Quentin Tarantino denied Kanye West’s declare that he and Jamie Foxx “stole” one of many rapper’s concepts for his or her 2012 movie “Django Unchained”.
Nonetheless, the director did admit that he mentioned a slave-themed video for West’s tune “Gold Digger” whereas showing on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” on Thursday night time.
In a earlier interview with Piers Morgan, West claimed that he pitched an identical thought to the idea of Tarantino’s movie again when the 2 brainstormed concepts collectively for West’s “Gold Digger” music video, which options Foxx. The Donda artist launched the official music video in 2009, 4 years after the tune got here out, with none footage of his authentic thought. As a substitute, the clip is a montage of Foxx and West dancing with quite a few pin-up fashions.
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Tarantino, who received an Oscar for Greatest Authentic Screenplay for the 2012 movie, dismissed West’s allegations when host Jimmy Kimmel requested if there’s any reality to the rapper’s declare.
“There’s not reality to the concept that Kanye West got here up with the concept of ‘Django’ after which he advised that to me, and I am going, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a extremely nice thought. Let me take Kanye’s thought and make ‘Django Unchained’ out of it.’ That didn’t occur,” the directer mentioned, noting that he “had the concept for ‘Django’ for some time” earlier than he ever met West.
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“He wished to do a large film model of The School Dropout [West’s debut studio album] the best way he did the album – so he wished to get large administrators to do completely different tracks from the album after which launch [them] as films primarily based on every of the completely different tracks,” Tarantino defined.
“We used it as an excuse to fulfill one another and so we met one another,” he continued. “We had a extremely good time.
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“He did have an thought for a video. I do suppose it was for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that he can be a slave,” Tarantino recalled. “The complete factor was the slave narrative the place he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger’… It was a extremely, actually humorous thought.”
The “Pulp Fiction” director mentioned West’s music video thought was “meant to be iconic” however was in the end pushed again partly as a consequence of “no bills spared” for the mission.
“However I want he had performed it. It sounded actually cool,” he mentioned. “Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”