Posted on 03/15/2005 7:46:12 PM PST by Destro
Tarantino moves on to non-gratuitous violence
Staff and agencies
Tuesday March 15, 2005
Quentin Tarantino is to exchange the world of yellow jumpsuits and shiny swords for one of muddy khakis and greasy rifles. The Kill Bill director's new film, which has the projected title of Inglorious Bastards, is to be about a platoon of second world war soldiers trapped behind enemy lines.
"I've been kicking back and now I'm getting ready to start working again," Tarantino, who has just started working on the film's script, told the Sun. The director - who was in London picking up an Icon of the Decade award from Empire magazine - also vowed to keep on making movies for at least another 15 years.
"I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out," he added. "My plan is to have a theatre by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy old movie guy.
"I've made enough money that nobody even needs to show up at the theatre. It's just having something to do.
"I will make little speeches before each movie. That sounds like a pretty cool life."
Tarantino added that Shaun of the Dead was his favourite film of 2004, and that his second favourite was The Passion of the Christ.
"I'm actually in the writers' branch of the Academy, but I wanted to switch over to the directors' branch so I could vote for Mel Gibson to win an Oscar," he said. "I think The Passion Of The Christ is one of the most magnificent directing jobs I've seen in my life. I hadn't seen a movie bring back the imagery of silent cinema until that film."
Neither forget Eraserhead.
Tarantino goes in for a kind of schlock. And you have to wonder if the Maccabees movie would be helped or hurt by his advice.
Do you mean 'never forget Eracerhead'?
Indeed, I don't think I will. Weird, weird flick, even by Lynch standards. But I liked it. Not my favorite of his, but still good.
Yah, I need to get the whole TP thing too, haven't gotten around to it.
I have Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and The Elephant Man on DVD, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway on VHS.
Oh, and technically, I have Wild At Heart on VHS that I bought before I saw, but now having seen it, I don't really like it. It's only Lynch movie I don't like. (Well, I don't think I like Dune, but I haven't seen all of it)
So what if it may be slanted? You can't listen to alternate opinions? Athenians who invented the theater and drama and camedy made it a point to confront the demos.
A true movie about the Maccabees would show them to be just as bad as the Syrian-Greeks that they fought (i.e. just as intolerant).
You don't even like Reservoir Dogs or PF? The former is just a dynamite genre film. Intelligent and exciting.
Hopefully Tarantino won't wait long to make his war movie. If "Kill Bill" was any indication, I'm anticipating more good things.
Has there ever been a less political filmmaker than QT?
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