American swastika

[Gob]

Quentin Tarantino considers the Confederate flag the 'American swastika' - and feels it is 'about damn time' that people questioned its place in the American South.



Tarantino's comment was made during an interview to promote his latest film, The Hateful Eight, which is due to hit the big screen on January 8 in the UK.

The film is set a few years after the American Civil War and it puts the spotlight on strained race relations in the country.

In it, black Union soldier Major Marquis Warren, played by Samuel L Jackson, is thrown together with former Confederate soldiers, including Walton Goggins as a South Carolinian sheriff and Bruce Dern as a General.

Although the movie is not about race, the subject is explored through the interactions between the characters.

The United States has seen sustained racial unrest following the shooting of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.

The director also addressed his notorious interview with Channel 4 News' Krishnan Guru-Murthy three years ago.

During the interview, Tarantino told Guru-Murthy 'I'm shutting you down' when the latter asked a question suggesting a link between violence in his films and violence in real life.

Several of Tarantino's films, including Django Unchained, Reservoir Dogs and now The Hateful Eight, include high levels of violence and brutality.

The director said: 'In the last 25 years, when it comes to industrial societies, hands down the most violent cinema that exists in any one country is Japan.

'Sometimes grotesquely so. And as we all know, they have the least violent society of all. It's just right there.'


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[rubato]

I think he has the time frame off but its a good point otherwise. More like 50 years ago. :

"... The director said: 'In the last 25 years, when it comes to industrial societies, hands down the most violent cinema that exists in any one country is Japan.

'Sometimes grotesquely so. And as we all know, they have the least violent society of all. It's just right there.' ..."

When my dad was studying Shakuhachi and (of necessity) Japanese language in the 1960s he used to take us to Japanese movies and Tarantino is right they are staggeringly violent in a way that American movies were not until recently (when Tarantino started copying them with "Kill Bill" &c). There is just no parallel in any other national movie tradition which is close to as violent as they were then. The Shintaro Katsu "Zatoichi" series, "Band of Assassins" ("the chosen group" in Japanese), the Inagaki version of Chushingura, the Miyamoto Musashi movies, Yojimbo, "one armed swordsman" and many too many others to name.

On the other hand I'm not a Tarantino fan and his over the top use of violence puts me off, it's pornographic.

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rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh. Yes. You are correct

[Joe Guy]

I like Quentin Tarantino. He has just enough violence in his movies and it's always good.

So there....