On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/01/hollywoods-nigger-joke/ > Tarantino's "Django: Unchained" > Hollywood’s Nigger Joke > by CECIL BROWN > This is a seriously stupid review, brimming with righteous indignation but little substance. A couple of the claims caught my eye though, so I wanted to set the record straight just a little. We know that there was a KKK in the original model. That was easily > mapped over to slavery, but Tarantino makes a mistake here. He choses > 1858, two years before the Civil War, as the fictional time for his > film. But the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t until some 20 years later, in the > 1880s, after the Civil War. > > Just because it was in the original source, Tarantino included it in the > target material. He wasn’t following Black history, but rather he was > following his original template. > This would be very uncharacteristic of Tarantino who really sweats the details so I looked into it. Turns out the reviewer is full of it; the scene refers to a mob wearing sheets. The Klan did not exist pre-Civil War, but other vigilante groups ("the Regulators") did and they used similar costumes and that's what is being shown in the scene: http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unchained-part-1-django-trilogy?page=0,4 > Would a Jewish American audience tolerate a film that makes fun of their > history and their > holocaust? I doubt it. Would the Weinstein have made a film about the > Jewish Holocaust that ridicule and belittled the Jewish experience > during Hitler? I doubt it. > I recommend to Cecil Brown Tarantino's precious film that should answer this question for him. In fact, he wouldn't need to get past the very first scene in Inglourious Basterds, where a Nazi officer has a lengthy monologue that explores the different ways in which Jews resemble rats, a scene that concludes with a family of Jews massacred as they hid passively and helplessly in a basement. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Inglourious-Basterds.html --------------------snip But, if one were to determine what attributes the jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat. Now the Fuhrer and Gobbles propaganda have said pretty much the same thing. Where our conclusions differ, is I don't consider the comparison a insult. Consider for a moment, the world a rat lives in. It's a hostile world indeed. If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now, would you greet it with hostility? [...] -raghu.
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