In 2014, Quentin Tarantino proclaimed he’ll stop directing movies after his tenth feature. 2019’s “Once Upon A Time …In Hollywood” makes nine, so one film to go for QT before retirement.
29.10.2022 - 07:03 / deadline.com
Filmmaker, screenwriter and author Quentin Tarantino stopped by Real Time Friday night to talk with Bill Maher about his new book, Cinema Speculation, out on Tuesday.
Tarantino went to a lot of sophisticated films as a young child, he admitted, sometimes viewing subject matter that he didn’t quite understand, like a certain infamous Ned Beatty rape scene in Delilverance.
Of that scene, Tarantino said, “I’m seeing it in ’73, so I’m about nine,” he said. Admitting he didn’t know about sodomy, Tarantino did know Beatty was being subjugated, because everybody on the school yard has been subjugated to some degree.
“I’m not sure what the lesson is here,” Maher joked.
Tarantino found his way back to his point about young viewers of sophisticated films. “There will be some stuff that goes over their head,” he said. But, like him, “I got the gist of it.”
That was true when he went to see the Jim Brown and Raquel Welch film 100 Rifles. He was taken to a theater with an all-Black audience, Tarantino reminisced, by his mother’s boyfriend. The crowd was raucous for the opening film, The Bus is Coming, yelling at the screen. “The first time I ever heard ‘suck my dick’ was someone in the audience,” Tarantino said. Taken with the raw energy and fun of the moment, Tarantino himself eventually squeaked out a similar epithet.
Maher reminded him, “If you’re promoting the book on the ‘Today’ show, don’t tell these stories.”
But 100 Rifles stimulated something in young Tarantino. “Being taken to a Jim Brown movie at an all-Black theater, that was the most masculine experience I have ever had.”
That moment shaped him. “Either as a movie consumer, or when creating movies for an audience – that goal of a Jim Brown movie on a Saturday night
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