When the MPAA took their scissors to the fight scene, the thing that they objected to the most was not the beating of Alabama, but it was Alabama fighting back, which is very strange. The MPAA literally said, “Ok you gotta rid of that, I just can’t deal with that.” And I go, “Why? She’s fighting back. She’s the hero.” “Well, it’s because she becomes an animal.” “Well that’s the fucking point!” It got to the point of actual story content that they were trying to eliminate.
-Quentin Tarantino on the “True Romance” commentary
so it was recently my language arts teacher’s birthday, and one of his students brought him a cardboard cutout of legolas that now just sits in various places in our classroom, like today
