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February 9, 2010 | 8:57 pm
Quentin Tarantino calls Israeli army service ‘awesome’
Posted by Danielle Berrin
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I met Quentin Tarantino for drinks last night at the Pig ‘N Whistle on Hollywood Boulevard while a double feature of “Pulp Fiction” and “Inglourious Basterds” played next door at The Egyptian. I was interviewing him for a story for our Oscar issue on the cultural significance of “Inglourious Basterds” when he offered up the following comment on what he learned while visiting Israel last Fall.
Quentin Tarantino:
Here’s the thing that I did not know about Israel before I went there: I didn’t know—and truthfully I got turned on by it; I dug it, I really dug it—I didn’t know that every young person has to go into the army. I was unaware of that. The concept behind that I thought was awesome. To me, what it said was, (and he bangs his fists on the table) ‘You will NEVER ever catch us unawares again. NEVER. The prettiest most daintiest girl, the fattest boy, the littlest guy, the meekest mouse is gonna learn how to operate a gun and is gonna know what it means to be a WARRIOR. We will never be caught sleeping again!’ And that was COOL.
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I also think it is cool and important that every young Israeli join the military; however, not everyone joins the military. On this point Mr. Taratino is wrong. Ask supermodel Esti Ginzburg if Bar R. (another Israeli supermodel) joined the military. Other young Israelis protest and do not join. In addition, religious Jews do not join the military. Maybe someone can inform Mr. Taratino and he can make a movie about those Israelis who refuse to fight for Israel. Something needs to be done about those who benefit from the protection of the IDF and refuse to fight for Israel.
I want to make it clear that some religious Israelis do not join the IDF. Go Israel!
I love how you perfectly captured Tarantino’s speaking cadence.
He is a great regisor, no dought on that. I like him since he pulled out some great movies like kill bil !
Good work!
Who can like such thinks, like an army!!! anyway they have beautiful girls there, i can say that!!
Quentin Tarantino is such an ass kisser. He thinks universal military service is “awesome” and yet he has never spent a day in uniform. What a joke. By the way, the majority of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are exempt from serving in the IDF on religious grounds.
Universal service is still true in principle. For those worried about ‘ultra-Orthodox’ exemptions, their exemption is due to objections to mixed-sex training, and their enlistment is growing in single-sex units. Arabs are exempt because they don’t participate in the state except as troublemakers, and the greatest and growing draft dodging problem takes place in the non-religious yuppie and slacker communities.