Quentin Tarantino has a suggestion for those whining about all the &#8220;violence&#8221; and the use of &#8220;n-words&#8221; in his movies.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/quentin-tarantino">59-year-old</a> filmmaker&#8217;s appearance on HBO Max&#8217;s talk show &#8220;Who&#8217;s Talking to Chris Wallace,&#8221; Wallace asked the &#8220;Kill Bill: Volume 1&#8221; director what message he had for those critics.
&#8220;You should see [something else],&#8221; Tarantino <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/quentin-tarantino-n-word-violence-backlash-1235438720/">replied</a>. &#8220;Then see something else. If you have a problem with my movies then they aren&#8217;t the movies to go see.&#8221;
&#8220;Apparently I&#8217;m not making them for you,&#8221; he added.
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&quot;You have no right to say that.&quot; Filmmaker Lee Daniels responds to Quentin Tarantino about use of the n-word in his movies. Watch: <a href="https://t.co/fqztl8nEUL">https://t.co/fqztl8nEUL</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1595473262988894213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tarantino&#8217;s movies like &#8220;Reservoir Dogs&#8221; (1992) and &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; (1994) might have won over many fans, but others have slammed the director for excessive portrayal of violence.
&#8220;I know people who could&#8217;ve seen &#8216;Reservoir Dogs&#8217; and could&#8217;ve been fine with it,&#8221; Tarantino previously <a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/quentin-tarantino-explain-joy-of-violence/">shared</a>. &#8220;But when they hear &#8216;violence, violence, violence&#8217;… they talked about &#8216;Reservoir Dogs&#8217; as the most violent movie ever made.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, someday, I may make the most violent movie ever made and I wouldn&#8217;t mind people saying it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in several of Tarantino&#8217;s movies over the years, has previously <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2022/02/samuel-l-jackson-joe-rogan-n-word-quentin-tarantino-1234702968/">defended</a> the director&#8217;s inclusion of the &#8220;n-word&#8221; in his films.
&#8220;It needs to be an element of what the story is about,&#8221; Jackson shared.  &#8220;A story is context — but just to elicit a laugh? That&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;Every time someone wants an example of overuse of the N-word, they go to Quentin — it&#8217;s unfair,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He&#8217;s just telling the story and the characters do talk like that. When Steve McQueen does it [with &#8217;12 Years a Slave&#8217;], it&#8217;s art. He&#8217;s an artiste. Quentin&#8217;s just a popcorn filmmaker.&#8221;
The &#8220;Django Unchained&#8221; star used even stronger words when he hit back at critics during a previous <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a26454543/samuel-l-jackson-captain-marvel-interview-2019/?src=socialflowTW&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=socialflowTWESQ&amp;utm_medium=social-media">Esquire</a> interview.
&#8220;It&#8217;s some bulls***,&#8221; Jackson shared. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just tell a writer he can&#8217;t talk, write the words, put the words in the mouths of the people from their ethnicities, the way that they use their words. You cannot do that, because then it becomes an untruth; it&#8217;s not honest. It&#8217;s just not honest.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/quentin-tarantino-in-hot-water-for-saying-marvel-actors-are-not-movie-stars">Quentin Tarantino In Hot Water For Saying Marvel Actors Are &#8216;Not Movie Stars&#8217;</a>

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Quentin Tarantino Has A Suggestion For Those Whining About All The ‘Violence’ And Use Of ‘N-Words’ In His Movies

Quentin Tarantino Has A Suggestion For Those Whining About All The 'Violence’ And Use Of ’N-Words’ In His Movies

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Celebrated filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/quentin-tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> is facing criticism for candid comments he made about actors in Marvel movies not being legitimate stars.
The “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Kill Bill</a>” director made the remarks while speaking with Tom Segura for his podcast “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCx67cnQQf8">2 Bears 1 Cave</a>.”
“I don’t love them,” Tarantino said of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel">Marvel</a> films. “No, I don’t. I don’t hate them. But I don’t love them. I mean, look, I used to collect Marvel comics like crazy when I was a kid.”
“There’s an aspect that if these movies were coming out when I was in my twenties, I would totally be f***king happy and totally love them. [But] they wouldn’t be the only movies being made, they would be those movies amongst other movies. I’m almost 60 so I’m not quite as excited about them,” he continued.
Tarantino repeated a common criticism of the films, claiming they are overhyped and repetitive, plus leave less room for more creative projects.
“My only ax to grind is they’re the only things that seem to be made,” the 59-year-old director said. “And they’re the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them … So it’s just the fact that they are the entire representation of this era of movies right now. There’s not really much room for anything else. That’s my problem. It’s a problem of representation.”
Next, he took a dig at the actors in Marvel movies, saying they weren’t actually who people were coming to see. Tarantino claimed moviegoers only cared about superheroes on screen no matter who was playing them.
“Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” he asserted. “But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Thor is the star. I’m not the first person to say that. I think that’s been said a zillion times, but it’s these franchise characters that become a star.”
Finally, the &#8220;Reservoir Dogs&#8221; director pined for movie star roles of the past.
&#8220;Back in 2005, if an actor stars in a movie that does as good as the Marvel movies do, then that guy’s an absolute star,” he explained.
“It means people dig him or her and they like them and want to see them in stuff. Sandra Bullock is in &#8216;Speed&#8217; and everyone thought she’s amazing in it. Everyone fell in love with her … They were excited by Sandra Bullock and wanted to see her in something else. That’s not the case now. We want to see that guy playing Wolverine or whatever.”
Tarantino’s observations did not amuse several followers.
Deadpool creator Robert Liefeld retweeted a story about Tarantino’s comments, <a href="https://twitter.com/robertliefeld/status/1595099498413318149">calling it</a> “the hottest of hot takes.”
In a later tweet, he shared, “As a writer/creator it’s my passion as well as my job to create compelling characters and worlds that draw the audience in and connect with them. Same thing that drives Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, so many others. I’m in the character business.”
Marvel actor Simu Liu, who starred in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” also made his opinion known on <a href="https://twitter.com/SimuLiu/status/1595125075040403456">Twitter</a>. He claimed that signing onto a Marvel project was his only chance to make it in Hollywood. 
“If the only gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would never have had the opportunity to lead a $400 million plus movie. I am in awe of their filmmaking genius. They are transcendent auteurs,” he wrote of Tarantino.  
“But they don’t get to point their nose at me or anyone. No movie studio is or ever will be perfect. But I’m proud to work with one that has made sustained efforts to improve diversity onscreen by creating heroes that empower and inspire people of all communities everywhere. I loved the &#8216;Golden Age&#8217; too.. but it was white as hell.”

BAFTA Film Awards 2020 in London

Quentin Tarantino In Hot Water For Saying Marvel Actors Are ‘Not Movie Stars’

Quentin Tarantino In Hot Water For Saying Marvel Actors Are 'Not Movie Stars'

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“Reservoir Dogs” star Michael Madsen’s son has been found dead in a suspected suicide in Hawaii.
Hudson Madsen was the 26-year-old godson of noted filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. A spokeswoman for the Department of the Medical Examiner in Honolulu stated,  “I can confirm Hudson Lee Madsen, 26, died by a gunshot wound to the head in a suspected suicide on the island of Oahu,” as <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4533070/michael-madsen-son-dead-suicide-hawaii/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=sunustwitter&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1643075542-4">The Sun</a> reported.
Hudson Madsen, survived by his wife Carlie, had been living in Wahiawa, Hawaii; he was based at the Schofield Barracks in Oahu after having had reportedly served in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
As recently as January 15, Carlie Madsen, who had undergone breast surgery, posted on Instagram:
<blockquote>I just want to give a shout-out to my amazing husband! Yesterday I had surgery to remove a tumor from one of my breasts and he was and has been so patient throughout this whole process! We were at the hospital for about 7 hours yesterday and while I was in surgery he went to target and got me flowers, comfy pajamas, my favorite candy and a card! He&#8217;s also been amazing in helping with my recovery and I&#8217;m just so thankful! I also want to thank my family and friends that have reached out to make sure I&#8217;m okay and to check in on me! I love you all so much.</blockquote>
After meeting her future husband in 2017, Carlie Madsen told a friend who asked if Hudson was a “keeper,” “He&#8217;s actually in the army and stationed down in Colorado! I met him through my best friend that lives there! And I think he&#8217;s a keeper!”
Hudson commented in response, “I am a keeper by the way.”
In November 2017, Hudson got down on one knee to propose to his future wife on Pike’s Peak in Colorado; they were reportedly married in 2018 before he was deployed, as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10438009/Michael-Madsens-son-Hudson-dies-suspected-suicide-Hawaii-age-26.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported.
The Daily Mail added, “On January 20, 2019, a friend commented: ‘Yo you home already Hudson Madsen?’ Carlie replied: ‘No, it keeps on getting pushed back’ &#8211; accompanied by a crying emoji.”
But Hudson was back home by the end of January 2019. In June, they conducted an “official wedding”; Carlie posted on Instagram that they held the wedding “even though we had been married for a year and half already at that point. &#8230; It was one of the happiest days of my life but also very uhhh&#8230; interesting I&#8217;ll say. We had an outdoor ceremony during a thunderstorm and no one could hear us. I was puking in the bathroom till about 2 minutes before I walked down the isle (sic), We had to fire our DJ halfway through the reception and thankfully a different, way better, DJ showed up. We almost got kicked out of our reception place because people got caught sneaking alcohol in and got caught attempting to do uhhmm.. ‘extra curricular activities.’”
“BUT even after all of that it was still one of the best days of my life because I got to celebrate with all our family and friends and I got to marry my best friend for the second time,” she continued. “Thank you to everyone that was able to make it and make it a day I will never forget. And thank you to my wonderful husband for everything you do for me and our family. I couldn&#8217;t be happier to have you by my side through this crazy life. I love you more.”
In May 2020, Hudson left Hawaii for a new deployment; Carlie wrote: “Saying goodbye to you never gets easier. I&#8217;m already missing the s*** out of you. Please come home quickly. I&#8217;ll see you in 5 months my love. I love you more.”
In March 2021, Carlie wrote: “In the last 2 months Hudson and I found out that we can&#8217;t have kids naturally and we have to do IVF. We also were told that it will probably take 2 or more times of IVF treatment for me to get pregnant. I&#8217;m only sharing this because it needs to be normalized and more talked about.”
Hudson made numerous loving comments in response to photos of his wife, including:
<blockquote>Dats my wife. I love you baby.
Dayyyuuummm gurll. You fine. 
Ooooo gurlll. Can i get yo number?</blockquote>
The last photo of them, from November, depicted him carrying his wife piggy back on a beach.
Carlie commented, “So in love with how these pictures turned out.”
Michael Madsen also starred in the films “The Natural,” “Kill Bill Vol.1,” “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” “Die Another Day,” “Sin City, “Thelma and Louise” and “Donnie Brasco.”
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255.

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Academy Award-winning director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ideology-trumps-entertaining-now-quentin-tarantino-slams-hollywood-for-virtue-signaling-instead-of-entertaining">Quentin Tarantino</a> revealed on a recent podcast that he does not give his mother Connie Zastoupil any financial assistance or buy her any gifts because of an argument the pair had when Tarantino was 12 years old.
“My mom was b****ing at me about [writing screenplays] &#8230; and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, this little writing career’ — with the finger quotes and everything — ‘This little writing career that you’re doing? That s&#8212; is over,’” Tarantino <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/quentin-tarantino-has-never-given-his-mother-connie-penny-t227747">recalled</a>, speaking on a recent episode of “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/quentin-tarantino-07-28-21/id814550071?i=1000530253765" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Moment</a>” podcast, hosted by “Billions” co-creator Brian Koppelman.
“I go, ‘Okay, lady, when I become a successful writer, you will never see one penny from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing. Because you said that,'&#8221; the director continued.
And Tarantino apparently stuck to his word. The only time he gave his mother any financial assistance was one time when she was in a &#8220;jam with the IRS,&#8221; the 58-year-old said.
“There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children,” Tarantino asserted. “Remember there are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what’s meaningful to them.”
According to a 2003 article <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/20/the-movie-lover">published</a> in The New Yorker, Tarantino, as a child, used to write his mom stories for Mother&#8217;s Day wherein Zastoupil would die at the end &#8212; a piece of the story he said he felt bad about:
<blockquote>Tarantino as a child was preoccupied with movies, and he was always writing. He wrote a screenplay called “Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit,” and each year for Mother’s Day he would write a little story for and about his mother in which she died at the end (he would assure her that he felt bad about the way things turned out).</blockquote>
“He’d always kill me and tell me how bad he felt about it,” Zastoupil <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/quentin-tarantino-has-never-given-his-mother-connie-penny-t227747">told</a> Entertainment Weekly back in 1994. “It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.”
Back in June, Tarantino made headlines for pushing back against Hollywood&#8217;s preference for virtue signaling over entertainment. He made the remarks after he was hit with liberal backlash for apparently not giving actress Margot Robbie a big enough role in &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ideology-trumps-entertaining-now-quentin-tarantino-slams-hollywood-for-virtue-signaling-instead-of-entertaining">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>[HBO host Bill] Maher was among the first to broach the subject of political correctness dominating Hollywood. He asked the famed director of “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill,” and a number of other modern classics about an encounter he had with a reporter at the 2019 Cannes film festival when she complained that actress Margot Robbie’s part in “Once Upon a Time Hollywood” wasn’t big enough. Tarantino replied that he rejected that hypothesis.
“I’ve always really appreciated the way you’ve pushed back when everyone’s tried to stifle you, shut you up, shame you, bully you, corral your artistic license — they tried it with the last one, with ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ some bullsh** about Margot Robbie doesn’t have enough lines,” said Maher. “You do what I wish other people would do: instead of apologizing like a little pu*** you say, ‘I don’t agree with your assessment.’ What’s so hard about that?”
The eight-time Oscar winner <a href="https://twitter.com/GComixxx/status/1409320057914609664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1409320057914609664%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fboundingintocomics.com%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fquentin-tarantino-calls-out-the-rampant-ideological-climate-of-modern-hollywood%2F">responded</a> by lamenting how important pushing political agendas has become in the entertainment business these days.
“There has become a thing that’s gone on, especially in this last year, where ideology is more important than art,” Tarantino said.
“Way more. Certainly to the awards,” Maher agreed.
Tarantino went on, “Ideology trumps art. Ideology trumps individual effort. Ideology trumps good. Ideology trumps entertaining,” Tarantino said as the audience applauded.
“There’s two kinds of movies—virtue signalers and super hero movies,” Maher summed matters up. Tarantino agreed and said that he believes Hollywood’s current woke obsession won’t last forever. “Just looking at the ’40s, even though it was wartime, that was also when you had film noir. Even with the Hays Code! You had these dark, dark stories being told.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ideology-trumps-entertaining-now-quentin-tarantino-slams-hollywood-for-virtue-signaling-instead-of-entertaining">‘Ideology Trumps Entertaining Now’: Quentin Tarantino Slams Hollywood For Virtue Signaling Instead Of Entertaining</a>

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As the NBA and a majority of the entertainment industry cater to China&#8217;s censorship demands in order to make a quick buck, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is now refusing to recut his hit film &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; to appease the tyrannical regime.
&#8220;Quentin Tarantino will not recut “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” to placate Chinese censors,&#8221; reports <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/quentin-tarantino-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-china-1203375792/#article-comments">Variety</a>. &#8220;The decision likely means that the Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt buddy dramedy and ode to late sixties Tinseltown won’t be making an appearance in China — at least in non-pirated form.&#8221;
Though &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; is being distributed by Sony Pictures, Tarantino has final cut, meaning no alterations can be made to the movie without his approval. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised Tarantino for standing up for artistic freedom:
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If, contrary to the initial article, Tarantino is standing up to China &amp; refusing to be censored, BRAVO. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoreOfThis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoreOfThis</a> <a href="https://t.co/rdASUsJao9">https://t.co/rdASUsJao9</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1185415615516950528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The stall over his film&#8217;s release in China reportedly happened because Bruce Lee&#8217;s daughter, Shannon Lee, filed a complaint with China’s National Film Administration about the film&#8217;s negative depiction of her father.
In the movie, actor Mike Moh hilariously portrays kung-fu screen legend Bruce Lee as an arrogant braggart who talks a bigger game than the one he plays. Despite the fact that most Bruce Lee biographers agree that Lee did indeed have a haughty side to go along with his sweet side, Tarantino got slapped with accusations of racism for supposedly portraying the film’s lone minority character so disparagingly. Tarantino maintained, however, that Lee&#8217;s own wife even admitted he had a bit of an arrogant side.
“The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up,” Tarantino said, as reported by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tarantino-responds-bruce-lee-once-a-time-hollywood-criticism-1231125">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. “I heard him say things like that, to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Muhammad Ali,’ well yeah, he did. Not only did he say that, but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read … She absolutely said it.”
Despite not being released in China, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has already grossed $366.8 million worldwide on a $90 million budget. Regardless of whether or not the film will grace Chinese audiences, the controversy represents yet another example in a string of ongoing examples of China’s grip on Hollywood, which has become so insidious that American movie studios have been censoring creative content to make a few bucks off the backs of a totalitarian government. In fact, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-movies.html">New York Times</a> cited several instances in a detailed article on how movies have changed whole storylines and characters in order to appease China’s state media:
<blockquote>Hollywood’s embrace of China has not come without strings attached.
So when the creators of “Pixels” wanted to show aliens blasting a hole in the Great Wall of China, Sony executives worried that the scene might prevent the 2015 movie’s release in China, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/">leaked studio emails</a> show. They blew up the Taj Mahal instead.
But in the 2016 movie “Doctor Strange,” the Ancient One is Celtic, played by the white actress Tilda Swinton. Moviemakers decided to change the character’s ethnicity early in the process, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/world/asia/china-doctor-strange-tibet.html">reportedly</a> to avoid offending the Chinese government.
As recently as two decades ago, major Hollywood movies were sharply critical of China. “Seven Years in Tibet,” which depicts Chinese soldiers brutalizing Tibetans, was one of the top 100 grossing movies of 1997. Also that year, Disney released Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun” — a sympathetic portrayal of the Dalai Lama’s early life in Mao-era China and his subsequent exile in India — despite <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/27/movies/disney-will-defy-china-on-its-dalai-lama-film.html">objections from the Chinese authorities</a>.</blockquote>
Beyond that, movie studios have gone to great lengths to appeal to Chinese audiences by presenting the country as a technologically advanced superpower, as in the cases of “The Martian,” “2012,” “Gravity,” and “Looper.”
Most recently, social media went abuzz with Chinese censorship speculation when the &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-trailer-blasted-seemingly-paul-bois">trailer revealed</a> that the Taiwanese and Japanese flags had been removed from Tom Cruise&#8217;s iconic jacket, presumably to appease Chinese sensibilities.

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BRAVO: Quentin Tarantino Refuses To Censor ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ For China

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Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; will have to wait a while to see those Chinese dollars due to the country halting the film&#8217;s release over its depiction of Bruce Lee.
&#8220;The film was originally set to hit theaters in the Middle Kingdom on Oct. 25 after having received approval from Chinese censors,&#8221; reports <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/quentin-tarantino-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-china-release-halted-1203375052/">Variety</a>. &#8220;But an exhibitor source told Variety that the movie has been &#8216;temporarily put on hold&#8217; because the daughter of Bruce Lee has filed a complaint to China’s National Film Administration about the on-screen depiction of her late father, a hero to many Chinese.&#8221;
The source told the outlet that the film should be approved so long as Tarantino can make some cuts.
In the movie, actor Mike Moh hilariously portrays kung-fu screen legend Bruce Lee as an arrogant braggart who talks a bigger game than the one he plays. Despite the fact that most Bruce Lee biographers agree that Lee did indeed have a haughty side to go along with his sweet side, Tarantino got slapped with accusations of racism for supposedly portraying the film’s lone minority character so disparagingly.
“They didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive,” Shannon Lee told <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/bruce-lee-daughter-mockery-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-shannon-lee/">TheWrap</a>. “He comes across as an arrogant a**hole who was full of hot air and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others. It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theater and listen to people laugh at my father.”
After enough criticism mounted, Tarantino eventually defended his portrayal of Bruce Lee during a press tour for the film in Russia, citing Lee’s own wife as a source.
“The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up,” Tarantino said, as reported by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tarantino-responds-bruce-lee-once-a-time-hollywood-criticism-1231125">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. “I heard him say things like that, to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Muhammad Ali,’ well yeah, he did. Not only did he say that, but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read … She absolutely said it.”
Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/bruce-lee-quentin-tarantino-shannon-lee-interview-1203302850/">reports</a> that the quote referred to by Tarantino, however, may not be directly attributable to Lee’s wife:
<blockquote>The passage in his wife Linda Lee Cadwell’s book, “Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew,” that Tarantino appears to refer to is a quote from a critic, who wrote that “Those who watched [Bruce] Lee would bet on Lee to render Cassius Clay senseless,” and not from the author herself (Clay was later known as Muhammad Ali).</blockquote>
Though Tarantino has not commented on China stalling the release, he has in the past <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/quentin-tarantino-chinese-china-movies-illegally-pirate-censorship-downloads">encouraged his Chinese fans</a> to watch his movies illegally if they so choose. In fact, 2012&#8217;s &#8220;Django Unchained&#8221; received virtually no money in China after a successful bootlegging campaign in response to a similarily stalled release.
“We didn’t make any money on [Django Unchained] but at the same time people saw it all over the place because they see it on bootleg out there and everything,” he said in 2016. “I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them and I’m OK with it. I’m not OK with it in other places, but if the government’s going to censor me then I want the people to see it in any way they can.”

China Stalls ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Release Over Bruce Lee Depiction

In Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,&#8221; actor Mike Moh hilariously portrays kung-fu screen legend Bruce Lee as an arrogant braggart who talks a bigger game than the one he plays. Despite the fact that most Bruce Lee biographers agree that Lee did indeed have a haughty side to go along with his sweet side, Tarantino got slapped with accusations of racism for supposedly portraying the film&#8217;s lone minority character so disparagingly.
Lee&#8217;s daughter, Shannon Lee, fired the first shot, though she was slightly understanding of Tarantino&#8217;s artistic choice.
&#8220;They didn&#8217;t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive,&#8221; Shannon Lee told <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/bruce-lee-daughter-mockery-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-shannon-lee/">TheWrap</a>. &#8220;He comes across as an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others. It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theater and listen to people laugh at my father.&#8221;
Following that, Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/features/bruce-lee-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-dan-inosanto-1203287237/">interviewed</a> a former protegee of Bruce Lee, Dan Inosanto, who said he never saw Lee being the braggadocious fighter that Tarantino portrayed.
&#8220;He was never, in my opinion, cocky. Maybe he was cocky in as far as martial arts because he was very sure of himself. He was worlds ahead of everyone else. But on a set, he&#8217;s not gonna show off,&#8221; Inosanto said.
After enough criticism mounted, Tarantino eventually defended his portrayal of Bruce Lee during a press tour for the film in Russia and provided a fairly compelling case, citing Lee&#8217;s own wife as a source.
&#8220;The way he was talking, I didn&#8217;t just make a lot of that up,&#8221; Tarantino said, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tarantino-responds-bruce-lee-once-a-time-hollywood-criticism-1231125">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;I heard him say things like that, to that effect. If people are saying, &#8216;Well he never said he could beat up Muhammad Ali,&#8217; well yeah, he did. Not only did he say that, but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read &#8230; . She absolutely said it.&#8221;
Critics also blasted the film for showing Brad Pitt&#8217;s character, stuntman Cliff Booth, knock Bruce Lee to the ground with seamless ease. Tarantino defended this as an artistic choice to show that Pitt&#8217;s character was a warrior who has lived combat.
&#8220;Could Cliff beat up Bruce Lee? Brad would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff maybe could,&#8221; said Tarantino. &#8220;If you ask me the question, &#8216;Who would win in a fight: Bruce Lee or Dracula?&#8217; It’s the same question. It&#8217;s a fictional character. If I say Cliff can beat Bruce Lee up, he&#8217;s a fictional character so he could beat Bruce Lee up.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality of the situation is this: Cliff is a Green Beret,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He has killed many men in WWII in hand-to-hand combat. What Bruce Lee is talking about in the whole thing is that he admires warriors. He admires combat, and boxing is a closer approximation of combat as a sport. Cliff is not part of the sport that is like combat, he is a warrior. He is a combat person.&#8221;
&#8220;If Cliff were fighting Bruce Lee in a martial arts tournament in Madison Square Garden, Bruce would kill him. But if Cliff and Bruce were fighting in the jungles of the Philippines in a hand-to-hand combat fight, Cliff would kill him,&#8221; Tarantino concluded.
For reasons entirely unknown at this time, the social justice warriors have had the daggers out for Quentin Tarantino lately. TIME, for instance, recently <a href="https://time.com/5645347/quentin-tarantino-women-dialogue/">published an article</a> in which two reporters actually watched all of the director&#8217;s films to count the number of lines women characters spoke, accusing him of subtle misogyny.

“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” Photocall In Moscow

Quentin Tarantino Hits Back At Critics Over ‘Racist’ Bruce Lee Scene In Latest Film

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American auteur Quentin Tarantino will be taking on the Manson Family murders with the upcoming &#8220;Once Upon A Time in Hollywood&#8221; starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie as the ill-fated actress Sharon Tate. While early buzz at the Cannes Film Festival indicates the movie will be a hit, at least one critic took issue with the fact that Robbie&#8217;s character had a limited amount of screen time compared to her male co-stars.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-quentin-tarantino-dodges-violence-women-question-1212889">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, director Quentin Tarantino largely dismissed a New York Times reporter pressing him about Margot Robbie&#8217;s alleged lack of screen time while speaking at a panel at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
&#8220;A reporter suggested that Robbie, an Oscar-nominated actress who has far less screen time than her two male co-stars and few lines in the film, was underused,&#8221; reported THR. &#8220;To that, Tarantino, looking visibly annoyed, answered curtly, &#8216;I reject your hypothesis.'&#8221;
Quentin Tarantino then got some help from the very woman whom the New York Times reporter believed they were championing: Margot Robbie herself, who said that her character had just the right amount of screen time.
&#8220;I think the moments that I got onscreen gave an opportunity to honor Sharon and her lightness,&#8221; said Robbie. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it was intended to delve deeper. As Brad mentioned, I think the tragedy was ultimately the loss of innocence and to show those wonderful sides of her could be done quickly without speaking, and I did feel like I had a lot of time to explore the character event without dialogue.&#8221;
On the same panel, Brad Pitt described the film as being about the &#8220;loss of innocence,&#8221; which the Manson Family perfectly epitomizes as the dark side of 1960s free love culture.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see it as a rage against individuals but a rage against a loss of innocence,&#8221; Pitt said of the film.
Check out the full trailer released on Tuesday:
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Another report from THR <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/once-a-time-hollywood-reviews-what-critics-are-saying-1212670">noted</a> that Tarantino&#8217;s ninth film has been quite a hit at the Cannes Film Festival this year, premiering on Tuesday to a six-minute standing ovation. While some critics have expressed mild discontent with its shockingly violent conclusion, the overwhelming response has been positive, primarily due to Tarantino&#8217;s uncanny representation of 1969 Hollywood &#8212; the year in which cult leader Charles Manson inspired several of his followers to murder seven innocent people, including Roman Polanski&#8217;s then-pregnant wife Sharon Tate.
&#8220;With richly detailed input from production designer Barbara Ling and beyond-cool retro fashions from costumer Arianne Phillips, Tarantino folds the low-key buddy comedy into a lovingly recreated, almost fetishistic celebration of late &#8216;60s Hollywood, infused with color and vitality by cinematographer Robbie Richardson,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-cannes-2019-1212805?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=THR%20Breaking%20News_now_2019-05-21%2015:44:43_drooney&amp;utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> THR&#8217;s David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter, who does admit that the film at times feels &#8220;uneven&#8221; in its pacing.
Peter Bradshaw of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/21/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review-tarantino-dazzling-dicaprio-pitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Guardian</a> gave the film five stars while Richard Lawson of <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review-quentin-tarantino-brad-pitt-leonardo-dicaprio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vanity Fair</a> praised the main leads for having an &#8220;effortless chemistry&#8221; that evoke movie stardom.
&#8220;One&#8217;s allegiance to the film is consistently won back by DiCaprio and Pitt, who make easy, and disarmingly humble, platonic poetry out of this curious dynamic,&#8221; wrote Lawson. &#8220;[Tarantino&#8217;s] always been a great director of actors, and here he manages to wipe away some of the gunk of time and fame to find an indefinable It-ness that used to get people noticed at lunch counters. In so doing, Tarantino lets us access some of the love he so ardently wants us to feel for all his cherished arcana.&#8221;
Though no details have been provided as to how Tarantino handles the Manson family murders, David Sexton of <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review-cannes-2019-a4142946.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Evening Standard</a> says it ends &#8220;sensationally violent even by Quentin&#8217;s high standards.&#8221;
&#8220;Once Upon A Time In Hollywood&#8221; opens nationwide on July 26.

Quentin Tarantino Dismisses Critic Claiming ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Had Limited Female Screen Presence

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According to insiders, Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s much-anticipated ninth film might be collateral damage in the iconic director&#8217;s mounting #MeToo troubles.
As The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26880/big-names-hollywood-turn-quentin-tarantino-james-barrett">chronicled</a>, Tarantino&#8217;s name has repeatedly come up in all kinds of unflattering contexts since the dam first broke on his long-time business partner Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s alleged chronic predation. Though Tarantino quickly admitted that he was aware of some of Weinstein&#8217;s behavior and failed to do &#8220;enough,&#8221; his public confession hasn&#8217;t spared him from some rather ugly headlines, including his role in Uma Thurman&#8217;s infamous car crash on the set of &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; and his partial defense of child rapist Roman Polanski in a 2003 interview with Howard Stern.
Now, multiple reports claim that Tarantino&#8217;s deal with Sony to produce his Charles Manson-themed ninth film &#8212; which the director moved to Sony from The Weinstein Company shortly after the Harvey fallout began &#8212; is possibly in trouble. Noting that at least three Manson-themed movies are set for release on the 50th anniversary of the murder of Sharon Tate, wife of Polanski, <a href="https://movieweb.com/tarantino-new-manson-movie-troubled-sony-pictures/">MovieWeb</a> underscores that Tarantino&#8217;s is by far the largest of the three, with a reported budget of $200 million. Citing a report by <a href="http://www.showbiz411.com/2018/02/08/three-charles-manson-movies-are-coming-but-quentin-tarantinos-is-in-jeopardy-at-sony-over-polanski-thurman-stories">Showbiz 411</a>, MovieWeb reports that &#8220;Sony is having second thoughts about the movie.&#8221;
The sources of Sony&#8217;s reported unease include Tarantino telling Stern back in 2003 that Polanski&#8217;s 13-year-old victim, whom the disgraced director drugged and raped, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26792/listen-tarantino-says-polanskis-13-year-old-rape-amanda-prestigiacomo">wanted to have it</a>.&#8221; The film, which follows two stuntmen in the Manson era, is supposed to include a young Polanski character.
Another major source of Sony&#8217;s alleged misgiving is a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html">report </a>by Maureen Dowd portraying Tarantino as a potentially sadistic director who chose to personally perform some violent and humiliating scenes with Thurman as well as having pressured her to do her own stunt driving, which resulted in severe injury to the actress.
Both Thurman and Tarantino have pushed back against the negative portrayal of him by Dowd. Last week, Tarantino gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26791/tarantino-heres-what-really-happened-uma-thurman-james-barrett">lengthy interview </a>addressing all of the allegations against him, including what he did and didn&#8217;t know about Weinstein and the actions he took in response.

Backlash Against Tarantino Grows: New Movie In Doubt?

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Director Quentin Tarantino has had two miserable weeks.
Shortly after actress Uma Thurman accused Tarantino of placing her in harm&#8217;s way while filming a car crash for &#8220;Kill Bill,&#8221; audio surfaced of Tarantino defending admitted child rapist <a data-tag="roman-polanski" href="http://deadline.com/tag/roman-polanski/">Roman Polanski</a> during an interview with Howard Stern in 2003, alleging that then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer &#8220;wanted&#8221; to have sex with Polanski in 1977.
&#8220;He didn&#8217;t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape,&#8221; Tarantino said, adding, &#8220;He had sex with a minor. That&#8217;s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you&#8217;re talking about violent, throwing them down. It&#8217;s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can&#8217;t throw the word rape around. It&#8217;s like throwing the word &#8216;racist&#8217; around. It doesn&#8217;t apply to everything people use it for.&#8221;
When co-host Robin Quivers pointed out to Tarantino that Polanski drugged Geimer with Quaaludes and alcohol, Tarantino said, &#8220;No, that was not the case at all. She wanted to have it and dated the guy.&#8221;
&#8220;Look,&#8221; Tarantino said, &#8220;she was down with this.&#8221; He called Geimer a &#8220;party girl.&#8221;
Tarantino has now apologized for making those statements, affirming that Geimer had indeed been raped by Polanski:
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I want to publicly apologize to Samantha Geimer for my cavalier remarks on The Howard Stern Show speculating about her and the crime that was committed against her. Fifteen years later, I realize how wrong I was. Ms. Geimer WAS raped by Roman Polanski. When Howard brought up Polanski, I incorrectly played devil&#8217;s advocate in the debate for the sake of being provocative. I didn&#8217;t take Ms. Geimer&#8217;s feelings into consideration and for that I am truly sorry.
So, Ms. Geimer, I was ignorant, and insensitive, and above all, incorrect.
I am sorry Samantha.
Quentin Tarantino
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When the recording surfaced of Tarantino, Geimer told the New York Daily News that his comments were &#8220;wrong. I bet he knows it.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not upset,&#8221; Geimer told the Daily News, &#8220;but I would probably feel better if he realizes now that he was wrong, after 15 years, after hearing the facts. Nobody has to be pissed off on my behalf. I&#8217;m okay&#8230;It&#8217;s not a big deal to me what people think. It doesn&#8217;t make a difference in my life. I know what happened. I do not need other people weighing in on what it&#8217;s like getting raped at 13.&#8221;
Tarantino collaborated with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on every movie since &#8220;Pulp Fiction.&#8221; When the allegations against Weinstein broke, Tarantino admitted he &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22529/quentin-tarantino-opens-about-weinstein-i-knew-paul-bois">knew enough to do more than I did</a>.&#8221;

Quentin Tarantino Apologizes For Saying Roman Polanski’s Rape Victim ‘Wanted It’

Sexual Abuse

It&#8217;s been one hellacious week for Hollywood&#8217;s formerly favorite director Quentin Tarantino, who finds himself increasingly the target of his peers&#8217; #MeToo-inspired antipathy, including fellow director/producer Judd Apatow and A-list actress Jessica Chastain.
Though Tarantino&#8217;s problems began months ago with the flood of allegations against his long-time business partner Harvey Weinstein, the floodgates really opened this Saturday with the publication of a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html">article</a> by Maureen Dowd detailing Uma Thurman&#8217;s account of her alleged assault at the hands of Weinstein, about which she informed Tarantino, and the alleged cover-up of a serious accident Thurman suffered on the set of &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; after the director convinced her to do her own stunt driving. Dowd also mentioned that Tarantino insisted on performing some of the more sadistic shots himself, including choking Thurman with a chain and spitting in her face. Pressure on the director ratcheted up even more with the re-emergence of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26792/listen-tarantino-says-polanskis-13-year-old-rape-amanda-prestigiacomo">audio</a> of his 2003 interview with Howard Stern in which Tarantino downplayed Roman Polanski&#8217;s rape of a 13-year-old.
Among the big names that have blasted Tarantino is Apatow, who took to Twitter to level another #MeToo-related accusation against his fellow director and noted that Tarantino is slated to direct a film that features Roman Polanski as a character.
&#8220;Tarantino also ignored Daryl Hannah&#8217;s complaints when she was harassed by Harvey Weinstein. They kicked her off the press tour. Nobody helped her,&#8221; wrote Apatow. &#8220;And now Tarantino is going to make a movie about Polanski. Why is someone financing this? This is why Weinstein wasn&#8217;t stopped.&#8221;
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Tarantino also ignored Daryl Hannah&#8217;s complaints when she was harassed by Harvey Weinstein.They kicked her off the press tour.Nobody helped her. And now Tarantino is going to make a movie about Polanski. Why is someone financing this? This is why Weinstein wasn&#8217;t stopped. $$$$ <a href="https://t.co/WlSVFEoVN4">https://t.co/WlSVFEoVN4</a>
&#8212; Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/959872971526496256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Adding her name to the list of those condemning Tarantino&#8217;s various actions is Jessica Chastain, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22096/meryl-streep-not-everybody-knew-about-weinstein-james-barrett">vocal</a> in the #MeToo movement.
&#8220;I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma&#8217;s face and strangling her with a chain for KILL BILL. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized &#8216;entertainment&#8217;?&#8221; wrote Chastain, in a series of tweets in response to Dowd&#8217;s article. &#8220;When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their &#8216;pheonix&#8217; moment for women. We don&#8217;t need abuse in order to be powerful. We already are. Directors inserting themselves into a scene depicting abuse is crossing a boundary. How can an actor feel safe when your director is strangling you?&#8221;
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I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma&#8217;s face and strangling her with a chain for KILL BILL. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized &#8216;entertainment&#8217;?
&#8212; Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959983660005933056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their &#8216;pheonix&#8217; moment for women. We don&#8217;t need abuse in order to be powerful. We already are.
&#8212; Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959997879569059841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Directors inserting themselves into a scene depicting abuse is crossing a boundary. How can an actor feel safe when your director is strangling you?
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Another famous name to slam Tarantino is original #MeToo warrior Rose McGowan, one of the accusers of Weinstein, who wrote about his alleged &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/06/this-may-not-in-time-be-the-best-book-about-the-weinstein-scandal-but-it-will-surely-remain-the-most-visceral-anger-burns-from-every-page">foot fetish</a>&#8221; in her new memoir &#8220;Brave&#8221;:
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Tarantino has a known foot fetish. That means Tarantino paid extra money to jerk off to my young feet and he told me about it loudly, over and over, for years in front of numerous people, as if I should be so thrilled that he donated his solid-motherf***ing-gold semen that is clearly better than all the other semen in the world, and he gave it up for little ol&#8217; me?
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As the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/07/quentin-tarantino-hollywood-baclkash-uma-thurman-roman-polanski">Guardian</a> notes, some industry members have defended Tarantino, including &#8220;Inglourious Basterds&#8221; actress Diane Kruger:
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Be29JD3lzCC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In light of the recent allegations made by Uma Thurman against Harvey Weinstein and her terrifying work experience on &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221;, my name has been mentioned in numerous articles in regards to the choking scene in &#8220;Inglourious Basterds&#8221;. This is an important moment in time and my heart goes out to Uma and anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault and abuse. I stand with you. For the record however, I would like to say that my work experience with Quentin Tarantino was pure joy. He treated me with utter respect and never abused his power or forced me to do anything I wasn&#8217;t comfortable with. With love, D xoxo</a>
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Both Tarantino and Thurman have responded to the pushback from the Dowd article. Tarantino provided a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26791/tarantino-heres-what-really-happened-uma-thurman-james-barrett">detailed account of the accident</a>, which he said he regretted greatly, his response to learning about Weinstein&#8217;s alleged assault of Thurman, and his rationale for performing some of the stunts himself.
After the publication of the Dowd article, Thurman posted a statement on Instagram defending Tarantino and accusing Weinstein of a &#8220;cover-up&#8221;:
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Be0x6OCFRwQ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">i post this clip to memorialize it&#8217;s full exposure in the nyt by Maureen Dowd. the circumstances of this event were negligent to the point of criminality. i do not believe though with malicious intent. Quentin Tarantino, was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so i could expose it and let it see the light of day, regardless of it most likely being an event for which justice will never be possible. he also did so with full knowledge it could cause him personal harm, and i am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage. THE COVER UP after the fact is UNFORGIVABLE. for this i hold Lawrence Bender, E. Bennett Walsh, and the notorious Harvey Weinstein solely responsible. they lied, destroyed evidence, and continue to lie about the permanent harm they caused and then chose to suppress. the cover up did have malicious intent, and shame on these three for all eternity. CAA never sent anyone to Mexico. i hope they look after other clients more respectfully if they in fact want to do the job for which they take money with any decency.</a>
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Big Names In Hollywood Turn On Quentin Tarantino

Judd Apatow

&#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; director Quentin Tarantino has come under heavy fire after the publication of a New York Times article on Uma Thurman&#8217;s accusations against Harvey Weinstein portrayed the director as a potentially sadistic and threatening figure.
In the piece, writer Maureen Dowd describes Tarantino opting to do a few of the more sadistic scenes with Thurman himself, including choking her with a chain and spitting on her. Tarantino has since explained that he made the decision only to protect her because he simply did not trust anyone else to do it and wanted to limit the number of takes.
After the initial publication of the article on Saturday, actress Jessica Chastain took to Twitter to condemn Tarantino and what she suggested was a larger pattern of abusive portrayals of women.
&#8220;I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma&#8217;s face and strangling her with a chain for KILL BILL. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized &#8216;entertainment&#8217;?&#8221; wrote Chastain, in a series of tweets. &#8220;When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their &#8216;pheonix&#8217; moment for women. We don&#8217;t need abuse in order to be powerful. We already are. Directors inserting themselves into a scene depicting abuse is crossing a boundary. How can an actor feel safe when your director is strangling you?&#8221;
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I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma&#8217;s face and strangling her with a chain for KILL BILL. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized &#8216;entertainment&#8217;?
&#8212; Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959983660005933056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their &#8216;pheonix&#8217; moment for women. We don&#8217;t need abuse in order to be powerful. We already are.
&#8212; Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959997879569059841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Directors inserting themselves into a scene depicting abuse is crossing a boundary. How can an actor feel safe when your director is strangling you?
&#8212; Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href="https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959998623823130625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Former porn star-turned conservative &#8220;libslayer&#8221; Jenna Jameson <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/02/06/shut-it-jenna-jameson-reality-slams-jessica-chastain-hard-about-sexism-in-hollywood/">responded</a> to Chastain&#8217;s &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; complaint by slamming the actress for portraying women as &#8220;weak&#8221; victims.
&#8220;This is ridiculous&#8230; men are subjected to the same. Plz stop victimizing women and making them seem weak,&#8221; wrote Jameson.
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This is ridiculous&#8230; men are subjected to the same. Plz stop victimizing women and making them seem weak. <a href="https://t.co/SmW0PN4gDB">https://t.co/SmW0PN4gDB</a>
&#8212; Jenna Jameson (@jennajameson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/960232357549584384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Unsurprisingly, several of Jameson&#8217;s followers agreed, including YouTuber LeeAnnStar.
&#8220;Yeah I&#8217;m not a weak b**** and I can f***ing handle it,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Stop speaking for all women like you know them. I can&#8217;t stand this s*** you want to be equal but also demand that everyone protect your fragile feelings ..f*** that. These celebs are so out of touch with reality lol&#8221;
A couple of other examples:
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We also have pocketbooks and critical thinking skills. If we don&#8217;t wish to see something like that&#8230;we don&#8217;t.
&#8212; tammi mochida (@chichimochida) <a href="https://twitter.com/chichimochida/status/960233361435480070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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She read the script and got paid. End of story.
&#8212; noneya (@railbridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/railbridge/status/960240335954857986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Both Tarantino and Thurman have addressed the allegations in the Dowd article, which both suggested portrayed him in an unfair light. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26791/tarantino-heres-what-really-happened-uma-thurman-james-barrett">Read Tarantino&#8217;s comments here</a>.
Below is the statement Thurman issued via Instagram, along with the video of her notorious accident on the set of &#8220;Kill Bill,&#8221; an accident for which she has partly blamed Tarantino and he describes as one of the worst decisions of his life:
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Be0x6OCFRwQ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">i post this clip to memorialize it&#8217;s full exposure in the nyt by Maureen Dowd. the circumstances of this event were negligent to the point of criminality. i do not believe though with malicious intent. Quentin Tarantino, was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so i could expose it and let it see the light of day, regardless of it most likely being an event for which justice will never be possible. he also did so with full knowledge it could cause him personal harm, and i am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage. THE COVER UP after the fact is UNFORGIVABLE. for this i hold Lawrence Bender, E. Bennett Walsh, and the notorious Harvey Weinstein solely responsible. they lied, destroyed evidence, and continue to lie about the permanent harm they caused and then chose to suppress. the cover up did have malicious intent, and shame on these three for all eternity. CAA never sent anyone to Mexico. i hope they look after other clients more respectfully if they in fact want to do the job for which they take money with any decency.</a>
A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ithurman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Uma Thurman</a> (@ithurman) on Feb 5, 2018 at 10:15am PST
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Criticism of Tarantino has ramped up even further this week after the unearthing of a 2003 interview with Howard Stern in which Tarantino downplayed Roman Polanski&#8217;s heinous rape of a 13-year-old girl. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26792/listen-tarantino-says-polanskis-13-year-old-rape-amanda-prestigiacomo">Read more here</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19247/jenna-jameson-gives-ben-shapiro-hilarious-and-amanda-prestigiacomo">Jenna Jameson Gives Ben Shapiro Hilarious And Fitting New Nickname</a>
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/02/06/shut-it-jenna-jameson-reality-slams-jessica-chastain-hard-about-sexism-in-hollywood/">Twitchy</a>

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