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2. On Account Of Operation Kino, Everyone Is A Whole Lot More TV & Movie Savvy - And Apathetic To Violence
One theory that has circulated around the internet in recent years hones in on the idea that Operation Kino had a huge and dramatic effect on the Tarantino-verse in general, in which characters in movies written and/or directed by the man himself were thus born into a world with a large emphasis on popular culture references - mainly that of TV and film. The theory goes that because Sgt. Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz - who Tarantino has confirmed is the father of Lee Donowitz (the sleaze-bag movie producer from True Romance) - machine-gunned Hitler to death (as opposed to Hitler killing himself in a bunker), American culture was slightly warped; mindless violence is more accepted and celebrated on account of Donowitz's bloody act, and due to the war ending in an actual movie theatre, Americans have grown up with a heightened passion for the cinema Which explains why Tarantino's characters are all imbued with an encyclopaedic knowledge of all things popular culture - it's a side effect of the end of the war, in which death and violence are viewed as "necessary" and movies and TV are seen as priority.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.