Tarantino Rumor Mill in High Gear
According to AICN’s Harry Knowles, Quentin Tarantino recently sat down to shoot the shit with Enzo Castellari for the upcoming 3-DVD Special Edition of the Italian director’s 1977 WWII exploitation film, Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato. A Tarantino favorite, the film stars Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson as part of a group of US soldiers facing court-martial who survive a Nazi ambush and seek safety across the Swiss border.
Why do you care? Well, one of the US titles of the Castellari film is Inglorious Bastards, and it is of course one of the spiritual forefathers of the perennial “next Tarantino project” of the same name. Knowles has seen the 40-minute conversation and he says that Tarantino talks about his work on the film which he’s been doing quite a bit of writing on. So much so that he’s now envisioning two films ala Kill Bill. He also reveals that, unlike his previous films, he’s not writing the characters for specific actors.
Of course, it’s all just talk, and it’s Quentin Tarantino talk so it’s not to be taken seriously, but what if it turns out to be true? On one hand, I promised myself after liking Kill Bill so much that I’d never question one of Tarantino’s ideas until I actually saw it. On the other hand, sometimes I get the feeling he’s an artist running amok, throwing discipline and restraint to the wind and just indulging his every odd cinematic fetish.
Now that I’ve said that out loud, it still sounds oddly intriguing I have to admit, but I can’t help wonder how long he can keep this shtick up and how long it will be interesting.
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“On the other hand, sometimes I get the feeling he’s an artist running amok, throwing discipline and restraint to the wind and just indulging his every odd cinematic fetish.”
Yep, and the last one of these fetishes was Deathproof. I don’t mind it so much if he’d just stop talking about random possibilities and just focus on one and deliver the goods.
For the record, I’m somewhat annoyed by the two movie concept ala Kill Bill. While it can work and all that, it seems a bit more like a marketing ploy than any else. Either make two stand-alone stories and treat one as a sequel (or second chapter) or make one long film.
I’m trying to keep the faith. Bring it. I’ll be there….assuming it gets brought which isn’t at all certain, though prospects appear to be brightening.
Death Proof was terrific, just had to toss that out there.
So if it’s starting out as two movies this time, by the time it hits theaters it’ll be 3 or 4, right?
I wasn’t clear, Jeff, but I concur…Deathproof was good. I just think Tarantino running amok is about par for his career.
I have been excited about Inglorious Bastards way too many times. This thing just needs to get made. My theory is that by the time it actually goes get made, all the Tarantino fans will be too sick of talking about it to really like it, this will transfer over to the mainstream public and the film won’t do as well as it should. That’s if it ever gets made…which I doubt.
Scott
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The planets are clearly aligning… Things are looking good on this front… I want to believe.
Y’know, I’m with the ambivalence of which you speak.
My overall feeling is: Don’t make a two-parter, don’t make another fragment … meaning “Death Proof,” which may be almost 2 hours but still feels like an impressive doodle to me.
Just make a big old goddamn good movie again.
But at the same time … I think it’s great that a filmmaker’s preliminary moves brews such speculation.
There are a lot of contemporary filmmakers I like, but Tarantino is the only one where I’m literally glued to the word on “what’s next?” sifting through the copious nonsense of his chatter and rumors.
I still remember the buzz that rose years ago when the possibility was floated that he’d shot a Western, “40 Lashes Less One,” in secret and was set to spring it with no notice. If only it’d been true.
PTA is coming up fast on that track, too, but QT is still the guy who makes the movies that I wait for like I waited for the original “Star Wars” chapters as a kid.
Scott. Thanks for stopping by. Sorry it took so long to get your comment moderated, I was out all day. I understand what you mean about being excited way too many times…I hesitate to even bite on the rumors…BUT I CAN’T HELP IT.
Harvey, I share your mix of enthusiasm and skepticism. There’s a weird combo with QT. He seems to like to shoot off at the mouth because he gets excited about this, that or the other, but also there’s this cult that waits for every little scrap of info and magnifies it….as I’ve just done here. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction and reality from wishful thinking.
“It’s hard to separate fact from fiction and reality from wishful thinking.”
Can I steal this line and use it as the theme for my Tarantino thesis?
My words are your words, friendo.
(is ‘friendo’ still uncool or has enough time passed that it’s cool again?)
You know I’m just teasing, Craig. But seriously, this is what Tarantino does, onscreen and off. Spins stories and floats trial balloons. Juggles his thoughts around in front of fans until maybe he can see for himself what he’s working with and then picks out the pieces that look most promising and assembles them into something solid for the audience. Not everybody pays attention to him at this stage of his game, but it’s the hardcore Quentin junkies like us who benefit most from seeing his thoughts bounce around from the beginning.
I don’t chalk it up to maliciousness, just hyperactive enthusiasm.
“friendo” is uber-cool. “Friendo” will cease to be cool when “cool” ceases to be cool.
Have you been at the LAFF Factory all this time? Me, up at this hour catching Black Snake Moan on Showtime. (aka, Inglorious Bastards Out of Carolina.)
yeah, I always get hyperactive at 4:30 a.m. Fun times for my Mom when I was a toddler.
Yeah just got back from LAFFing my ass off. Too wired and tired to write a coherent post about it so perhaps after some sleep. It was a good first day.
Tell us a Wellsian fairy tale before bedtime, if it’s not too grimm.
‘allo, Hansel? Hansel? …. uh-oh.
I’m sure Wells wasn’t even there. He gets his press credentials then puts his nose in the air to see if there are any must-sees that he can be ahead of the curve on so he can maintain his imagined facade of hipster cred and then he loses interest half way through.
According to a comment that was subsequently deleted from H-E, he made an elderly volunteer cry at CineVegas last week. If I witness any such shennanigans, you’ll hear it here first.
“…he made an elderly volunteer cry at CineVegas…”
Everybody’s so mean to Sally Kirkland.
aahahahha…poor Sally.
Ahahahaha… Ryan…
That’s great about the first day of the LAFF, Craig.
I have to admit, in spite of my (ill-conceived) optimism, there’s a part of me that thinks Tarantino probably wishes he didn’t have such a big mouth and that his fans and other assorted online people had never even heard of Inglorious Bastards, and now he just has to crank it out because we’ve all heard about it for so long it’s like the most overdue, given-an-extension piece of homework any director I can think of has got.
(This is where Ryan chimes in and says this is what happened to Lucas and Spielberg regarding Indy 4. Funny thing is, I think that might be true as well, aha.)
Did I see Indy 4? When does it open?
I think what I saw was Spiellini’s 3 1/2.