You couldn't make that movie today...
Because it was made in 1994 and that's how the linear progression of time works.
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I mean, we're not making Casablanca!
Good, someone else already made that.
the director told me to suck your feet
"No... Don't.... Stop..."
I don't support violence, but you just KNOW he needs the character-building that only a really solid punch to the face could provide. Backpfeifengesicht, or whatever.
I'd say a kick to the face but he'd probably enjoy that.
That's like getting a handjob from your boss at work when you're self-employed working from home.
Probably had a hard time getting him to not say the word “sand” in front of it. Hoping Iran treats him as well as he deserves.
How do you mean Iran treats him? It appears there was some rumor he was killed by a missile in Israel, but that was false. Is there some other news now?
No nothing that I'm aware of. I just know he's a huge zionist living in Israel. So i'm just hoping he gets to experience the kind of morality Israel has shown the world from the other side.
Is he really a Zionist?
He told his wife if the missiles kill him he'll "die as a zionist" interpret that however you like.
Also happy to take Harvey Weinstein's money for most of his movies & asking him to apologize when caught assaulting multiple performers. He's made some good movies but he's also a creep, an asshole, and a bit of a fucking idiot tool.
I went on a bit of a rollercoaster there.
Quentin Tarantino no longer lives in Israel though, as of last autumn.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tarantino-moves-london-israel-was-gaza-war-responsible
He hasn't addressed the Gaza genocide at all. One would think he'd know, with what films he's made. I believe in that so much I had a hard time believing you at first, then went to read context.
And I have a hot take. I think Quentin isn't really talking politics in that "then I'll die as a Zionist", it's in the context of him refusing to go to a shelter and being asked "what will you do if a bomb hits" and the answer being (probably somewhat jokingly) "then I'll die as a Zionist". I can reason this a bit.
Quentin moved to Israel in 2023 for his wife. And I'm thinking he just does not want to argue with her even if he didn't agree with all the Israeli bs. Just not worth it to him. One would think a massive director would have an easy time finding a wife, but reading the articles, it wasn't. So he's probably being led by his dick in the past few years, and thus hasn't wanted to argue her wife for fear of losing her.
When googling Quentin Tarantino Palestine I can see he visited some army bases in Israel, but I'm thinking if her wife is Jewish and maybe connected a bit, that it may have been someone asking her wife to ask him and he can't say no to her.
So I'm still not 100% convinced he's a genocide supporting Zionist fuckface, but also I'm not 100% sure he isn't one.
He can still get blown up by a missile
The vulgarity makes the movie more viscereal I suppose. It's unpleasant to all who hear it, and that is the point.
It's his fetish, particularly if he can do it in front of Samuel L Jackson. Makes him think he got away with it by saying, "It's all for the art form".
They probably forced him to give them a handjob too...
Probably forced him to like feet as well
Tarantino is a Zionist living in Israel, so I find this a bit difficult to swallow.
Note the subreddit the original image was posted in.
(The joke is that QT wrote and directed Pulp Fiction.)
Its also a movie, the fact that people are vaguely upset about it is crazy
Oh no, people say swearwords in films? I can't tolerate that, definitely wouldn't want characters in films to speak like people in real life.
Have you seen the movie? It's completely unnecessary and excessive. It adds nothing to the movie.
Indeed, unlike all the swearing people do all day every day, which is crucial to their life.
Tarantino should pare down the speech of his characters to the level of Disney, then it will be entirely appropriate to the plot and completely realistic.
Have you seen the movie? Do you know what quotes you're actually defending, and what the context was?
Do I have a sign on my lawn that says 'dead n****r storage'?!
Wow, so funny and absolutely necessary. And it had to be delivered by a white person. Had to.
Have you seen the movie? It's completely unnecessary and excessive. It adds nothing to the movie.
The whole movie is about being unnecessary and excessive..? That's pretty literally the title;
In Finnish the title is translated as "stories from/about violence" (tarinoita väkivallasta)
Also, it was the 90's.
Perhaps you'd also want to watch this scene and tell me why the things McNulty and Moreland saying are in any way necessary and how the scene is then so popular. Btw, the series is also packed with the 'n-word', particularly in the first season. How come the depiction of valiant police force doesn't use 'black fella' or something instead?
What?
First of all, I love the Wire and I don't even need to click the link to know what scene you're referring to.
I'm actually not convinced that you've seen Pulp Fiction if you're comparing Tarantino unnecessarily saying the N word multiple times to one of the best scenes in television history.
In fact, I remember one of the quotes from Tarantino from when Vincent and Sam Jackson's character (forget his name off the top of my head) pull up to Tarantino's character's house after accidentally shooting Martin in the head in the backseat of the car.
Tarantino's completely necessary joke, the one you're comparing to a scene from The Wire is,
Is there a sign on my law that says dead n****r storage?
Wow, so funny and necessary.
Yeah, got it, when the word is said in ‘The Wire’, it's necessary, when it's in Tarantino's film, it's unnecessary. Great criterion.
Have you seen Pulp Fiction in the last decade?
Context matters. Who says it matters. What it adds (or doesn't add) to the dialogue matters.
Comparing tarratino writing himself in to say the n word in a couple forced jokes to The Wire is definitely one of the takes off all time
Explain to me why incessant usage of the ‘n-word’ is necessary in ‘The Wire’.
First of all, I have never found it's use in The Wire to be excessive. I can't even remember a specific example. Incessant? Lol no.
Stop being obtuse. Black people in Baltimore on the 90s said the word to each other.
Quentin Tarantino has no reason to say it other than "it was in the script."
And who wrote that script? Hmmm.
Are you being deliberately dumb? The 'n-word' is said all the time in the first season of 'The Wire' by the policemen regardless of their skin color, so either present your analysis on how it's necessary in the show for police force of all skin colors and ethnicities to be casually racist, or fuck off. I don't have a craving for arguing with a person who's either stupid or purposely pretends to be so.
if you’re writing a realistic, gritty show, it might include that word.
Or so a show set in Baltimore can be casually racist, but there's no chance there were ever racist people in Los Angeles, where 'Pulp Fiction' is set, oh no. Only Baltimoreans are entitled to be racist and can be depicted in media as such, not a film from the West Coast, fuck that.
You seem to be a living embodiment of the 'double standard' concept.
Almost as if a gritty, realistic crime TV show is trying to be gritty and realistic.
If that's that Pulp Fiction was trying to do, all it would be telling us is that QT is a racist irl who uses the word all of the time. Cool.
Honestly, please answer this time: have you ever seen Pulp Fiction? If so, has it been in the last decade?
Because I feel like the difference between the two is just plainly obvious to anyone who has seen both. I find it hard to believe that your think it's the same as The Wire lol
If you think The Wire is casually racist, I'm convinced you've never actually watched it. I mean Jesus Christ
Edit: also, to be clear, QT was not being "casually racist" in Pulp Fiction. There was nothing casual about how he threw the word around.
Oh thank you, your double standards are now plain and glaring more than ever. Thank you for showing your ass to the entire world and saying that 'The Wire' can be racist while Tarantino's characters can't, I could barely have asked for more than that. Your unsubstantiated hate for Tarantino is now clearer than sunshine.
Yes you hypocritical jackass, I've watched 'Pulp Fiction' a few years ago. Feel free to invent some new reason why my opinion is invalid.
It's almost as if it matters who said it and what the context/intention was. Wild.
The Wire is telling a story about systemic racism and a broken political system. It was trying to be true to life. The reason I don't remember any individual instances of anyone saying the word (it absolutely was not used excessively, that's absurd. I'm not sure it is ever even said by a white person), is because it wasn't shoe-horned in for shock value.
Pulp Fiction did not need QT to be a character at all. It did not need QT's character to make bad jokes using the n word with a 'hard r' at all.
He wrote the movie. He wrote himself into it. He wrote himself saying the n word several times for no reason other than shock value. This isn't even close to the same thing as The Wire. I honestly can't even believe that I'm having this discussion.
I'm actually kind of concerned for you that you can't see this. Why are you so intent on defending blantantly racist bullshit? It's weird, dude.
I don't remember any individual instances of anyone saying the word (it absolutely was not used excessively, that's absurd. I'm not sure it is ever even said by a white person)
Oh, so you just lying outright is somehow a defence for ‘The Wire’, great. Fifty uses of the ‘n-word’ per episode are definitely not excessive in your view, as opposed to the one time in ‘Pulp Fiction’. Are you deliberately aiming for the title of the preeminent hypocrite here, or what? Please just shut the fuck up with your blatant asslicking for the racists in ‘The Wire’ and your obvious and unashamed hatred for Tarantino. It's just embarrassing at this point.
I count two jobs, n****r!
At first I thought that was a stacked washer and dryer in the background. Then I thought they mounted a toilet seat to the wall.
I know they shoved a watch up Christopher Walken's arse because he demanded he had to know how it felt so he could truly relate to the character he was playing.
Method actors. Sheesh.
That might explain the toilet seat.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
EXCEPT DONT FUCK SPEZ, LET HIM DIE A VIRGIN!
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