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Recently, Quentin Tarantino launched some criticisms of a western much loved by the cinephile community.
For many, Quentin Tarantino is inseparable from contemporary American cinema, having already offered us highly acclaimed works such as “Damned Dogs” (1992), “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and “Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood” (2019).
However, before being film-maker Tarantino is also a cinephilebeing a great connoisseur of everything that is done there, of the better It’s from worse. As such, the winner of the Oscar never shy away from giving your opinion on the movie theaterin a general way.
That’s what makes Tarantino special, the critical spirit with which it analyzes any author, gender or constructions. The filmmaker doesn’t mince his words. Be one beloved classic or a big Hollywood starno one is safe from the opinions of the director who is already preparing “The Movie Critic”his latest film.
Despite the intention to leave the cinema , Tarantino does not seem to have any intention of moving away from the industry completely. At this moment, everything indicates that his priority will be writing. In 2022, Tarantino made known “Cinema Speculation”a work that brings together some critical texts, personal accounts and also a theoretical character that addresses some of the most important films of the 70s that Tarantino had the opportunity to see when he was younger.
Recently, the director appeared on “Pure Cinema Podcast” where he shared at least controversial opinions about a western revisionist of Robert Altman quite cherished by the cinephile world.
Recognized for classics such as “MASH” (1970) or “Nashville” (1975), Robert Altman is one of the most influential of your generation, but you can’t always please everyone. In the past, Quentin Tarantino has revealed his personal experience with the director, “He didn’t like me and I didn’t like him”.
Released in 1971, “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” tells the story of the unlikely partnership between professional gambler John Q. McCabe (Warren Beatty) and the madam brothel Constance Miller (Julie Christie) who come together to open a very enjoyable business for the Minas Gerais community.
The filmmaker states that “I have an interesting relationship with this film because I think the first reel of the film has the worst mix in the history of cinema. Hollywood“.
For Quentin Taranto, this is work that he considers outside the Hollywood standard, “Hollywood may not always reach its peaks, but it also doesn’t reach its lows.”
About the film that earned a nomination for Oscar in Best actress for Julie Christie, Quentin Tarantino also says that it presents “a strong level of mediocrity”, considering it terrible and the work of a “pothead who doesn’t know anything better.”
Tarantino goes even further and speculates that Betty may have intervened and assisted in the making of the work, “I once asked Warren Beatty about it and he said, ‘Well, don’t you think that pothead You could have gotten that Julie Christie performance, right?’”. Something Tarantino agrees with “’No, he probably couldn’t have done that. Don’t say more’. And Warren Beatty is fantastic, and it’s obvious that Warren Beatty was following his own orders. He wasn’t listening to Altman.”
Despite all this criticism, Quentin Tarantino ended up showing a version Technicolor in 35mm years later in his New Beverly Cinema, admitting that he changed his opinion on the work, “I really liked it a lot”. Tarantino goes even further and classifies the ending as “perfect”.
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And you, are you a fan of Quentin Tarantino? And Robert Altman?
