The scene made cliff booth look like silent but the most powerful man on set and he will show bruce lee who's the man. It's the age old trick of hyping up the villain only to be beaten by hero and hero seems like the more powerful person by the end. Tarantino is basically using cinematic language to say stuff that is offensive but is hiding behind the fact that its in a movie to avoid taking responsibility for his actions.
Bottom line is tarantino appeals to a certain type of audience. The problem with these audience is that they want to feel like their inner demons are brought to life and validated when watching a tarantino movie. That's what they go to his movies for and that's the reason they are so dedicated to him.
In OUTIH there are 2 scenes where he does that. When cliff booth is on boat with his wife , the scene played only the parts where his wife is nagging him and cuts back. So that scene is meant to suggest that "you can't really blame him for killing his nagging wife". Had the flashback was to a scene where his wife loved him..the audience would be on her side. The same with brad pitt vs bruce lee. One common argument is that the fight was not finished so bruce lee would have won the fight had it gone on. But the fight abruptly ended when Brad Pitt was taking the lead, leading audience to be on pitts side by that round. I don't judge his choices but i don't buy the B.S that he left both these scenes ambiguous.
It will be interesting to see if and when someone defends him on this.
Bottom line is tarantino appeals to a certain type of audience. The problem with these audience is that they want to feel like their inner demons are brought to life and validated when watching a tarantino movie. That's what they go to his movies for and that's the reason they are so dedicated to him.
In OUTIH there are 2 scenes where he does that. When cliff booth is on boat with his wife , the scene played only the parts where his wife is nagging him and cuts back. So that scene is meant to suggest that "you can't really blame him for killing his nagging wife". Had the flashback was to a scene where his wife loved him..the audience would be on her side. The same with brad pitt vs bruce lee. One common argument is that the fight was not finished so bruce lee would have won the fight had it gone on. But the fight abruptly ended when Brad Pitt was taking the lead, leading audience to be on pitts side by that round. I don't judge his choices but i don't buy the B.S that he left both these scenes ambiguous.
It will be interesting to see if and when someone defends him on this.