The lessons of Quentin Tarantino's interview with Terry Gross on NPR? �He has a high tolerance for "viscera" and a low tolerance for questions that attempt to connect Sandy Hook and other incidents of actual violence to the kind found in movies. The Django Unchained director became audibly peeved when Gross asked him the question that every reporter feels compelled to ask filmmakers in the wake of the Connecticut shootings.
Here's NPR's transcript of the awkward, testy exchange. I've taken the liberty of putting Tarantino's comments about how linking Sandy Hook to violence in movies is "disrespectful" to those who died. I agree with Tarantino. Connecting the shooting to movie-making trivializes what happened in Connecticut, which, as Ross A. Lincoln pointed out in his post on The Hollywood Reporter's poll on media violence, doesn't bring this country any closer to figuring out how to prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook and Aurora from happening.
GROSS: So I just have to ask you, is it any less fun after like the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, like, do you ever go through a period where you lose your taste for movie violence? And movie violence is not real violence, I understand the difference. But still, are there times when it just is not a fun movie experience for you - either to be making it that way or to be in the audience for something like that?
TARANTINO: Not for me.
GROSS: So it's so completely separate, that the reality of violence doesn't affect at all your feelings about making or viewing very violent or sadistic...
TARANTINO: Sadistic? I don't know. I do know what, I don't know. I think, you know, you're putting
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