Newsflash:

Businesses have no right to appropriate quotes from civil rights or humanitarian leaders in order to pump up their brand or sell more products. People died for human rights, not to sell products. It is just fundamentally inappropriate to the point of being simply disgusting.

My friends and I are all familiar with “late King.” This ad had us shocked. And we have withstood smaller ad shocks before (like Bob Dylan allowing his first great song to be used in a Price Waterhouse Cooper ad in 1994 - possibly also a Super Bowl ad). This is 1968 King, exactly four months before he was…

Nah I’m pretty sure the purpose of this was to try and sell more trucks of questionable quality.

Thank god, the definitive opinion on Uma Therman’s acting ability has arrived. We can all ignore the fact that she just came forward about her multiple experiences with sexual assault, which absolutely isn’t the point of this article.

The withheld footage and the active abuse in the name of “stunt double” (that he has done to other women on other sets) is the damning shit, and pretty much prove that what she’s saying is correct.

This is the second time Ethan Hawke has been mentioned as a periphery person in one of these stories and he’s come across as a stand up guy in both stories, making my long annoyance with him over the years seem ill placed.

interesting that he asks her husband for forgiveness. Did he ask Thurman or maybe I missed that part?

Right here. It was self indulgent masturbatory garbage.

I’m with you. I love his stuff up through Jackie Brown, but after that he clearly didn’t have an editor willing to say ‘no’.

As I read it, the accident/incident was like the icing on a very disgusting cake. That her trust in men was already pretty shaken up, but that this fight with Tarantino, the fact that he made her do it, she had no control, and the subsequent accident put her over the edge. But NYT could use a good copy editor, jeez.

I think it just further illustrates Tarantino’s less-than-healthy treatment of and psychological relationship with Thurman

He used himself as a stunt double for those particular shots (which didn’t need stuntmen, so he chose to do them for his jollies), but he wouldn’t provide Thurman with a stunt double for a shot that absolutely required one (and if they were shooting in Hollywood - under studio, union, and insurance company supervision…

I think the suggestion is that Tarantino was projecting his own feelings towards Thurman at that stage of the shoot, and that’s why he personally volunteered to spit at her instead of using another actor.

It’s just kind of creepy that he would WANT to be the person doing the assaulting rather than letting either the other actor or a stunt coordinator do it. It sounds like he was getting off on it.

I had to read this sentence about ten times to figure out what the hell it was saying.

First: what happened to Uma is a travesty, and I hope there are serious consequences.

I mean, the dude cast himself in his own movie so he could say “nigger” without any consequences. Calling him an asshole is probably being charitable.

Any car that you can swap the engine on with little more than a few wrenchs and a floor jack (less the floor jack if you can lift) is not the sturdy machine to be doing stunt driving.

I always knew Tarantino was an asshole, but... not quite at this level. His behavior and treatment of Uma (along with Weinstein’s, obviously) is disgusting. There should be repercussions for Quentin’s absurd negligence.