Following police forces across the country announcing their intention to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s films, the director is speaking out about his involvement in a New York anti-police rally.
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Quentin Tarantino says police groups are vilifying critics of police brutality to avoid focusing on their problems with enforcement.
“He went away and I called the cops”.
He continued to defend himself, saying that he can not stand by when he sees murder and that the police “would rather start arguments with celebrities than examine the concerns put before them by a citizenry that has lost trust in them.” he said.
Tarantino, who won Academy Awards for writing Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, said he was “surprised” by the angry reactions to what he said at the rally, which was organised by a group called RiseUpOctober.
“I’m not being intimidated”, he said.
“In those cases in particular that we’re talking about, I actually do believe that they were murdered”, said Tarantino.
Mortenson told HuffPost Live the boycott is a “smokescreen” to avoid getting into the underlying causes of police officers who abuse their authority. I never said that. Yes, I’m thinking I might be a bit biased when it comes to The Hateful Eight so when I finally do see it and I’m screaming it’s great, an absolute cinematic masterpiece, maybe take it with a grain of salt. According to the New York Times, police departments in Los Angeles, “New York, Philidelphia, and elsewhere” have voiced support for the anti-Tarantino movement. “I’m not a cop-hater, but that’s the way the attack me is calling me a cop-hater”. And their message is very clear.
The “Kill Bill” director declined to withdraw the remarks he made about the police and also did not apologize for them, noted the New York Times. It’s to shut me down. It’s to discredit me.
After the film’s script leaked in January 2014, Tarantino announced that he meant to publish The Hateful Eight as a novel instead.
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The Hateful Eight cast, the Hateful Eight themselves, includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern.
