"Woods's vigilante justice was a response to Tarantino's unwarranted and reality-divorced criticism of Paul Dano on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, where the Kill Bill director called Dano "the weakest fucking actor in SAG." The comments galvanized seemingly half of Hollywood to unite, "We Are the World" style, in support of Dano and his acting abilities, with even Daniel Day-Lewis coming out of the Reynolds woodwork to protect his boy Eli."
"In his first video, Woods speaks up in the name of "us very weird-looking white boys" standing together and deploys the most succinct critique of Tarantino's later films to date, saying that they all amount to him "taking a historical villain - slave owners, Nazis, the Manson family - and then using them as a thin pretext to enact your same old tired pornographic violence, and then some shot of feet and the N-word.""
"Woods returned for seconds on Tuesday with a video that starts as a fake-out apology by calling Tarantino "one of the masters ...," before following it up with "... of ripping off Asian directors, you bitch! You rip off everyone, from Hong Kong auteurs to Bill Maher's barber, and you look weird as shit - and that's coming from a guy who looks like a bird had sex with another more tired bird.""
Quentin Tarantino criticized Paul Dano on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, calling Dano "the weakest fucking actor in SAG." The remarks prompted widespread Hollywood defense of Dano, including Daniel Day-Lewis. Comedian Zach Woods released two videos responding to Tarantino, defending Dano and delivering sharp criticism of Tarantino's later films for using historical villains as a pretext for repetitive pornographic violence and gratuitous shocks. Woods accused Tarantino of ripping off Asian directors and used rapid-fire ad hominem insults delivered in a roast-style performance. The videos blended pointed film criticism with performative humor and drew viral attention.
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