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Quentin Tarantino Rips Reporter Who Asked About Violence in His Films
Quentin Tarantino got into a brawl with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, a Channel 4 anchor in the UK, where he’s presently promoting the release of Django Unchained.
When Guru-Murthy questioned him why he’s “so sure there is no link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence,” he had a weird reaction.
“I’m gonna tell you why I’m so sure? Don’t ask me a question like that. I’m not biting,” Tarantino fumed, “I refuse your question.”
When Guru-Murthy pressed Tarantino on why he didn’t answer, a clearly irritated Tarantino said, “Because I refuse your question. I’m not your slave and you’re not my master. You can’t make me dance to your tune. I’m not a monkey.”
When Guru-Murthy attempted to bring up a comment from Jamie Foxx on the subject, QT cut him off and told him to question his star because he wasn’t going to talk about it…again.
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“I’m trying to sell my movie. This [interview] is a commercial for the movie, make no mistake,” Tarantino said before embarking into a furious diatribe.
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“The reason I don’t want to talk about it: cause I’ve said everything I have to say about it. If anyone cares what I have to say about it, they can Google me and they can look for 20 years what I have to say. But I haven’t changed my opinion one iota.”
“It’s my job to try and ask you this–,” the perplexed reporter answered.
Tarantino said, “And I’m shutting your butt down.”
“I have explained this many times in the last 20 years,” the man behind violent blockbusters from Reservoir Dogs to Inglorious Basterds claimed, while the debate about the relationship between cinematic violence and real-life tragedies rages in America.
“I just refuse to repeat myself over and over again because you want me to for you and your show. And your ratings.”
Django Unchained, Tarantino’s latest picture, stars Jamie Foxx as a slave-turned-bounty hunter on a journey to rescue his wife, and it has a lot of brutal scenes, as do most of Tarantino’s films.
“Yeah, well, it’s a movie, it’s a fantasy, it’s not real life,” the filmmaker simply answered when asked why he thinks spectators love viewing such slaughter.
“I would have thought if you invite somebody to interview you it is better to try to answer the questions rather than not,” Guru-Murthy told The Telegraph after the interview. “No interviewee has ever said ‘I’m not your slave…I’m not a monkey’ to me before.”
