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    Sita pt.3 *sigh*Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:43am

    Wow, just the multiple levels of entitlement at play here is amazing. Filmmaker being “oppressed” by a critic? Cry me a fucking river. The privilege of making and putting out your art goes hand in hand with criticism. Successful artists who whine about critics or the content of the criticism are the worst. Criticism is a lot more than just explaining the plot and giving it a thumbs up or down.

    And especially White Filmmaker being “Oppressed” by Black Intellectuals because they criticized his take on SLAVERY? Is he not aware that there is something called the “white gaze” exists? Somebody needs to give this guy a good kick in the behind.

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      RamonaQuimbySita pt.3 *sigh*
      10/13/15 11:04am

      Not like you need advice, but definitely ignore the trolls trolling their trolliest on your comment. God forbid someone whose job is TO CRITIQUE use their job TO CRITIQUE SOMEONE’S WORK, especially when there are all kinds of things TO CRITIQUE IN THE WORK. Sigh.

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      Sita pt.3 *sigh*RamonaQuimby
      10/13/15 11:06am

      Tarantino brings out them white fanboys in spades lol. Thank god for the Dismiss button.

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    IHateGoatsPartDeuxJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:47am

    So, if a guy’s favorite author is Bret Easton Ellis I know to back away.

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      Sita pt.3 *sigh*IHateGoatsPartDeux
      10/13/15 10:53am

      Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski and Jonathan Franzen. If your man’s favourite writer is more than one of the aforementioned Male Demons, you need to take a hard look at the choices you’ve made and the paths you’ve taken.

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      AcuteWinnipegosisSita pt.3 *sigh*
      10/13/15 11:04am

      Add Kerouac to that list, and yep: seeing any of those authors on a guy’s favourites list is, like the stripes on a bumblebee, a gift of warning from mother nature.

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    beatrixkiddoJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:38am

    “Quentin Tarantino is interviewed by Bret Easton Ellis”

    GIF
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      UrbanAchieverbeatrixkiddo
      10/13/15 10:42am

      Thank you. This nicely illustrates what I was feeling when I read the beginning of this piece.

      “Care for some douche pie?”

      “No thanks, I brought my own!”

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      PatBatemanbeatrixkiddo
      10/13/15 10:50am

      What?

      ......

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    The Noble RenardJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:36am

    Alas, the tragedy of the successful artist, to become the target of critique, critique that does not just examine the surface questions of whether a work is sufficiently “awesome,” “gnarly,” or “badass,” but critique that strikes truly at the heart of a work, critique that deconstructs, that examines an artist’s biases, whether intentional or unintentional. To be judged based on one’s upbringing and one’s filmic perspective.

    O! To be the recipient of such critique! It is too much for any man to bear. We must all be aghast at such rank demagoguery.

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      NeoNailsThe Noble Renard
      10/13/15 10:53am

      You are a class act.

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      kindergoth sissygeekThe Noble Renard
      10/13/15 12:17pm

      You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I’m saying and deal with the consequences.

      Thou Shalt Not Have Any Other Filmmakers Before Me.

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    VinJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:38am

    tl;dr - Quentin Tarantino needs to STFU and suck some more toes.

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      CHIEF QUEEFVin
      10/13/15 11:33am

      Nooooo. I am still forever traumatized by that Tyra Banks Show fuckery.

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      kshortie16Vin
      10/13/15 11:47am

      Why do you want to hurt me so much?!?

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    CHIEF QUEEFJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 11:31am

    I was viscerally disgusted by Django and couldn’t understand why people liked it. Inglorious was enjoyably tasteless because it didn’t go inside the concentration camps for its cheap entertainment. But to hinge your wacky slapstick revenge narrative on the rape, mutilation and murder of slaves? I could never see a Black filmmaker doing this. That’s beyond disrespectful, it’s like spitting in the face of your ancestors. That’s why your skin color is relevant, Q. You made it relevant.

    P.S. Come at me fanboy trolls.

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      willsomeonethinkofthechitlinsCHIEF QUEEF
      10/13/15 11:42am

      I couldn’t watch it mainly because it was his film. I’ve been to the Museum of Slavery in Liverpool. I’ve walked on the streets in Virginia where slaves were auctioned. I’ve read accounts of the vile torture that black people endured. I am the product of my teenage ancestor being raped by her master. I don’t need to see Taratino’s pornographically violent depiction of slavery.

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      CHIEF QUEEFwillsomeonethinkofthechitlins
      10/13/15 8:06pm

      Yeah, the dissonance between realistic historical violence and slapstick nonsense was so jarring and off-putting to me. It would be like if Inglorious Bastards was two hours of Jews starving and being murdered in concentration camps with that silly “assassinating Hitler” scene tacked on the end to justify everything. The film did not earn the right to use that imagery. And really Q, Mandingo was gross enough during its time, it did not need revisiting.

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    maddoggirlJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:44am

    I absolutely despise the idea that famous rich white dudes who refuse to listen to or consider the voices of people who aren’t famous/white/rich/dudes are somehow “brave”. What exactly are they risking, remind me? Obviously there are limits, but on the whole I find that being PC is what’s actually brave, because it shows you have the open-mindedness, empathy and self-awareness to treat other people’s feelings with respect.

    EDIT: full disclosure, I really dislike Tarantino and all his films, and his portrayal of black people (“They can say all the cool things I can’t!”) has always been a particular bugbear.

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      willsomeonethinkofthechitlinsmaddoggirl
      10/13/15 11:36am

      He’s never outgrown being that white boy who fetishsizes a particular type of black woman because he spent his teen years fapping to Foxy Brown, Coffee, and Cleopatra Jones; and getting approval from loser black guys who gave him approval for listening to black music and watching black films.

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    CaliforlifeJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:53am

    Ugh. STFU movie man. Just STFU.

    This is him: I will make stories about you, your history, your people, how you live your lives today and in the past; I will cast a few of your notable stars, I will co-opt your language, your clothing, your music, and your beauty all with the help of my uber rich super Hollywood white males.... and then I will safely market all that I have “Created” to all the white people in the world so they can tour the underclass and feel good that I have slyly stolen your agency while making white people laugh and have a good time at your expense. And then when some of your “critics” dare write think pieces on me, I will take a platform not afforded to you and state my case about how you people persecute me.

    There, that’s him in every interview for the rest of his life. Asshole.

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      willsomeonethinkofthechitlinsCaliforlife
      10/13/15 11:38am

      You fucking NAILED it. This deserves more stars.

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      OtokogoroshiCaliforlife
      10/13/15 10:16pm

      Really clarifies my dislike for him.

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    The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepsJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:41am

    ‘‘If you’ve made money being a critic in black culture in the last 20 years you have to deal with me,’’ he says. ‘‘You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I’m saying and deal with the consequences.’’

    GIF

    Ah. . . no. Not all critics of black culture.

    [As an aside, I was searching for just the right eye roll gif and as soon as I saw “Lady Mary” I knew I had found the one I needed. Sure enough, I clicked on it and well. . . .]

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      Snacky_OnassisThe Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabySteps
      10/13/15 10:51am

      that is an expert level eye roll. warm ups required.

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    Queen of BithyniaJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
    10/13/15 10:38am

    Stories about Quentin Tarantino need a warning. I think I have a concussion from facepalming so hard.

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      VinQueen of Bithynia
      10/13/15 10:49am

      Lemme get in on that class-action when you file it; I’ve broken many a pair of glasses from facepalming.

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      duckjumperVin
      10/13/15 10:53am

      damn, that sounds painful.

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