How Tarantino CORRUPTS His Audience

Which of Tarantino's morally corrupt protagonists is your favourite? (That's quite a tough question to answer...)

You skipped Butch's motivation for throwing the fight, it was how Vincent talked to him at the bar, so Butch keyed his Malibu. Butch was ready to throw the fight until a junkie that worked for Wallace denigrated him.

He never corrupted me with these guys. I knew they were scumbags, but then so was The Dirty Dozen.

When its kill or be killed, morality takes a back seat

Hateful 8 is tarantinos love letter to "The Thing"

Theres no reason for violence, til there is.

Tarantino never writes good or bad guys ....he just writes people who find themselves in situations and do what they gotta do

I always believe Butch was going to take the dive but when Vincent said what he said to him at the bar Butch changed his mind

Scorsese does the same in Goodfellas. You get seduced into liking these characters but then you're reminded, in characters like the Pesci character, that these people, these gangsters, are sociopathic.

His best character is Hans Landa. I love that guy. The whole movie is in another gear when he is on the screen. And You don't have to pull for him, you just know that he does not need that. With the exception of the last minute of the movie he is always in control and on the winning side. Aldo's action in the last minute is the only thing which make the balance right. He is just like Heath Ledger's Joker. Makes you craving to have him on the screen again. And he is so much above anybody in intellect, charisma, vision, one cannot help but love the guy.

What's that line from Rusty Cohle in True Detective Season 1? "The world needs bad men. Keeps the other bad men from the door."

Butch killing Vince/Marcellus/Zed/Maynard could be considered self defense. He didn't kill the Gimp.

Sam jackson is the only "good" character in pulp fiction. By the end he realized he didnt want to be that anymore.

I've seen all the movies you've discussed but I didn't pick up on how once a character is an under dog, the audience will tolerate a great degree of moral ambiguity or them being "bad." I also like how Tarantino humanizes his villains. Great stuff for any writer to know. Thanks for making this video!

The thing with his movies, is that it doesn't matter who kills over, because they are all bad so you never feel too bad when it happens. One monster will win, the other will lose, we all lose with them but sometimes we lose less... And we feel good about liking something that's definitely not good.

In the immortal words of Rustin Cohle from True Detective replying to Martin's question about bad men, "World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."

You could've also included "Natural Born Killers" "Four Rooms" and "True Romance" to further your point. Well made sir.

This also happens to be EXACTLY what the mainstream media does. Manipulate. Using those tactics. Tarantino is a reflection of this kind of manipulation, but on the big screen. It is easier to see it in his films, but few really grasp or wish to admit how MSM has engaged in this for decades.

Butch takes a major risk to rescue Marcellus - compelled by a sense of honor, like Jules. Vincent also has a sense of honor, but is closed to the spiritual encounter that has impacted Jules so much. How'd they end up? I would argue that Tarantino's writing became angry and corrupted after Django.

You bring up that snippet from his book where he’s talking about Dirty Harry, (someone recently made a video about that bit of the book) but Tarantino has also specifically talked about the thing you’re talking about here in relation to his own movies too in interviews. He talked about this with Django Unchained, and brought it up in relation to Sergio Corbucci westerners like Django, but more specifically The Great Silence. He talked about how the characters are the kinds of characters that in any other movie would be the villains, but juxtaposed against the villains of the movie they’re the heroes. Like Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained may seem like a good guy in Django Unchained, but he does kill people for money, and he does have Django kill a guy in front of his own son. He’s talked about this in reaction to Butch as well... maybe in the Pulp Fiction related Charlie Rose interview he did, I don’t quite remember where he talked about it specifically anymore. But it was probably that interview since that interview is on the DVD. The Hateful Eight was all about this. It’s built around a particularly type of episode Western tv of the ‘50s and ‘60s would do from time to time where a bunch of guest stars (these were usually guys you’d see showing up in Spaghetti Western later, or they were Roger Corman’s crew) playing villains would show up and hold some characters up (maybe even the main characters) and the leads of the show would have to take care of them. These episodes in particular are always pretty cool, and almost function a little movies. Sometimes the main characters of the show are barely in these episodes. It’s a style of episode TV (be it actually TV or streaming) doesn’t really do anymore. Hateful Eight is that but without the hero characters. Originally it did have a hero character though, since Tarantino started writing it with the idea of it being a Django paperback.