My implication was that people use Shakespeare as a “reference” all of the time. In teen girl flicks, in war movies, in everything– sometimes the films are reworked versions of Shakespeare plays. The fact that the “grindhouse” genre isn’t as well known as Shakespeare doesn’t make it any more exclusive. Tarantino obviously knows about that kind of filmmaking as evidenced by his previous body of work. I’m not saying he didn’t lift the idea from the cover of an unsolicited DVD he received in the mail and probably never watched, I’m just saying it’s not a big deal that he did it and this other whiner should get over it, chalk his mistake up to experience and make another movie.

As for Thanksgiving, well… go here and see what we’re talkin’ bout. (Definitely not for moms. )

machete looks badass.

thanksgiving was disturbing enough as a preview.

if you are thinking about ripping justin’s shakespeare idea off - don’t.

nobody

In the letter written by the director of this film, he states that, apparently, Tarrantino stole the title and concept of a homage to the grindhouse B-Movie genre, but he goes on to call Quentin a hack and a thief in one paragraph and then confess that he was a huge fan of Tarrantino’s and the whole reason he was able to be ripped off was because he sent the DVD to Tarrantino in the mail.

I don’t know how things go down in the film industry, but, for musicians, sending unsolicited work through the mail is the short and quick path to getting seriously fucked over. Good job, dumbass.

As I said, the content of the films have nothing to do with one another, it’s just the title and concept. I don’t understand why he couldn’t have saved himself some energy and changed the title of the fucking movie, paid a few more bucks for a new copyright, re-released it and have never said anything about it. He alludes to some personal difficulties that resulted from making his film, maybe this was just the last straw.

But, dude, you made an exploitation film and got ripped off. Big surprise.

I am announcing that I am going to make my own low-budget film this year. It’s like Shakespeare but I am using teenagers (or robots, or animals, or hobbits, haven’t decided yet) instead of drag queens to play the women. I’m calling the movie ‘Shakespeare’ because it’s based on the work of William Shakespeare. Now if someone makes anything like that this next year, I can write a whiny hate letter on the internet and bitch about how someone stole my idea.

Don’t.

I hope “Thanksgiving” becomes a reality.