Django Unchained: Selling Slaves as Action Figures

[chaya]

Quentin Tarantino's new film about American slavery comes complete with a line of action figures. Karu F. Daniels on the controversy they've stirred.Academy Award-winner Quentin Tarantino is laughing all the way to the bank this week. The controversial film auteur and his longtime studio chief-partner Harvey Weinstein took a gamble on transforming

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[blackjedii]

I kind of want a line of Congress Dolls.

Their tagline can be "They Don't Do Shit."

And they just sit on your shelf. And after time they get bigger and bigger and more dumb-looking.

[darth_eldritch]

And vote themselves raises

[jenny_jenkins]

Remember the Bayern Munich dolls?

Who the hell cuddles up with Ribery?

Also, Neuer didn't look like Neuer.

[blackjedii]

let's not talk about those things. they still scare me. >.>

[othellia]

"When you look at Roots, nothing about it rings true in the storytelling, and none of the performances ring true for me either,” Tarantino told The Daily Beast’s Allison Samuels. “I didn’t see it when it first came on, but when I did I couldn’t get over how oversimplified they made everything about that time. It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.”

[tsu_]

does he not recognise the irony considering what django unchained is?

[squeeful]

No. That would mean examining his own privilege and Tarantino is incapable of doing so because it would also mean facing that he's not as fantastically wonderful talented as he thinks he is.

[kitchen_poet]

THIS.
I heard his interview with Terry Gross, and she asked him about the excessive gun violence in his films and how he feels about the rash of public shootings we've had recently. He refused to answer and claimed the question offended him. That pretty much upgraded him to Jackass with a capital J, imo.

[nesmith]

It didn’t move me because it claimed to be something it wasn’t.

What, like a true story of the horrors of slavery that didn't portray slaves as stereotyped Mammy characters or Steppin Fetchit pastiches? That dared to show slaves as thinking, breathing human beings with hopes and dreams and desires and lives?

I think it's sad that he could watch it and not be moved.

[lantean_breeze]

Exactly!

[othellia]

Not to mention it acknowledged that their troubles were far from over even after emancipation.

[lantean_breeze]

Needless to say that I am disgusted by this. I'm disgusted by the people who think this is okay. I notice he didn't come out with any holocaust dolls after Inglorious Bastards, but then Hollywood is run by Jews and he'd never work again... This is disturbing and sad. None of them deserve to make a dime off of this.

[squeeful]

Can we not?

[lantean_breeze]

Can we not what?

[squeeful]

Continue anti-Semetic stereotypes, in a post about racism or anywhere else.

Hollywood is not "run by Jews". That is a disgustingly tasteless thing to perpetuate.

[bib_specialist]

I want a Django Reinhardt action figure.

[lantean_breeze]

Sad.

[rezoom]

Sad that you don't seem to know the reference.

I want a Django Reinhardt action figure too!

[jenny_jenkins]

Holy crap that's amazing.