Quentin Tarantino OVERLOAD…

11 Responses to “Quentin Tarantino OVERLOAD…”

1. Pamela Schott on May 16th, 2007 10:24 pm

   I agree with you, Unk. No matter what you think of him (I just watched some of “Kill Bill” the other night, and wondered at the point of the 10-minute sword slaughter scene), he is always original. In light of our recent conversation, this is nothing to sneeze at.

   “Sword slaughter scene.” Say that five times fast.

2. Joshua James on May 17th, 2007 5:56 am

   Thanks man, I saw all except the Grindhouse one and it’s cool.

   And hey, QT may be a maniac, but he obviously loves movies, that much is true. I always tell other writers I know (a lot of playwrights) working on screenplays that they have no business writing movies unless they love them . . . you know, “I want to write a horror script because that’s what sells”

   Do you LIKE horror movies?

   No way, they’re adolscent!

   Then you have no business trying to WRITE one!

   QT loves what he does, that much is certain!

3. suburban screenwriter on May 17th, 2007 8:16 am

   The jury is still out for me on Tarantino…after seeing “Pulp Fiction” I thought he was the best but since then he fell HARD in my opinion (yeah “Kill Bill” was good for the most part though) but I don’t really have a driving desire to see “Grindhouse” (and haven’t yet) but I’m giving up hope I think Tarantino still has great potential he just hasn’t found it yet.

4. Christian Howell on May 17th, 2007 10:39 am

   Well, I got through one of em. Maybe I’ll check the others later tonight. Tarantino’s pretty good in given genres.
   I liked Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs but GrindHouse isn’t on my list of desired cinematic experiences.

   Maybe if the machine gun had been on the arm. That’s what turned me off of the movie. It was a little too exploitative. I don’t think women today have the kind of mindset to appreciate those two films.

   I hope one day to be as successful and well-known though.

5. spatula on May 17th, 2007 12:21 pm

   Awesome. I love him even more. Grindhouse was amazing, people.
   Thanks for posting the videos- kept me up until 1:30am last night, and I was late for work in the morning, LOL.

   The best advice I’ve ever heard is in there:
   “If you’re not putting what you’re feeling in life into your screenplay… then what’s the point?” (paraphrased)

   It’s so true- just write what’s true to you. I can appreciate that. In fact, I’d go to the extreme, and even say that in order to write something, MAKE it true for you… method writing, baby. Very cool.

   Thanks for posting. I’ll watch the other ones tonight!

6. Moviequill on May 18th, 2007 5:55 am

   Cinematically I think he is brilliant, but dialoguically (my own dictionary) I think he is lacking. I am not of the “let’s just toss in 5 pages of dialogue totally unrelated to the scene or plot just so I have something to get me to the next cool action scene” school of writing. To me his stuff comes across as a first draft, and then a “fuck you, this is my final draft, take it or leave it” method of screenwriting. He could use a polish or three before submitting his scripts.

7. Unk on May 18th, 2007 3:41 pm

   For the most part, I generally agree with the comments… I think QT came at a time when most people were cleaning up the dialogue of their screenplays, making sure they weren’t going off on non-story related tangents.

   Tarantino on the other hand, probably didn’t have a clue that this banter was a no-no and as a result, the right person at the right time, Harvey Keitel read RD and thought the banter was brilliant.

   He hadn’t seen that in a script before. LOL.

   And you know WHY he hadn’t seen that in a script before? Because 99.999999999999% of the gatekeepers keep scripts like that from reaching their destination.

   If you watch the April 2004 video above, you’ll immediately understand that Mr. Tarantino was certainly blessed with LUCK i.e., he hadn’t reached a level of professional writing i.e., everything he was writing after JB was hundreds and hundreds of pages… He didn’t know how to stop. He kept finding new things to jam in the script… Everything a newbie tends to do. I also think he was feeling additional pressure from having to TOP HIMSELF with PF which certainly didn’t make it any easier for him.

   What I liked about the 2004 video however, is the fact that he was willing and able to admit these shortcomings…

   And with KB, he lucked out yet again since he once again ended up with enough material for 2 movies… Actually, I heard he had enough material for 3 movies… LOL. I applaud his creative thinking however… i.e., making two shorter features and releasing them within months of each other.

   This is exactly the kind of thinking that keeps him ahead of the pack.

   As for GRINDHOUSE… I saw it on opening night and in my humble opinion, RR’s PLANET TERROR was not nearly as good as DEATHPROOF but neither was up to par.

   I guess 15 years from now however, everyone will simply be saying they were ahead of their time… LOL.

   You gotta love their egos in the videos… I often wonder if it’s the EGO or lack thereof that hinders the newbie screenwriter.

   Unk

8. Thomas Rufer on May 19th, 2007 6:12 am

   Thanks for the videos. I’ve seen the first one a few years back and it’s great to revisit these interviews.

   Like him I am a huge Brian DePalma fan and that’s also one of the reasons I like him (DePalma fans have to stick together, lol).

   I really got even more excited hearing him saying that Inglorious Bastards will be his ultimate masterpiece to date. Wow!

   I love Jackie Brown. I think that movie is more mature and more enduring than his previous two works. At least to me.

9. Laura Reyna on May 19th, 2007 7:49 pm

   Unk:
   “You gotta love their egos in the videos… I often wonder if it’s the EGO or lack thereof that hinders the newbie screenwriter.”

   I sometimes think confidence (or ego) is more important to succeeding as a screenwriter than writing/storytelling talent.

   If you got both ego & talent, wonderful, you got it made. But i think the ones who stick with it for any length of time have one or the other (the ones who have neither give up pretty quickly).

   Talent combined with confidence is very very rare.

10. Unk on May 19th, 2007 8:56 pm

    Laura,

    Agreed.

    Unk

11. Larry E--Panchira Pictures on February 8th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Thanks for putting these all in one place.

    I am unabashed in my love for QT and RR’s work, QT moreso just because we seem to love the same films. He had the advantage of working in a video store in LA as opposed to Des Moines, Iowa. Nowadays we have a great video place, and I’ve been working on my own “film degree” ;-)

    His enthusiasm for filmmaking is so infectious (to me, at least).

    “Grindhouse” was one of the few reasons I ventured out of my house in 2007.

    L

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