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Patrick Stewart slams `Kill Bill'
PATRICK STEWART blamed the film industry for the global culture of violence against women. "The entertainment industry has been extremely irresponsible in perpetuating and stereotyping the violent attitudes of men to women," Stewart said during the London launch of an Amnesty International campaign against assault on women.
He picked out Quentin Tarantino's revenge tale, Kill Bill, for particular criticism and said, "violence against women diminishes us all. I condemn utterly films like Kill Bill. We are told it is about empowering women. All it does is empower a woman to kill other women.''
Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, was overcome by emotion when he talked of his experiences as a child. Patrick disclosed that he felt miserable and degraded as he watched his father's descent into alcohol-fuelled violence against his mother and disgusted as the people around them turned a blind eye.
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