Quentin Tarantino to be Boycotted

[Berzerker]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ino-hateful-eight-boycott-20151102-story.html

He's got a film coming out and he angered the cops who are threatening a boycott. Tarantino offered up some heated rhetoric during an anti-police brutality protest referring to cops as murderers - the context being the recent spate of unarmed brown people being killed.

Obviously he wasn't accusing all cops of murder, but they're still upset for contributing to the anti-police climate. This and the proliferation of camera phones surrounding cops interacting with the public has led to the Ferguson Effect, a reluctance for cops to do their jobs.

There's irony in that, cops dont want other people scrutinizing their behavior but thats how they make their living.

Now, if I were to criticize politicians could they organize a boycott against me? Isn't that a form of censorship? These are employees of the state calling for a boycott of a movie, a project many people sacrificed to create.

I dont want my government organizing boycotts against the citizenry.

 

[Farm Boy]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ino-hateful-eight-boycott-20151102-story.html

He's got a film coming out and he angered the cops who are threatening a boycott. Tarantino offered up some heated rhetoric during an anti-police brutality protest referring to cops as murderers - the context being the recent spate of unarmed brown people being killed.

Obviously he wasn't accusing all cops of murder, but they're still upset for contributing to the anti-police climate. This and the proliferation of camera phones surrounding cops interacting with the public has led to the Ferguson Effect, a reluctance for cops to do their jobs.

There's irony in that, cops dont want other people scrutinizing their behavior but thats how they make their living.

Now, if I were to criticize politicians could they organize a boycott against me? Isn't that a form of censorship? These are employees of the state calling for a boycott of a movie, a project many people sacrificed to create.

I dont want my government organizing boycotts against the citizenry.

I, as a government employee, do not cede my rights to free speech to receive my paycheck. I am not merely a representative of the government, I remain a citizen as well. Now, I cannot ethically(or legally in Illinois) engage in overtly political behavior while using either public time or public equipment and supplies. That does not hinder me from engaging in political behavior with my coworkers on my own time. By, say, organizing a boycott. Or maybe even a union.

 

[Berzerker]

there's a difference between offering an opinion and a government union organizing a boycott

can the Congress call for a boycott too?

or, how about the prison guard union(s) calling for a boycott of anyone involved with producing a documentary about the abuses committed by prison guards?

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

They can be childish and call for people to boycott a movie if they want. I mean it's not like, I dunno... they're saying "We will not enforce any laws in venues showing Tarantino's new movie" or something crazy like that, I guess.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Tarantino baited them into it, and is laughing all the way to the bank. There are a million cops in America, and a hundred million who blatantly hate them, at least. The last movie to be boycotted by a reactionary organization was the first film ever to gross two billion.

 

[Evie]

What's that? The sound of the true blue Mafia throwing another tantrum because people are sick of their insisting No Cop Can Ever Do Wrong?

Many individual policemen deserve respect, but their unions have become more interested in covering up crimes and protecting the few guilty among their numbers than in actual cop work.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The killing in Charleston could certainly be called a murder. The ex-cop has even been charged with that crime.

The cops responsible for the Freddie Grey killing have also been charged with muder.

And another cop was just charged with attempted murder in Baltimore after the shooting of an unarmed burglary suspect.

Bail set at $1M for officer charged with attempted murder

Furthermore, 15 American cops have been found guilty of murder in the past, although nobody has apparently been found guilty of murdering a black person yet.

So what exactly is the LAPD police chief and some police unions whining about? That Tarantino is jumping the gun a bit?

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, Tarantino's films are utter crap by now (and arguably at least after pulp fiction already), so it is impossible for this to not be a publicity stunt by this irrelevant director. Baiting dumb fish is easy, but Tarantino is no fisherman or poet of note. He is a clown himself


Link to video.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Jackie Brown is great. So is Django Unchained.

And that interviewer asked a really stupid question. Tarantino was certainly within his rights to not answer it.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didn't like either :\

I didn't watch all of "The D is silent " Django, though. It seems it has a very "cool" endless (as in WTH will it just end) shoot-out sequence going on

 

[Grisu]

there's a difference between offering an opinion and a government union organizing a boycott

can the Congress call for a boycott too?

or, how about the prison guard union(s) calling for a boycott of anyone involved with producing a documentary about the abuses committed by prison guards?

unless unions in the US are absolutely different it's not a government union but a union of government employees, no? As such I don't see how they should not have the right to call for a boycot. Same thing with prison guard union. Basically everybody has the right to call for a boycott if they wish so. But they don't have the right to enforce such a boycott.

congress would be different since that's a government institution. so congress can't call for a boycott. but individual congressmen can get together and call for a boycott.

At least that's my understanding how it should be

Of course this specific boycott is rather silly since all it will do is actually gather attention for the movie

 

[Mise]

Of course they can call for a boycott.

I think it would be better if they stopped killing unarmed black people though. I for one would support a boycott on killing unarmed black people. Or any people for that matter. Just killing people, that would be a great thing for the police to organise a boycott of.

 

[Zkribbler]

unless unions in the US are absolutely different it's not a government union but a union of government employees, no? As such I don't see how they should not have the right to call for a boycot. Same thing with prison guard union. Basically everybody has the right to call for a boycott if they wish so. But they don't have the right to enforce such a boycott.

congress would be different since that's a government institution. so congress can't call for a boycott. but individual congressmen can get together and call for a boycott.

At least that's my understanding how it should be

Of course this specific boycott is rather silly since all it will do is actually gather attention for the movie

 

[Glassfan]

There's irony in that, cops dont want other people scrutinizing their behavior but thats how they make their living.

The irony here is that a director who makes extremely violent movies where the heros are killers would use his celebrity status to criticise others for being violent.

 

[Farm Boy]

No chit.

 

[warpus]

This is pretty much only good publicity for Tarantino. This boycott isn't really going to put a dent in the box office returns and I imagine it'll attract even more people, since it's generating talk and attention about the movie... and the way I see it, the cops aren't viewed all too favourably by the American public right now, so I can see this attracting more people to the movie than the opposite.

And why the hell can't a movie director criticize people who are violent? Guy's using his celebrity status to try to make a difference - good on him. Movie pretend violence and actual violence are two completely different things.

 

[useless]

Who here genuinely believes cops are being persecuted?

 

[gay_Aleks]

I didn't even know Tarantino was making a movie! By the way, why is Tarantino still making movies? Hasn't he..overstayed his welcome with the audience?

 

[Formaldehyde]

And why the hell can't a movie director criticize people who are violent? Guy's using his celebrity status to try to make a difference - good on him. Movie pretend violence and actual violence are two completely different things.

Which is ironically why he stopped this nonsensical interview above.

Who here genuinely believes cops are being persecuted?

You mean other than the ones who also think Christians are being persecuted, not to mention even most of the authoritarian conservative atheists or agnostics?

 

[Flying Pig]

unless unions in the US are absolutely different it's not a government union but a union of government employees, no? As such I don't see how they should not have the right to call for a boycot. Same thing with prison guard union. Basically everybody has the right to call for a boycott if they wish so. But they don't have the right to enforce such a boycott.

congress would be different since that's a government institution. so congress can't call for a boycott. but individual congressmen can get together and call for a boycott.

At least that's my understanding how it should be

Of course this specific boycott is rather silly since all it will do is actually gather attention for the movie

In the UK, police officers are expected to abstain from political activity, even when off the clock, to avoid giving the impression that they have any partiality - it wouldn't look good, for example, if someone being arrested for being disorderly at a Labour party rally noticed that the policeman arresting him had been at a Conservative rally the previous weekend. Personally, I think the American police are quite petty with regard to criticism - the British police have a much stronger culture of taking it on the chin and soldiering on.