Tarantino: ‘ Selma deserved an Emmy”: Update:Tarantino clarifies comment

[FlyRy]

This dude is *way* too comfortable.

Its refreshing to have someone speak their true feelings.

 

[Roman Brady]

Remember this Italian white boy was talking shyt about the series roots. fukk this dude.

QT talked slick about roots? What he say?

 

[Originalman]

QT talked slick about roots? What he say?

Some shyt about Roots wasn't a true classic and that Django is much better and a movie black folks can get behind for generations or some mess like that.

White boy full of himself.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

QT talked slick about roots? What he say?

“When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and none of the performances ring true for me either,” said Tarantino. “I didn’t see it when it first came on, but when I did I couldn’t get over how oversimplified they made everything about that time. It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.”

Alex Haley did, in fact, plagiarize important passages of Roots, stealing them from white author Harold Courlander’s The African. After a 5-week trial in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, Haley offered Courlander a financial settlement of $500,000, acknowledging that “[he] regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way into his book Roots.


But the larger point is that slavery contextualized as a Spaghetti Western is not authentic storytelling.

The criticism should not be that Tarantino dared to question Roots authenticity, but that he arrogantly believes that Django is moreso.

 

[Roman Brady]

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[Roman Brady]

“When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and none of the performances ring true for me either,” said Tarantino. “I didn’t see it when it first came on, but when I did I couldn’t get over how oversimplified they made everything about that time. It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.”

Alex Haley did, in fact, plagiarize important passages of Roots, stealing them from white author Harold Courlander’s The African. After a 5-week trial in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, Haley offered Courlander a financial settlement of $500,000, acknowledging that “[he] regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way into his book Roots.


But the larger point is that slavery contextualized as a Spaghetti Western is not authentic storytelling.

The criticism should not be that Tarantino dared to question Roots authenticity, but that he arrogantly believes that Django is moreso.

Wow and blacks support this motherfuker

 

[hex]

Damn I didn't know Haley stole parts of "Roots".

Having said that, I thought "Django" was wack. I'm noticing directors that have been around a long time tend to start feeling themselves and not editing their movies as tightly. I felt the same way about "The Wolf Of Wall Street".

Fred.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Jonah hill had the best performance in Django

 

[Mike Otherz]

django was dope, but after the dicaprio and waltz character died, film could have stopped right there. i wasnt that invested in django getting steven at all.

 

[Mike Otherz]

Quentin Tarantino clarifies Selma comment from T magazine interview | EW.com

 

[Box Cutta]

Wow and blacks support this motherfuker

To be fair, I remember another interview where he was talking about how Roots wasn't, for lack of a better term, "militant" enough for him.

He talked about how, at the end of the series, the black family FINALLY has a chance to get revenge against one of the slaveowners....and they go with the soft, liberal ass, "we won't stoop to your level" nonsense. Tarantino said that they shoulda killed the fukker. I think that's where his criticism of roots was coming from.

 

[FlyRy]

Damn I didn't know Haley stole parts of "Roots".

Having said that, I thought "Django" was wack. I'm noticing directors that have been around a long time tend to start feeling themselves and not editing their movies as tightly. I felt the same way about "The Wolf Of Wall Street".

Fred.

I love django but its his only movie that his editor sally menke didnt edit cuz she died

 

[TheDarceKnight]

nah this ain't some "American gangster" switcharoo at the last minute. The movie is called selma FFS anyone that knows American history knows the connotations behind that name. We just wanted it to be a MLK biopic because there has never been one for the big screen. And given that Steven Spielberg owns the rights to MLK's most famous speeches it's kind of impossible for anyone to do a true biopic without his involvement

Wait, what?!

Obviously I'm about to google the situation but that's crazy

 

[boskey]

Quentin Tarantino clarifies Selma comment from T magazine interview | EW.com

Pretty good explanation of the Selma diss. But its still fukk him for everything else he said, and much more...

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Wow and blacks support this motherfuker

To be fair, I remember another interview where he was talking about how Roots wasn't, for lack of a better term, "militant" enough for him.

He talked about how, at the end of the series, the black family FINALLY has a chance to get revenge against one of the slaveowners....and they go with the soft, liberal ass, "we won't stoop to your level" nonsense. Tarantino said that they shoulda killed the fukker. I think that's where his criticism of roots was coming from.

Cant find the other link. But the performances were about the white actors who were mostly character actors on other shows. He felt they had a lot of bad actors in those roles and that when they finally got the Lloyd Bridges character at the end instead of killing him they let him go.