The scene where the one dude was telling a joke or a story and said a black dude was something something. the guy listening to the story was like. No say N word. i dont even know why they did that. it added nothing and made the movie only be awkward to watch if you have some black friends.
shareI think it was to reinforce the fact that Rocco had no business in the business. He was terrible at his job as errand boy (as judged by the terrible sandwich) and he just doesn't have the same views as the 'big boys' do.
shareIt's a staple of gangster or crime movies. Scorsese started it and Tarantino carried the torch. Now if you have a gangster/crime flick set in the United States it's seen as "unrealistic" not to include it.
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I'd love to see you in the moonlight with your head thrown back and your body on fire.
Italian mobsters hate Black people that's why they made him use the slur rather than address them more PC.
shareBecause it sounds a lot better than "black person".
shareThe boss and the sub-boss knew that "the funny man" was not a real gangster (in their eyes) and they were already planning to set him up (remember the hotel room scene after when they basically sent him to get killed by the Russians).
So the point was to basically make him uncomfortable and show themselves that he's not like-minded. The Italian mafia is typically portrayed in films as being very racist against blacks in particular.
I agree that it's awkward to watch but I think that's intentional as well. Sort of put the viewer off a bit to try and simulate the tension that Rocco felt all the time while posing as a gangster etc.
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You mean when they say *beep*
shareIf people these days are driven to the point to be unable to appreciate the humor in that scene because of feeling awkward out of political correctness, that's really a shame.
Maybe it's just easier for people like me who don't live in a country with African descended minority, but, come on... You can laugh and cheer at Quentin Tarantino's anti-white racist trolling, but can't appreciate this one?
This is one of the most hilarious scenes in the history of cinema - papa Joe involuntarily (or not) interrupting the feud between Rocco and the guard with a burst of Italianizied insults, *insignifiC@nt* "BASTARDO!" , "Tell me a funny joke" and that look lol, acting totally uninterested in the joke except for a correction to "A NI99ER!", pointing at his sandwich mid joke and making the "come on what is this...?" expression, and finally, putting his sandwich away, looking dead serious with his comedic face and staring at Rocco - "Continue the joke." with an Italian accented hard "o" in continue lol.
That last line immediately became a cult line in our group of movie fans back in 2000-th and we didn't even had a clue that the film will gain so much followers with the years to come.
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Is it sexist to hit you? Is it more sexist not to hit you? The line is so blurry!
pulp fiction had black people as main characters in the movie and the dude that said it was also married to a black woman. I also would more likely watch the boondock saints with friends and not pulpfiction. I felt the white guy in pulp was not racist but just mad at what they brung into his garage. I dont know what he could have said besides dead N'word storage that would have fit. Dead person storage just sounds dumb.
shareI didn't mind that scene. Just because Italians are racist and the joke is a little funny to me. "You mean to tell me that all the beeps and beeps are out of America?" "Yes.' "Well, I'll have a Coke then."
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