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Originally Posted by bronco67
I know the Nword was used like 100 times, and it did seem like a little much, but supposedly "that's how they talked back then". But Tarantino seemed to be trying to get away with something. I feel like the word would have had more power if it was used in specific spots more sparingly, as opposed to being "ni&^@r this and n^&$r that" constantly.
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Tarantino draws a lot of his influence from those 70's grindhouse exploitation flicks where everything is blown way out of proportion, that's where the gratuitous use of violence, profanity, etc. in his movies comes from. I guess what he did with this one was rip the title and characterization for his protagonist from the original Spaghetti Western "Django"(vigilante anti-hero) and remade it in the style of a blaxploitation film like this one:
combined with this:
And you got the basic premise for this new one. That's what it seems like at least, I haven't seen it yet.
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Originally Posted by sarettah
That's the point. It did not have the power back then that it did today. It was the word that was used by racists and non-racist alike.
Read some of Mark Twain and other writers of the times writings. They reflect the dialogue of the times and they include the "N" word all over the place.
I do not think that Tarantino was trying to get away with anything in that regard. I do think that he was trying to give an accurate depiction of southern attitude of the time as a backdrop to the story.
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I don't know, he does use the word a lot. Matter of fact, he got into a spat with Spike Lee over it after "Jackie Brown" came out, and now Lee is pissed about this movie, too - he's boycotting it apparently. Spike Lee took offense to what he saw as an "obsession" on Tarantino's part with the word, especially since it was coming from a white director, which - fuck Spike Lee, that little hypocritical race-baiting jerkoff.
Spike Lee's had an "obsession" with Italians ever since he started making movies, probably stemming from the assbeatings he took as a kid growing up in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. That motherfucker never misses a chance to "get back" at us, either by stereotyping Italians as dumb racist violent degenerates, or injecting some kind of fucking Afrocentric pseudoscience into Italian heritage and ancestry: "You know Italians got black in them", or by casting an Italian girl to play the whorish, homewrecking secretary fiending for Wesley Snipes' coal-black cock, or completely distorting the events surrounding the WW2 battle at Sant'Anna to make it seem as though the Italians collaborated with the Nazis, which he knows is complete bullshit yet still refuses to acknowledge let alone apologize for - fuck Spike Lee.
Then Lee's got the balls to tweet "Birth Of A Nation Got Black Folks Lynched. Media Is Powerful. DON'T SLEEP. WAKE UP YO." as a response to the release of "Django", then said some shit about how it's disrespectful to his ancestors. This is the same motherfucker who scoffed at journalists suggesting that the final scene in "Do The Right Thing" might incite black people to riot, the same motherfucker who has no respect for other ethnic group's history - fuck Spike Lee.
Anyway... Tarantino does use the "N" word a lot in his films, but who gives a shit?