Three large police unions are manifesting their displeasure with the actions of movie producer Quentin Tarantino by calling for a boycott of his latest movie.
A third major police union has added its voice to calls for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, after the Oscar-winning film-maker spoke at a rally against police brutality in New York.
NYPD union boss urges Tarantino film boycott over director's comments
John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the organisation had voted unanimously to join the protest. Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association in New York, first mooted the boycott on Monday and has since also received backing from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
“Tarantino has shown through his actions that he is anti-police,” McNesby said in a statement. “Mr Tarantino has made a good living through his films, projecting into society at large violence and respect for criminals; it turns out he also hates cops.”
Tarantino joined three days of protests in New York last week organised by Rise Up October, a group opposing police violence and what organisers call a “genocidal assault on black and Latino people in this country”. Police unions have criticised the film-maker for appearing at the rally and labelling killings by police as “murder” a week after NYPD officer Randolph Holder was fatally shot in the city.
Tarantino has also received criticism from conservative commentators such as Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, who said the film-maker had “ruined his career” following the remarks. The Pulp Fiction director, whose new film The Hateful Eight debuts in the US on Christmas Day, has not responded to talk of a boycott.
Historically, boycotts of popular movies generally do not work. [As this movie will not be released until Christmas, the author of the article cannot know if it will be popular or not ~sig94]As they say; bad publicity is better than no publicity. I wonder if he spoke as he did hoping to provoke this reaction?
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Perhaps he was playing that H-wood anti-thing. Truth is, though, I think that is failing. We'll see. While I am not in favor of unions, law and real order is worth supporting. I won't watch that program. If too, I hope the cop unions don't undercut supporters and sell out on the principles. Americans seem to be, more and more, waking up and rejecting these chaos mongers. I am truly hoping a big name like Tarantio's won't save him. If not, maybe H-wood will learn and back down. They are getting murdered at the box office like Americans are being murdered by the types H-wood is supporting. It's war.
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