she is absolutely right. i rewatched it recently and honestly, it felt gratuitous. being a 'genius' director doesn't give you a free pass to use slurs that aren't yours to reclaim. 🛑 #journalism

hard disagree. the characters in pulp fiction are low-life criminals and drug dealers. they aren't supposed to speak like hr managers. it's called realism.

If Samuel L. Jackson was fine with it, why is Rosanna Arquette complaining 30 years later? Sam has always said it was authentic to the script. #journalism

Just because one Black actor signs off on it doesn't mean it isn't problematic for a white director to write it excessively. Spike Lee's take is valid.

It's the context. In Django, it made historical sense. In Pulp Fiction? It just felt like Tarantino wanted to be edgy. 'Creepy' is the perfect word for it.

you can't apply 2024 morality to 1994 art. 🙄 if we sanitize everything, movies will be boring.

There is a difference between sanitizing art and criticizing a white man's obsession with a racial slur. Arquette has a point about the 'hall pass.'

Tarantino acting in that scene where he says it... that’s the cringe peak. He wrote that role for himself just to say it. 😬

um Artistic liberty matters. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Stop trying to cancel classics.

💯 Team Rosanna. It was weird then, and it's definitely weird now. #journalism

People are soft these days. It's a movie about murderers and you're worried about bad words? #journalism

Words have power. Normalizing that word in pop culture does harm. It's not just 'bad words.'

Scorsese uses it too in his mobmovies. Why does everyone only target Tarantino? 🤔

Because Scorsese depicts the racism of the characters as a flaw. Tarantino makes it sound 'cool' and rhythmic. That's the danger. #journalism

Exactly! The 'Dead N-word Storage' scene was played for laughs. That is the issue.

I’m with Sam Jackson. He knows the script better than anyone. Trust the actors involved.!? #journalism

Rosanna was literally on the set oo. Her experience is just as valid. #journalism

Leave Pulp Fiction alone. Greatest screenplay ever written. 🐐

Great screenplay, sure. But we can admit the director has a weird fetish with that word. #journalism

If you ban the N-word in art, you are erasing the reality of how criminals speak. It's censorship.

Spike Lee was right all along. 🤷🏾‍♂️!!

I think it stands out more because he is a white director. It feels like he's trying too hard to be 'down.'

Art is meant to distur/b the comfortable. Tarantino did his job.

there's disturbing, and then there's just being offensive for shock value. this leans towards the latter.

Why are we talking about this now? The movie is ancient history.

i love the movie but i always skip that scene at the house. just uncomfortable.

It will always be a masterpiece, flaws and all. 🎥?!