As "Django Unchained" star Samuel L. Jackson explained to the Los Angeles Times, Quentin Tarantino "has an affinity Quentin has an affinity for writing horrible things and then making you laugh."
But not everyone's laughing at Tarantino's morally ambiguous yarn about a fugitive slave's quest to rescue his wife from a cruel Mississippi slave owner. Spike Lee, director of "Do the Right Thing," and more recently, "Red Hook Summer," has vowed not to see the Christmas Day blockbuster that has viewers divided on whether its cheeky take on slavery makes light of the institution's horrors.