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Originally posted by dd74
I mean, now, a Quentin Tarantino movie like "Pulp Fiction" would kill a career - and that movie is only ten or fifteen years old.
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I'm not sure what you mean. I don't think PULP FICTION would be a career-killer in any contemporary era. Sure, we are overly PC now, but I don't think it was THAT much different 10 years ago.
It seems to me that this was a deliberate attempt by Richards to attack questions of racism (hence his ending the tirade with "those words, those words"), quite possibly emulating Lenny Bruce. I don't think it's difficult for a guy like Richards, semi-washed-up, to see the popularity of proto-bigotry satires like SOUTH PARK, Dave Chappelle, Sara Silverman, etc. and want to get a piece of the action. I think he just underestimated the power/stigma that the "N" word still carries if uttered by a white man, as opposed to, say, Prior or Chappelle.