Word: tarentino
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...acknowledging the long line of such figures - in movie history his antecedents date back to silent pictures - that inform his character. No Country for Old Men, in the violence of the behavior it portrays, in the starkness of the moral conflicts it examines, has the potential to veer toward Tarentino-like hysteria. But the Coens are wintry and dead calm ironists, and their movie is finally less an assault on our sensibilities than a subtle - and possibly permanent - insinuation into our consciousnesses...
Recently an old friend and I were discussing the Oscar prospects for Quentin Tarentino's most recent film, "Jackie Brown," when the subject of the "n"-word came...
That's one of the reasons why Tarentino could get away with using the "n"-word 80-plus times in "Jackie Brown," because it was always uttered by a black man. Is this some kind of a double standard? Not really. Black people can "get away" with calling each other niggers because no matter how high up on the social ladder a black person can get, he can never be high enough to be white. In a very real sense, he will never be any better than the person he calls a nigger...
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