This is what drives people into the ranks of conservatives:

News item - (excerpts)

Tarantino Plans Most Violent Film Ever

Maverick director Quentin Tarantino hopes to make the most violent film of all time one day - because he thinks ultra-gory movies are "fun."

Tarantino says, "Violence is fun, man. I would have no problem with the most violent, bloody movie, if that day ever came. There's still time."

TO CLARIFY: People associate filmmakers like Tarantino with liberalism for two reasons. The first, for eggheads, is that classic liberalism promotes a free market (with economic not moral regulation), and Tarantino is acting within the freedom of that framework - and they don't like what they see happening. The second, more widely shared by people, is that they see Tarantino as being ensconced in the 'liberal culture' - perhaps because he gets rave reviews from liberally-oriented media (and to be fair, also from the mainstream media).

Speaking for ourselves, we dislike Tarantino's work. Hated Pulp Fiction. Perhaps that's because when we go to the movies, we actually take them at face value. When people were laughing in reaction to lines like, "When you came pulling in here, did you see a sign out in front of my house that said 'Dead Nigger Storage?'"   -   we weren't amused at all.

Considering all the news these past weeks from Iraq, it's remarkable that Tarantino can be effusive about images of violence. If Tarantino really likes violence so much, perhaps he should volunteer for duty at Gitmo.


posted by Quiddity at 5/18/2004 07:13:00 AM