Quentin Tarantino proof reads the final script for Django Unchained [2011]

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Christ

Think of the miles and miles of footage he has shot

Ok leaving out a single letter isn't doing anything helpful.

If you're gonna go that far before putting the asterisk in you may as well just commit to it

To my mind, this is the one of the worst uses of the term in a Tarantino movie. Tarantino himself isn't a great actor, and I find the line just comes out a bit forced from him. It's much better when used in something like Django Unchained.

Still, it did result in the best YouTube video ever.

Bro just say it 😂😂😂

In all fairness I don't remember any black people in that movie, either, but I might be mistaken.

I would honestly expect that from LA gangsters no matter the era.

Django was about slavetraders. I'm not surprised they dropped the N-word every sentence when referencing black people.

Sure you can. If anything, I’d think it would be weird if there WEREN’T racial epithets in a 1910 heist movie with an Asian person.

if they were dealing with black people? yes the characters could and probably would say it

The fact that you you think you "can't Write" something speaks volumes about how fucking stupid you americans are. THe word is offensive in the context. SO what? it is fiction, stop acting like a fucking idiot and accept the fact that people can write offensive shit.

Bro. I still hear people dropping the N word. Go on xbox and some kid will call you it and say they fucked your mom.

Well he'd balance it out with plenty of "Ch**ks" and other well-researched slurs of the time period directed towards the Asian dude (or maybe he's not to be fucked with like that. maybe it's fuckin Pai Mei! I'm excited to speculate already!)

I'm white and I had family that would drop those words in, work the racism in where it's just kind of inexplicable sometimes. Some people are just super racist. Like it's baked in as part of their identity. It's like people who try to shoehorn every discussion into politics. They want to share their agitation, validate their worldview, feel superior, etc etc.

Probably not against you I'm guessing

pretty much everyone that isn’t white

You know a country is racist when pointing out racism flabbergasts people. Racism did not go away. It just became more insidious and less obvious.

And the fact that you assumed it was only toward black people is case in point.

I think u/marley_d meant Star Wars prequels since Master Windu does not use a single N-word.

He was playing a character. His character used the word. Thought we learned about this concept in second grade.

I agree making the word archaic and just stop combining those specific syllables into that sound we'd all be better off. Don't know how we collectively accomplish that though

Not at all to be contrarian but his favorite role of mine is Tucker in Tucker & Dale vs Evil. I just can’t get over how well he does bewildered in that movie. Also just stuck with me because I watched it with NO PRETENSE and I suggest anyone else who hasn’t seen it to do the same.

i think youll find actors in movies are acting rather than expressing their personal views. hence why Leonardo DiCaprio isnt hated coz he isnt actually a slave owner.

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playing a character in a film that he wrote. He literally told himself to say it

He was the dude playing a different dude...

*dost thou speakest yon tongue

(Lets get pedantic for no reason: Old English is an entirely different language than Modern English. See Beowulf. Modern English speakers can't read it.)

N-word please.

Make your own! Just swap the # out for any ridiculously large number.

a_string = "N-word"
for line in range(#):
 result = a_string * #
print(result)

No, it weakens the movie to me because it’s unnecessary. Sam Jackson even tried to get Tarantino to not say “dead n***r storage” and instead Tarantino made his ‘wife’ who we never see be black. As though someone married to a black woman would actually say that.

I still think Pulp Fiction is a fantastic movie. I make one critique of it and people get upset though that it’s not flawless.

personally, it just comes off as weird. Like, who thinks to say "dead n***r storage" in an argument like that? or in reservoir dogs, the wrestling scene. i kinda felt he just wanted to openly say the word in a movie under the guise of being "edgy" or because having black actors makes it ok. I mean, in context of a movie, its fine. a period piece set in america basically anytime before the 60's, it makes sense. i guess the gangter/mobsters he tried to emulate in reservoir dogs, maybe thats how they talk in real life. it sucks, but thats a reality that is portrayed in film. im ok with that. if i had a white friend that i was comfortable enough to call for help after i murdered somebody, regardless of wtf his wife is doing, and the dude, who's this close friend, has the balls to use the "hard r" insultingly, in my face, thats not my friend and we're gonna have problems. i dont know shit, but imo it just comes off as that edgy white guy that intentionally pushes the edge but can always prove he's not on the other side. at some point, it just makes you respect the outward racists because they're at least man enough to openly say/stand for what they believe even if it is bullshit.

Why would a character with a black wife be saying ‘dead n****r storage’?

And to be a bit contrarian, there is sometimes a really small amount of people that truly hate him. While 99% of people either are mildly dislike, neutral or like/love him.

I think sometimes people will overestimate the contrarian view because that's like a meta contrarian view.

Tru

and being into feet is fine

Nah I've seen people online actually hating on him, but I guess you can find all kinds of people online lol

I mean, Django seriously does deserve critique, and it recontextualizes his other work. It’s not just that it’s full of racial slurs, a lot of period pieces about slavery will have that. It’s that he doesn’t juggle the tone well. There’s a feeling of manic glee throughout the movie, reveling in the violence to the point of comedy (remember that moment where Django shoots a woman and she’s yeeted comically offscreen, or Leo’s scenery-chewing villain). It’s definitely an allusion/tribute to the blaxploitation genre, where gratuitous violence and revenge was a staple. But half of the movie is framed as a serious film about a historical tragedy, and the other half is framed as a goofy, over-the-top schlock flick, and it bounces between those tones minute-by-minute. And with slavery being such a serious topic, that whiplash is alienating.

It indicates to me that Tarantino is not actually interested in making a movie about chattel slavery, he wants to make a blaxploitation movie. Then he sets it in the Antebellum South because that’s edgy, and is the kind of setting that wins Oscars. He uses wall-to-wall racial slurs ostensibly for “historical accuracy,” but honesty for shock value, to set his film apart from blockbusters who won’t touch that language. It’s exploitative.

The reason Inglorius Basterds works and Django doesn’t is because Inglorius Basterds isn’t set in a concentration camp. And I think it’s telling which of those historical tragedies he views as too serious to touch. To be clear, I don’t think that he’s A Racist, just that he’s disrespectful in a way that bothers me.

His other films are pretty good, but honestly Django did change the way I (and I think a lot of other people) view him as a director. Fundamentally, he makes movies about movie genres, and not about humans. His characters have never been psychologically realistic, they’re archetypes and allusions. So the people on this thread defending his more questionable choices by saying “it’s how people talk(ed)” rings a little hollow.

Tru tru

I agree

But did it bring all the boys to the yard?

Yes