On 1/2/13 2:47 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Re: politics, QT in an interview sees his film as the anti-Birth of a > Nation. > > It's also full of inside references to specific spaghetti western films, > including superannuated actors who were in those films: > > http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/a-guide-to-all-the-movie-and-tv-references-in-django-unchained.html >
Let's be crystal-clear about something. The anti-Birth of a Nation movie would be as ambitious and as serious as D.W. Griffith's masterpiece. Although racist, it is one of the greatest films of the 20th century, so much so that James Agee defended it in the Nation Magazine--even to the point of denying its racism. Tarentino is a shallow artist and a shallow thinker. All of his filmic breakthroughs were lifted from Hong Kong cinema from the period Michael Hoover analyzed in "City on Fire". He is totally derivative. In terms of his "exposing" the evils of slavery, what in fuck's name are we talking about? Alex Haley's "Roots" did a much better job. More to the point, there is absolutely a need for a great film on slavery. It would show how the great promise of 1865 was turned into the sell-out of 1877. For that we need someone like an Orson Welles, not a grindhouse White Negro like QT. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
