This video is so weird it almost seems fake, and I’d think it was if it didn’t happen out in front of the miserable, snowbound Starbucks coffee shop where most of the press stumbled for caffeine every morning in Park City at Sundance this year. It’s weird watching Quentin Tarantino beating people up for looking at him in a place where you were buying lattes just a few days ago.
But that seems to be what’s happening in the video below dug up by the good folks at JoBlo. I’m not sure what the hell Tarantino’s thinking, but he basically attacks a guy just for pointing a camera at him. The guy doesn’t harass him or stalk him, or try to shove his zoom lens up his skirt to see if he has panties. Tarantino doesn’t even stop to see if he’s just some fan excited to see his hero or if he’s a paparazzi. He just starts attacking him, physically.
I have to say, I’m pretty disappointed in QT. Toss any respect I had for the dude right out the window. I mean, what if it had been me standing there with my camera? I could have been, in fact I might have just missed this incident by a few minutes. You see Tarantino, you’re a fan of Tarantino, so you take a picture. Who wouldn’t? The CB team took tons of celebrity pictures at Sundance. We didn’t stalk them, we just got excited when we saw them and took one or two quick pics without causing any annoyance, and then got the heck out of the way. It’s what any normal person would do, and the law says you can do it. I sympathize with celebrities who get hounded and abused by the paparazzi, but one guy with a video camera in front of Starbucks who points his camera at you for ten seconds as you walk out drinking coffee is not a stalkarazzi. Damn Quentin. Where do you get off?
Watch the video and be depressed:
