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Tarantino: if the police are against
American police officers offended by the famous director are inviting his new film
Police in the United States urge compatriots to boycott the newly film by Quentin Tarantino "Dencing Eight" who was released at the end of December. The police are outraged by the statement that the director made in October at a protest held in New York against (according to the organizers) preserved in law enforcement agencies.
The victims of this racism, according to Tarantino and his like -minded people, are representatives of national minorities, primarily African Americans. At one time, Tarantino was criticized for the use of insulting racist epithets in films, for immorality and glorification of violence. This time he is scolded for words condemning bloodshed.
2014 and 2015 were "rich" for lethal clashes of police officers with African American. Twice such incidents, in Ferguson and Baltimore , grew into riots, which put both cities on the brink of anarchy. During the protests, the Black Lives Matter movement was born in the country, "the life of blacks matters." On the crowded rally and procession organized by the movement on October 24 in New York, Kentin Tarantino flew from California. He spoke very emotionally: “Why am I here? - because I am a person who has a conscience. When I see that they kill the innocent, I cannot remain indifferent. I am on their side. I have no choice: I must call the killed and killers to the killers.”
Police officers quickly responded to these words throughout the country, from New York to Los Angeles. The border service workers joined their calls to boycott the new Tarantino film. The director’s allegations about racism in law enforcement agencies, firstly, are not true, the police say. Secondly, such statements provoke maniacs to kill employees of law enforcement agencies. Thirdly, these "unfounded accusations cause the police a dangerous desire to play it safe and not interfere in the situations associated with an increased risk of force."
Trailer of the new film Quentin Tarantino "Democratic Eight"
The Black Lives Matter moves personalities with a controversial reputation for many, such as the left-winged ideologist Cornell West or feminist Yves Entzler, playwright, author of the play “Vagina's monologues” , and representatives of the quite Mainstimov show business, for example, singers and Jay Zyu, who introduced monetary taxes for the arrested Participants in protests in Ferguson and Baltimore. Two stars of NBA, LeBron James and Kobi Brayn, somehow went out to the warm-up of the game in T-shirts with the inscription I canm Breathe ("I can’t breathe")-these words were repeated by the New Yorker Eric Garner, who died during the arrest from the suffocation. Despite the abundance of celebrities, one way or another involved in the movement, the police concentrated all their anger on a one -time action of Quentin Tarantino. Freedom, the observer of the weekly Thekly Standard, Philip Terzian, answers Radio Liberty.
The intrigue is absolutely insignificant, in my opinion, the question: will Tarantino apologize to the police for excessive sharpness, what are his critics, including New York tabloids?
-We are dealing with the conflict of two cultures: one represented by a progressive, a man of typically left-wing views, the famous Hollywood film director, who spoke at a rally condemning the cops for the alleged racism, the other is the New York police commissar, his colleagues in many large cities and their subordinates. In the conflict itself, it seems to me, there is no fresh intrigue. The intrigue is absolutely insignificant, in my opinion, the question: will Tarantino apologize to the police for excessive sharpness, what are his critics, including New York tabloids? Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who finances work on a “disgusting eight”, expects to make good money on Tarantino’s film. And, according to rumors, he asks the director to make a conciliatory gesture, since there is at least some hope that this will help protect the box office. With all my respect for the business genius of the producer, I do not think that such a step will take the desired effect. Tarantino is an adult, and I have no doubt that he is convinced: American police are terry racists. He was not pulled by his tongue, he voluntarily joined the protest campaign in New York. As far as we know, Tarantino never became a victim of police arbitrariness. He simply decided to earn a little publicity on his sincere beliefs. Therefore, no one, including the police itself, will believe in the authenticity of his repentance. It will look so that he just bent in front of the mercantile arguments of the businessman. I can’t understand, why humiliate myself to a completely meaningless act?
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri. November 2014
- Quentin Tarantino aesthetizes violence in his films, in which even criminals are depicted with a certain degree of sympathy; Real violence, apparently, seems to him too vulgar and deserving censure. Is there a contradiction here?
- To this, I am sure, Tarantino would object that violence in cinema and violence in real life are two completely different things. That in the real life of the murder that he condemns, have no excuse. That they are committed by incorrigible villains. In my opinion, Tarantino once said: just as the architectural elements in Tintoretto's paintings do not make him an architect, and the image of violence in the films that he shoots do not make him a crime apologet. In other words, he is a creator who only drives an artistic flair; For how the audience perceives his creations, he does not answer.
- The film "Demolishing Eight", abounding in violence, is released on Christmas Day. This is also, in theory, a conflict of two cultures.
- Nobody will pay attention to this collision, since both thanksgiving and Christmas in America have long been religious holidays for only ten percent, and for ninety -commercial holidays. Extremely high spiritual foods cannot be filled with free time. We have to resort to mass culture products, including cinema, which these days are consumed in huge quantities. The release of the film on Christmas reflects these realities that have nothing to do with the initial meaning of the holiday.
- Cynics in Hollywood predict that the scandal will only warm up interest in the film Tarantino.
- Police, for example, will be absolutely boycott the film, but even, coupled with relatives and closest friends, they do not form a weighty segment of the audience in America. In my opinion, a greater effect will refuse police officers to work overtime or non-combat combat in areas in such areas as regulation of cinemas where the film will be demonstrated, to ensure order in the Los Angeles Hall area, where the premiere on which the author should be present, or provide tarantino in the future of technical and consulting services. But the police are not a decree, and its boycott will not stop compatriots at all who like what Quentin Tarantino does.
- You predict that all this polemic is “blown away” in the very near future, right?
- Remember the splash, which at one time caused the sexual scandals of Roman Polanski or Woody Allen. Some people were so outraged by their behavior that they deliberately boycotted the films that they made. This boycott, however, did not even cause a light rowan on the surface of a commercial fishing. Sexy purists do not go to the films of Polanski or Allen just as the police officers and the police themselves are unlikely to be massively attended by Tarantino films. And those who love Tarantino, I suspect, do not really complain to the police.
- If the casus tarantino is fleeting, then what about the Black Lives Matter movement?
- It, of course, is more significant than a one -time contact with him
Residual racial prejudices in the law enforcement agencies in America today is nothing in comparison with much more significant causes of the criminal situation in the areas of residence of the black population
Quentina Tarantino, but I would not exaggerate the influence of this movement. The struggle for civil rights in the United States at the present stage began in the late 1950s. During a matter of years, when the total racial tenge of American society occurred, this struggle has reached its climax, and for almost half a century the situation has been in, I would say, in an suspended state. Residual racial prejudices in the law enforcement agencies in America today is nothing compared to much more significant causes of the criminal situation in the areas of living of the black population. But the participants in the Black Lives Matter movement and a handful of celebrities on the left flank of the political spectrum, who, of course, do not perceive these reasons as basic to them. Most show business figures share the views of their engaged colleagues, although they are focused on doing money and confrontation situations to avoid. Therefore, when Tarantino encountered such a negative reaction to his words, I am sure that it was a lot surprised, since in Hollywood such views are considered the absolute norm, ”said the culturalist, observer The Weekly Standard, Philip Terzian.