The saga continued yesterday when Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, made a mysterious threat towards the director to The Hollywood Reporter saying, “Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise”. Pasco said the union will “try to hurt him the only way that seems to matter to him, and that’s economically”.
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Although there have been rumors that The Weinstein Company has been intent on solving the issue before Tarantino’s latest, “The Hateful Eight”, hits select theaters this Christmas, the director confirmed that the company stands behind him. Tarantino’s 75 years old father, a New Yorker with police officers in the family, has condemned the strong language used by his son against the police, but he also noted that much of what he said has been misrepresented.
Texas representative Ted Poe, a Republican, called Tarantino’s comments “idiotic” and said they “encourage mischief and crimes” against officers.
But earlier this week Tarantino ripped his critics, particularly Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
That’s the advice offered in the new full trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film “The Hateful Eight”.
“This is not being dealt with in anyway at all”, Tarantino said.
The director also said he is not “anti-police”, but will not back down from his statements.
Mortenson told HuffPost Live the boycott is a “smokescreen” to avoid getting into the underlying causes of police officers who abuse their authority. “Just ’cause I was at an anti-police-brutality protest doesn’t mean I’m anti-police”. That’s not what I said…
“On behalf of the almost 5,000 members of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 3, both active and retired, we announce our intention to stand with our law enforcement colleagues around the country in solid support of the boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film”.
“Frankly, it feels lousy to have a bunch of police mouthpieces call me a cop hater”, he told the LA paper.
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The article, which was published on Thursday (November 5th), suggested that Tarantino was “looking for controversy and headlines, a guaranteed box-office boost” ahead of the December 25th release of his “winter western” The Hateful Eight.
