Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
> by Josh Grossberg
>
> Quentin Tarantino didn't win an Oscar this week, but this wasn't
> exactly what he had in mind for a consolation prize.
>
> The Inglourious Basterds helmer has been hit with a plagiarism lawsuit
> by a man accusing him and former Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein of
> stealing his concept for what eventually became a deadly assassin in
> their Kill Bill double bill.
>
> In the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, Dannez
> Hunter claims he had submitted a treatment to Miramax back in 1999
> featuring a character named Ren Short who hails from a historical
> Samurai lineage and watches his mother brutally murdered "in a cartoon
> format."
>
> Sound familiar?
>
> It just so happens that four years later Tarantino dreamed up an Anime
> sequence for his Kill Bill flicks in which a sword-wielding assassin,
> played by Lucy Liu, codenamed Cottonmouth, otherwise known as O-Ren
> Ishii, witnesses her parents killed on orders from a Japanese mob
> boss. In his vision, O-Ren eventually becomes a member of the Deadly
> Vipers and takes her revenge by assuming control of the Tokyo Yakuza.
>
> The parallels were just too much for Hunter who felt he had to take
> legal action. In a separate allegation, the plaintiff, who describes
> himself as a minority and former "inner-city youth," also alleged the
> Disney subsidiary passed him over for employment and hired Jews and
> whites instead (In the words of Col. Hans Landa, "the Juden!")
>
> So aggravating matters further, he felt particularly shafted when
> Miramax never got back to him about his application.
>
> "[Plaintiff] was never given a return phone call, as numerous similar
> situated less qualified Jewish and White people were bestowed job
> after job after job," Hunter alleges.
>
> Maybe Tarantino should bring in the Bear Jew for this one.
>
> No word why he waited seven—count 'em seven—years to go to court. But
> the California native is seeking $1 million in damages.
>
> Reps for the director and Miramax did not return phone calls seeking
> comment. No doubt they're thinking it's just a bunch of pulp fiction.
>
> http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b170853_not_cool_tarantino_sued_over_kill_bill.html#ixzz0hhySjqek
I don't get it...
Hasn't Tarantino copied nearly everything in his movies? Or do "homages"
not count?
:-P |