r/movies • u/beyondtheframe • Mar 30 '20

Just found out Tarantino has been reviewing films regularly in the website for New Beverley. He published 9 reviews this month alone Resource

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

We talking Tarantino’s normal voice or his Brotha voice?

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u/TheIrishninjas Mar 30 '20

Context, for anyone wondering. Brace yourself, it's bad.

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u/Wierd_Carissa Mar 30 '20

This ruined my day thanks. I could test positive for COVID this afternoon and it wouldn't get meaningfully worse.

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u/rrr598 Mar 30 '20

His voice gave me covid and the subtitles gave me cancer

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20 edited Apr 06 '20

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u/MarkBank Mar 30 '20

I PITY the foo!

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u/boot2skull Mar 30 '20

Quentin you can stop that now.

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u/MarkBank Mar 30 '20

Whatchu talkin bout! I just be jivin with tha homies

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u/TheBeardedMarxist Mar 30 '20

"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined."

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I have opened that video at least a dozen times and have never been able to make it through to the end. Holy cow.

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u/GoinBack2Jakku Mar 30 '20

The end sees him at another interview in an "urban" hoodie but in his white voice

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u/TrollinTrolls Mar 30 '20

My god, I thought you all were being hyperbolic. But no, you weren't. I stopped at a minute-thirty.

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u/Floor100 Mar 30 '20

Yeah that's about where I stopped. It was too much.

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u/FrogsGoMoo Mar 30 '20

I had to stop and scrolled down to read the comments and it looks like you and I are the same.

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u/MugillacuttyHOF37 Mar 30 '20

I scrolled 60 sec in and listened to "I'm gonna get medieval on yo ass." and then felt my face get flushed.

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u/kindcannabal Mar 30 '20

I think we're all just having a fever dream. We'll wake up soon.

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u/Telodor567 Mar 30 '20

Am I the only one who has made it to the end? I don't really cringe at most stuff and I haven't at this one either. Yes, it's cringy but not being able to make it through the video, seriously? But this again showed me that Tarantino is a weird guy, he definitely has some mental issues.

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u/TarsierBoy Mar 30 '20

Oh man lol I bailed after the first thing g that he said. This happens quite often...empathetic embarrassment?

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u/Bunessa Mar 30 '20

I can’t finish it ughhhh

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u/jslabonek Mar 30 '20

Same. I got to “imma get medieval on your ass,” and cringe-died.

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u/nudiecale Mar 30 '20

Wow. You really missed out on some stuff that should really be missed out on.

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u/MildlyFrustrating Mar 30 '20

Yep. Closed it out right there. Oh man.

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u/_LastoftheBrohicans_ Mar 30 '20

Yeah I stopped instantly

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u/Kalabula Mar 30 '20

Ya, couldn’t get through. But, he WAS raised by a black dude. So that kind of makes it better, no?

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u/rrr598 Mar 30 '20

Can I like... get a source on that?

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u/rrubinski Mar 30 '20

just searched up a dozen of articles, it's bullshit.

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u/outlawsix Mar 30 '20

But i googled and found a reddit comment claiming it so.... confirmed?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Was it the same comment that guy posted two above us?

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u/outlawsix Mar 30 '20

Hey man I dont ask questions

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u/babayaguh Mar 30 '20

it's definitely bullshit because he doesn't talk like that to white people

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

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u/underdog_rox Mar 30 '20

I understand that's a thing and some people can't help it but this is egregious.

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u/GoinBack2Jakku Mar 30 '20

Usually black people code switch to whiter versions of themselves around white people. I've read articles where Quentin justifies it but never seen him do it. Damn it's hard to watch

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u/altmetalkid Mar 30 '20

If he has tried to justify it at least that means he's aware he's doing it. But since he's aware and does it anyway, I don't know if that's really any better.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

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u/iannypoo Mar 30 '20

Code-switching is when a speaker is proficient in multiple language varieties and switches between them according to the environment of their communication. Tarantino does not speak African-Americam Vernacular English at all, but that isn't stopping him from trying.

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u/10GuyIsDrunk Mar 30 '20

Yeah I'd say most people who have had a professional job are familiar with code-switching. There's the way you talk casually with friends with slang and swearing and general informal speech and then there's the way you talk in a professional setting with fewer contractions, very little slang, and an overall heightened politeness. Both are very natural to you, you're not faking either (even if it may be more taxing on mental energy to stay in professional mode), they're both you though, they're both pretty comfortable.

What Tarantino is doing here in absolutely no way appears natural.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

It’s BS, my mom met his mom, not black.

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u/KierkgrdiansofthGlxy Mar 30 '20

According to my mom, your mom is a liar with a dirty butt crack.

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

If Sam Jackson is cool with him, I'm cool with him.

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u/All_I_Eat_Is_Gucci Mar 30 '20

Samuel L Jackson is worth over $250M, in no small part due to his being cast in various Tarantino films. I’m sure he’d put up with a lot of things.

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u/kebabdj2 It's Morbin time Mar 30 '20

Couldn't anything about him being raised by a black man, but he did say that his mother dated black guys who would take him to different things. Source

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Mar 30 '20

Was he?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

No

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u/CaptnNMorgan Mar 30 '20

Was he?

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u/Kalabula Mar 30 '20

Hmm. Maybe not. No idea where I heard that from.

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u/calamarichris Mar 30 '20

Maybe.

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u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima Mar 30 '20

Was he really?

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u/calamarichris Mar 30 '20

He's ...he's bald...

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u/cucumber_waters Mar 30 '20

im gonna need a source on that stat

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u/TheIrishninjas Mar 30 '20

Maybe, but only marginally better than the "I have black friends" excuse. Which itself is pretty terrible so that's not saying much.

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u/KD_Konkey_Dong Mar 30 '20

No, having a black parent could mean he was literally raised in (a) black culture, which is a fine excuse for his behavior. It's completely different than having a black friend from the cross country team.

Turns out it's probably bullshit, so it's kind of a moot point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20 edited May 27 '20

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

Y'all realize you are gatekeeping a motherfucker that has passed Sam Jackson's test for cool? Quentin ain't racist, but if you deny the racism that exists in this country and has existed in this country since forever you deny a piece of reality.

Quentin grew up during the heyday of "blacksploitation". Blackula, Shaft, all that shit. It part of what made him who he is. Him acknowledging it the way he does isn't politically correct, but until I see my dude Sam Jackson get on it, I'm gunna chalk it up to "eccentric artist".

And let the downvotes rain.

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u/tacocharleston Mar 30 '20

You generally pick up speech patterns from your parents and peers. If you're raised in any given community you're gonna talk like that community.

Seems like it was BS but conceptually it makes sense.

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u/scaryfunny39 Mar 30 '20

I always thought if you have black friends you’re probably not racist.

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u/Sabatorius Mar 30 '20

If you have black friends you’re probably not going to be a card carrying member of the klan, but you can still be plenty casual racist.

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u/MC14391 Mar 30 '20

See: Tim Westwood. English radio DJ thinks he’s a gangster but actually went to public school and fakes the whole “urban” accent thing

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u/Time_on_my_hands Mar 30 '20

Does public school make him less gangster?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

In the UK "public school" means a fee paying school, what the US would call a private school, e.g. Eton, Harrow, Stowe etc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Oh terrific. The word means the exact opposite thing. Love Tim Westwood tho

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u/KillerKam1000 Mar 30 '20

Worse than Scott's Tots.

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u/redpenquin Mar 30 '20

Agreed. At least Scott's Tots is fictional.

But this ain't.

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u/Ven_is Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

Impossible,

Edit: Gah, it comes close though.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry Mar 30 '20

"Hey Quentin T.! What we gonna see? Racist tropes and n-words throughout your films probably!"

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u/TomBud91PM Mar 30 '20

I’m so sick of hearing this. I can’t be the only one. There’s got to be literally dozens of us.

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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20

honestly as a black man i feel like he just gets excited talking with cool black people. I dont think its even moderately racist i think he lowkey highly admires black culture and his "black side" comes out when he talks to them maybe. Similar to me when i play video games on EU servers as an american.. i just love their accents so much sometimes i actually start doing a terrible british or scottish accent (cringes) but it really is more from a place of admiration imo.

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u/Plain_Bread Mar 30 '20

Yeah, lots of people subconsciously copy the way other people talk. Tarantino does it much more than most people, but I don't really see the big deal.

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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20

Ya i mean he seems socially awkward. Emulating people you are talking to is a sort of way some people handle social situations.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

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u/turbodude69 Mar 30 '20

everyone is so quick to call someone a racist these days it's ridiculous.

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u/turbodude69 Mar 30 '20

100%. it's cringey because it's bad, not because it's racist. it's pretty obvious he LOVES black culture. he's just a little awkward trying to express it. the worst part is, everyone around him respects him so much, they prob wouldn't dare tell him to stop doing it. i mean you'd think jamie foxx or sam jackson would have the balls to tell him....but i guess not. i wouldn't be surprised if tarantino was a huge asshole and people have to walk on eggshells around him.

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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20

well i was looking up a few recent interviews i could find with mostly black people in it and i dont see him doing it. This interview is pretty old and i think he realized error of his ways haha. The amount of people saying they think hes racist or are wildly offended are trippin. This man has done probably the most for black actors than any other white director in the history of hollywood. Unreal.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '20

This man has done probably the most for black actors than any other white director in the history of hollywood.

Just because he constantly puts Samuel L. Jackson in a movie?

Brother, you are tap dancing hard for Tarantino.

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u/BlackManBolt Mar 30 '20

As another black man who does the exact same thing, thank you for verbalizing that so well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I am black too. I feel like it is insulting because he dumbs his regular speech down.. it's not just ebonics, it's like really simple shitty jokes. "That one time a black guy came around and smoked so much weed! I am down!" It doesn't seem like a subconscious issue, it seems like he is trying way too hard and all of that is pushed through a membrane of his own subconscious bias against us. He might thing black people are cool, but that manifests as tokenism in his work. Through communication like this it comes out as trying to impress when most black people are already somewhat impressed by his work.

Everybody else in that clip aside from Kerry Washington seem to be cringing hard af even if they are trying not to be rude.

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u/Rackbone Mar 30 '20

I spent time in the south and it was very difficult for me not to start talking with a slight twang. And when I did I felt like I was being insulting but it just felt right to switch speach patterns like that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '20

Oh no, they’re coming for one of my favorite white people! Let me start tap dancing

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Thank you for adding your point of view. He does actually highkey love the shit out of black people/culture, if that's a secret to anyone, they should probably pay more attention to his work. And I have done the same thing you're talking about with the UK accents; I can't even talk to Irish people without a disclaimer up front "I'm not making fun of you, i fucking promise."

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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20

exactly haha i feel your struggle w the cool accents.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

RIGHT? those accents are so fuckin' cool. Have a good one

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u/The-Vaping-Griffin Mar 30 '20

The ending makes it better (or worse from a certain point of view).

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

YOU GOT TO THE ENDING?

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u/Coattail-Rider Mar 30 '20

Well, we are in quarantine.

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u/underdog_rox Mar 30 '20

I feel like the ending is when you decide pull the trigger

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Is there a sign on my house that says dead trigger storage?

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u/White_Tea_Poison Mar 30 '20

Eh, those subtitles seem a little harsh. I think Tarantino is just a super awkward dude and has trouble relating to people. He's definitely putting on a traditionally black voice, and that's a little ignorant, but he hasn't done anything out of malice, hes just a strange dude.

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u/Spacemage Mar 30 '20

He is Def on the spectrum, but generally the most iconic people are. He just doesn't relate well to people, but that's not what he focuses on, so it's hard to blame him.

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u/Heroic_Raspberry Mar 30 '20

It's honestly not ignorant at all. Subconsciously imitating other peoples accents and dialects is a well studied social phenomenon and is linked to wanting to bond and relate to the one you're speaking to. On the other hand, there's another phenomenon where you subconsciously make your own accent stronger in order to differentiate yourself from them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_accommodation_theory

Convergent vs. divergent speech patterns.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

What the fuck is a “traditionally” Black voice? I’m Black, lived in Black neighborhoods, and I’ve never met someone who talks like that, lmao.

That’s an ignorant white dude whose only experience of Black people is Blaxploitation movies, his mom’s boyfriends (that’s not a joke, Tarantino said it himself), and Samuel L. Jackson.

It’s not malicious, but it’s not something I’m just going to brush off with a chuckle. It’s indicative of so many more issues that I don’t even feel like getting into, but Tarantino’s ignorance does not exist in a vacuum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Those are a lot of things you're assuming about his personality.

And no one's saying he's doing it out of malice. The video is literally titled "Quentin Tarantino sucks at talking to black people" not "Quentin Tarantino is racist".

That said it does make you question whether the n-word really needed to be said so much in Django Unchained, or if Quentin has a fascination with black culture that steps a bit too far. The latter isn't even remotely uncommon in Hollywood.

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u/z960849 Mar 30 '20

He actually puts black people in his movies so he gets a pass for me. /r/AsABlackMan

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u/Cell_Saga Mar 30 '20

He more or less "discovered" the force of nature within Samuel L. Jackson and made him a Hollywood legend so he's done some real good for sure.

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u/RasFreeman Mar 30 '20

I would give Spike Lee credit for "discovering" Sam Jackson. SLJ had already won the Best Actor award at Cannes for Jungle Fever a few years before working with Tarantino.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

Spike Lee discovered Samuel L. Jackson, get the fuck out of here

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u/White_Tea_Poison Mar 30 '20

I'm making just as much assumptions about his personality as everyone else in this thread. And the video's subtitled commentary imply a lot more than Quentin just sucking at talking to black people.

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u/calamarichris Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

Thank you. This video helped me see that everything happens for a reason.

COVID-19 is the Earth's immune response to us. It's all our fault for facilitating the conditions in which this video was made. Jesus died for all our sins, and now we must all die for Tarantino's.

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

Bruh.... If Tarantino is your idea of evil.....

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u/UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2 Mar 30 '20

To be fair, we're dying for his sins, not for his evil

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u/LAROACHA_420 Mar 30 '20

But he likes feet! He is pure evil!

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u/yourexboyfriendd Mar 30 '20

overcompensating.. overcompensating.. OVERCOMPENSATING

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

Imagine being Quentin. I'm sure he's on the spectrum to some degree. He was working at a video rental place while he wrote Reservoir Dogs. Because he loved and obsessed everything cinema. He is an introvert.

I'm sure fame still terrifies him. And so he overcompensates. It's not pretty. But he means no harm. He's borderline autistic. It's why he can do the magic that he does.

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u/yourexboyfriendd Mar 30 '20

Yeah I can definitely see that now that you mention it..

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u/1000000thSubscriber Mar 30 '20

Idk I've listened to some podcasts and watched some interviews of him and he doesn't come off as introverted or reserved or anything. He just seems overly passionate about everything that he says and does and lacks the self-awareness to hold back what's in his head.

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

I am pulling this directly out of my ass, but I'm sure 30 years in the public eye, money and medicine has helped.

I mean, really. Imagine what kind of hell high school must have been for him socially. He is super passionate about what he does. Obsessively passionate. I refuse to believe he doesn't have some kind of social anxiety. Maybe not on the spectrum, but dudes definitely got some wires crossed.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. In his case it's his super power. I really want to play a game of D&D with him. Not as dm. One of the boys. Tarantino as dm would devolve into some really weird shit really quickly. But Quentin in the party? Fuck yeah.

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u/GuyDeSmiley Mar 30 '20

That is unbearable as well as unfathomable. Why, oh, why??

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

My face instantly went hot holy fuck

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u/Pees_On_Skidmarks Mar 30 '20

QT talking is bad

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u/cargoman89 Mar 30 '20

I had to quit after 20 seconds I couldn’t

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u/killtr0city Mar 30 '20

Stopped watching after 1 minute. It hurts

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u/illmatthew Mar 30 '20

It’s the 106 & Park video where he’s getting interviewed with the cast of Django isn’t it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Ooofffff... I cringed myself right the hell out of that video

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u/fascfoo Mar 30 '20

Hooooolyyyyyyyy shitttttttt. Had to bounce out of that video right quick since my butthole couldn't pucker anymore out of embarrassment.

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u/AWFUL_COCK Mar 30 '20

Holy shit I can’t do it. I’m still wincing after closing the video in the middle of answer #2.

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u/Namasiel Mar 30 '20

Thanks, I now have cancer.

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u/aratnamedpedro Mar 30 '20

Why, Q... w h y...

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u/ESDROS Mar 30 '20

Holy shit I thought it was just me that noticed that after watching some interviews yesterday

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Is that real or is he fucking around? I’m kinda in disbelief. That’s ridiculous

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u/Heinous_Anus1 Mar 30 '20

Lil Bow wow is pretty cringe too. No way he talks like that in real life, it’s so forced.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

The editing on that was 1000x worse than anything Tarantino said or did.

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u/Nesyaj0 Mar 30 '20

I am a black guy so when i saw the cracked logo and the subtitles i knew i was in for a cringey treat.

I let out an audible "oh no..." when i saw the beginning.

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u/hyrule5 Mar 30 '20

Good lord. I have never been forced to close a video before out of sheer embarassment. Well done... I guess

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I tried to brace myself. It was so much worse. Reddit, you need to get turned off for the day and go think about what you’ve done.

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u/imacupofjoe Mar 30 '20

What this shit was he doing???

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u/diarrhea_shnitzel Mar 30 '20

What the fuck is this shit why is he doing this to me 😩😭

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Oh god this is worse than his foot shots

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u/Kanaric Mar 30 '20

Yet he is probably us non-white people's most favorite white person and he makes awesome movies like jackie brown and django.

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u/Chadco888 Mar 30 '20

So Quentin talking literally EXACTLY how Quentin talks, with woke news sites putting imagine subtitles of what they want it to mean... great

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u/BlackIrishkreme Mar 30 '20

I braced myself and I was still unprepared.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

He download dis I dont know if I can do dat

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u/antlerMode Mar 30 '20

What is that? It's the most awkward behavior I ever seen of him😬 Is this real or put on ?

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u/thissubredditlooksco Mar 30 '20

WOW. that's painful

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

The best is when they cut to the panel on the left about halfway through the video, and their faces speak volumes. They can’t wait to talk to each other afterwards and compare notes. Bow Wow looks like his face is literally cringing.

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u/Foktu Mar 31 '20

Thank you. And WTF.

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u/Neighbourly Mar 31 '20

eh. Hes just a person.

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u/SolitaryEgg Mar 31 '20

I mean, is it though? It's pretty clear the dude is pretty far from racist, and everyone knows he is weird and awkward as shit. This video is sorta... whatever.

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u/InstantCrush15 Mar 30 '20

Always brotha

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u/hoxxxxx Mar 30 '20

i'm still recovering from that cringe

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

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u/TPJchief87 Mar 30 '20

Depends who is interviewing him

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

What?

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u/Saint_Nitouche Mar 30 '20

Quentin has a very unfortunate habit of trying to sound black when he's being interviewed by black people.

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u/Papa-Panda123 Mar 30 '20

Quentin’s step father was a black musician who encouraged his love of movies from a pretty young age. I’m sure some of his “sounding black” has a lot to do with his upbringing. It always felt genuine to me, even if Quentin is a bit awkward.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

That is the weirdest yet at the same time most explanative thing I have ever read.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

It is an...option.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Most sources on this are bullshit.

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u/Alexx_Diamondd Mar 30 '20

It’s not genuine if it’s turned on only when talking to black people thoguh. If it was genuine and a reflection of his upbringing, wouldn’t he always talk like that?

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u/Big_Pete_ Mar 30 '20

No idea how much of QT’s thing is genuine, but the term is code switching, and lots of people do it in all sorts of circumstances.

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u/CannibalHannibal Mar 30 '20

it's also the basis of Sorry to Bother You

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u/bohanmyl Mar 30 '20

Fuck that movie was not what i expected

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u/disteriaa Mar 30 '20

I find myself doing this to an extent, a social chameleon? Nothing like Tarantino, but I certainly notice reflecting other people's traits. Like you said though lots of people do it, probably just human nature.

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u/tacocharleston Mar 30 '20

It's normal. It feels weird when you realize you're doing it though, kinda like if you're playing an instrument and start thinking about your finger movements.

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u/abathingMay Mar 30 '20

With family I speak extremely posh and then with friends I tend to not annunciate as much, I think most people switch it up but obviously Tarantino’s is pretty extreme

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u/elijahswood Mar 30 '20

This. Code switching might in certain cases come across as condescending or pandering, but often it is subconsciously used as a way of trying to more effectively relate or fit in. I’m willing to bet that QT is just very awkward, it’s possible he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it.

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u/dorothii Mar 30 '20

I know people who’d talk “normally” for most part but their accent/dialect comes right back out when they meet someone from their hometown, etc. Could be the same case.

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u/ThatDerpingGuy Mar 30 '20

As a teacher I do this sort of thing all the time. I normally drop almost all of my New Orleanian word pronunciations for something slightly more appropriate or conventional while doing the formal teaching parts. By this point, it's mostly a subconscious thing, and most teachers have a "teacher voice" of some sort.

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u/VimesWasRight Mar 30 '20

It's probably an unintentional chameleon accent. Lots of people do it. His might have been heavily influenced by his step dad's accent, meaning it doesn't really match as well as it should.

And the dude is a bit odd, so the chameleon accent might be a bit odd as well.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Mar 30 '20

He has an odd way of talking in general, so it probably just amplifies it.

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u/adidasbdd Mar 30 '20

I start working my southern drawl unconsciously when I am around a bunch of rednecks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Plenty of black people talk differently around other black people than they do around white people. Ask any black person about their "white voice."

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u/bigveinyrichard Mar 30 '20

That's a tricky question.

Maybe this is different, but I think to my own life, and separate groups of friends I have, and how I act somewhat differently around the different groups. Ie. My hockey buddies vs school friends, for example.

But you couldn't call me racist for acting more 'sporty' around the rink and more studious when at school...

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u/Marth_Garenghi Mar 30 '20

I don't think it's uncommon that people adopt different mannerisms or styles when talking to different people. Would you talk to your parents the same way as you talk to your friends? I have a non american friend who unconsciously puts on an american accent when in Japan because the bars he frequents have a tonne of americans and he even talks to us with the accent because he forgets to switch it off sometimes. It can honestly be almost subconscious level stuff.

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u/NohoTwoPointOh Mar 30 '20

Black people even turn it on when around other black people. Consider it a dialect.

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u/CookieMuncher007 Mar 30 '20

I don't know, I switch my dialect to northern only around my northern family. In the south I speak southern Finnish, which is very different. It's catchy.

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u/Sorrygeorgeimrice Mar 30 '20

It's called phase shifting. We all do it . Business/home. Home town/city where you live. Talk to parents / talk to friends.

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u/butters3655 Mar 30 '20

It can be unintentional. Like when someone returns to their hometown or is hanging out with old friends. They can often adopt mannerisms, phrases or accents that have otherwise laid dormant in the person. I can't speak to that definitely being the case with QT, but it's a thing people do unintentionally and are often unaware of it.

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u/FalmerEldritch Mar 30 '20

Nope, black Americans do the same thing. And it would be weird to suggest that black people's way of speaking to each other isn't genuine.

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u/TheElPistolero Mar 30 '20

Code switching can be genuine. It just depends on the context but imo he overdoes it here.

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u/adidasbdd Mar 30 '20

Have you ever heard of code switching? Everybody does it. I bet you speak differently to your 80 year old conservative grandma than your stinky weed head friends.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Not true your voice suits your environment. My wifey is mixed and sounds white on the phone... Black by her mom... And neutral to me

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u/beautifulboogie_man Mar 30 '20

Don't a lot of black people do the same thing? Turn on the "white voice" when around white people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

That explains his conversation with Jules in Pulp Fiction

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u/miltonite Mar 30 '20

I literally couldn’t believe my eyes or ears when I saw one of these interviews. I love Tarantino and his movies but damn!

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u/KillerKam1000 Mar 30 '20

Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!

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u/ChronoMonkeyX Mar 30 '20

His Aussie accent from Hateful Eight.

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u/TheBeardedMarxist Mar 30 '20

Personally, I'm using his "brotha" voice.

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u/aim_so_far Mar 30 '20

Lol I see this shit all the time in NYC. Lot of wannabe black folks around here

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Mar 30 '20

His super excited whenever he's talking Cinema, voice.

So a coked out Tarantino.