and in this case, not being real is a travesty. what "fun" is there in a fictional slavery get-back when today, the vestiges of REAL slavery still remain and are fucking people up? it's the wrong type of fantasy to tie to reality, cause this reality is one of the main themes of this entire country's existence.

i'm not going in hard on the film, i said i wouldn't spend money to see it and i won't, but i'll prolly have a "minorities attack" weekend and get inglorious and django together. you just touched on some general problems with something like this and how it stands next to reality.


i'd also add his fetishization of "others" as something i've always side-eyed him for, but you summed it up nicely.




>As I mentioned previously, QT has a sincerity problem. He
>simply cannot make a real story about real people and real
>circumstances and real consequence. The closest he ever came
>was Jackie Brown and it disappointed at every level and he
>simply stopped trying. He took his ball and went home. He
>hides behind surrealist violence and cool dialogue. I’d have
>no problem with any of this if it wasn’t EVERY MOVIE HE MAKES.
>Ridiculous hitmen, blond ninjas, wacky-font-lazy,
>plot-advancing-text, etc. It's in ALL his films. Anything that
>let's us know that this isn't REAL.
>
>For all of you dude’s cheers and cysages about virulent F-U’s
>to The South, this movie was winking at us the entire time.
>So, like its Git-Dem-Nazis predecessor, it’s a CARTOON. You
>cysed off a cartoon, dogg. You felt some twinge of racial
>pride watchin Da Jango git-dem-slavers? Um, why? It’s just
>Jaime Foxx.
>
>I’m actually stunned that Kerry Washington’s performance isn’t
>being called what it really is: Completely and utterly out of
>place, wasted and better-suited for a better movie. She let
>herself get whipped? For this? Aight then. She played it
>straight, like she was in a big screen adaptation of The Known
>World. I felt sorry for her. She did ALL THAT…for a Cartoon.
>You don’t turn in THAT performance for THIS, with its 16oz
>squibs and villain-face quick-zooms. But, Kerry's a pretty
>black girl...she don't really have a sense of humor. Because
>if she did have a sense of it, she'd have saved all that. Oh,
>I know, I know, she had to bring it to make us care about the
>story...she was the emotional center of the film.
>Riiiiiight...like Olive Oyl? Uh huh.
>
>When are black folks gonna stop falling for the white
>politician who kisses the black baby? Bammas was in there
>yelling at the screen, chests heaving wit dat pride. FOR
>WHAT?!?!? QT did you a FAVOR? Some of OUR *real* story been
>told? That's hankyhead okey doke thinking. I'm a 'cism
>sophisticate. Ain't got time for it.
>
>Lastly, a word about Night Dogg. You know why he fails
>miserably sometimes? Because he’s earnest. Every. Single.
>Time. Sincerity can easily be ridiculed. Should he have made a
>REAL attempt to tell the story of killer-trees? Eh, prolly
>not. But, He TRIED.
>
>You cannot say the same for QT. But, that’s what “cool” is.
>It's a 24/7 commitment to dictating how you will be judged.
>And somehow QT has convinced the masses that if you don't get
>HIM, you are not cool. If you rip his films, people will look
>at you like you're crazy and say something like "But, if
>wasn't SUPPOSED to be THAT. It was supposed to be
>entertaining. Were you entertained?"
>