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

[Roman Brady]

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.

lank please

 

[Jello Biafra]

lank please

http://www.newsweek.com/quentin-tarantino-django-unchained-and-problem-roots-63453

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

As much I like his movies dude is so full of himself.

 

[Roadie pipeher]

I don't see his point at all, selma felt every bit like a motion picture. If you wanted a tv movie look at the overrated still alice or boyhood.cracker should shut his mouth on everything black, foreal.

Dunno how blind i was to his shyt.. he needs to

 

[boskey]

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.

Seriously? That is a very stupid criticism. Roots was supposed to be based on true accounts. It wasn't a revenge fantasy like Django. Do you think many ex-slaves used their freedom to kill their masters? The "soft liberal" approach is not nonsense, its survival...

Its like saying Andy Dufrense should've blown up the prison on his way out instead of the "soft liberal" ending in Mexico

 

[Box Cutta]

lank please

http://www.newsweek.com/quentin-tarantino-django-unchained-and-problem-roots-63453

One thing both men agreed on was a scene in Roots that served as an example of what not to do in Django Unchained. The last act of the final episode features the character Chicken George being given the opportunity to beat his slave master and owner in much the same way he’d been punished and tormented. In the end the character chooses not to so he can be “the bigger man.”

“Bulls--t,” exclaim both Tarantino and Hudlin in unison as they discuss the absurdity of the scene. “No way he becomes the bigger man at that moment,” says Tarantino. “The powers that be during the ’70s didn’t want to send the message of revenge to African-Americans. They didn’t want to give black people any ideas. But anyone knows that would never happen in that situation. And in Django Unchained we make that clear.”

Tarantino recalls a memorable scene where Jamie Foxx’s character is also given the opportunity to beat his former owner after he becomes a free man. “It was an emotional day on set and everyone was talking about how brutal it was because he beats the white off of his captor,” says Tarantino unapologetically. “There was no way that wasn’t going to be a part of the movie.”

Seriously? That is a very stupid criticism. Roots was supposed to be based on true accounts. It wasn't a revenge fantasy like Django. Do you think many ex-slaves used their freedom to kill their masters? The "soft liberal" approach is not nonsense, its survival...

Its like saying Andy Dufrense should've blown up the prison on his way out instead of the "soft liberal" ending in Mexico

I mean, I wasn't really arguing for the realism or not of these movies. I was just highlighting that his criticism of Roots wasn't necessarily coming from a place of American-apologism or something.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Seriously? That is a very stupid criticism. Roots was supposed to be based on true accounts. It wasn't a revenge fantasy like Django. Do you think many ex-slaves used their freedom to kill their masters? The "soft liberal" approach is not nonsense, its survival...

Its like saying Andy Dufrense should've blown up the prison on his way out instead of the "soft liberal" ending in Mexico

Idk breh. This was a klan member. Someone who was trying to kill them all. I even was at that scene. But it didnt destroy the greatness of that series for me.