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| Quentin Tarantino admits he 'never saw' Selma and intended 'no slam' | Quentin Tarantino admits he 'never saw' Selma and intended 'no slam' |
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| Quentin Tarantino, who courted fresh controversy this week for comments about Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr biopic, Selma, not long after publicly slamming the films of Cate Blanchett, has issued a clarification, admitting he has never seen the film. | Quentin Tarantino, who courted fresh controversy this week for comments about Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr biopic, Selma, not long after publicly slamming the films of Cate Blanchett, has issued a clarification, admitting he has never seen the film. |
| Related: Quentin Tarantino tells 'black critics' his race is irrelevant | Related: Quentin Tarantino tells 'black critics' his race is irrelevant |
| In a New York Times interview with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, Tarantino discussed DuVernay’s film being snubbed at the 2015 Academy awards – most notably for a best director nomination for DuVernay. | In a New York Times interview with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, Tarantino discussed DuVernay’s film being snubbed at the 2015 Academy awards – most notably for a best director nomination for DuVernay. |
| In the profile, Tarantino was quoted as saying, “She did a really good job on Selma but Selma deserved an Emmy,” before Ellis followed up this quote by reasoning why Tarantino’s film Django Unchained was a superior work to DuVernay’s film. | In the profile, Tarantino was quoted as saying, “She did a really good job on Selma but Selma deserved an Emmy,” before Ellis followed up this quote by reasoning why Tarantino’s film Django Unchained was a superior work to DuVernay’s film. |
| ‘‘Django Unchained, with its depictions of antebellum-era institutionalized racism and Mandingo fights and black self-hatred, is a much more shocking and forward-thinking movie than Selma,” wrote Ellis. | ‘‘Django Unchained, with its depictions of antebellum-era institutionalized racism and Mandingo fights and black self-hatred, is a much more shocking and forward-thinking movie than Selma,” wrote Ellis. |
| In a Facebook exchange with film reporter Anne Thompson, published on Indiewire, Tarantino admitted he had never actually seen Selma, and that the quote from the New York Times article cited in other media outlets was “wrong.” | In a Facebook exchange with film reporter Anne Thompson, published on Indiewire, Tarantino admitted he had never actually seen Selma, and that the quote from the New York Times article cited in other media outlets was “wrong.” |
| “If you look at the article, it was Bret who was talking about Selma, not me,” he wrote to Thompson. “I did say the line ‘it deserved a Emmy,’ but when I said it, it was more like a question.” | “If you look at the article, it was Bret who was talking about Selma, not me,” he wrote to Thompson. “I did say the line ‘it deserved a Emmy,’ but when I said it, it was more like a question.” |
| Tarantino meant to imply “it’s like a TV movie?”, he clarified to Thompson. | Tarantino meant to imply “it’s like a TV movie?”, he clarified to Thompson. |
| “There was no slam intended. Both Bret and myself come from the seventies and eighties when there were a lot of historically based TV movies: the King mini-series written by Abby Mann staring Paul Winfield; Crisis at Central High with Joanne Woodward. And Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys. These were great TV movies. I’d be honored to be placed next to those films. | “There was no slam intended. Both Bret and myself come from the seventies and eighties when there were a lot of historically based TV movies: the King mini-series written by Abby Mann staring Paul Winfield; Crisis at Central High with Joanne Woodward. And Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys. These were great TV movies. I’d be honored to be placed next to those films. |
| “However, I haven’t seen [Selma]. Does it look like a seventies TV movie? Yes. Does it play like one, I don’t know, I haven’t seen it.” | “However, I haven’t seen [Selma]. Does it look like a seventies TV movie? Yes. Does it play like one, I don’t know, I haven’t seen it.” |
| Tarantino’s seeming dismissal of DuVernay’s critically adored film (Selma has a 99% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes) caught fire on the internet after the profile was published. | Tarantino’s seeming dismissal of DuVernay’s critically adored film (Selma has a 99% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes) caught fire on the internet after the profile was published. |
| Related: The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white | Related: The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white |
| Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein put it bluntly on Twitter: | Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein put it bluntly on Twitter: |
| On Wednesday, DuVernay responded to Variety’s Cynthia Littleton at the New York premiere of Oprah Winfrey’s new series, Belief: “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. He has his. Obviously I disagree with him, and I like my movie.” | |
| Tarantino’s next film, The Hateful Eight, opens in limited release on Christmas Day before going into wide release in January. |
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