind when he wrote that scene.It really is a horrendous scene and takes me out of the movie every time I watch it.
“Quentin Tarantino puts his foot down, won’t toe the line on N-word: ‘I don’t care if it makes me look like a heel’ says director.”
“This is for the sole of all those watching,” Tarantino later added. “Besides, there’s lots of weight put into each slur. They’re not just arch comments.”
He’s right – you don’t like how he uses language in his movies, see some other movie.Now – Tarantino’s scene in Pulp Fiction has always struck me as bad, but that’s mostly my feeling about his acting. He doesn’t seem hip or cool or even comfortable in saying the word. The “dead [n-word] storage” line is a far way to go for a not very funny payoff, but… I bet another actor (even another white actor) could have made it work.But yeah, anyone can write or speak dialog in a movie and it really is up to the audience to either watch or not.
Last QT movie I watched was Inglorious Bs. The brilliance of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp has long evaporated from his work.
Well I think he should stop demanding to sniff his actresses feet
“comfortability”“Comfort” is the word you’re looking for.Also, fuck Quentin Tarantino, seriously.
As if movies have warnings on posters/trailers about the content viewers might find offensive? The audience doesn’t know until they’re watching the movie.
Yes, you have to be accurate to the characters that you write. But you also get to choose the characters you write, and if they’re the only ones you’re picking, that says something too.