Quentin Tarantino - 'if I had acted on what I knew, I would have had to stop working with Harvey'

[KitSileya]

...but I didn't want to stop working with Harvey, so I pretended it wasn't a pattern, even when several women I know, including my own girlfriend, told me about it.'


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/movies/tarantino-weinstein.html

Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood director most closely tied to Harvey Weinstein, has known for decades about the producer's alleged misconduct toward women and now feels ashamed he did not take a stronger stand and stop working with him, he said in an interview.

"I knew enough to do more than I did," he said, citing several episodes involving prominent actresses. "There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn't secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things."

"I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard," he added. "If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him."

This is rape culture in practice, everyone. A man with power decides not to use his power to stop a sexual abuser, even though he is a member of pretty much the only group who can do so with impunity, because he wants to work with the abuser.

[HopeAgain]

1. Accessory after the fact? Misprison in Felony?

Mr. Tarantino is GUILTY. I would say that I am going to boycott his movies, but I find them to be all alike -- another gruesome fantasy about self righteous violence. So I wouldn't see any more anyway.

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Good to know.

[KitSileya]

3. It isn't a crime on the books as is,

but it does tell us a whole lot about the person Quentin Tarantino, doesn't it?

At least in my eyes, he is shown as not a very good person at all. Why would I give him my money when he is such a cowardly, self-serving egotist?

[HopeAgain]

4. Okay, I overstated it

Your right, it absolutely tells us who he is. My point was that staying silent can be a wrongful act in itself.

[KitSileya]

7. Yup. As I wrote, he's a member of the only group who could have stopped Weinstein

with impunity - a powerful white man in Hollywood. He has a secure career, there's absolutely no chance he'd get blow-back from exposing Weinstein. In fact, he would probably have received accolades if he had - you know, man not willing to risk his integrity for an abuser etc. However, Tarantino chose the self-serving way, and that lessened him a lot in my eyes.

[linuxman]

5. Normally I don't like to judge too strongly off appearances,

But Tarantino has always struck me as an ultra-creepy, skeeze. This isn't doing anything to ease that impression, FWIW.

[maxsolomon]

6. That's called taking responsibility

He's out in front of most of Weinstein's accomplices.

[KitSileya]

8. Taking responsibility? More like getting out in front of the accusations

to protect himself. He wasn't very interested in protecting his colleagues, no, not even his own girlfriend. But we now know he has no problems protecting himself. How pusillanimous, gutless and self-centered he is.

[maxsolomon]

9. Everyone likes to throw stones

but they're not in Hollywood trying to make movies in a sea of powerful predators like Weinstein. You need millions of dollars in funding. Everyone in Hollywood gets compromised. Everyone gets dirty.

Sexual Predation is integral to how that industry has always worked - ask Judy Garland's ghost. Ask Marilyn Monroe's ghost. Fuck, even Shirley Temple got assaulted.

Tarantino is admitting fault here. He's expressing regret. You think it's self-serving, fine. He's not the only one with guilt, and probably not the one with the most guilt.

Compare that to Woody Allen calling it a Witch Hunt, and lamenting you can't even wink at a pretty girl.

[Downtown Hound]

10. I give Quentin props for taking responsibility.

Too all those criticizing him, just know that he's far from the only one to turn a blind eye to it. But so far, he's the only one who came forward and took responsibility for it.

[WillowTree]

11. If he had acted on what he knew, he might only be worth $50 million instead of $100 million.

Boo effin' Hoo, Quentin. You're breakin' my heart.