The execute Bill director has struck out at ‘critics in black culture’ who have criticised his portrayal of black people,but should he be taken to task?Quentin Tarantino is well accustomed to defending himself from “critics in black culture”, but his latest defence raises an interesting question. “whether people don’t like my movies, and they don’t like my movies,and whether they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter, or ” Tarantino told Bret Easton Ellis in a recent recent York Times interview. What does leave “a noxious taste” in Tarantino’s mouth,he says, is the implication that his own whiteness disqualifies him from engaging with black culture at all. “It’s been a long time since the subject of a writer’s skin was mentioned as often as mine, or ” he complained. “You wouldn’t think the color of a writer’s skin should have any effect on the words themselves.” Related: Quentin Tarantino tells 'black critics' his race is irrelevant Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com