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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
It is his stand-in Matt Zoller Seitz Biography & Movie Reviews | Roger Ebert.
I do not see going to this movie as being against the police but for all the other people who have put work into this movie which includes probably a thousand people or more when you think of all the movie theater employees, movie distributors, advertisers, and then the quite large crowd that got the thing onto film and that includes many people you never see in the film.
And I do not believe that people should be penalized like this for speaking their mind like Quentin Tarantino has done.
I will probably just buy some advance tickets to The Hateful Eight or go somewhere else as to avoid all the drama of this boycott.
As to violence in movies I have never seen a close casual connection made with respect to this violence and ACTIONS done by people with hatred in their minds and hearts and/or mental illness. Some of the great works of literature are very violent like The Iliad, The Bible, many Shakespeare plays, etc. |
Hi Tal: I have supported or been in agreement on many issues you have addressed on this forum over the years but on this one I disagree. Those thousands of people who were paid to produce and promote this film are complicit in peddling gratuitous violence to young fragile minds in our society.
Depicting hardships and cruelty of say settling the west etc is one thing but this guy's movies all point to promoting anarchy. And so the pivotal word for me and the difference between our views is "gratuitous" And whether its violence or sex as the topic of discussion it is harmful for a society to be continually bombarded with this sort of filth.
I suspect many Americans have had a belly full of it and desire a higher art form.
I also support Tarantino's right to speak out but with rights come responsibilities and he has a responsibility like all of us to be fair and objective in what he says and does and not slander or unfairly defame a person(s). Also with his rights come the consequences of his acts and I pray for a sensible and reasonable response from citizens who support the police in this effort.
Finally I am sick of Hollywood types who continue to show disdain for America like the Fonda's Moore's, Mahar's , Affleck's,Jackson's , Sharpton's et al.
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