American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is one of the world’s most renowned filmmakers of all time. movies like pulp Fiction and reservoir dogs among other things, says a lot about why his next projects are always highly anticipated. The filmmaker certainly has a unique style in his films, so much so that anyone watching the film may realize the director’s name before it even hits the screens. Excessive violence, weird dialogue, and a shamelessly repetitive theme pretty much do his movies.
However, nothing in Hollywood is free from criticism, not even the best director himself. Quentin Tarantino has repeatedly received negative comments about the excessive use of violence in his films. He has also been called a racist due to the frequent use of the N-word in his films. Recently, Quentin Tarantino opened up about the backlash he has suffered throughout his career.
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Quentin Tarantino applauds Haters
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While appearing as a guest on the HBO Max talk series, Who talks to Chris Wallace, Quentin Tarantino had his answer ready to Chris Wallace’s question. Wallace reminded Tarantino of his words that he was the audience’s conductor, and asked him what he thought of audiences harassing him for showing too much violence and using the N-word too frequently in his films. Well, Tarantino has just the solution to viewers’ problems.
“You should see [something else]. Then see something else. If you have a problem with my films, then these are not the films to go see. Apparently, I don’t make them for you.
Even in previous interviews, the true romance the director had shown no interest in answering questions about violence in his films. He told The New York Times that the criticism he receives is usually evenly split between pros and cons. However, he said that when black critics attacked him for Django Unchained, he couldn’t bother to care. His simple solution? If people don’t like his films, they can choose not to watch them. The director doesn’t care.
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Quentin Tarantino receives support from collaborators
Even though Tarantino has faced his fair share of criticism from viewers, he can find relief in the fact that the actors he has worked with are behind him. Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Foxx have consistently shown their support for the director.
Jackson defended the use of the N-word in Tarantino’s films stating that the whole question is “bulls**t.” He told Esquire that people just can’t tell a creator they can’t write words for people of their ethnicities. He added that it would take the film away from reality.
“It’s bulls**t. You can’t just tell a writer they can’t speak, write the words, put the words in the mouths of people of their ethnicities, the way they use their words. You can’t do that, because then it becomes a lie; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest.
He even compared Tarantino to 12 years of slavery director Steve McQueen. Jackson called out the hypocrisy where McQueen had the pass to use the N-word because he was supposed to”attacking the system artistically” whereas when Tarantino does, he’s seen as nails on a blackboard. He added that there was no dishonesty in Tarantino’s work.
Foxx also had the back of the Django Unchained director. He told Yahoo Entertainment that even though the N-word was used a hundred times in the script, what matters most is that he understood the story. “It was like that back then” he added, suggesting that in previous years, the story was what mattered in a film.
With Tarantino coming out with his tenth and final film directed in writing, it seems viewers will just have to turn a blind eye to their critics as Tarantino has no plans to change his ways, like it or not.
You can broadcast Who talks to Chris Wallace on HBO Max.
Source: Variety
