And is not called out for it? So many n words, he's disgusting.
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zargmatt-73661 — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 01:22 PM)
Truth. My family comes from the poorest white neighborhoods in Florida half our neighbors lived in trailers and we didn't live in much better. We are still hovering around lower middle class, not quite upper middle, and I live in a mixed race area of Orange County where I am the minority among Mexicans and Vietnamese and I'm married to a Vietnamese woman btw, so back off if you think I somehow believe it's me versus them. I believe in true equality, not this lopsided oversensitive politically correct nonsense that quite frankly feels more like a witch hunt than anything else. (Also, anyone who thinks living in "The O.C." is baller, needs to TRULY learn about income inequality in California.)
I never grew up racist myself, but I've always been dissed by Mexicans and Vietnamese. And it's for these reasons: I am viewed as an inferior both physically and culturally. I know because I have been referred to by my physical qualities, light complexion, freckles deemed as inferior; and, by my lack of culture compared with those who have a strong cultural identity. My culture is simply referred to as a homogeneous "white" and I don't think people realize how that hurts a person. The "N word" may have a worse history but we don't live in the past, we live in the present, and if everyone is equal. Why are my feelings as a white man inferior to everyone else? We should all be equal. EQUAL. I never did nothing to nobody out of spite for their race, but I sure have received some undue spite simply for being white.
Didn't really start bothering me until later in life when people started calling me white and entitled. The beep? I am a minority in my neighborhood and I do NOT experience the benefits that the common beep thinks all white people experience. That's when I realized it's a class war and ANY majority of ANY race will begin to beep on their local minorities as they gain more economic AND social power over the other.
In my neighborhood the few black people and the few white people are tight as beep, because we have to deal with racism from the dual majority who don't like white people or black people. Come on, people, racism and the class war is a human issue, not a white versus everyone else thing That's where you've been sold racism without even knowing you were sold it. Overreacting to beep that isn't even racist simply because you jump at every false positive that presents itself to you as if it were fact.
Tarantino isn't racist, he's having the villains in his movies speak as they would speak in real life. Every gang, every criminal organization is RACIST. Doesn't matter if it's Italian mafia, Mexican mafia, Irish mafia, Jewish mafia, KKK, Neo Nazis, Crips, and Bloods: they're ALL racist. And Tarantino shows you this fact throughout all of his movies. Notice that the hero of the movie has a mentor who is black. Get it? Tim Roth is the good guy and his partner is black. They're not racist and they fight for justice in this world. How could you think Tarantino or this movies are racist? Ignorance clearly ISN'T bliss -
crood — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 09:08 AM)
You have to keep in mind that he primarily makes movies where the protagonists (not heroes) are absolutely terrible people. They're criminals who kill with little thought. While not all take pleasure in it like Mr. Blonde, all are perfectly willing to kill to accomplish their goals. Even Mr. White, arguably the closest thing to likeable in the film, says he'd kill anyone in his way if it means staying out of prison.
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Herreken — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 09:40 PM)
I don't know why Tarantino wants some of his characters to call black people beep Maybe he wants to see how much he can get away with. Or maybe he wants to portray white drug dealers (Stoltz in Pulp Fiction), bank robbers, and cop killers as racists?
The other somewhat interesting side is that he usually has a scene that contradicts the racism like when Chris Penn is talking about how good looking that black bartender is. Or when Mr. White (Keitel) and Mr. Pink (Buscemi) are relenting about the young black woman Mr. Blonde (Madsen) killed.
Anyway in a movie like this, it's not too far fetched for white criminals who won't hesitate to kill cops to refer to blacks as beep Really that's the least of their sins.
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Robbmonster — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 07:34 PM)
Can you please elaborate on why writing characters who are racist or use the 'N' word makes the writer racist?
If a writer writes a character who is an alcoholic, does this paint the writer as alcoholic? Or if he writes a female character, the writer is a woman? If a writer writes a character who is staunchly anti-racist, does this mean there is absolutely no way the writer is racist in reality?
Tarantino reflects what he sees and hears.
Oh, and 'overrated' is such an overrated - and flagrantly overused and meaningless - word.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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lmtopeka-1 — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 03:01 PM)
The characters were racist in a way. They aren't the KKK type racists but the casual don't give a beep about making an n-word joke. The characters in this movie are all socio/psycho paths who would kill you if you are black white or whatever. They don't live in the PC safe space world where they worry about the repercussions of what might happen if someone over heard them say something racist.
It's always funny to me that people bring up that someone must be racist to write or direct a movie with racist elements while no one ever accuses someone who directs a movie about murdering people must be a lover or murdering people.
The OP was probably bored because he grew up with CGI packed nonsense and has never learned to appreciate actual character studies or real story telling. Go back to watching the Fast and Furious and Tranformers and let the adults enjoy great cinema. -
DylanTarnas — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 08:25 PM)
"The OP was probably bored because he grew up with CGI packed nonsense and has never learned to appreciate actual character studies or real story telling. Go back to watching the Fast and Furious and Tranformers and let the adults enjoy great cinema."
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CyberneticYouth — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 02:41 PM)
Movies imitate real life. In real life there are racist people and everything is not all peaches and cream. There's a big difference between having racist characters and having a racist agenda. Grow the beep up please.
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Chronic_Johnson — 6 years ago(January 19, 2020 04:03 PM)
If you want to depict scumbags or a certain time period accurately and convincingly, then you can't shy away from thing they might actually say. And as many others here have said, Tarantino has casted many black actors as lead/important roles in his films. I doubt he's a racist. He's just an edgy Scorsese fan that makes fairly average, overhyped movies.