“This might come across as egotistical, but I don’t really feel in competition with anybody anymore”. At a panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, they warned against studio’s over-reliance on tentpoles, and said that these movies are being made at the expense of smaller films.
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“The Hateful Eight” will open in theaters on Christmas Day and in wide release on January 8.
He dismisses True Detective – Season 1, even! – to explain how he watched every episode of the much-derided The Newsroom three times. Some of the actor’s scenes as Stephen, an antebellum-era house slave who tortures his fellow slaves, were so brutal that Tarantino that cut them. It’s a movie that he sees as playing right into the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
A fair point! But just like those of us in the real world, movie characters can sometimes overlook the obvious (or, in the above case, morally difficult) answers.
“I already knew [Walton Goggins, appearing in “The Hateful Eight”] from ‘The Shield.’ You know, literally watching him for six years do faux-Quentin dialogue let me know that he’s got the right kind of tongue”. I’m just trying to tell my story. Part of that is the explosion of David O. Russell’s talent, which had always been there but really coalesced in that movie. But ‘The Fighter’ or ‘American Hustle’ – those will be watched in 30 years. “It just happens to be timely right now”, Tarantino said. According to his own testimony, he performed such hard-to-watch actions as Stephen that they had to be cut from the film. “His he-doesn’t-give-a-shit attitude has just been so cool”, he said. And then I wouldn’t be able to do it, because everyone would talk about it, because it is one thing in particular. But the crook is absolutely gorgeous.
The alternative headline for this piece could have been “The 10 Most Arrogant Quotes From Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture Interview”: holy hell, does this guy possess a staggering lack of humility. I tend to miss details like this when I’m as engrossed in a movie as I was at “It Follows” (still the best horror film I’ve seen this year), and the moment in question comes before we get a good sense of the nature of the “monster” (which takes on different human forms throughout the film). The city whore, Blake Vigorous, is completely handsome. Jeremy Renner is the least gorgeous guy, and he’s pretty f*cking good-looking.
And that’s just one example. David O. Russell can have the biggest hit of the year, and that doesn’t take anything away from me.
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Although Tarantino has been described in the past as “not a political person”, he did reportedly donate more than $30,000 to the DNC and $5,000 to Obama’s campaign during the 2012 election cycle and, in 2008, he was spotted at a celebrity-filled fundraiser for the future president. They surfaced most recently when Josh Trank’s “Fantastic Four” crashed and burned, making just $25.7 million on its opening weekend on a $130 million budget, received brutal reviews, and threatened the end of a potential franchise for Fox before it even started.
