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Quentin Tarantino says a little more about what his version of Casino Royale could have been.
Hi all,
It's been awhile. Recently I got to chat with Quentin Tarantino about The Hateful Eight and managed to broach the subject of Casino Royale. I was hoping to find out a little more about the larger "pitch process" and how far along he was but he was surprisingly open about his approach to it.
As usual any comments or thoughts appreciated.
Veering slightly from Hateful, is there any chance you could tell us a little bit about your experience with Quentin Tarantino's version of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale?
Quentin Tarantino: Well you know, if I could have done it in the way I truly wanted to do it. I was open to do it in two different ways, because I really likes Pierce Brosnan. I though he did a really good job I didn't think any of the movies were that great, but I though he was a really good James Bond.
So it wouldn't have had all the action scenes that the James Bond movies keep fitting in and the action scenes that would have been there would have been directed by me not a series of other guys you hire, I'm not talking about Sam Mendes - he does his own action scenes. Full post here... http://www.theestablishingshot.com/2016/01/i-chat-with-quentin-tarantino-about-his.html
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It's been awhile. Recently I got to chat with Quentin Tarantino about The Hateful Eight and managed to broach the subject of Casino Royale. I was hoping to find out a little more about the larger "pitch process" and how far along he was but he was surprisingly open about his approach to it.
As usual any comments or thoughts appreciated.
Veering slightly from Hateful, is there any chance you could tell us a little bit about your experience with Quentin Tarantino's version of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale?
Quentin Tarantino: Well you know, if I could have done it in the way I truly wanted to do it. I was open to do it in two different ways, because I really likes Pierce Brosnan. I though he did a really good job I didn't think any of the movies were that great, but I though he was a really good James Bond.
So it wouldn't have had all the action scenes that the James Bond movies keep fitting in and the action scenes that would have been there would have been directed by me not a series of other guys you hire, I'm not talking about Sam Mendes - he does his own action scenes. Full post here... http://www.theestablishingshot.com/2016/01/i-chat-with-quentin-tarantino-about-his.html
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Interesting to read, but glad it didn't happen his way. Casting a 50+ year old Pierce Brosnan in Casino Royale wouldn't have worked at all (I presume any reference to Bond being a new and inexperienceed agent would have been dropped!), and his idea for Bond killing Vesper seems to completely change the intent of the book.
I think we ended up with the best possible Casino Royale.
3 hours of talk involving multiple hip culture references with classic 70s pop playing in the background and in the last 2 mins, everyone gets shot in a total bloodbath,
IMHO the sign of a really great director is that they can alter their style to fit the movie (Spielberg was superb for BoS) but QT is in danger of becoming a pastiche of himself. A great shame as the guy clearly loves movies and is very talented
Yeah I've pretty much tuned out from Tarantino since the Kill Bill films. I love all his films up till then but just have no real desire to see any of his films thereafter. I don't know why, I guess because I've had the impression that those films are just Tarantino doing Tarantino. I really like how enthusiastic about film he is though.
I'm no Tarantino expert but I imagine that it would probably be prohibitively violent for a Bond film and end up being an 18 certification.
They both coincidentally also have a tendency for self indulgence (probably comes with being creative geniuses).
I have never been confident about Tarantino's possible association (despite being a huge fan of his), although I think Nolan could do something fantastic with it.
If I was to let Tarantino go anywhere near Bond, it would be as an advisor, to write dialogue and work on character development (I have no doubt he would have got much more out of Waltz & come up with some wonderful performances from others, as the evidence has shown).
Re his dialogue, he has this habit of characters going off on tangents and dicussing the trivia of life (and referencing cultural points) but I cant see this working in a Bond movie. Bond is not the chatty type and does not have time for tittle tattle (Royale with Cheese, Mr Bond?) But he is good at portraying evil and producing terror on the screen, he could help with that perhaps
One of Fleming's strengths was the fact that often in his novels, he had yis characters indulge in dialogues or monologues that had nothing to do with the main plot. For exemple, the "Players Cigarettes Sailor" story that Domino told Bond in "Thunderball". All these elements of course were cut for the movies, given that they would interfere with the action. Well, Tarentino loves to do the same. For example, in Kill Bill IIhe has Elle Driver told Budd the biology of the Black Mamba snake while he's dying. Or the SS officer who teach the Basterds how to play the game in the bar scene in "Inglouious Basterds". Or the "Royal with Cheese" from Pulp Fiction. Or... well this is a very long list. Sodoing a Flemingesque Bond story with this kind of stuff would be right his alley. And for those of us who think that Bond should be action only, remember what the most memorable scene from SF was ? The entrance of Silva, telling the story of how you can control a rat infestation. Pure Fleming.
I think he did this scene also, another example of going off on a tangent (although it did have a payoff right at the end)
I feel almost the opposite. I think Nolan is far too emotionally cold and detached from his movies (he's such a professional that I often wonder if he even loves what he's doing). For me, that element of heart and flavor and fun and warmth is a huge part of a Bond film. For the same reasons, I wouldn't ever want David Fincher near the series, and he's a director I rate higher than Nolan.
Tarantino always injects that love for the project. You can feel it in every frame, like the movie or not.
And Samuel Jackson would make interesting Bond ;)
Tarantino is much warmer, and his character work is first class. His films have no deficit in the charisma dept.
I still think dialogue (and perhaps casting) is where he's best.
As a small example, the title sequence for TGWTDT is very Bond-like (in a way, almost a darker version of the SP sequence) and I'd love to see Trent take a crack at a Bond song. Inception had that OHMSS homage which was really well done, and BB had the Wayne/Fox scenes, which had Bond written all over them.
So a combination of Fincher/Nolan with a bit of Tarantino warmth/wit thrown in is exactly what I'd like in a perfect Bond film I think. Oh, and maybe a little Mann as well.
Too much to ask of course.
But yeah, Nolan loves Bond. Inception is full of it.
His main man Jackson was in it, and it had that gory church scene. Hmm...