According to Quentin Tarantino, one of the scenes in his new film Django Unchained was inspired by director John Ford, but don't get it twisted - that doesn't mean he likes him.
In a new interview with The Root, Tarantino explained how he came up with what is likely one of the best scenes in Django Unchained: It's based off the story told by Ford himself, about how he played one of the Klansmen on a horse in The Birth of a Nation back in 1915 - the one that can be seen in the film being forced to hold his hood up so he can see through the eyeholes while he's riding.
"As I'm writing this - and he rode hard, and I'm sure the Klan hood was moving all over his head as he was riding and he was riding blind - I'm thinking, wow," he explained. "That probably was the case. How come no one's ever thought of that before? Five years later, I'm writing the scene and all of a sudden it comes out."
As for his disdain towards Ford, Tarantino had a lot to say about that as well. Specifically:
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Both Ford and Tarantino do have something in common though: Both are extremely controversial filmmakers. Just last week,Spike Lee criticized Django Unchained for its depiction of slavery, and announced that he wouldn't see it, because he felt it would be disrespectful to his ancestors.
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[via Indiewire]
