re: TO TbirdSpur: About Django -- so off topic that the OT board is inappropriate.

This thread, though

I'm not a QT fan or hater, but I have enjoyed quite a few of his films. With some of his racially charged scenes, he makes the audience choose to either laugh at events or be repulsed from henceforth. Basically he takes the suspended reality that exists on the silver screen and brings it damn close to home, so close that it can make you uncomfortable if you over think it.

QT is not the racist. We (the audience) tend to have our racist qualities revealed by our reactions to the subject matter, IMHO. it really does depend on whether you laugh because you agree with the events being portrayed, or laughing because the events are so ridiculous you can't believe they were written into existence.

Idk why it's an insult to some white people to be called black. Personally, I use it as a compliment. On the other side of that coin, though, I know what it's like for other black people to call me white for various reasons and mean it as a pejorative. To me such situations can be funny because it says more about the offended parry or the person trying to offend than anything.

frick, I rambled on longer than I thought you should post this on the movie/TV board and see what kind of responses you get