Calls by police teams to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” are placing pressure on one among December’s most anticipated releases and inserting one in every of Hollywood’s prime administrators right into a pitched cultural battle.
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Jamie Foxx, however, who Quentin Tarantino has met, stands in support of his Django Unchained director.
Tarantino has come under fire for comments he made at an anti-police brutality rally that was held in Manhattan on October 24.
Meanwhile, the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association yesterday also announced a boycott of Tarantino’s movies.
“I’m a human being with a conscience”, Tarantino stated, according to the Associated Press.
At a RiseUpOctober rally in New York, the filmmaker criticized police officers nationwide for the growing number of incidents where unarmed black men are killed by police, from Michael Brown to Eric Garner.
Prolific director Quentin Tarantino managed to raise the ire of police groups in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York this week, and it could come back to haunt him in the box office. Its a nice gesture, but its hard to see how that will help smooth things over.
Speaking to the Daily News on Friday, Tarantino’s dad Tony Tarantino said he hoped his son would clarify his comments and issue a mea culpa.
The police associations slammed Tarantino as being “a cop-hater” and “anti-police”.
Tarantino’s feedback drew condemnation from, amongst others, New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton.
Pat Lynch, president of the police union, called for a boycott of Tarantino’s films following the statements at the rally. “I believe that is what happened when he joined in those anti-cop protests”, Tony Tarantino said, the Daily Mail United Kingdom reported.
He said his son took part in the anti-cop protests because he was “blinded” from reality and facts by his “passion”. Weinstein, who often refers to Miramax as “the house that Quentin built”, has produced the majority of the director’s films since 1994’s “Pulp Fiction”.
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Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight will be in theaters January 8. “We don’t know if this irresponsible speech led directly to the recent murder of officers around the nation, but Mr. Tarantino should be mindful of the potential dangers that can result from the unsafe rhetoric once it is ingrained in the mind of a person who is willing to harm an officer”.
