“I’d love to make a film in Italy. I love Leone and Morricone »- time.news

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from Valerio Cappelli

The director collects the Lifetime Achievement Award from Dario Argento: today it is less easy to shoot a film in freedom. The more permissive 90s? About Pulp fiction. As a young man I made up lies in my resume, wrote that I had acted for Godard and Romero






Quentin, oh yeah. Tarantino’s day at the Film Festival, and the famous US director collects the Lifetime Achievement Award from the hands of Dario Argento, joyfully decorated with video messages from three of his fetish actors, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. I’d love to shoot a film in Italy, Cinecitt would be crazy. I love Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone more than any other, he was a real giant. He talks about his passion for cinema larger than life, he punctuates the questions with grimaces that make him look like Popeye, he hears shrill screams of satisfaction and gestures like crazy with his overflowing communicativeness. I’ve always had a high opinion of myself, especially as a screenwriter. He tells of when as a boy he wrote an actor’s resume with two lies: I wrote that I had acted for Godard in Re Lear, a terrifying movie, you can’t last more than five minutes and I thought that no one had seen it anyway. Then one of Romero’s zombies, in the scene of a motorcycle gang there was one who looked like me. I hadn’t done anything yet, I had to start somewhere. The first movie you saw? An English film of secret agents, there was a sadomasochistic scene of which the political-sexual part escaped me. I was five.

In the meantime, he reviews his films, and when a scene of violence runs through he laughs heartily. In 2020 he became Leo’s father: It seems done on purpose, my priorities with him have changed, I had him at the end of my career. But he is only 58 years old, it will be that America has its own times. Plunging instead into the past of the Second World War, having rewritten it, in Inglourious Basterds, was it consoling? Writing that film I didn’t say to myself, well, now I’m changing the story. I got myself trapped, I didn’t know how to get out I killed Hitler in a movie theater. It seemed like a good idea. To those who criticized me I replied, hey, my stuff, I invented it and I can do whatever I want.

He redesigned the boundaries of the screen by altering our imagery with new languages ​​and techniques, using hyper-realistic dialogues, go-go violence, cinephile quotes. Is cinema less free to express itself today? more difficult but not impossible, you have to want it, believe it. It is not good to think too much. Pulp Fiction it was very successful but to those who are already heavy I wanted to say: I made a film about gangsters, what are your problems? Over time I realized that you shouldn’t take it too hard, if a film becomes a topic of conversation you can see that it leaves its mark, and okay. I have learned to accept those who insult me. I made that film in the late 80s, even those were repressive times, I believe that the permissiveness of the 90s owes something to Pulp Fiction.

For his colleague David Cronenberg, the dead cinema. What do you think? impossible to answer, we’ll see, I have a room that does the revival entitled New Beverly and there is an incredible turnout after the pandemic, I just bought another one, I don’t think it’s dead. Maybe it will be niche. If we talk about box office receipts in 3,000 theaters, I don’t know. Curtains and gags open, the Tarantino Show, he has an omnivorous curiosity, he really looks like a puppet in his funny expressions. There is a silent film that I would cancel, The Birth of a Nation of 1915, led to the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Is there a character in your films that you would be friends with and one you wouldn’t get along with? We take Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Rick Dalton, the declining actor played by Leo DiCaprio, a crybaby and doesn’t realize the good life he had; maybe with Cliff, his stunt double (Brad Pitt) I would be fine. But I’ve never created a world I would like to live in, let’s put it this way. He wrote a novel from that movie: I grew up reading books that are based on movies. I did too. a funny genre, the trash of literature. I like to play with the high and the low. With him sooner or later we talk about B movie and this time about B books: the letter of release that feeds the landings of his gigantic imaginary Normandy on the screen.

October 19, 2021 (change October 20, 2021 | 11:39)

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