michael, toure, ari, anthea. film and whether or not the film had a morality problem. it also has an inward problem, inward issue, you could say. people are going to go in this film and hear the "n" word a lot even for a quentin tarantino film. >> 110 times. >> knowing tarantino's work, he does use that word a lot. toure, do you think it's defensible this time for him to have that word in there so much? >> absolutely. i want to undercut the discussion but this is the most simplistic and base discussion we could have about this movie. we're in 1853, 1854 -- >> it was a prevalent term used against black people at the time. >> to not use it in this movie would be sort of ahistorical. it would be strange. it doesn't feel out of place as it does in some of the other movies where he uses it to say this thug is amoral or has lack of character or this black person has this sort of super cool thing or the thing he talked about yesterday with jimmy in "pulp fiction" as a separate usage. but there's three ways tarantino use