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Quentin Tarantino: A Reflection On His Movies and His Opinions

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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    peter wrote: »
    I believe Tarantino when he says he won’t direct another film. He's a quirky and an eccentric man, with an encyclopedic knowledge of films. He set this little deadline for himself because I think that’s the way this guy’s brain functions.

    I do look forward to him writing scripts (both feature and TV), plays and novels. I also can see him producing, and doing some teaching.

    He has a full career to look forward to after this tenth film…
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Whether it's more books, original scripts, TV shows, or some long-awaited miniseries he's flirted with doing in the past, I personally can't wait to see what he does with The Movie Critic and beyond. I also think he'll stick to his word but I can't say I'd ever be upset if he decides to un-retire and come back for one more film some years later.

    I agree with you both on all your opinions. You know what I want out of him sooner or later: 2 books, Double V Vega and The Films of Rick Dalton.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Yes and yes to both of those, please, @MaxCasino. I bet he has a lot of original material he could use to create new books that help flesh out his films and universe even more.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Yes and yes to both of those, please, @MaxCasino. I bet he has a lot of original material he could use to create new books that help flesh out his films and universe even more.

    Hear, hear! I would be curious about Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight getting stage adaptations, they would work well. If QT wanted to write a Bond or Star Trek book, I'd be ok with that as well.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    peter wrote: »
    I believe Tarantino when he says he won’t direct another film. He's a quirky and an eccentric man, with an encyclopedic knowledge of films. He set this little deadline for himself because I think that’s the way this guy’s brain functions.

    I do look forward to him writing scripts (both feature and TV), plays and novels. I also can see him producing, and doing some teaching.

    He has a full career to look forward to after this tenth film…

    As long as he also promises to retire from "acting"
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    talos7 wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    I believe Tarantino when he says he won’t direct another film. He's a quirky and an eccentric man, with an encyclopedic knowledge of films. He set this little deadline for himself because I think that’s the way this guy’s brain functions.

    I do look forward to him writing scripts (both feature and TV), plays and novels. I also can see him producing, and doing some teaching.

    He has a full career to look forward to after this tenth film…

    As long as he also promises to retire from "acting"

    Hahaha, yes, absolutely. Never have been a fan of his "acting"... That was a genuine laugh out loud comment @talos7 !!!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Yes and yes to both of those, please, @MaxCasino. I bet he has a lot of original material he could use to create new books that help flesh out his films and universe even more.

    Hear, hear! I would be curious about Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight getting stage adaptations, they would work well. If QT wanted to write a Bond or Star Trek book, I'd be ok with that as well.

    I know he even had plans earlier on to do a longer cut version of Django Unchained, incorporating unused footage, but not sure if that's a project he'd still return to. Hell, I'd even take a longer novel adaptation of his own script instead.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    https://variety.com/2024/film/global/zachary-levi-zoe-bell-free-fall-quentin-tarantino-1235972402/
  • Escalus5Escalus5
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    RESERVOIR DOGS has been adapted to the stage a few times. I think the first production was in Chicago in 1998.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Interesting, The Movie Critic is not happening.

    https://deadline.com/2024/04/quentin-tarantino-final-film-wont-be-the-movie-critic-scrapped-1235888577/
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Just read about this, that’s insane. Guess after his very recent rewrite, he wasn’t feeling where it was at considering it’ll be his final film. Really eager to see what he ends up choosing but this is real surprising and a bit of a bummer since it was set to film soon.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    It's now or never, Quentin: let's make that sequel to The Hateful Eight!
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I’m somewhat not surprised, honestly. We haven’t learned much about it, since after the writers/actors strike. It would have been interesting to see Cliff Booth possibly come back. It gets made, it gets made. If not, oh well. QT could always turn it into a book. He knows what he’s doing.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    talos7 wrote: »
    Interesting, The Movie Critic is not happening.

    https://deadline.com/2024/04/quentin-tarantino-final-film-wont-be-the-movie-critic-scrapped-1235888577/

    @talos7 , that's cuz he's directing the new James Bond film with ATJ 🤫
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    😂
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    True to his 'artist' status. :-D You've got to love the man. ;-)
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    https://www.cbr.com/pulp-fiction-reunion-30th-anniversary-bruce-willis/
  • Since62Since62
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    Tarantino available for Bond for his 10th-and-last-film ? I doubt he would turn to someone else's franchise for his last, though I also offer great encouragement to QT that he figure the doing someone else's franchise film - Bond, Star Trek, Paddington, whatever - would not count toward the Ten. This also means he could direct two or three filmed one right after the other a la Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit and get in a few with an actor who would serve that trilogy and then move one. Someone who might be too old to stretch out their term, and so would go along with the film-a-trilogy's-worth-in-a-quick, well-planned stretch. Like, say, Pierce Brosnan...Idris Elba. Hmmm...maybe film them close together but each a one-off, or within the three there would be a pair and a single ? So he could work with BOTH ? Add George Lazenby and he could film 4. Simultaneously have others film the Moneypenny books, the post-Fleming Bonds, and Young Bonds. Those YBs should be filmed in their own timeframe, which follows - pretty much - Fleming's Bond's timeline. Yup, I'm still pitching all this and still liking it...
  • Colonel_VenusColonel_Venus
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    peter wrote: »
    talos7 wrote: »
    Interesting, The Movie Critic is not happening.

    https://deadline.com/2024/04/quentin-tarantino-final-film-wont-be-the-movie-critic-scrapped-1235888577/

    @talos7 , that's cuz he's directing the new James Bond film with ATJ 🤫

    Good news. I am pleased.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    If Tarantino were to do Trek or Bond, he’d likely not count that as his actual 10th film but regard it as his “franchise film”. He already kinda cheats by counting his two Kill Bill films as one.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    If Tarantino were to do Trek or Bond, he’d likely not count that as his actual 10th film but regard it as his “franchise film”. He already kinda cheats by counting his two Kill Bill films as one.

    This is the case. He's admitted as much when that Star Trek film was gearing up.

    He also reiterated the other day that Kill Bill is technically two films but he sees them as one since he wrote it as one script.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    MakeshiftPython wrote: »
    If Tarantino were to do Trek or Bond, he’d likely not count that as his actual 10th film but regard it as his “franchise film”. He already kinda cheats by counting his two Kill Bill films as one.

    This is the case. He's admitted as much when that Star Trek film was gearing up.

    He also reiterated the other day that Kill Bill is technically two films but he sees them as one since he wrote it as one script.

    And he did shoot it as one film. It wasn’t until post-production that he agreed to split it in two. He was hoping to make it as long as an epic like ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, but the think Disney wouldn’t go for that.

    I actually live about less than half an hour away from the movie theater he owns in Hollywood. I’m always eagerly awaiting to see if he plays his single film cut there, but it’s been awhile now.
  • Escalus5Escalus5
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    Tarantino's obsession with the numbering of his movies is amusing when you consider that he still refuses to include FOUR ROOMS in his CV. Fellini had the pedantic bravery to include his anthology segments when he came up with the title for 8 1/2.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Escalus5 wrote: »
    Tarantino's obsession with the numbering of his movies is amusing when you consider that he still refuses to include FOUR ROOMS in his CV. Fellini had the pedantic bravery to include his anthology segments when he came up with the title for 8 1/2.
    Four Rooms, to be fair, is not the best film to have on one's resume, but I agree that Tarantino should add it.
    I generally enjoy Roth but he annoyed me in FR for some reason.
  • Escalus5Escalus5
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    Roth is dreadful in it, but what ultimately sinks the entire segment is Tarantino's decision to cast himself in a lead role. He's beyond terrible. Bruce Willis, who spends most of the segment yelling into a phone or drunkenly cursing, is completely wasted and should've played Tarantino's character.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    That was from a time when Tarantino still had aspirations of becoming a movie star. It’s what he always wanted to do before writing and directing took more precedence. I think by the time he was doing JACKIE BROWN he had finally given up those aspirations.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    edited April 22 Posts: 4,638
    Escalus5 wrote: »
    Tarantino's obsession with the numbering of his movies is amusing when you consider that he still refuses to include FOUR ROOMS in his CV. Fellini had the pedantic bravery to include his anthology segments when he came up with the title for 8 1/2.

    Well, we all know QT likes to make alternate history, IB, DU and OUATIH, you know what I mean. ;)
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/quentin-tarantino-movie-critic-what-happened-1235879479/?taid=6628f44f7eee480001a83fb7

    I hadn't heard of a lot of these names being attached, aside from Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
  • Scaramanga1974Scaramanga1974
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    It's now or never, Quentin: let's make that sequel to The Hateful Eight!

    The nasty nine?
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/quentin-tarantino-movie-critic-what-happened-1235879479/?taid=6628f44f7eee480001a83fb7

    I hadn't heard of a lot of these names being attached, aside from Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

    The original idea sounded kinda cool - sort of Boogie Nights-esque - but I don't think a spin off to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is worth doing really. Might just be me though, I wasn't a fan of that film. That said it felt a bit more like a 'final film' from Tarantino (and obviously his tenth will be his last).

    It's a bit difficult for me to get excited about a new Tarantino film though. But again, that might just be me.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    007HallY wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/quentin-tarantino-movie-critic-what-happened-1235879479/?taid=6628f44f7eee480001a83fb7

    I hadn't heard of a lot of these names being attached, aside from Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

    The original idea sounded kinda cool - sort of Boogie Nights-esque - but I don't think a spin off to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is worth doing really. Might just be me though, I wasn't a fan of that film. That said it felt a bit more like a 'final film' from Tarantino (and obviously his tenth will be his last).

    It's a bit difficult for me to get excited about a new Tarantino film though. But again, that might just be me.

    I can see what you mean. I’m getting a bit tired of his alternative history stories. However, it seems like he’s not totally done.

    https://www.cbr.com/sony-update-quentin-tarantino-final-film/
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