who wants some scalps?

CheshireCat said:
I don't know looks kinda bad...oh right Tarantino specifically makes bad movies that are considered high art. My wrong. I wish he would do something original and not just take from other films, oh right ...again I forgot that s his art.

Mark_plus_Beer said:
Yes, Yes i will go see that.

lil_tuffy said:

I don't think anyone, including Tarantino, would ever call his work "high art."

Maybe you should delete all of your crappy photoshop filtered SG "art" pieces before you criticize someone else for rehashing other's creative work.

lil_tuffy said:

I don't think anyone, including Tarantino, would ever call his work "high art."

Maybe you should delete all of your crappy photoshop filtered SG "art" pieces before you criticize someone else for rehashing other's creative work.

lil_tuffy said:

I don't think anyone, including Tarantino, would ever call his work "high art."

Maybe you should delete all of your crappy photoshop filtered SG "art" pieces before you criticize someone else for rehashing other's creative work.

Toku666 said:

I also love the over-dependence on the very recent (well, 80-100 years or so) attitude towards artistic borrowing. In Wordsworth's time there wasn't really even such a thing as plagiarising, and it was in fact expected that anything artistic would borrow from or at least respond to past artistic works.

Tarantino, for all his faults, is certainly realistic about his work being derivative. He does it on purpose, and calling him out on it is like telling a circus clown that his outfit looks stupid.

But it's what I'd expect from someone that thinks Cobra Commander turning into an actual snake was "awesome."

Coyotemike said:
It's still common in some cultures. I learned from teaching Japanese students that their ideas on plagiarism is completely different from the American view. I believe it was explained to me that it is sometimes considered to be something of an honor to have one's work copied.

Toku666 said:

I'd say it's common in American culture! Sure, the laws are fuzzy, but there are broad protections for satire, and that's one point that snooty "originalists" latch onto. Shit like Disaster/Epic/Whatever Movie makes an easy off-the-cuff argument against the selling out of creativity, but what about something like Being John Malkovich? Or re-mix albums? Did people suddenly stop thinking Gnarls Barkley was pretty cool? "Derivative" work exists all over the scale, but Tarantino is very honest about it. He knows he's basically saying "remember that thing from when you were a kid?" over and over, but it is a perfectly valid way with which to connect to a demographic, which is both good for a bottom line and potentially very satisfying if only on a visceral level.

tl;dr version: lighten up, Francis.

Mark_plus_Beer said:
Yes, Yes i will go see that.

CheshireCat said:
I don't know looks kinda bad...oh right Tarantino specifically makes bad movies that are considered high art. My wrong. I wish he would do something original and not just take from other films, oh right ...again I forgot that s his art.