"I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man’s game and I like the idea of an umbilical-cord connection from my first to my last movie. I’m not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I’m still hard...."
Said Quentin Tarantino.
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Is it really legitimate, though, to use "hard" in the autosexual context in which Tarantino necessarily employs it?
Is it really legitimate, though, to use "hard" in the autosexual context in which Tarantino necessarily employs it?
I can't imagine caring less.
That's a hard question.
Where's the Hillary 2016 tag?
"Is it really legitimate, though, to use "hard" in the autosexual context in which Tarantino necessarily employs it?"
It goes well with the other phrase: "get off."
Shorter Tarantino: Get off and get off.
""I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off.""
Sound advice for strippers, also.
Beverly Sills made a similar decision. Marlene Dietrich did not.
He's right, but how does one know when they're really done? Elvis, Marlon Brando, and Nixon all had big career-defining comebacks. But in each case they could have flamed out, and been seen as being forced off the stage.
As for Tarantino, I can't say I've been a fan of his recent efforts, and cant' really put a finger on why. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were two of my favorite movies.
"Beverly Sills made a similar decision. Marlene Dietrich did not."
But Dietrich famously fell off the stage one time.
@Althouse, yes! I forgot that moment.
"...and I hate guns, but put warehouses full of them in the hands of my characters, because I hate them so much."
How odd. In the article Tarantino is adamant in his hatred of digital shooting, which he sees as the future of filmmaking. But he and Robert Rodríguez are, like, besties, and Robert Rodríguez is Mister Digital.
One of the most overrated directors out theer. He never got past his infantilezation of the cinematic process. All of his movies (save Jackie brown) are just comic books. Sometimes it works, but often its crap.
If that's the case, he should look into Viagra.
"I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off."
Would that Barack Obama had heeded this advice two years ago.
"Would that Barack Obama had heeded this advice two years ago."
Given that Obama won the election two years ago, one cannot validly say he was being begged to leave the stage, but received the approval to continue.
John Huston made some great films when he was older, the Man Who Would be King, Chinatown and The Dead.. During the last one he was in a wheelchair and hooked up to an oxygen tank., he died before it was released. It's a beautiful movie. He was an artist who made great stuff when he was young and also when quite old, but kind of a mixed bag when middle aged. A wonderfully extravagant character.
I wish Kubrick had lived much longer and made more movies.
Why didn't Obama follow Quentin Tarantino's advice? We would have been shed of him in 2012.
A young man's game when the old man is out of ideas and originality.
Directing is a talented person's game for as long as he/she has the talent, and the box office.
I guess he's referring to auto-erotic asphyxiation, which is how David Carradine(star of Kill Bill) died. That is "going out hard".
Go for it Quentin.
jr... Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece. Royale with Cheese.
I was begging to get out of "Kill Bill, Vol 1".
He never got past his infantilezation of the cinematic process.
Not to mention his fetishization of violence. "Jackie Brown" (thanks for the reminder) was an exception, and "Pulp Fiction" would have been, except for the Zed's basement scene.
Interesting that this should come out as Clint Eastwood, at 84, readies his "American Sniper" for Oscar qualification runs. Eastwood still creates phenomenally good movies on his own terms.
Tarantino, who I like less and less with each film he directs, is being a pretentious ass. He's working the room to get the backing he wants. If he wants to stop at ten, fine. I wish he'd stop now. But I doubt he will, because he's going to have a bomb soon, and his ego won't allow that to pass. Except for the diehards, his formalistic predictability is becoming boring for most.
Robert Rodriguez remains relevant only because of Tarantino's backing. He's found a comfortable niche as a director of horror and anti-gringo gore-fests. He does, and sticks to, what he's capable of.
So then, why is Tarantino still making movies? His time to stop while ahead has long passed.
Given that Obama won the election two years ago, one cannot validly say he was being begged to leave the stage, but received the approval to continue.
Last week's election constitutes the electorate begging Obama to get off stage. The idea is to leave before you reach that point, not two years later when you're going anyway.
A colleague tells me that there was light snow on the ground this morning in northern Alabama. Sort of suggests anthropogenic global warming isn't the problem it has been cracked up to be.
Meanwhile we have no hard data that tells us whether more people are lacking healthcare coverage after Obamacare than before.
Want me to go on?
Or, he could change genres.
Tarantino is an amazing director. He won't leave his genre, which limits his appeal. I have no doubt he'd be hailed as an auteur if he'd make more mainstream movies.
His choice. His reasons.
I should do an experiment.
I'll test how many comments it takes for the word "Obama" to show up. I'll test what subjects are least likely to cause the word to appear. Then I'll start a blog on that subject.
It was a silly thing to say, but Pulp Fiction was a wonderful movie and I enjoyed Inglorious Bastards. He seems to have some weird obsessions that get in the way of his filmmaking.but who cares,, really? Bill Murray recently said that it is amazing ANY movie ever gets made.
Dustbunny, John Huston appeared in Chinatown, but it was directed by Roman Polanski. Also, one could say that throughout his career, Huston's movies were a mixed bag, if only because no one hits a home run in every at-bat. I would consider at least two of his movies among the best ever, Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Asphalt Jungle is considered by many to be a great film, Moby Dick is very underrated- they were both made in his middle age. All in all, John Huston was one of the giants of American cinema.
Of, course, you are right Michael Fitzgerald! I am a big Huston fan and that was a ridiculous mistake, thanks for the correction. I guess on some level, I think of it as a Huston film as he created such a repellant but indelible character! But I think he was written off for awhile because he made a number of films to finance a very expensive life.
There was also Fat City and Night of the Iguana. .
Hi Dustbunny, I think you're probably right about Huston making movies to pay the bills. In his autobiography An Open Book, he talks about eventually having to leave his castle in Ireland because he couldn't afford it anymore. If you haven't read it, it's a great read by a guy who was an incredible storyteller. Lots of personal anecdotes involving his father the great actor and his mother who was a crime reporter for a New York City tabloid(she mentored Sam Fuller, and Fuller tells some terrific tales about her in his autobiography A Third Face), his marriage to Evelyn Keyes, his fight with Errol Flynn, and so much more from a Hollywood legend who was there during the golden years and was a large part of making them great.
Well, I've liked all of Tarantino's movies so far. I can see his wanting to stop while he still has a solid body of work. The brilliant directors of the 70s and 80s pretty much all outstayed their welcomes.
Was he talking about death panels?
Average joe , thanks, I haven't read.An Open Book,but I did read a doorstopper called The Hustons which is quite good, covering three generations of a remarkable family. I was recently in Ireland and people still talk about Huston and his time living in county Galway.. He cut quite a mythic figure for a modernist.
Clint Eastwood, who is no slouch in the interesting old guy dept. made a movie in which he played Huston as he was making African Queen. Had to look up the name, White Hunter, Black Heart.
revenant is disagree with you about Scorsese and Spielberg. Though I guess you'd argue they are actually 70's directors. They've stayed relatively consistent in their output.
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jr... Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece. Royale with Cheese.
No the reservoir dogs and pulp had a lot of interesting things in them. Along with some strange choices. At the time I thought those choices were cool because they were different, but now I'm thinking they were just tarantinoisms. The more he does them the less I care for them.
Incidentally the song Misrilou that opens the move. I happened to take my mom to see that when it came out. And when it started playing my mom turned to me and said she thinks my great uncle either write it or was the first person to perform it in the Us. My mom says that it's family lore that he sold the rights to it at the time for 5 bucks but was the author and not just performing it.
I did say that tarantinos movies work sometimes. And in a few cases he did hit it out of the park. But I'm starting to think it was accidental as opposed to b cause of some genius.
Same thing with copolla. Godfather was beyond great. His other movies, meh.
AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
Robert Cook said...
"Would that Barack Obama had heeded this advice two years ago."
"Given that Obama won the election two years ago, one cannot validly say he was being begged to leave the stage, but received the approval to continue."
Normally true. But that was an asterix election if ever there was one. Using the IRS to suppress your opponents, lying about the ACA and hiding the effects until after the election, benghazi, fast and furious, DOJ interference and the pardoning of convicted vote frauds.
The best part about republican control of the senate is all of the ethics hearings and investigations that will be harder to stonewall.
Tarantino movies are just too violent. They celebrate violence. They celebrate torture, in fact.
The early ones - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown - were good enough that the extreme violence was just one part of a great story and moviegoing experience.
The latter ones, the violence overwhelms the story.
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