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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Shill Bill

[Yahoo!News, via BoingBoing] Quentin Tarantino offers up qualified support for Chinese movie piracy, and so restores my faith in him as the right-on-with-your-right-on creator of the cocolicious Kill Bill (a faith recently diminished by the subsequent release of that, to me, compromised and craptacular paean to home and hearth Kill Bill 2). Quothe QT (from the news story): "There's a whole lot of livelihoods at stake," he said, adding that he was forced to open "Kill Bill" in cinemas everywhere at nearly the same time to counter losses from film pirates.

Nevertheless, when it came to some countries where his films were not ever officially made available -- notably China, where he shot part of "Kill Bill" -- he advocated piracy.

"In the case of China, I'm glad they're pirating it. In a closed Communist country I'd rather be seen than not seen," he said.

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