*Okay, so it looks like there’s about to be some kind of slavery movie show down ’bout to go down between Lee Daniels and Quentin Tarantino.
According to The Root, the director is planning to make a post-slavery Black Western, likely because he hated “Django.”
“I was deeply hurt by the movie. I was deeply offended by the movie. The movie made me angry,” Daniels said. “[Quentin Tarantino] has no right to our word; he has no right to that n-word. None. None. And thank you, Spike Lee, for speaking up and for having the balls to speak up. Thank God Spike Lee finally spoke up. I thought I was going crazy. Nobody else said anything; it was like everybody else thought it was great. No, it’s not great for you to use ‘n*gger,’ man! Who do you think you are? I can’t talk about it because it’s very upsetting. And I’m expressing my opinion just like everybody expresses their opinion about my films one way or the other … There were great performances in the film. But I think African Americans, because we’re so hungry to see ourselves on the big screen, we’ll see anything.”
So like any reasonable person who complains about something not being right, he’s taking on his own project to right the wrong with a different version of the Black rebellion story.
“I got one in my repertoire coming; I got one coming,” he said. “Yep, I’m developing something. It’s not during slavery but right after slavery.”
Read more at theRoot.
Good, best of luck. If it’s good, i’ll see it in he theaters, just don’t make it like “Posse”.
Sooooooooooooooo can the same be said about you making a movie about a black man sleeping with his white stepmother who kill people for money. Really though? Or making a movie about a woman who knowingly pursues a white man who is a racist? Lee Daniels please have SEVERAL seats and stop making it seem like the word nigger or nigga is a good word. My kids refer to ANYONE in that manner, is disciplined.
“OUR WORD”??, man, please, you hated Tarantino’s movie so much, that you’re going to “piggy-back” off of it? It may be your WORD but, it’s not mine by a long shot. And who didn’t expect Spike to speak up?, the little goon is still mad at mammy in “gone-with-the-wind”
LMAO!!!
The movie actually did really suck and it didn’t really depict the reality of slavery, it was just the blood and gore and the use of the word, Nigga…you knew it was fiction big time…I will admit the white bounty hunter guy made the movie and deserved the Oscar…Jamie, Kerry and Leo were horrible just like the stupid ass movie…
it was just a movie made for entertainment. is it really that serious, why is Lee Daniels upset
now, really give me a break. the more Drama the movie gets, the better it is for quentin,
so down south there going to go over the civil rights bill again, to see if we can vote. hate is everywhere. but spike and lee, make movies that have used the word Ni****ger, so why are they complaining.and
Seeing Django didn’t hurt my feelings any more than watching any other movie. It’s a movie. It’s entertainment. Nothing more. It didn’t offend me or deeply hurt me to hear Sherman Hemsley say honkey on tv. Or any of the other negative terms I’ve heard used by black comedians and actors to describe white people on television and the big screen. I take it for what it is. Entertainment. Django was a really good movie. The acting was absolutely superb. If I could be deeply hurt by watching a movie, seeing Precious running down the street with a big ass bucket of chicken would have required years of therapy. But I was watching a movie. It served it’s purpose. I was entertained. Which is why I buy movie tickets. Or when I can’t afford movie tickets, but still want to be entertained, I go to church. Otherwise, I watch documentaries, read autobiographies and black history books. But when I want a little escapism I head to the movie theater. And Mr. Tarantino did not disappoint.
Exactly kay well said and well written, thanks for breaking it down. that is exactly what its all about entertainment. yes precious was really something I was stunned at that movie,, it really moved me, and it was well written and the acting was wonderful. but it was non-fiction but lee Daniels won all the awards. for his movie. and he got some backlash as well. but its just about the critics and how well the directing and acting is. it means stepping outside the box. and this is the reason why we buy tickets. to see entertainment. and why is the movie getting so much drama, and we love drama and controversy.
I just wish they would stop complaining about one movie which was a non-fiction movie, spike has made movies that use the word Ni***gga, so why is he so upset listen to the DIck Gregory
interview about the word, Dick Gregory is 80yrs old, he has been called Ni****ga all his life.
but the word didn’t come from black people anyway. it came from white masters. see all the people see is the word Ni***ga but the movie. also showed you that it was about a love story
a man and a woman fighting to stay together and getting spilt apart, and he goes looking for his wife,, not his girlfriend not his baby mama,, but his wife. that he loved. jamie and kerry where very good in this film and the more drama and back-lash that the movie gets the more
it makes it better for kerry and jamie. and more drama for quentin and he is winning everything
just won the oscar for the original screenplay. so the more we talk about it the more attention
quentin gets and producers. (Bottom line people love drama),,
LMAO @ still mad at Mammy in “gone with the wind” I agree that is not my word
If only more people could be as intelligent and eloquent as Kay. Hollywood’s main goal is to entertain. Some times we get lucky and get enlightened, as well.
What a very kind compliment. Thank you Gwyn.