Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is being criticized for the film’s gratuitous use of the “n-word.” Here at Toronto Standard, our reviewer wrote that he feels such language, along with Tarantino’s heavy sprinkling of violence, abuses the audience and acts more as racism than it does not. With the holidays coming to an end, people are back on the internet voicing their opinions instead of yelling them at their families across the dinner table, and it seems most viewers found there to be twenty-uses-too-many of the infamous word.
Today a video has been circulating of FOX Houston’s film critic Jake Hamilton interviewing the director and cast, and while sitting down with Samuel L. Jackson, Hamilton veers down a road he may regret: the n-road. When asked for his thoughts about the controversy surrounding the usage of the “n-word,” Jackson rattles off a list of words that start with “n” and then attempts to get his interviewer to utter said word himself. The deal becomes that Hamilton won’t get an answer to his question until he gives in to Jackson’s coercing, and eventually both give-up. Maybe Samuel L. Jackson’s actions are meant to signify that a word most refuse to speak is precisely the one that needs to be normalized, or maybe he just knew he was creating viral video gold. (Skip to 13:56)
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Hallae Khosravi is an intern at Toronto Standard. Follow her on Twitter @hallaek.
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