For what it's worth, Tarantino claims a personal relationship to black culture, which he says is "his culture". He grew up in a mixed race household and went to a predominantly black high school. If one were inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt then perhaps an analogy could be made to Eminem. Of course, he had no such explanation for his interest in appropriating Asian culture (I know some Asians rolled their eyes at his feeble effort to comprehend martial arts.)
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:47:47 -0500 > Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Quentin Tarantino's early introductions to African-American culture: > > > full: > > > http://www.npr.org/2013/01/02/168200139/quentin-tarantino-unchained-and-unruly > > He was a little tongue-tied on this topic, but I really like the analogy > with opera ('grand opera' as he rather touchingly called it). 'Unchained' > is > really a lot like opera, in the sense that the story is implausible and > incoherent, the production is over the top, the actors are all hamming > it up to a fare-thee-well, the dialogue is like no language anybody > ever spoke -- and you eat it up with a spoon and call for an encore. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Stephen Diamond Associate Professor of Law Santa Clara University School of Law Office: (408) 554-4813 Fax: (408) 868-9173
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