Comments on: ‘Jane Eyre’ Director Cary Fukunaga Concerned About “Irreverence For History” & Inaccuracies In ‘Django Unchained’

By: QPQ

QPQ — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

I do concur with Steve D…..and all of you others make valid points! Quentin iIS the man!!!

By: Quid pro quo

Quid pro quo — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

You all have been the product of Quentins intention. To captivate, entertain, educate, and also inspire intelligent conversations about racial stigmas, sterotyping, prejudice, and the ignorance in the behavior of mankind.

By: steve dush

steve dush — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

Are the same people complaing about the lack of reality the same ones who are complaining about use of the N word by these characters in this place and time? One can be sure Quintentin anticipated these two opposing controversies, realizing the two arguments wipe the validity of the other one straight out! He's a genious.

By: steve dush

steve dush — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

What movies do you rely on for historical facts? Really? Tarrentini makes great flat-screen movies, in which his messaging is fun, not confused by anyone with IQ's above 85 or older than 21 as factual. He uses life to create fiction, which, though not as crazy as real life, is almost as interesting, and plenty interesting enough to cram lots of personality and characters onto a flat surface to entertain you and me. He tells us in the movie that he is making stuff up, that we're about to have some fun with (un)reality, by a little bit, whether it's with obvious, erroneous simple math, bible verse misquotes by Sam Jackson's hired killer, or Adolf Hitler locked up with a stick in a theatre so he could be torchered. People who do worry on occasion about others not as smart as themselves misconstruing things like this just aren't used to others being less intelligent. Sit back and enjoy the fun. Quintentino is a master. He isn't trying to tell you his movies are reality, circa JFK or political "documentaries", which can never come close to giving us more than a slanted glimpse at any multi-dimensional reality.

By: Shavonne

Shavonne — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

I think that Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was meant to show the completely disturbing dichotomy of people who believed they were the upper crust yet participated in and condoned the absolute barbarism of slavery. Hence, the focus was not on absolute historical accuracy.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

I think once Fukunaga starts making movies at the level of "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction" or "Kill Bill" he can start talking about Tarantino. If it was someone like Paul Thomas Anderson or Martin Scorsese saying that I may understand and I think that us (as a society) now a days have a lot of tools to know about history or to increase our knowledge and if some people don't care or don't do it they might as well beleive what a movie without historical accuracy shows them.
Bottom line : Better movies, less talking Mr. Fukunaga.

By: Sounds of Cinema

Sounds of Cinema — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

DJANGO UNCHAINED is not about historical fact. It's about cinematic history. In INGLORIOUS BASTERDS Tarantino said the war film was bullshit, that it has nothing to do with the realities of warfare or history. In a similar way, DJANGO gives the middle finger to movies like GONE WITH THE WIND and BIRTH OF A NATION, punching a hole in the myth of the genteel Antebellum South.

Adam Serwer wrote a great article about this for Mother Jones.

By: hank

hank — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

Tarantino is going to do whatever the fuck he wants. Why is this even a discussion?

By: Fail

Fail — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

"Even from the very first title [in 'Django Unchained'] the title card says '1859, 3 years before the Civil War.' He even gets that wrongâ¦,' Fukunaga said."

Nope, sorry Fukunaga, that's on you – in reality, the title card ACTUALLY reads "1858, 2 years before the Civil War," but okay. Maybe Fukunaga should get HIS facts straight before he criticizes others.

By: julian

julian — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

Its a movie for a reason. I don't go see a tarantino for a history lesson, actaully I don't ever go to any movie for a history lesson. He developed a story like no other that draws you in that makes you feel for the character and that's what the movie industry is suppose to be about. Its a movie, we watch movies to escape reality. I think everyone is just really over thinking this one. Tarantino is a master in what he does leave him be.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:30 +0000

That's a more measured reaction than I was expecting. I understand what he is saying, but a writer/director should be more concerned with telling a compelling and deep story rather than demonstrating an accurate depiction of history.

There are of course stories like Schindler's List and Band of Brothers in which the events are aided by the knowledge that they are hyper-accurate depictions of what actually occurred, but Tarantino's recent work is very much not of that ilk. If the goal of the creator is to create an original story within the context of a real-life event, and it is clear that the story is not meant to be an accurate depiction of the time, I see no reason why he should be afraid that the least well-informed audience members would be confused by his construction of events. Creating a story for the least common denominator of unintelligent viewers is not conducive to telling a good story.