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Quentin Tarantino Defends The VERY NORMAL Amount Of Feet In His Movies

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Quentin Tarantino is my favorite director. It’s either him or Marty. Cliche, I know, but I was born in the 90s, man, can you blame me? Goodfellas was released in 1990, Reservoir Dogs dropped in 1992, I was born in 1993, Pulp Fiction came around a year later with Casino wrapping things up in 1995.

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These films are not only reference points for my affinity for pop culture, but of my life in general: movies *changed* in the early 90s and these two were at the center of it. By the time I became a conscious person a decade later or so, that grasp on the pop-cultural zeitgeist was only tightened thanks to films like Gang of New York, Kill Bill, and The Departed. Long story short, I consider the man a genius. Genius staus aside, though, there’s simply no denying that QT is a Foot Guy — a Big Time Foot Guy. Tarantino, though, doesn’t quite see it that way.

During a recent interview with British GQ, Tarantino came to the defense of his alleged foot fetish, even claiming that the frequent shots of feet in his films is, actually, good direction.

“I don’t take it seriously,” Tarantino said when asked about his perceived foot fetish.

“There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”

Defending himself is one thing, but looping in the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Sofia Coppola is a hell of a move. I actually Googled “Sofia Coppola feet” (I’ll make sure to clear my history before my girlfriend sees it, don’t worry) to see if there’s any evidence to support Tarantino’s claim, and I found two things, neither of which were examples of Coppola’s alleged foot fetish.

The first, unsurprisingly, were pictures of Coppola’s actual feet but the second was a quote from Scarlett Johansson’s character in Lost in Translation, which Coppola wrote and directed, in which she said: “I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses… taking pictures of your feet.”

Conversely, if you Google “Quentin Tarantino feet”, all of the articles on the first page — not counting the ones covering these recent quotes — are think-pieces about or rankings of the foot shots in Tarantino’s films. Not quite the same, QT. And thus concludes the weirdest task I’ll do all week.