ok then.

OK, Dano was weak compared to Daniel Day Lewis, but who could have been an equal to Daniel Day Lewis? Right now Daniel Day is standing as our greatest actor and his performance in TWBB is one of the greatest ever captured on film. Given the limitations of the Dano character - his age specifically - what other actor would have been a fair match?

on top of that dano had a week to prepare

I think that must have been a deliberate choice by Anderson. I don't believe that the film is a metaphor for capitalism vs. evangelism, because Plainview is surrounded by typical, vanilla capitalists who want nothing to do with him, and Eli just wants to be like Plainview. The whole point is that Sunday and Plainview have the same ambitions, but Eli can't achieve them because he has to put up a facade of morality, and that weakens him. Consider the scene where Eli asks Daniel for the money he owes him, and Plainview, in a sense, baptizes him with mud. He's saying, "If you want to be like me, you have to get down in the dirt and work for your power/money/etc." Almost immediately afterward, Eli chokes his own father so that he can feel powerful like Daniel. As I said, the whole point of the film is that it's inevitable that he can't achieve what Daniel achieves, but since he still wants it, his only hope is to get it from Daniel, who would rather kill than have anything taken away from him.

I'm gonna go ahead and say "ouch" for Paul Dano.

I do agree with him though

You know, I do admire Tarantino, but sometimes he seems to be a little to self indulgent . . .

Water is wet, sun is hot, tarantino is self indulgent (but also a great filmmaker)

The guy has got a healthy ego. It's like he just assumes anyone he is talking to believes that he is the greatest living filmmaker. Hell, he may in fact be the greatest living filmmaker. I just don't want to hear it from him.

I absolutely love the guy's movies and I love to hear him talk about anything...except for himself. It gets a little on the nauseating side. His interview will Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment made me want to vomit. Didn't keep me from going out to see Inglourious Basterds a third time, though.

he should realize that it's daniel plainview, not longview.

Thanks for posting this. Tarantino is fantastic. Love him or hate him, he is undeniably an expert on film and film history. I look forward to seeing more of his critiques. It's like a free class in cinema theory.

I agree with everything he said except his comments about Paul Dano. I thought he was quite good he's not on the same level as Daniel Day-Lewis but who is.

You: "I thought he was quite good he's not on the same level as Daniel Day-Lewis but who is."

Tarantino: "It's not that theres anything bad about (his performance) it's just not on the level and the calibur of Daniel Day Lewis"

So you DO agree with his comments about Paul Dano.

Not really Tarantino seems to imply that maybe another actor could have been up to Daniel Day Lewis's level and I don't think that's possible.

anyone else think tarintino looks a bit like morrissey??

No.

I think I see what you're talking about.

although i like tarantino.
i think pt anderson is the better director.
but the video clip was a cool little treat to see.

Maybe, and this is a big maybe, but maybe this decade but not the last. Tarantino proved himself way back with Pulp Fiction. Anderson's just catching up. I say next 10 years we will see.

They are both great directors though.

That's interesting that this got posted, I was just wondering earlier today what Tarantino thought of TWBB, after what he said on Charlie Rose about biopics. (Even though I know it's fictional and more of a character study, but still, there's some very biopical elements to TWBB.)

Sorry Dalbro, but that makes no sense

Well on Charlie Rose, Tarantino said the only type of movie he doesn't like is a biopic, and it's sort of odd that he likes TWBB so much cause it's basically a biopic of a fictional character (albeit it only encompasses a certain part of his life and is fairly stylized).

No, I understood what you said.

It just doesn't make any sense

it makes sense to me. but i'm not smoking crack.

A biopic is a film based on a real person. There Will Be Blood is fiction. There is no such thing as a biopic of a fictional character.

Wow. 3 minutes of sucking up P. T. Anderson, 5 minutes of sucking up to Daniel Day-Lewis, 2 minutes of sucking up to himself.

Pathetic. He was commenting on a movie he enjoyed, wtf did you expect?

Sucking up to himself? If anything, he was admitting due credit to PT Anderson for inspiring Tarantino to do better...what's wrong with that?

Tarantino comparing himself to Brando? Who does he think he's kidding? You obviously.

I thought he was kidding when he called himself Brando. He was serious.

QT is basically the worst person alive. Man I hate him. How much of a pompous ass are you to, as a working filmmaker, review the work of another filmmaker - especially considering he said critics ruined movies. Like, not "some movies" but the entire art of making movies. Then, of course, the entire thing comes to a close with him saying "Oh and by the way, Inglorious Basterds, this is about me, I am amazing"

You know, he was kind of hired to give his two cents about this. He chose the movie, he introduced it, he told you why he chose it. It's not a pompous out to A) support your good friend, and B) credit him for inspiring himself to do better?
I'm sorry, but, to me you seem to be hating on him just because that's the cool thing to do. If you can provide solitary evidence that he is either the worst person alive or even a marginally bad person, fine, I'll concede, but as of right now, that's simply a baseless rant.

Sure, he's not the worst person on the planet. That is hyperbole. But he might be the most arrogant. If you want a few reasons to think that he might be a marginally bad person, just do a search on YouTube for Tarantino. One of the top results will probably be "Tarantino Slaps a Camera Man." He, pretty much unprovoked, smacks some guy filming him. Is being filmed annoying - sure. But he slapped him after about 4 seconds. Another top result is probably "Tarantino Spits on Reporter," where he spits on a reporter while on a red carpet.

There is also the somehow forgotten tale revolving around Quentin and Roger Avary around proper credit for their early ventures which lead to them not speaking for like 10 years. That information disappeared from Wikipedia some time ago.

Also, I think it is pompous to make the statement "If my movie reaches greatness its because of this movie." Just listen to him. He is full of himself. He loves himself. He wishes he was reviewing his own movie. He is his biggest fan. Anyways, there are some points so that you see its not a baseless rant, but you are of course allowed to continue disagreeing with my opinion.

Gotta say, any sympathy I had for Avary has all but evaporated after he committed vehicular homocide while intoxicated.

Besides that, we all know nobody loves Tarantino more than Tarantino and we all know he's an a-hole. No big whoop to many of us. We've all heard stories of filmmakers we enjoy that behave just as bad if not worse. Not excusing it, but there you go.

I hope you don't like any David Lean films cause he was way more of a horrible person than Quentin will ever be. I also hope you never enjoy anything Michelangelo ever did. He was a scumbag as well. Woody Allen? Yeah, he did some terrible shit too. I could go on and on.

I guess I don't get your point. So what if he is his biggest fan? I would imagine most filmmakers are, even if they won't admit it. I am a fan of everything I create, and you are a fan of everything you create. He's somewhat justified, and his personal presentation doesn't really matter.

Famous guy vs. paparazi has nothing to do with filmmaking, legal bullshit and broken friendships have nothing to do with filmmaking. The fact is his movies will be around long after he is (not to say they are so amazing they will live on as masterpieces, they just simply put will be in existence) and them being grandeos or self-important doesn't matter.

Someone watching one of them in 50 years won't give a shit, it's just some interesting thing to watch. Who cares who made it, beside the actual filmmaker?

First off, there's is absolutely nothing wrong with filmmaker's criticizing other filmmakers. If anything, they're the only ones who have a real right to criticize films since they can appreciate how much work goes into making a movie. Secondly, it's not like he's saying he hated the movie, he's gushing over it. He calls it a masterpiece a few times and the only small problem he had with it is the fact that Paul Dano's performance isn't up to par with DDL's. He doesn't even say he was bad, just kind of out matched which, ironically, people are saying about Christoph Waltz's performance in Inglorious Basterds. Finally, of course he fucking mentioned his movie. You think he decided on whim he wanted to host a bunch of movies for some TV channel for the hell of it? He has a movie to promote and obviously wants people to know about it and go out and see it. Quentin Tarantino isn't for everybody, but to say he's the worst person alive, especially with the lame as reasons you gave, is just fucking retarded. I love Slashfilm, but some of the comments on here, especially yours, would make a typical comment on youtube look intelligent.

It's one thing to promote your film, it's another to talk about how your film will reach levels of greatness. Refer to my reply to the previous commenter for more reasons why Tarantino isn't a saint. If you don't think Tarantino is full of himself, you've never listened to him talk.

I completely disagree with Tarantino's assessment of Paul Dano's performance. I think Dano did exactly what he needed to do to counterpoint Daniel Day Lewis' character. But having said that, I don't have anything bad to say about Tarantino. The two directors living today who most love the sheer joy of movies are, to me, Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. And that's a good thing. Love him or hate him, Tarantino has given us some great, personal, original movies. What more could we ask of him?

Is he a jerk in real life? I have no idea. I've never met him. But even if he is, who cares? It's not like we're sitting next to him in a restaurant.

I sort of agree. Not a fan of the man or his films particularly. I enjoy Pulp Fiction, but that seems to be mostly the exception. QT declaring himself to be the Marlon Brando of contemporary cinema directors in a review of someone else's film is pretty hilarious and typical of his unbelievable arrogance.

But... I gotta admit, his taste in films and his observation is very keen. I really love is description of the Daniel Plainview's journey through the desert and the importance of this unseen event on everything that takes place afterwards.

Tarantino's ego is huge, but his films are great. Inglorious Basterds is a huge step for him, and it was interesting to hear him give PTA some credit for that.

The last minute and a half of the video is the most humble I've ever seen Tarantino throughout his career, and just because of the fact that he could step down from his pedestal and cite P.T. Anderson as an outstanding filmmaker makes me respect Tarantino even more.

I completely agree, but Quentin has nothing on P. T. Anderson besides Inglourious Basterdes.

tarantino's pulp fiction and anderson's boogie nights are my favorite movies of all time.

I enjoyed his review of Sunshine.

What happened to his Superman Returns review?

"To Be Released" ??? what?? the list he gave was his top 20 favorite films that HAVE BEEN released since he became a filmmaker. Are you drunk Peter?

I liked Dano's performance a lot and i dont really think that was fair to say, seeing as it is essentially impossible for anyone to keep up with Lewis's performance

Thanks for posting this.

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