I think we have to be very very careful how much we are reading into things before we label them as sexist or racist. I don't consider Tarentino's films to be sexist or racist, I consider them to be honest in dialogue in his attempts to make the unreal, seem more real to the viewer. I noticed in one of the articles it points out a racist phrase used in one of Tarentino's films. Not only can the N-word used in some groups to refer to both blacks and whites, but because a character in his film says a racist statement, that makes his films full of "overt racism"? Also, while in two of his films Samuel L. Jackson plays a gangster, which some people would call a black stereotype, in other Tarantino films white people play gangsters and in all instances, the characters are three dimensional. Not the typical "I'm going to kill you for my crack money" gangsters that are often portrayed. I think part of what makes the films so great is that Tarantino sees the sterotypes in popular media and then transforms them into real people, with emotions, with motive, with reason, so that they no longer fit the stereotype.
I also don't get how Kill Bill was made for a male audience. Yes, there is blood and violence, but the movie also captures something strongly feminine, the loss of a child that I don't think a male audience can fully understand or appreciate.
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