We so want this was probably the most controversial factor Kanye West had mentioned over the previous couple weeks… and as simply discredited.
Lost within the sea of antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and different vile issues the rapper has spewed this month, he additionally claimed in there someplace that Django Unchained was actually his concept. He instructed Piers Morgan of their wide-ranging interview that Quentin Tarantino had stolen the thought from him after he pitched it to star Jamie Foxx as the thought for his music video for 2005’s Gold Digger. He claimed:
“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery, where actually — him and Jamie — they got the idea from me, because the idea for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger’… And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
This is simply how Ye works. He calls himself a genius in all varieties sufficient and finally he believes it — and grows to imagine he’s the creator of the whole lot he likes… in his personal thoughts anyway.
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The declare is clearly someplace adjoining to the reality — however Tarantino tells it fairly a bit in a different way. The filmmaker guested on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday evening, and the host needed to ask concerning the boast. QT acknowledged unequivocally:
“There’s no truth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea of Django and then he told that to me, and I go, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a really great idea. Let me take Kanye’s idea and make Django Unchained out of it.’ That didn’t happen.”
He says he’d been toying with the thought for Django Unchained — which is known as after the cowboy character performed by Franco Nero in lots of a spaghetti western — “for a while before I ever met Kanye.” So what did occur with the Yeezy founder? They met when the hitmaker “wanted to do a giant movie version of The College Dropout” and was pitching to giant-sized music movies to Hollywood powerhouses:
“So he wanted to get big directors to do different tracks from the album and then release it as this giant movie… not videos, nothing as crass as videos, movies, they were going to be movies based on each of the different tracks.”
Quentin says he considered the challenge pitch because the mutual followers’ “excuse to meet each other.” But Ye “did have an idea for a video” that he preferred, and it did characteristic Kanye taking part in a slave:
“I do think it was for the Gold Digger video, that he would be a slave. And the whole thing was this slave narrative where he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger.’ And it was very funny. It was a really, really funny idea.”
He continued:
“And it’s like a huge musical. I mean, like no expenses spared with him in this slave rag outfit, doing everything, and then that was also part of the pushback on it. But I wish he had done it. It sounded really cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”
What did occur with the video? Kanye and Jamie, who sang on the refrain of Gold Digger, starred in a a lot much less formidable video by Hype Williams.
But as for the remainder of the plot of Django Unchained? Like the dentist, the Klan scene, Broomhilda, Calvin Candy, your complete film? Everything apart from it being “about a slave”? Nah.
BTW, the thought Tarantino and Jamie Foxx took the thought collectively is senseless. QT famously meant for Will Smith to play the lead, however he turned it down! Jamie solely received solid after!
We can’t say we’re shocked, tbh. To say it’s important to take what Ye says with a grain of salt lately is doing a disservice to sodium. Anyway, right here’s Tarantino’s full model of occasions (under):
[Image via Jimmy Kimmel Live/Sony Pictures/Piers Morgan/YouTube.]