Rosanna Arquette Attacks Quentin Tarantino for Use of the N-Word as "Racist and Creepy," Tarantino Snipes Back That She's Irrelevant, Old, and Looking for Headlines to Advertise a New Movie She Directed

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Mar 9

Quentin Tarantino fires back at "Pulp Fiction" star Rosanna Arquette after she criticized his use of the N-word in movies as "racist and creepy."

"Dear Rosanna,

I hope the publicity you're getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?

Do you feel this way now?

Very possibly.

But after I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor.

There is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues.

But it would appear the objective was accomplished.

Congratulations
Q"

I find Tarantino's constant use of the n-word annoying as I find many of his "I'm so cool" tics annoying.

But racist? No, not if you know anything about him.

He had no father. His mother dated a black guy. Without any other male role model, Tarantino copied this black guy's mannerisms and sayings.

Whenever you hear a Tarantino character say something that sounds "black", like "we got everything here from a diddle-eyed-joe to a damned-if-I-know," that is probably a direct lift from this black guy that Tarantino took as a surrogate father.

Why do Tarantino characters constantly reference blaxploitation movies? Why does Tarrantino have an encyclopedic knowledge of blaxploitation movies, and regards them as high art?

Because Tarantino used to watch those movies with this black guy.

So why does Tarantino say the n-word all the time? Because he heard his surrogate father figure always using it, and he thought it sounded so cool. And he's a lonely geek who has always sought ways to seem cool.

Does that get him a pass? Well, I don't even know if a "pass" is needed to use a word in an artistic medium, particularly when we hear every single black male celebrity saying it, but yeah, if a pass is even needed, I'd say that gets him a pass.

Should he have also cut out Hans Lanza saying "Jew" and "Jews are like rats" in Inglorius Basterds? Or is it singularly the n-word that is off limits?

The guy is annoying, no doubt. And his thing with feet is fetishistic.

But racist? He hero-worships a black guy his mom used to date and imitates him in what they tell me is the highest form of flattery. That's racist now, too?

Tell me -- what is not racist, now, exactly?

Rosanna Arquette, meanwhile, is trash. She has always been a famewhore and liar. You may have heard that Toto's song "Rosanna" was written for or about Rosanna Arquette. If you heard that, you heard that ultimately from Rosanne Arquette, who put that lie around the media to make her -- then an unknown actress -- seem important.

In fact, the guys from Toto say the song was written about a member's girlfriend, not Arquette. The song was called "Rochelle" or something -- whatever her name was -- but that didn't fit the meter. They met Rosanna Arquette, realized "Rosanna" fit the three-beat meter, and changed the song title to that.

That doesn't make the song "for" her or "about" her. She just had a name with three syllables they thought would make a better lyric than "Rochelle."

As they say, "that bitch road our coattails for twenty years."

Is this something?

Since the nineties, I've heard Steven Spielberg was trying to make some kind of movie about aliens. I think he was working on a project for years called "Watch the Skies" or "Dark Skies" or something.

Well, he finally made another alien movie.

I'll leave it up to you if this is something.

And here's something. I tried to watch The IT Crowd because I heard it was good, and because it was written by Graham Lineman, the Irish comedy writer cancelled because he (checks notes) opposes chopping off children's genitals or breasts.

It didn't click with me. It was too silly.

However, I watched an episode a few weeks ago that I really liked, and that got me into the show. Apparently other people think it's a top episode too.

So here's "Italian for Beginners." It starts off a little slow because he's doing all the set-up for the punchlines that come in the last ten minutes. It's worth being a little patient with.

As for the premise of the show: Jen is kind of a con artist who bluffs her way into a job at a company that produces... I have no idea. I don't know if they ever bother to say.

She creates a job called "Human Relations" which will help the IT department interface with the company's normal people. She has no technical skills and I don't know if she has any skills of any kind. She's not stupid, but nor is she weighted down by usefulness or talent.

That's all you really have to know.

And I have to warn you again: it's slow in the beginning, just set-ups and silliness without laughs. It all pays off at the end.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:47 PM

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