Quentin Tarantino is one of the most famous/infamous directors in Hollywood, known for ultra-violent films like Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, and Django Unchained. In a recent interview, Tarantino compared the Confederate flag to a very infamous historical symbol.
Quentin Tarantino recently compared the Confederate flag to the infamous Nazi symbol, the swastika, referring to it as the American Swastika. And there certainly are some correlations.
While many pro-Confederate advocates would argue the flag represents states' rights, independence, and the like, for normal people, the flag symbolizes hate, division, and racism. I lived in South Carolina, northwest of Charleston where a young white supremacist shot several African Americans while they were at church. Even when I lived in the South, I viewed the flag as a "really bad thing." Whether or not a few people see the flag as a symbol of a good thing, the majority do not.
In Tarantino's own words, "I mean, I've always felt the Rebel flag was some American Swastika. And, well, now, all of a sudden, people are talking about it, and now they're banning it, and now it's not OK to have it on f______ licence plates, and coffee cups, and stuff."
More interestingly, especially with the 2015 uproar regarding the Confederate flag, comes The Hateful Eight, a film focusing on a time right after the Civil War. Uproxx describes the film as "set against a post-Civil War backdrop with wounds still fresh and hatred between Union and Confederate characters still flowing. Of course, those injuries still have not fully closed, which makes the film relevant even today."
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