Oh yes, my first Quentin Tarantino post here on the great Slash. Warning: I am not going to get to the point. There are some directors I still cannot wait to interview. Not Tarantino. Like Michael Jordan, a living Bobby Fisher, Gregory Isaacs, J.D. Salinger, the Rza, or my favorite ex gal, I’d rather just buy Tarantino an Irish Car Bomb at a dark bar with a good juke box and not say a word except “On me.” Wait, does that come off a little Linda Fiorentino pervy? What I meant was: I think Tarantino operates on a level beyond brain-picking. I motherf***ing owe Tarantino. I don’t deserve the company of his clone, yet.
When you interview someone, you’re always measuring expectations against facial tics, grammar, personality and cell-phone ‘ruptions. It’s like speed dating and sometimes a publicist (who offers and smokes huge joints, hey) helps, but sometimes not. I absolutely hated, despised…studied my arm rest during Death Proof; but I don’t use it against Tarantino. I cannot. Are you kidding? It was like Jordan wearing 45 and fouling a lay-up or getting a shot thrown into the stands. It was an insult, to me. I know this: when QT delivers Inglorious Bastards, whether it’s one, two or four films, I am never going to experience that experience again. Yep.
I don’t think I could ever have a movie-themed wedding. No friggin’ way. But the most perfect, romantic experience of my life happened during Kill Bill Vol. 2. I sat beside this icy, ice-skinned metropolitan gal from a middle-class fam, and we were practically broken up at that point. And, at film’s end, she said, “that was so good,” and these Q*berts behind us said, “Where the fuck was the blood?” We got it. I wanted to wrap her up like a small box of candy. She got it. She kissed me when it was over because that was a real woman on screen. Pai Mei. We were a sort of perfection. I was honored.
We played darts to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with a Ferrari parked outside, and after that we did some crazy things, but all I remember is basking at her when those credits rolled. That shit makes me cry. Uma writhing on a bathroom floor on a glorious new morning? It was me and her, and the perfection was realized by Tarantino. I would do anything to live that moment over and over. Fucking double-credits. That’s my love. I love QT.
There is a rather informative interview with Tarantino over at Sight&Sound. I have $300 on the game tonight, so here are some excerpts…
Inglorious Bastards.…
“I’ve got tons of material and a lot of stuff written but now I’ve figured out what to do, I gotta start from page one, square one. I started just before I came on this trip and brought the stuff with me but I haven’t had a chance to continue yet. But maybe on the flight back home I’ll come back into it. I love writing in other countries. It’s a lot of fun.”
Same stuff we’ve been hearing for quite a while, right?
But, of course, QT is going to drop a new project on the Netz…and he never dOes it on purpose…
“I’d like to make a spy movie. I can’t ever imagine that I’m doing it though because, as much as I’m attracted to it, it ultimately would be just pictures of people talking to each other. One of the books that I’m reading right now is Len Deighton’s Berlin Game, part of the ‘Game, Set and Match’ trilogy. So I’m reading Berlin Game. I actually read it before years ago and I didn’t properly get into Mexico Set, and now I have to read them all over again.”
So, how plausible is a Game, Set, Match trilogy….
” It has a great twist at the end of one that sends the stories into a tailspin. So if I were to do it - which I’m doing as an exercise here - I would see if I could boil it down to the fat of the characters, and ignore all this Maquis double agent stuff. It would be interesting if I could reduce the three novels to an hour each and make a three hour movie that would have a big kind of impact, just by responding to the characters, and the wonderful chance of casting actors in it, and the nice environment of the drawing room and the cottages in this part of East Berlin, with the Wall still there and everything”
And, QT on Digital…
“To me 97 per cent of the use of digital is laziness. They are trying to make it easier on themselves, and it shows. If you don’t care enough about your movie to shoot it yourself, I don’t care enough about it enough to see it. But in those cases where they are creating a whole new cinematic landscape, I can’t be churlish about that. I’ve got to give it up. It adds another possibility in which to tell stories, and create pictures.”
I love Tarantino, and I look forward to his next vision like a message from god or like a phone call at 4 a.m. from a girlfriend telling me to fly down and catch up. There are no mistakes in this career, I feel, just details. I am the dummy.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
this is your best article yet Hunter. honestly, yer best! i love QT as much as you, and i feel that i ‘owe him’, too - but for different reasons. i wish he’d make more movies, but i understand that he just works a different way. a trilogy of inglorious bastards would be my wish for his next outing, but maybe that will come towards the end of his career, years down the road, a swan song of sorts. you are really personalizing yer articles, and it’s something we don’t really see on /film, i like it.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
The self-indulgence and gratuitiousness of this post was kind of amazing. I can understand how someone might not like Death Proof, but I can’t understand how someone who loves other Tarantino stuff doesn’t like it. I thought Death Proof was absolutely fantastic.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I didn’t think Death Proof worked well, in any way shape or form,… with Planet Terror. Now that Ive watched it repeatedly in my Jack Rabbit Slims Home Theater I can be sure, and assure you, it is excellent. Yes. It is. You’ll come around to this treasure. Maybe if you get head after you see it at home that might help things too.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I’ve lost some respect for you, Hunter. I’m sure you don’t give a damn, but that’s what happens when you write one-sided bullshit like this. Why don’t you take Tarantino’s D out of your mouth for long enough to realize the guy is a hack?
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Your posts are about as annoying as Tarantino himself. No one gives a shit about your ex girlfriend.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:31 am
@jDerek
Yours might be my favorite comment ever. Thank you.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Could you suck up anymore? Seriously. You’re sad.
KILL BILL SUCKED.
February 4th, 2008 at 6:21 am
I wonder how much the WGA likes that he is off writing in other countries.
Just sayin.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:35 am
You’re certainly not going to get to the point… And remember sycophants never make for good interviewers or reporters.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Whoa — did Tarantino just slam his buddy Robert Rodriguez? I mean, Rodriguez wouldn’t be a filmmaker without digital, and Tarantino says it’s mostly crap? Ouch.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Oh, is Quentin talking again? Maybe he should make a movie about a highly over-rated movie director who can’t STFU.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:10 am
wow! that was one of the sloppiest blow jobs i’ve ever read.
tarantino is a thief. not an original idea to be found in kill bill.
also, please use spell check.
thanks!
February 4th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Oh shit, i thought you actually interviewed him. All that preamble for nothing? Gross.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I loved Death Proof, and so did my brother which says alot because he really dosen’t like that type of film. I loved the preamble.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
people getting all aggy , haha he mentioned the rza props i liked this read
February 4th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Jeez, is there a way to filter out all posts by this f*cktard? Quentin Tarantino by himself is probably the worst thing to ever happen to cinema, but this so-called “article” is even more nauseating.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
JESUS CHRIST! I just read that Sight and Sound interview. Or most of it. I have never, NEVER wanted to kick someone’s motherfucking bitch-ass so bad in my life. What an unbelieveable cocksucker Tarantino is. I couldn’t even finish the thing because I was beginning to choke from the bullshit and was afraid I might vomit on my keyboard. I’m tossing my copy of Pulp Fiction in the trash tonight. Fuck that guy.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
God, you are such a suck-up, that was disgusting.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Its like those national lottery programmes where you have to sit through an hour of rubbish just to get to when the numbers are read out-no one cares about your ex. Seriously do you still have the flu?
February 6th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Is it true that Rodriguez and Tarant-beano had a falling out over Grindhouse? Apparently RR couldn’t believe how much QT ripped off Mad Max, that’s why RR was so silent during the promotional campaign.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Ha. I can’t imagine Rodriguez getting upset with someone for “ripping off” anything for Grindhouse. And Death Proof was far more interesting than Planet Terror and actually tweaked genre and paid homage to old bad movies while making something new and good. Planet Terror was just making another bad movie, similar to other bad movies.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
everyone is so negative. Didn’t anyone ever teach you if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all. If everyone followed this rule most of the people who post comments on these kinds of sights would have nothing to say. Peace and love people.
Peace and love and puppies and rainbows and pretty pretty flowers.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
If you like Qt wait and watch. If you don’t like QT don’t wait and watch. If you wanna sit there and type your shitty criticism then it’s about time you started making your own fucken movies. yapping fucks