A full class with varying perspectives on these popular filmmakers is good for the university, our department and, most importantly, classroom discussion. Like my upcoming class on The Walking Dead and my class on Seinfeld, the two names attached to this course drew a diverse group of students. To that end, here are five more reasons that I created a 10-week class on Tarantino and Lee. Rather, because of the ongoing animosity between the two, I’ve contrasted the filmmakers’ works for some time now. But I’ve never questioned the juxtaposition. Lee and Tarantino: an ideal pairingīased on these accounts, it’s perhaps understandable that many aren’t sure why I paired Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino in a college film course. On this occasion, Tarantino simply countered that he would not “waste time” responding to Lee. In an interview with Vibe TV, Lee vowed to never see Django, calling it “disrespectful to my ancestors.” And later (in his usual sentence-case style) he tweeted, “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. Not surprisingly, Lee vocalized his disapproval of Tarantino’s slave-revenge film/fantasy, which cites the N-word over 100 times. And to say that I can’t do that because I’m white that is racist.”įor a while, the Lee-Tarantino rivalry subsided – until Django Unchained (2012) galloped into theaters.
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Within a week of Lee’s Jackie Brown comments, Tarantino struck back on the TV program Charlie Rose, declaring his “rights” as a screenwriter: “As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. “What does he want to be made-an honorary black man?” For the same reason, Lee has criticized Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), True Romance (1993), and Pulp Fiction (1994).
In an interview with Daily Variety, Lee reacted to Jackie Brown’s excessive use of the N-word (it’s uttered 38 times): “Quentin is infatuated with that word,” Lee complains.
The feud between Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino began 18 years ago with the release of Jackie Brown (1997), Tarantino’s homage to 1970s blaxploitation films like Shaft (1971) and Foxy Brown (1974).
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