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Salomé Chief Executive


Posts : 3037 Member Since : 2011-03-17
 | Subject: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:05 pm | |
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Makeshift Python Chief Executive


Posts : 7002 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Up
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:45 am | |
| It'll be interesting to see what happens down the line. At this point, I don't think Marvel is gonna have major blows. They've become too savvy with their marketing to fail, they're giving the masses what they want, for better or worse. It's other studios out there scrambling to get films with brand recognition going that I think will hurt the most like Sony, as the deal with MGM will be expiring after SPECTRE.
On an different note, I'll be going to his New Beverly Theater this Friday for a double feature of SUSPICION and NOTORIOUS. |
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Control Chief Executive


Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:43 am | |
| Sorry, but a filmmaker that renounces John Ford, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles isn't to be taken seriously.
Ungrateful shit.
I'll see HATEFUL EIGHT for Jennifer Jason Leigh, though. Maybe it'll reboot her career. |
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Makeshift Python Chief Executive


Posts : 7002 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Up
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:13 pm | |
| For me, what HATEFUL EIGHT has going for it is a 70mm screening. I always like to take any opportunity of catching those, particularly ones actually shot in that format. Plus it has Kurt Russell.
Aside from those, there's not much else about that flick that interests me. |
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Salomé Chief Executive


Posts : 3037 Member Since : 2011-03-17
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:22 pm | |
| - Control wrote:
- Sorry, but a filmmaker that renounces John Ford, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles isn't to be taken seriously.
Ungrateful shit.
I'll see HATEFUL EIGHT for Jennifer Jason Leigh, though. Maybe it'll reboot her career.
I know he rejects Ford for his supposed racism, but why did he renounce Kubrick and Welles exactly? |
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HJackson Experienced Correspondent


Posts : 465 Member Since : 2011-03-19 Location : Cambridge, UK
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:31 pm | |
| It's interesting that he rejects Ford because he once took a role as an extra in a massive Hollywood production when he was a young man (truly irrefutable evidence of racism, regardless of the political content of later films like The Searchers and Sergeant Rutledge) yet continues to admire William Friedkin despite Friedkin's apparent sympathy for The Birth of a Nation a century after the film was produced. |
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Salomé Chief Executive


Posts : 3037 Member Since : 2011-03-17
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:35 pm | |
| - HJackson wrote:
- It's interesting that he rejects Ford because he once took a role as an extra in a massive Hollywood production when he was a young man (truly irrefutable evidence of racism, regardless of the political content of later films like The Searchers and Sergeant Rutledge) yet continues to admire William Friedkin despite Friedkin's apparent sympathy for The Birth of a Nation a century after the film was produced.
Friedkins appraisal of that film's politics is odd. Most people who admire the innovation and technical qualities of "Birth" would readily admit that it is racist by any modern POV. On the other hand, I'm not really that interested in Friedkins historical interpretation. |
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Makeshift Python Chief Executive


Posts : 7002 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : Up
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:36 pm | |
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Salomé Chief Executive


Posts : 3037 Member Since : 2011-03-17
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:39 pm | |
| Well I would agree with the notion that contemporary Howard Hawks was ultimately a much more interesting filmmaker, though obviously Ford's accomplishments in defining the medium should not be understated. |
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Control Chief Executive


Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:06 am | |
| - Salomé wrote:
- Control wrote:
- Sorry, but a filmmaker that renounces John Ford, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles isn't to be taken seriously.
Ungrateful shit.
I'll see HATEFUL EIGHT for Jennifer Jason Leigh, though. Maybe it'll reboot her career.
I know he rejects Ford for his supposed racism, but why did he renounce Kubrick and Welles exactly?
Your guess is as good as mine. Here's the interview, though: https://youtu.be/F4DkfxEv7ZU?t=8m41s"Fuck those guys, they ain't so good. Ain't so hot." |
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Strangways&Quarrel Experienced Correspondent


Posts : 283 Member Since : 2013-03-27 Location : Florida
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:51 pm | |
| Tarantino, love some of his movies, but he does remind me of a crazy IMDb message board poster at times. And I would think writer Jim Thompson would of been the more appropriate person to thank instead of Lionel White because while White wrote the book for The Killing from what I understand the final film is owed more to Thompson than White's source material which was changed significantly by Thompson and Kubrick. Hell he should thank him anyways because he took El Rey from Thompson's book The Getaway (the basis for the Peckinpah film) and put it in From Dusk till Dawn. |
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Erica Ambler Chief Executive


Posts : 6218 Member Since : 2011-08-05
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:28 pm | |
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hegottheboot Senior Correspondent

Posts : 628 Member Since : 2012-01-09 Location : TN, USA
 | Subject: Re: Tarantino's New York magazine interview Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:19 am | |
| I had most of that from being a film nerd as a kid, my difference was that I didn't care about genre dreck that he adores and focused on the classics. Not to mention that I didn't have access to any of them so all I could do was read about them in giant dusty old film texts that I had to do interlibrary loans for. The first time I got see any of these was usually waiting for the Movies Unlimited catalog and doing VHS mail order, late night TV airings after scanning the weekly newspaper listing and then when we finally got TCM in the late 90's it was like a new window into the world. Kids today have it so easy. I remember splicing back together damaged VHS tapes from the mail. But doggone it I was going to finally see Potemkin!
He merely worked at a video store and watched thousands of VHS tapes...most of which were pan and scan.
Does this mean I can get a job somewhere?
Reservoir Dogs is such a piece of garbage. Not because it isn't very good, not because it doesn't have much story, not because it feels almost stagebound in its emptiness and staging-but because it unabashedly rips off the setup of the climax of the superior Hong Kong classic CITY ON FIRE. With no credit, no admission and no reprimand. I don't know hoe he got away with it, but it's so blatant that when you finally see COF you suddenly find yourself going...hey wait where have I heard this before...how in the hell.... The reason why Dogs has little story? It merely rips off the ending of the film and pads it out for a longer feature runtime. All the character buildup is excised. If he wanted to make a great film he should have done a full English remake and then applied his banter dialogue. But that wouldn't have made him such an early indie darling now would it?
I don't dislike the guy, I hate most of his films due to their lack of substance and for setting the craft back years. And the one time he made an adult good feature, it didn't do so well and we started getting the really stupid stuff with nothing but genre throwbacks. |
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