AwkwardlySet
On-Duty Critic
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As I said, one doesn't need to be a good person to be a good actor, director or writer. We should be able to separate those things, otherwise we would need to reject so much of art and science even. Forget bands and actors and directors. So many breakthroughs were achieved through horribly unethical experiments. So many famous artists and scientists had very problematic personalities and convictions. Isaac Newton, for example, was apparently a spectacular asshole, yet he still wrote the most important book in science. I can name like 10 other people off the top of my head.
Tarantino is arguably an excellent director and an asshole. That fact shouldn't prevent us from watching a movie he directed, unless he was conveying some problematic messages and values in that same movie.
Fact is, geniuses are very rare, and humanity on average is full of assholes. Logic says many of the geniuses will be assholes. Enjoy the genius but don't forget to point out the asshole part either. Not every genius needs to be idolized.
Tarantino is arguably an excellent director and an asshole. That fact shouldn't prevent us from watching a movie he directed, unless he was conveying some problematic messages and values in that same movie.
Fact is, geniuses are very rare, and humanity on average is full of assholes. Logic says many of the geniuses will be assholes. Enjoy the genius but don't forget to point out the asshole part either. Not every genius needs to be idolized.
