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I'm pretty sure Tarantino (sharing the culture in which I was steeped) meant to be confrontational, but probably the rest of the audience, being blissfully unaware of things "everyone knows" you're not supposed to actually say, thought expressive more than transgressive.

FWIW it was "Hateful 8" (2015), so I don't think the old country has shifted out from under me — unless it's either all been in the last decade, or younger audiences there are also not nervously laughing? Guess I'll have to make some inquiries...

Nervous laughter, as in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Not_Funny,_That%27s_S...

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>younger audiences there are also not nervously laughing

This, probably. Maybe feeling a bit of "cringe" (trendy word), but not the same reaction as yours

Note Tarantino has a knack for expressivity yori confrontation:

"And I was shocked when I wrote it, because that’s not how I feel. But I was just doing what a writer does: I was being the character and that came out of Chris. This isn’t my philosophy, of course, but that is Chris’s philosophy [but] I didn’t judge Chris."

https://archive.ph/2026.02.04-125052/https://thenewbev.com/b...