![]() “You see that the music was born out of a frustration about their surroundings and their environment, and that’s it.”Īs for Hateful Eight, a Western starring Samuel L. In the run-up to Compton’s release, Universal chief Donna Langley walked a delicate line between angering police and sticking to the authenticity of the N.W.A origins story. “The movie itself is not a call to arms against police or anything like that,” she told THR. In the film, it’s vague who fired the shots that sparked the riot. Sources say that in earlier versions of the Compton script, a scene depicting a riot that broke out at a Detroit concert after N.W.A defied a warning not to perform “F - tha Police” implied that police actually started the mayhem. But Universal might have escaped the ire of law enforcement thanks to a bit of self-policing. The song’s lyrics - which include such lines as: “And when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbath of cops, dying in L.A.” - would seem more problematic to police groups than Tarantino’s rally comments. Still, one of the most incendiary missives against police in recent months, Universal’s Straight Outta Compton, escaped without a police boycott, despite the fact that the film featured N.W.A’s anthem “F - tha Police” in a key concert sequence, as well as on the film’s soundtrack. Bowing to pressure, Ice-T eventually removed the song from the album himself. ![]() Such was the case in 1992 when several launched a campaign to force Time Warner to withdraw Ice-T’s album Body Count with the single “Cop Killer.” Stockholders threatened to bolt if Time Warner didn’t yield. Police groups have banded together in the past to exert force on media companies in protest of anti-cop content. Tarantino isn’t the first artist to invoke the wrath of police groups for his controversial stance on law enforcement. Tarantino,” wrote FOP president Chuck Canterbury. “In addition, we will advise our members not to accept assignments or perform off-duty work, such as providing security, traffic control or technical assistance to any project involving Mr. ![]() 2, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the world’s largest organization of sworn law-enforcement officers, fired off a letter to the Weinstein brothers, saying that the FOP’s 330,000 members have joined the boycott of The Hateful Eight, which is scheduled to be released Christmas Day. One by one, the NYPD, LAPD, Philadelphia PD, Houston PD and Chicago PD unions - representing the five largest police-department unions in the country - announced that they are boycotting Tarantino’s films. On Nov. “I’m not taking back what I said,” he said. In his Times interview, Tarantino remained defiant. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument.” Just as TWC issued its statement, Tarantino addressed the controversy for the first time, telling the Los Angeles Times that he wouldn’t be intimidated by the growing number of police boycotts aimed at him. “Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out,” he said. “We don’t speak for Quentin he can and should be allowed to speak for himself.” representative told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. has a long-standing relationship and friendship with Quentin and has a tremendous amount of respect for him as a filmmaker,” a Weinstein Co. ![]() is breaking its silence on the spiraling controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s comments about police brutality. After keeping mum for more than a week, The Weinstein Co.
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