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I don't even remember that many N's from pulp fiction. Sure Marcellus Wallis and Samuel L Jackson said it a few times but thats different to a white person using it prejoritavly (is that the right word?). You know you hear it in hip hop and in dramas like the wire all the time but not used in the same manner as quentin has his characters do.
 
I don't even remember that many N's from pulp fiction. Sure Marcellus Wallis and Samuel L Jackson said it a few times but thats different to a white person using it prejoritavly (is that the right word?). You know you hear it in hip hop and in dramas like the wire all the time but not used in the same manner as quentin has his characters do.

He says it himself (32 secs in).

 
I just happened upon this article which, I confess, I only skim read but I had a look at the comments section and came across what I thought was superb and, IMO, really nails home one of Tarrantino's main point of the film. It turns out he actually makes a superb point about misogyny. I'll spoiler it as it describes the ending:

At the end of this film, the black Yankee and the white Confederate come together to gleefully lynch the woman, all while talking about progress. At that point, a film that I thought was mostly about racism shifted to being about misogyny. It was the one thing that was most ingrained in these men, more than their wartime allegiances, more than their racial prejudices. They cloaked their actions in the idea of justice, which in this form just served to reinforce the status quo. Of course this is something we still struggle with today, in our comparatively civilized society.

After that, the two men read from a letter and wistfully talk about Mary Todd. So maybe they do care about women, just a bit? Nope, Walton Goggins' character says, "that was a nice touch," because this Mary Todd is just the creation of a man. Sam Jackson's character wrote the letter, it was a fake, and their idea of woman is all in their heads.

Did Daisy do enough to be the Big Bad? Of course not, her main crime was being the female leader of her gang. Did Six-Horse Judy and Minnie deserve better? Of course they did!

When you couple that with Tim Roth's character's monologue about how justice needs to be dispassionate I think it really makes sense. I know I need to see it again.
 
Blimey. . just seen it

Feel somewhat brutalised over a who dunnit...?

Worth a punt...

Dunno...... But was QT channelling some elements of Monty python in there ?
 
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