![]() ![]() His participation late last year in a protest rally against police brutality saw him being misquoted, and again the violence-in-film issue used against him. ‘I’m not biting I refuse your question,’ he said, emphatically adding that his views on the issue have been the same for 20 years and that ‘if anyone cares what I have to say about it, they can Google me.’ While discussing Django, reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy persistently asked him about the issue of movie violence to which Tarantino, after an initial response, declared that he’d had enough of answering the same question for the umpteenth time. His exasperation came to a head in his now-famous TV interview with Channel Four. ![]() Nonetheless, the issue dogs him, despite him having made clear countless times that normal people know the difference between the fantasy world of movies and the hard realities of real life. Consequently, Tarantino has been harangued for most of his career with the charge that violence in movies promotes violence in real life, something he flatly rejects. His films often feature scenes of explosive violence. In a rare moment, Tarantino also addresses his on-going battles with media mistreatment and misrepresentation. In this lively face-to-face interview during his lightning tour of Melbourne, Tarantino explains how his western speaks about America’s present problems with race and what his defiant motives were for shooting his eighth film in 70mm. Good morning: Kurt Russell and Samuel L Jackson square off in The Hateful Eight Snow Day: Quentin Tarantino on the snowy set of The Hateful Eight. The Hateful Eight is a typically dialogue-driven film from Tarantino, a mystery set just after the American Civil War in the snow-covered Wild West where a disparate group of characters find themselves stuck together in a large log cabin while a blizzard rages outside.Ĭhief among them are: bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh, who has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance) Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson), another bounty hunter and an ’emancipated black’ Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), the new sheriff of the town they’re all headed for and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), who is not very happy that his side lost and that blacks now have their freedom. The NYCPBA’s Facebook post announcing the boycott was shared over 4,500 times and the Los Angeles Police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, has joined in refusing to watch Tarantino movies.Having built his formidable reputation as a crime action movie maker with hit films such as Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and the culture-shifting Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino entered the most successful phase of his career with two massive hits – Inglorious Bastards and Django Unchained.Īn old-school filmmaker at heart, this success gave him the license to indulge two of his deepest passions: westerns and 70mm film. Police officers and unions were not at all pleased with Tarantino’s comments.Īlmost immediately after Tarantino’s words were reported, the president of New York’s police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, called for a boycott of Tarantino’s movies. Rolling Stone quoted Tarantino saying “When I see murders, I do not stand by … I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges,” Tarantino told a crowd of hundreds according to Vulture. “This is not being dealt with in anyway at all. Quentin Tarantino went to RiseUpOctober, a protest against police violence, in New York’s Washington Square Park on Saturday and spoke out about what he and event organizers call brutality, terror and murder.
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