Quentin Tarantino not totally opposed to film piracy

[JohnnyCNote]

Tarantino says film piracy "not 100% black and white"

The burgeoning illegal copying of movies worldwide is not a clear-cut issue, US director Quentin Tarantino said as he gleefully told an anti-piracy conference here that he himself was guilty of the practice.

"For me, it's not 100 percent black and white," Tarantino, this year's jury president at the Cannes film festival, told the conference on the eve of the event's opening.

The former video clerk turned superstar-filmmaker said that he had bought bootleg copies of old, hard-to-get films in New York to help recreate scenes in his blockbuster "Kill Bill", the second part of which is being released in many countries.

"I would be a liar to say across the board 'No piracy'," Tarantino said.

[spiderman2k1]

Can not blame him for that. If the studio's are not making the DVD's. Most people will buy a bootleg just to watch and they still will buy the real DVD when it's come's out.

[Nilfennasion]

I think Quentin would change his mind if he realised that his misogynistic, unoriginal product is something that few people with a mind of their own really want to buy. Well, maybe. But honestly, piracy should be keeping the filmmakers honest. Having seen Troy last night, I honestly wish Hollywood would consider the possibility that the lowest-common-denominator filmmaking that seems to be policy there is costing far more than piracy ever will.

[guns1inger]

Why blame the product when you can blame those bastard 12 year old pirates on the internet. . . . . .

As part of that speech, QT also said that he was infavour of people downloading his films in countries where they are either banned, or cut to pieces by the censors, Jack and his MPAA buddies must have loved it. Vote Yes for piracy and No for censorship. The MPAA will be out of a job.

[Nilfennasion]

It wasn't until two years ago that one could buy the director's cut of RoboCop here. Given that it has been available on LaserDisc and later DVD-Video for at least five times that long in the USA, I think Valenti has some nerve insisting that control of what is released and what isn't be in his hands. Given what Fox/MGM did with said cut of the film on their DVD-Video, I won't be losing sleep over copying the Criterion disc to send to friends.

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[DVDJunkee]

HOW DO I DOWNLOAD THE ROBOCOP AND BURN TO DVD?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??

























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[teegee420]

There was a rumor going around at the time Kill Bill Volume I was released that said QT himself was responsible for releasing the workprint on the net. Urban legend I'm sure, but a fun notion. Based on his comments at Cannes it's nice to know he hasn't completely sold his soul to the Hollywood execs.

[VCDHunter]

There was a rumor going around at the time Kill Bill Volume I was released that said QT himself was responsible for releasing the workprint on the net. Urban legend I'm sure, but a fun notion. Based on his comments at Cannes it's nice to know he hasn't completely sold his soul to the Hollywood execs.

So does this mean I CAN download Kill Bill 2 with impunity ?

[teegee420]

Do you plan on confessing?

[VCDHunter]

Do you plan on confessing?

Heh heh heh, nothing to confess - yet Seen it in the cinema and didn't think it was worth a download. Still if he's giving it away . . . . . . .

[BJ_M]

TROY is going to make a lot of money -- but it is one lame film if you ask me ....

[haloblack]

his misogynistic, unoriginal product

Care to elaborate?

[Nilfennasion]

Honestly, if the studio system feared women any more than was presently the case, you'd never see them in film at all. Were this not the case, Joe Eszterhas would never have sold a script, and films like Mad Love would never have been green-lighted.

[haloblack]

I can see the case for calling Eszterhas misogynist (and I never saw Mad Love), but I really don't see a good case for saying that about Tarantino. The Bride is probably the most powerful female film heroine to come along since Alien's Ripley, she keeps her clothes on, and she's not eye candy for another male figure in the movie. I don't get your argument.


(and before this discussion goes further, I'm not asking you all this in a flamebait "Screw you, Aussie! Tarantino r00lz!" sort of way - I'm actually interested in what you're thinking.)

[Supreme2k]

@Nilfennasion
Screw you, Aussie! Tarantino r00lz!

[Nilfennasion]

Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs scream to the viewer that they were dreamt up by Catholic school dropouts, for one thing. But honestly, every time the guy opens up his mouth about anything, I get the impression he's going to drop his pants and dare people to show him who's got the bigger knob.

Them's fighting words, supreme. You might as well call a Dwarf a Goblin to his face.

[lordsmurf]

I liked Kill Bill, and I hate most movies that filter out of Crappywood.

[FulciLives]

Kudos to Tarentino for saying what he did about obtaining otherwise hard-to-find films along with his attitude towards censorship.

If it were not for bootlegs I woudn't have seen half of the films I've seen because said bootlegs have been of films that have never been released here in the USA or where once released but now out-of-print (and impossible to find) or only released here in cut censored versions etc.

I don't advocate bootlegs ala renting a major new DVD release and making a copy or bootlegging something that is easy to see be it via the rental store or purchasing it etc.

However there are times when the bootleg is the only choice.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman