Quentin Tarantino

Oh, Quentin Tarantino. What a weird guy. I feel like he’s a bit like Elon Musk in that there is a contingent of his fans who will vehemently defend everything he has ever done because they think he’s some kind of great artist, while the rest of us are sitting back and saying “How much more weird and terrible stuff does he have to do before you stop defending him?”

The biggest thing to me is that he has a tendency to defend powerful men—other filmmakers in particular—who have done terrible things. In addition to this Roman Polanski mess, which is pretty horrifying, there’s the fact that he has confessed to knowing what Harvey Weinstein was up to and just trying to sort of brush it under the rug. At least he did eventually say he’s come to realize he should have said something about Weinstein. I guess that counts for something.