Tarantino sues himself for plagiarism

PULP Fiction director Quentin Tarantino is suing himself for writing a screenplay clearly derivative of his earlier work.

Tarantino’s new script, Snappy-Dialogued Revenge Bloodbath, has been published online for the minuscule audience of people who’d rather read instructions of how to make a film than watch one.

The director has responded by issuing legal proceedings against himself for “shamelessly ripping off” his innovative earlier films.

He said: “The scene where a gay matador beats a cowboy to death with a baseball bat in slow motion? Mine.

“The subsequent scene where that same cowboy, except he’s still alive because this is six weeks earlier, shoots dead everyone in a planetarium to the sound of Axel F? Mine.

“The scene where the gay matador and the cowboy play Russian roulette while discussing the films of Howard Hawks? That one’s from a movie by Takeshi Miike, but it was my idea to re-envision it.

“This entire script is nothing but a patchwork of things from cult movies, fetishised violence and meandering conversations about pop culture. It’s like every page is branded with the initials ‘QT’.

“Though I do appreciate that the writer’s put in a small part for me, which is nice because I am quite underrated as an actor.”

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