Quentin Tarantino Responds to the Criticism of Using the N-Word in "Django Unchained"

yo its swaying, swaying, swaying, swaying, swaying, swaying in the morning in the morning in the morning in the morning in the morning alone in the shadow 45 angle trigger Quentin Tarantino is here ladies and gentlemen um well let's start with Django first of all a great movie, let me tell you what I liked and a couple of things I liked is the description of what our country was like during the time of slavery. It's very honest to me and we often don't talk much about slavery in this. country when I remember I was in eighth grade taking American history and there was a section on a slave era that was so fast-paced it was like half a chapter, you know, and it didn't give us any details and you didn't do anything in Book Week recreated how people must have felt at that time, especially the slave, so when you watch this movie I didn't know what to expect, but I hoped there would be that honesty and how people were treated at that time. about slavery it's funny what you're saying about that event at school because it's like I remember literally going to an elementary school where they taught more about Cortés and the Aztecs, then they did the shame of slavery exactly and in Seoul they finished the scene initial, I think.

It's that there's a chain gang, right, yeah, and um, and you see these slaves that are completely naked, um, and they're walking around in this chain gang and it's cold as hell, it's cold as hell, I don't even believe that they have shoes on. No, they're not okay and at that very moment I said, "Okay, this is going to be an honest movie" and it's gotten a lot of backlash because of the use of the

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and then it was reported that it happened a hundred and nine. times, so you broke your Jackie Brown record, congratulations, yeah, and that was no, it wasn't a bad feat, um, but you did it anyway, now I understand, you talked to Sidney Pottier at some point, yeah, yeah, I did, yes, it would be advice.

Did he give you any advice? Well, you know, I have a say after I finish writing the script. He is like a father figure to me. He's been very, very sweet to me and I went out to dinner with him. I just finished writing the script and aside. so he is, you know he's a lovely elder statesman, like I said, he's got this sort of father figure character to me, also, you know, he directed the first pure black Western in a book in The Preacher mm-hmm, so I was describing, you know, the movie and I was very worried, not about making the movie, but about, you know, having about a hundred black people as extras and dressing them like slaves, and you know, we're planting cotton fields and putting them under the hot sun, planting cotton, putting those chains on them, walking them up and down the mud of Greenville, as seen in the movie.

I mean, it was personally, personally, painful the idea of ​​asking black people to do that. I know why I'm doing it, but I was a little scared, yeah, and um, but if you were black, do you think you would have been a white man? Oh yes, I won, yes, well, no, no, being me, I think you would. be a human, okay, just asking, yeah, being away, being a white guy didn't help at all, okay, you know, I didn't make it better, okay, uh, but yeah, I thought it might be too painful, yeah, you know, and um.

So I was toying with the idea of ​​maybe doing some of those scenes in another country, like maybe I mean it's supposed to be Mississippi, yeah, but it would take place like in the West Indies, you know, that's where we would film them or build a plantation in Brazil and have them be Brazilians in the bet because, you know, even though they had slavery there, there's just the quality once removed because you're not dealing, you're not dealing with Americans over America, uh-huh, he He just told me to be a man, you know, Sidney Pottier Toto. The man told me it doesn't matter because you know it sounds like you're just afraid of your own.

You can't make your movie if you're afraid of them. No, you know it is like that. everyone knows what time it is he was in a movie called Band of Angels, we played a slave with Clark Gable and Yvonne De Carlo and that's after Gone with the Wind, it's one of the biggest slave movies made in Hollywood, yes, and he tells you. everyone knows what you're doing, we're all professionals, everyone's there and by the way, if you're going to film in Louisiana, there's a lot of poor people there, they need that money, so you that time and they and they need to be able to tell the story. story of his own story Wow, so you hired locals, oh absolutely yes, right, a slave role, yes, so it lets you meet the modern day slave master, now you know, this you really know one of the things, but you know one. of the things that I did with it, the way I dealt with it, so I didn't literally have a residual effect that you could almost feel that way, yeah, almost what you said because if you did it wrong, yeah, you could be a version symbolic of that, huh, so they weren't just extras in a crowd scene hanging out in the back.

I treated everyone like actors, yes, and I always talked to him. Jamie always talks when we talk to him, they're looking at me. They make my movie every day They were really depressed They're like that guy who's out there creating every day We love watching him do it They were all treated with respect We took it, you know, it's see, Caesar is a little different than before In the old days, What did you do when you weren't really doing it? Yes, you had slaves, people playing slaves in the cotton field and they said, Can I get coconut water?

A type like Vibra One Bar, yes. Are you talking to someone else? You talk to another boy. Oh man, this is nothing, man. He was playing what I played. I played a slave and Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunter. I want to be a slave in the 110 years of slavery that come when you leave. that movie will come and they will make money. You know we had Kerry Washington, who performs jangles about lost love, 21 minutes before the hour. Quentin Tarantino was here and you know she came to the show early. She was actually talking about scandal, but we started.

Talking about Django Unchained because it was a movie that I might have been waiting to see and you know, she talked before we had any idea what's going on in a movie, she talked about how to play and what it was like for her to watch a movie. movie that she's been in um well, yeah, and that particular place where she gets whipped had some historical value, oh, absolutely, the setting for that scene was what was called Shock Row, yeah, and that was the living quarters of the slaves, yes, and it seems. like a demonic suburb, in reality it's just these little huts and there are these little huts with a kind of divider but with a dividing chimney between them and one family and half of the Hut and the other families and the other half of the Hut and You know they're still standing to this day, so all those things were always in euros, they were in the background, they were there, but you could also feel the blood in the grass, you could feel the meat on the bill embedded in the crust of the trees. and Eva, you felt the ghosts, you felt the ancestor too there, in the, looking at us, yeah, well, you know, I mean, I really know, bear witness, bear witness, we have so much time, I just want to say Leonardo DiCaprio um Samuel Jackson Don Johnson, the thing.

The thing about this movie is a challenge, like you said you're doing things and challenging these characters to evoke emotions that we don't always get the chance to see here or complete your movies and sometimes at the same time because at some point I'm angry about what happened in our story, but I can't help but laugh at Samuel Jackson playing the role of the house, you know that guy, see, you met that guy before, yeah, and in this here in Django I said when I arrived. to see the movie I said Django is my new favorite superhero, yeah, uh-huh, you know, yeah, you know, and he got the girl, okay, but I think it's important for people to see this movie for several reasons, to What is important to me is deception.

I've never seen a movie, you know, I saw Roots, you know different movies that depicted that part of our history, uh, so honestly, and you broke the record for the game in a movie, you know, I know Spike Leading agrees with Jackie Brown, many other people don't. I agree with that, but your stance on that, well, well, again in the case of Django and Chain, I think it's absolutely silly because that was definitely the way, if someone was going to say that you use that

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more than which was used in the South before the war I'm going to say you're wrong yeah I didn't use it anymore and no one I don't even think anyone could say that with a straight face yeah so get the hell out of your face with that and As far as I'm concerned, Jackie Brown, 15 years has proven that it's true that I love movies, okay, this is what I want to do, we have to accept questions or quick answers, okay, okay, Quentin Tarantino, your Joe de Memphis, what would I do? you like to say hello hello I don't know what you're doing I uh man that's a question I'll listen to someone justice more notice oh wait, call them names and they, if they were announcing that all the actors are only in this movie they were already nominated, they all have nominated, but change what you like about me, yeah, I think it's a shame, I think the Shane the Jamie sedan wasn't nominated.

I mean, it's been a good day for us this morning because we've got them all. these nominations, but, you know, I guess you can't nominate all the rights, you know, uh, but I wish Jamie had gotten a nomination. I think he's amazing in the movie. Jamie is the subject of a lot of controversy right now for a reason. he said in his monologue on Saturday Night Live in the player for you Django Unchained I play a slave uh how black is that in the movie I have to work to change um how crazy is that but no, no, don't worry about that because I go out to change, I break free, I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie Yeah, right, and people were, first of all, he's a comedian, yeah, people were mad because my ass, oh man, yeah, I did it that he Is that actually a statement that stupid guy really says oh you know, oh man, I thought it was funny, it's funny, it's a funny movie, it's funny, um and uh, I mean we got robbed on the line from Texas real quick, would you like that? let's say I stole an ASB influx I love your stuff mana it's like that the whole Jane universe you made this is something like that well you mean Kill Bill no you know don't go to the universe of something like this like a giant oh wait a minute, no, not this, I did kill this a little, but I think you could be talking about a Rize movie.

The Man with the Iron Family came out of this earlier this year, yes it's one written and directed by RZA of the wu-tang clan, Bobby. Diggs, yeah, and I was one of the producers on that movie and that's a flat movie, yeah, there's a good friend of mine, Quinton. I want to thank you for coming. I hate that we have to leave, but I will. I'm also very angry, you always come back, it's okay, I look forward to it. Django Unchained on Christmas Day, yeah man make sure y'all go see this movie. There are so many, they were stimulation.

You have a favorite scene. Oh, it's fine. I see my face, he'll tell me again, okay, wait, wait, wait, well, Don Johnson was very funny, yeah, um, in one movie there was a scene where the bounty hunter was just Christoph Waltz, yeah, King Schultz, yeah, yeah, okay, it came to him. and he was, they came to a plantation, he was looking for some people that he wanted to get the bounty on some outlaws and Don Johnson didn't entertain them until he said he only had $5,000, thousands of reasons to change, imagine my line. That I think is the funniest thing ever when he continued.

Johnson has the slave girl to show Django around, yes, but Django is actually free, so he asked her to explain it to the slave girl. Look, he's free, so you can't treat him like a slave, but. She doesn't understand that concept, yeah, she's a little late, hey, what are you up for? So he's trying to explain it a little bit. She still doesn't quite understand it and says: You mean you want me to treat him like white people? no yeah that's not what I said, it brings the house down every time it moves hilariously. I said man, I have a mini.

I can't give you a favorite scene, but that's not one of my favorites, but of course the final scenes, yeah, of course, you know. a lot of people will die yeah you're right Quinn Terry no one the legends but it's a pleasure man this is a great show thanks for having me anytime man it's in the morning shadow of the sacred pool 45.