Tarantino unchained

[The Curmudgeon]

So you've probably seen or heard about this interview that's been doing the rounds online for the last week, where Tarantino loses his shit with professional trouble-maker and shit-stirrer Martin Bashir (he of the infamous Diana and Michael Jackson interviews).

In what was supposed to be a light hearted discussion about Django Unchained, Bashir really rubs Tarantino up the wrong way by repeatedly asking him about the connection between violence in movies and in real life.

It's eight minutes long, but worth watching anyway 'cos, well, it's Tarantino.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsJDy8VjZk

Martin Bashir - now, then and always a prick.

[trashcanman]

Well, it's not really his fault that people want really, really stupid questions asked. People who aren't complete imbeciles in general tend to have little patience for the repeated nonsensical allegations that life imitates art and not the other way around, particularly where violence is concerned. And somebody like QT, who is naturally....excitable, being a high profile member of the media, is probably having to answer to this kind of bullshit many times a day for years and years I can easily understand how he could snap like that. Wording a question like "why do you like creating violence?" to a filmmaker is fucking irresponsible and stupid because it implies that fictional violence and real violence are the same and that had been proven to be baseless over and over again in every philosophical, scientific, and artistic circle. It's tired and people need to goddamn learn how to reason and apply logic so that we can stop having the same idiotic discussions over and over with the same result every time. So yeah, let's shut their butts down.