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May. 3rd, 2011 01:33 pmSo maybe I've just soured on Quentin Tarantino as a filmmaker (c'mon, half of Inglorious Bastards was entirely pointless, argue it!), but I'm not that excited about the prospect of him making a slavery-oriented Western. Possibly because the quotes on it thus far have been amazingly pretentious.
From a review: This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.
From QT: I want to explore something that really hasn’t been done. I want to do movies that deal with America’s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.
So a movie that treats slave owners as incredibly, unrepentantly evil? I guess Tarantino is doing a homage to EVERY MOVIE ABOUT SLAVERY EVER (except Song of the South, Disney).
ETA: You guys know I've never seen Gone With The Wind?
From a review: This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.
From QT: I want to explore something that really hasn’t been done. I want to do movies that deal with America’s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.
So a movie that treats slave owners as incredibly, unrepentantly evil? I guess Tarantino is doing a homage to EVERY MOVIE ABOUT SLAVERY EVER (except Song of the South, Disney).
ETA: You guys know I've never seen Gone With The Wind?
