In his early movies, Quentin Tarantino loved using “the n word.” At the Golden Globes tonight, he pulled another racially-loaded term as he praised Ennio Morricone, who won best original score for Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.”
Tarantino called Morricone “my favorite composer.” He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.”
So far, with the win for “Mozart in the Jungle,” it’s been a big night at the Globes for classical music. But “ghetto,” no matter how Tarantino might have intended it, is a racially-charged term, and Tarantino has unleashed something online.
Twitter after Quentin Tarantino referred to film composers as "ghetto" #GoldenGlobes @SouthPark #CheckYourPrivilege pic.twitter.com/7UsA0ZsYTG
— Matt Cullen – is on Bluesky (@MattCullenSEM) January 11, 2016
Jamie Foxx, who played the lead in Tarantino’s controversial “Django Unchained,” was not impressed. He simply repeated “ghetto” after taking back the mic.
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This could have gotten ugly, but didn’t. But you kind of wonder what happened backstage.
Watch the speech below:
