God bless Quentin Tarantino for lamenting the state of Hollywood today in which “ideology” — wokester totalitarianism + Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conformity — has damn near become Hollywood’s end-all and be-all.
“There has become a thing that’s gone on, especially in this last year, where ideology is more important than art,” QT told Bill Maher the night before last**. “Ideology trumps art. Ideology trumps individual effort. Ideology trumps good. Ideology trumps entertaining.”
Maher said “yup” and simplified the basics — “It’s either virtue-signalling or special-effects superhero event flicks.”
** For some queer reason the above Quentin quote is not contained in the above video clip. Still searching for it as we speak.
Incidentally: Tarantino was on Real Time With Bill Maher to promote his mass-market novelization of “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” (Harper Perennial, 6.29.21). On Amazon the paperback is only $7.98, but the audio version (presumably QT himself doing the reading) runs $69.99.
